July 2010
17 posts
“Every recent consumer electronics product from Apple—definitely the iPad, but...”
– The Emperor’s New Antenna
stick of rock acquired for Jana. brumward bound.
In Blackpool. a lovely sunny day. calm sea. eating fish and chips with mushy peas. no gravy though. that would be taking it too far.
Aargh - am in the quiet zone again sitting next to a quiet zone Nazi. No wonder the queue for this carriage was shorter.
Srsly this new phone is so much better for bombing around London with. speedy, compass, battery barely touched. Can even phone people.
5 Reasons Why You Can Use HTML5 Today →
Our new site for “London’s coolest theatre” is now live: http://www.royalcourttheatre.com Props to @primeobjectives for the texture shots.
Royal Court Theatre →
If things have been a bit quiet around here recently, it’s because we’ve been flat out working on a new clutch of websites. Made’s been working on the new Royal Court Theatre for a…
Required Reading
Top Ten Web Design Mistakes
Top Ten Web Development Mistakes
Don’t usually go for this sort of thing, but a lot of these are right on the money.
“I wasn’t familiar with the code when I opened it, so I assumed the interior...”
– Styling for change with rules and exceptions - (37signals)
This sort of thing used to do my head in constantly. Back in the days when I still did code, and a certain someone seemed to pad every element individually as some kind of depraved box-model workaround.
A particularly laboured labour of love has just left the Made stable. We’ll announce shortly; meantime a few drinks may be drunk tonight.
Fake →
In Cardiff. Quite nice.
Still at work. Eating Pizza. Drinking Beer. This is what happens when my better half goes away. On the bright side: issue list shrinking…
Just been invaded by a load of local yoot, for our latest usability study. Very well mannered. Declined my offer to go on a Sunny D run.
Geeking out in Paris.
June 2010
22 posts
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“The beauty of responsive web design becomes obvious when you see your site in...”
– Responsive design is the new black – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
Some lovely stuff here, and perhaps the way Web design should be. Unfortunately there’s a small voice nagging at me that because this approach relies on ‘craft’ as opposed to ‘product’ or...
Got my life back.
“Tindal Street is to join Atlantic Books in the Independent Alliance – a...”
– Tindal Street Press forges new partnership with leading independent publisher | Tindal St Press
Came back with renewed enthusiasm and drive after seven sun-drenched days in Dubrovnik. 273 emails later, feeling knackered & despondent…
Two #goodmeetings today. That’s at least one more than I was expecting.
Standing virgin train back to Brum. Attendant: ‘it’s’s because it’s the first off-peak train’. Me: ‘so entirely predictable then’ +2 coaches
“But the weirdest stuff is in section 12.1 on “Design”. The “design” of the...”
– Weird, but entirely typical of websites that are procured via IT requirements documents. You wouldn’t believe how common this misconception is amongst people who procure websites and content management systems. From a comment on The report on birmingham.gov.uk is published | Podnosh
“After speaking to more than 60 local authority officials, the authors of the...”
– Birmingham Post - News - West Midlands News - ‘Not good enough’, concludes report into Birmingham City Council website
“English National Opera’s website has crashed due to the high volume of people...”
– The Stage / News / Punchdrunk’s Malfi crashes ENO website Another Opera website bites the dust due to high booking demand. Should’ve gone to Made Media.
Google Maps API Styled Map Wizard →
Having fun scrutinising some travel sites. So much easier to be a smartarse when your team’s not responsible for corralling the architecture
“Yes, I know you’re a master of the web, that you’ve visited every...”
– Seth’s Blog: But what have you shipped?
“I hold a particular view of the “recession”; it was patchy, not universal. Its...”
– Your Financial Business Support » Blog Archive » What is your Plan B?
Need to get 3G working before I can ditch the laptop completely though. Can’t get much useful work done on this train journey.
Too hot for Red Kites I fear.
iPad worked well for creds meetings today, very chilled navigation, even if video scrubbing is a bit duff.
House prices for location lead me to believe that Banbury must be a shithole. Am I right?
Covent Garden. Sunshine. Gap in schedule. Might just stop for a bite and some WiFi.
“Medium-to-high level caffeine users, however, did not become any more anxious...”
– Drinking coffee doesn’t make you more alert, caffeine study reveals. Ringing a few bells this.
Domains for sale
From a brilliant Made Media offshoot project we never had time to finish, back before Google earned total dominance in the webmail market. The domain names
spambloq.com and
spambloq.net
are now available to the highest bidder.
Contact Made.
May 2010
34 posts
iPad has turned up. Yay!
“I don’t think anyone would argue that Dalvik isn’t a high-performance VM,...”
– Daring Fireball
“The reason social media doesn’t matter is because, upon further review, it...”
– Why Social Media Doesn’t Matter Anymore | Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing
On the train down to Glyndebourne to see Billy Budd with @carltimms, @markjames and @fireloop. Looking forward to a great evening.
WatchDoing Business in Birmingham - Marketing Birmingham If you concentrate really hard, you might spot me mumbling something incoherent about business and culture.
In case anyone was in doubt; SkyPlayer does indeed suck balls. Yes it does.
Two Teams is go at Made. In the left corner we have Team Timm’s. In the right Tim’s Team. But who will be facing the board room next year?
Clerkenwell Design Week →
Creative Review - StreetMuseum iPhone app →
At last. A meaningful, practical use for Augmented Reality.
We’re interested in hearing from freelancers who can do reliable, standards-compliant html cuts. People who do, not know, the right thing.
“The central performances are all remarkable. Jacques Imbrailo makes an important...”
– The Stage / Reviews / Billy Budd Looking forward to seeing this next week.