Articles by Carol Green

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Dec13»
Merry Christmas

Christmas presents for designers

I don’t need to remind you Christmas is only 11 days away, do I?

So I thought I’d round up a few suitable presents for designers… whether you want to leave this post open for loved one to see, or whether you need to buy a secret santa gift for someone in the office… here goes.

Aug31»
Buggyrobot – responsive

Being responsive

In the early days of the web, designs needed to fit onto 640 x 480 pixel monitors (who remembers that? Ugh). A few years later and the average monitor had grown in size to 800 x 600, then to 1024 x 768, and so it goes on. Except it doesn’t. With the increasing ubiquity of smartphones, tablets, netbooks and cheap, widescreen, overgrown desktop monitors, designing websites has become a whole lot more complicated.

Jun22»
Brighton Pavilion

Ampersand Conference

When I discovered I would be in the UK at the same time the second Ampersand Conference was happening, I booked straight away. Subtitled “the web typography conference”, I thought the subject was probably too niche to warrant a full conference in little old NZ, but I was keen to meet some other web/type nerds and to see how an international design conference compares to ones I have been to at home.

Apr23»
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Word Up!

Stop thinking that WordPress is a blogging platform – 63% of the top million websites that use a CMS use WordPress and approximately 15% of the web is powered by WordPress. It’s not going away any time soon.


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