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I’ve heard many bloggers and conference speakers discuss the declining importance of the homepage over the past few years and have been thinking about the changing role of what used to be the one page practically all visitors were guaranteed to see.
Inspiration round-up
12.09.2011 By: ronansprake Under: Creative, General Comments: none
A brief selection of links from the past month
Keeping spiders out of the studio
02.09.2011 By: adamcollison Under: Creative, General, Just for fun Comments: none
We were recently faced with a minor studio dilemma, a massive hairy house spider had found its way into our development area and caused havoc (well, more minor disruption than havoc but still a frightful experience). After we had tracked it down to the back of our only filing cabinet (we pride ourself on being a 90% paperless studio) it was safely removed from the premises and we could resume our daily activities.
The curse of consistency
23.08.2011 By: adamcollison Under: CSS, General, Technical Comments: none
Consistency can be vital to a project’s success, certainly when we refer to accessibility and usability, but sometimes consistency can be a hidden curse. The purpose of this post is to inform the non-developer types out there when consistency should be disregarded.
Adobe Muse: holding back the web
16.08.2011 By: ronansprake Under: Creative, Industry News Comments: 1
Adobe are gearing up to release their new “code-less” website creation tool, Muse. The target audience seems to be designers or small business owners who have a design and are reluctant to invest time or money into developing an effective website.
The future of mobile websites
10.08.2011 By: adamcollison Under: CSS, General, Technical Comments: 1
As we continue to invest time into research and development, it’s becoming more apparent that the digital mobile landscape is evolving. More and more people are using mobile devices to browse the web and access information on the go. It seems like only yesterday i wrote an article on “The increasing need for mobile compatible sites” but since then a lot has changed meaning perhaps a new approach is emerging.
Inspiration from July ’11
08.08.2011 By: ronansprake Under: Creative, General Comments: none
While preparing for our weekly innovation meetings, I come across examples of brilliant web design and development. As something I’ll try to keep as a regular feature on the Soak blog, here are some interesting links from the past month:
Resources for building HTML emails
28.06.2011 By: ronansprake Under: Technical, Tools Comments: none
HTML emails add a professional look to website correspondence and help to continue the brand experience during communications with your clients. If only they weren’t such a pain to build!
Server-side Map Marker Clustering
24.06.2011 By: eugeneingram Under: Technical Comments: none
How do you provide clustered markers in Google Maps for dynamic site content when you have 120,000 items and counting in your database? This was a problem we were recently presented with for a geo-tagging solution that would allow articles and user provided content such as photographs to be geo-tagged and shown in Google Maps in a visually appealing way.
Optimising content for different users
21.06.2011 By: ronansprake Under: CSS, Technical Comments: none
At Soak, site performance is a point of pride. Furthermore, as a client-side developer, this mostly comes down to the work I do. Apart from religiously following best-practice guidelines and adopting tools such as Firebug and Smush.it, what more can be done?
