Monthly Archives: March 2011

My favourite Web developer add-ons for Firefox

Posted on Thursday 24 March 2011 by

Mozilla released Firefox 4.0 on Tuesday—it has already been downloaded 16,041,437 times; that’s about 92 downloads a second!— and there is a lot to commend it for: a clean look, that’s not too far away from both Google Chrome and … Continue reading →

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Internet Explorer from version 1.0 to 9.0

Posted on Wednesday 23 March 2011 by

Since Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 was released Andy—you know! Andy!—wondered what it would be like to install every version of Microsoft’s Web browser starting at IE 1.0 under Windows 95 and working all the way up through IE 6.0 on Windows … Continue reading →

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Hardboiled Web Design

Posted on Tuesday 22 March 2011 by

This time next month my colleague Chris and I will be sitting in the Surgeons’ Hall on Nicholson Street in Edinburgh at Andy Clarke’s Hardboiled Web Design workshop. I’ve just started reading his latest book, of the same name, published … Continue reading →

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The University homepage, Placekitten style

Posted on Friday 11 March 2011 by

Last week I wrote about Placekitten, a service that automatically generates pictures of kittens as placeholder images in web designs. I decided to put the service through its paces by testing it on the University homepage. I think it needs … Continue reading →

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Fabulous icon set for library projects

Posted on Tuesday 8 March 2011 by

A couple of years ago I was asked to be involved in a project to redesign SAULCAT: the St Andrews University Library Catalogue, which uses the WebPAC Pro online catalogue service of Millennium from Innovative Interfaces. (Or something like that, … Continue reading →

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Photo of the week archive

Posted on Friday 4 March 2011 by

The idea for the Photo of the week feature on the University homepage came about in a brainstorming meeting we had back in 2006 with Mac McBurney who was working with the information architecture consultancy company Dynamic Diagrams we’d hired … Continue reading →

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Saying goodbye to Internet Explorer 6

Posted on Friday 4 March 2011 by

Today, Microsoft launched a big push aimed at “Moving the world off Internet Explorer 6″. IE6 Countdown aims to educate people about why they need to upgrade their browsers. The target is for IE6 to account for less than 1% … Continue reading →

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Creating quick and easy placeholder images

Posted on Wednesday 2 March 2011 by

We have all been there. You are working on a test webpage, and you need to create a placeholder image to test out how it would look. What can you do? You could always go on the hunt for a … Continue reading →

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