I've been busy over there

Posted in on 2 May 2013 | Comments

I’ve been busy on the CVW Web Design site recently where the News section has taken up quite a bit of my ‘spare’ time. In fact, I’ve surprised myself by writing a couple of articles a month. Mostly, these have been Tips and Tricks aimed at website owners but I’m intending to feature clients and their sites as well in the not too distant future. Here are some of the recent articles:

I’ve also been busy with Clive Goes Cycling where I’ve been writing blog posts about some of the cycling I’ve been doing recently.

So, all in all, I’ve been pretty busy what with personal sites and client work as well. Better to be busy than sitting around twiddling your thumbs though!

Why I still use Dreamweaver despite all the cool kids using something else

Posted in on 5 April 2013 | Comments [2]

I’ve been meaning to write a blog post for some time about my web design and development workflow and the tools/software I use. So, this post is part of that and ‘in reply’ to many tweets I see every day (it seems) about other web development tools. Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with a healthy marketplace of web design and development software, in fact I heartily support a wider choice. This post is not intended to be criticism of other software either. It’s just that I feel that Dreamweaver sometimes gets a bit of a ‘bad press’ or is perceived as not ‘cool’ – when, in my opinion, it’s still a great web development environment.

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Responsive Day Out in Brighton

Posted in on 3 March 2013 | Comments [2]

Last week, I attended Responsive Day Out. It was a full day, great value conference that was organised by Clearleft – and Jeremy Keith in particular. All the speakers gave presentations about Responsive Web Design (RWD). So, here are a few of my thoughts about the day.

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Starting a News and Articles section

Posted in on 7 February 2013 | Comments

I’ve been gradually refining the CVW Web Design site over the last few months and one of the decisions I’ve made was to start a News section. There were several reasons for doing this.

  • I wanted to write articles about business, the sites/projects I’ve been working on, and about client websites, and these articles did not seem to fit comfortably in this blog.
  • The CVW Web Design site needs to have a regular stream of new content so that search engines and site visitors can see that it is updated regularly.
  • I wanted to use Perch on the site so a News section was one way of kick-starting that.

I pondered whether to call the new section “Blog” or “News” but in the end I’ve gone with the latter to avoid confusion with this blog. Admittedly, “News” is not entirely accurate so I’m not completely happy but it’s OK for the moment.

So far, it’s been going quite well and I’ve been able to write a couple of articles a month. For example:

I’m having to think more about articles to write so that’s definitely a challenge but I’m hoping to research these a bit better now that I have a place to publish them – so I hope the whole thing will be a virtuous circle. We’ll see!

Review of New Adventures in Web Design 2013

Posted in on 29 January 2013 | Comments

Last week, I attended the New Adventures in Web Design conference in Nottingham. This was the third and (probably) last New Adventures and the event lived up to my expectations. It was a day full of insightful and entertaining presentations. Here’s my short review of the best bits for me.

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