thoughts on paid for content

Over the last few weeks I have been thinking a lot about paying for content. When in November Murdoch announced that he was planning to block access to his publications via google I laughed out loud a little. His argument at the time was “The people who simply just pick up everything and run with it – steal our stories, we say they steal our stories – they just take them. That’s Google, that’s Microsoft, that’s Ask.com, a whole lot of people … they shouldn’t have had it free all the time, and I…...

your personal site, a mirror to your soul

“A person’s website or blog is a window to their soul” as the web 2.0 proverb says. For people like me who build sites for a living it might occasionally become hard to get in touch with our soul, especially when we see web building1 as something to be sold for money. /shudder An old Greek proverb says “Show me your web home and I will tell you who you are”. Well it might actually say “your friend”, but if you are in our field shouldn’t…...

changes on the horizon

For the last few years this site has been hosted on streamline.net’s unlimited package which was up to recently a very pleasant experience. Great support, nearly no downtime etc. etc. I have been so happy in fact that I have referred them to many friends and clients. In the past year tough I have noticed that although the company seems to be up-scaling, their service didn’t. Don’t get me wrong, support is still great and overall the service is not bad. That’s only when…...

Why I < 3 my job

In the about section of this site I say: “I am a web designer by trade and self confessed geek by personality. I spend most of my waking hours in front of a computer, whether it is my mac at work or my mac at home. I like coding and designing and trying to organise the display of information, not only in a way that looks good, but in a way it makes sense. This might be a side effect of the “information engineering” part of my university course back when I was young and impressionable.…...

fluid web typography (a guide)

That’s the name of the book I found waiting for me at my desk, on my return to the office yesterday morning. The timing of it was perfect since having gotten up and commuted in the snow, after 26 days away from the office, I was seriously starting to get the post-holiday blues. This belated present by Mr Jason Cranford Teague, or @jasonspeaking for the twitteristas of you out there, more then…...