Time always goes from left to right. Time flows from left to right, at least in the Western world. It progresses in graphs from the axis on the left to the empty space on the right. You click on the right facing button to go to the next month in a calendar and on the [...]
When Mark Boulton published A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web as a PDF book earlier this year, I was intrigued, but not convinced enough to buy it. As convenient as e-books are, to me they’re no match for the reading experience a proper paper book offers. So when he announced a limited print [...]
Last week I launched a redesign of the Impact website, my second since I was elected as Web Editor last May. When I took over, the magazine’s website was the same as it was when it originally came into being in 2006 and badly needed an overhaul. The administration system wasn’t the easiest to use [...]
A couple of weeks ago I moved my web hosting from Media Temple to WebFaction. Just before I did, I signed up for a 30 day free trial with Pingdom, who offer an uptime and latency monitoring service. Having had my websites monitored for a couple of weeks, I can now evaluate the difference between [...]
I must admit that I’ve never been that interested in my family’s history or in the distant relatives that I might have. Simply knowing who my closest relatives are has been more than adequete and I’ve never been particularly curious about my origins. Well, at least until I discovered Geni. It’s essentially a cross between [...]
When it comes to buying flights, there are quite a few options available. You could go to a travel agent in your local town, contact one over the phone or go directly to an airline’s website. But increasingly people are turning to price comparison websites which appear to show you all of the available options [...]
Car tyres are something that you should never have to worry about. Although you might check them for air pressure and tread wear occasionally, most of the time you’re quite happy to just let them do their job. After all, you’ve got more important things to do, like getting to where you’re driving to. You’d [...]
This is the story of a feature in the Thunderbolt Content Management System (CMS). It is so tiny, almost to the point of being insignificant, but the tale of its evolution demonstrates the value of detail. Let me set the scene. When our articles have been through a peer review process, their author logs in [...]