A couple of years ago I was featured in a double page spread in the national publication: Web Design Magazine.

Well, I'll be blown, it seems I'm in there again!

Issue 167. Page 62. Top 24 Personal portfolios.

"An online portfolio is a designer's window to a 24/7 global audience. And for this very reason it should be attention-grabbing, functional and informative. Here we choose 24 portfolios that we think fit the bill perfectly."

Looking at the other 23 examples, I'm in good company.

Chufty McChuft :)

In reference to my previous posts: "What I need to spin a good web" and "Project workflow for a web project", I have realised that it may be useful for my clients to see an example of what a simple site-map and site-plan looks like.

This post will show a 'made-up' simple version that will hopefully prove useful to the client at the early stages of project planning.

Is anyone else a bit slightly miffed at having to add all the different prefix variations for advanced CSS3 declarations yo?

Surely all these cool new browsers that are all for progress and sharing and open standards and the like could get together and say (something like):

"Hey FireFox. It's Safari here. How was your Christmas? You get that sheep you wanted? Anyway. Just to let you know, we've decided that we're going to start all our advanced CSS3 test declarations with -beta- and we thought it would be a good idea for all of us to do the same. You know, to keep developers' CSS manageable and save a few kilobytes hither and thither. Oh, and can you pass on the info to Opera and the others too? Thanks. Bye!"

A post in which I discuss a widely used "background-image instead of text" technique, given a little tweaking, to work when CSS and/or images are disabled.

Note: If you wish to skip my (possibly unnecessary and yawn-inducing) pre-amble and get straight to my "background-image instead of text" technique, skip to "A solution for now" :)

I am proud to announce that I am now a member of The Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS):

"The Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS) is a worldwide association of professional organisations, web designers and developers working together to promote the use and preservation of accessible design standards.

Promoting a vision of the future that assumes accessible web design to be, relevant, obtainable, and not at odds with successful business practice or good visual and usable design."

This article outlines the steps I had to take to become a member, and also some useful tips in terms of web development and accessibility. WIN.