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I'm from North Wales. I make websites for a living and spend my days in the Cheshire countryside working by the pool for McCann Metro and sometimes the night too. Find out more about me

  • unfinished.bz

    12.05.13

    Just a quick post to mention that the iaskyouanswer site got a mention on the unfinished.bz podcast, episode 18 hosted by Andy Clarke and Anna Debenham this evening. If you havent listened before to the series of podcast’s I urge you to do so. It’s full of useful advice and information about business but done [...]

  • I Ask You Answer

    07.05.13

    Just a quick one. I’ve finally resurrected the project I started 3 years ago and moved all the workflow interviews I did recently to there. The plan is to grow this a lot as I think a lot of people have a lot to say and also enjoy reading about others. So yeah, iaskyouanswer.co.uk is [...]

  • Responsive Design Weekly email

    03.05.13

    Just a quick note and thank you to both Responsive Design Weekly for featuring the workflow articles in their weekly round up and also a big thank you to those that have taken part. Some truly brilliant answers in there and some food for thought. Good news is that the series hasn’t ended, there will [...]

  • It’s a matter of workflow

    26.04.13

    Something a bit different this time around. I’m taking a big interest in how people work. I find it interesting and educational. It also shows that there are many ways to work and we shouldn’t get hung up on whether we are doing it right or wrong. We’ve heard a lot about workflow, responsive web [...]

  • Page Speeds – Work In Progress

    25.04.13

    As a front-ender, I should be aware of how quick things are loading on any site I have built / worked on. If I’m openly honest, up until this week, I didn’t take it that seriously unless something major stood out. I work with a chap called Colin who is an advocate of reducing your [...]

  • Planning for the future

    20.04.13

    I’m 35 this year, I know, I know, I look so much younger but this year has made me realise that I’m not getting any younger and I’ve been thinking a lot about what I see myself doing in a few years. Recently I’ve taken an interest in how things are planned. Workflow has become [...]

  • Google Maps – Pin positioning tip

    16.04.13

    I might be very new to the party on this but it is something that has been a pain in the arse for me for a good while now and that is the position of a google map pin and the bubble with the contact information in it. Too many times when you load up [...]

  • A friend’s rebrand

    16.04.13

    My fellow front-ender at McCanns, Shane Prendergast has recently relaunched his blog with a new look and feel. I love Shane’s photography throughout, it really adds a nice personal touch. Shane is up for a .net award for best online portfolio which you can see here. You can follow him on Twitter too

  • Adding an active class to a menu

    06.04.13

    If you have ever wanted to have an active state on a menu item and you don’t know how to do it and your platform doesn’t do it by default (Like WordPress), here is some javascript that works. function scriptInit() { if (!document.getElementById) { return; } } function addEvent(elm, evType, fn, useCapture) { if (elm.addEventListener) [...]

  • Email build tips you may not know

    05.04.13

    Building an email can be a tricky task. You have to undo all knowledge you know of the web and go back 10 years or so to working with tables. And with it, all the fun of the email clients and their little quirks. Now some of these you’ll probably know, some you may not [...]

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