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Published on 12 Jan 2006
I’ve just come across this excellent image viewer via Digg. Created by Lokesh Dhakar Lightbox JS is, in his own words: ...a simple, unobtrusive script used to to overlay images on the current page. It’s a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers. Amen to that. This thing rocks. I&#
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Published on 12 Jan 2006
I’m under attack! I’ve heard of of a few other people whose Textpattern driven websites have been targeted heavily by comment spam recently, and I’ve been experiencing the same thing. Textpattern used to be fairly resilient to the automatic spambot attacks, but it looks like they&
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Published on 12 Jan 2006
I’m never one to get particularly sentimental at Christmas time, but this year has been a pretty big one for me, so it seems a fitting time to take stock of what’s been and look forward to what’s coming. Don’t worry. I’ll spare you the mandatory “Web Trends Predic
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Published on 12 Jan 2006
I’ve just updated my Textpattern install on one of my other sites and I came across an interesting “bug” that I haven’t seen mentioned anywhere before. A lot of my sites still run on Texpattern 1.01 rc1. It does the job and I was always a bit scared to upgrade in case it all
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Published on 12 Jan 2006
Reading the article Web Design Depression over at Lisa McMillan recently, inspired me to talk about another common malady for people in our industry: Creative Burnout. The Symptoms Difficulty mustering enthusiasm for your next website Difficulty finding inspiration for said website The inability to
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Published on 21 Feb 2006
I know this place has been about as lively as a morgue recently, but I’ve been busy. Honest. Full reports are on the way, but for the impatient amongst you, head on over to the recently redesigned Travel Dive and Yorkshire Divers to see what I’ve been up to. Along with a bunch of other
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Published on 25 Mar 2006
With the dust settling on the redesign of Travel Dive, I thought it would be a worthwhile exercise to take a look at the decision behind redesigning the site, and the process and choices made when redeveloping it. Over the next week or so I’ll be publishing a few articles analysing and dissect
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Published on 07 Apr 2006
Continuing on from the first part of the series that I posted last week, I’m going to talk more about the redesign of the last big project I was involved. It’s not simply an exercise in Narcissism, honest. I think that every project is a learning experience, with lessons that can benefit
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Published on 11 Apr 2006
With the navigation and layout fixed we also needed to address the new site features we were introducing on a weekly basis. Travel Dive had been in planning and development for 2 years before we even arrived at the original design. The problem had always been that we’d try to do too much, be t
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Published on 23 Apr 2006
sound of phone ringing Me: IE5? Hi it’s me IE5: Hey, I’ve been trying to call you all week. You haven’t been returning my calls. Me: Oh yeah, sorry. I’ve been really busy. You know..with work and stuff pause IE5: Oh, I see. Is everything ok? You want to go out and get somethi
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Published on 02 Aug 2006
Thanks for sending your message to Renegade Zen. I’ll try and get back to you as soon as I can. Thanks for dropping by!
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Published on 02 Aug 2006
If you have questions or think I can help you in any way then please get in touch. I try and answer all emails as best I can, although the ones asking for the path to zen enlightenment tend to flummox me a bit. Name: Email: Message:
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Published on 02 Aug 2006
A priest was in charge of the garden within a famous Zen temple. He had been given the job because he loved the flowers, shrubs, and trees. Next to the temple there was another, smaller temple where there lived a very old Zen master. One day, when the priest was expecting some special guests, he to
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Published on 02 Aug 2006
A Zen Master lived the simplest kind of life in a little hut at the foot of a mountain. One evening, while he was away, a thief sneaked into the hut only to find there was nothing in it to steal. The Zen Master returned and found him. “You have come a long way to visit me,” he told the prowler, “an
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Published on 02 Aug 2006
One day Chuang Tzu and a friend were walking by a river. “Look at the fish swimming about,” said Chuang Tzu, “They are really enjoying themselves.” “You are not a fish,” replied the friend, “So you can’t truly know that they are enjoying themselves.” “You are not me,” said Chuang Tzu. “So how do yo
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Published on 04 Aug 2006
It was a day that will live in infamy. One that had catastrophic consequences that, only now, are we coming to terms with. The events of that day will perhaps never be properly understood, but from the evidence has been recovered here is what we can piece together.
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Published on 05 Aug 2006
After all the trials and tribulations of the recent weeks it’s great to get the latest version of Renegade Zen launched. In some ways it’s a rapid departure from the previous version, in others, I see it more as a continuation of ideas that began before.
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Published on 08 Aug 2006
This book has got me so excited I’m actually having to sit on a pile of newspaper in case I pee myself as I write this post. Neubau Welt, created by Stefan Gandl, represents a snapshot of over 1000 objects from everyday life in vector illustration. It’s really just a massive encyclopedia of vector
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Published on 09 Aug 2006
I’ve got a few ambitions in my life. Some personal ones like learning to play the piano, learning Japanese and run a marathon, and I’ve got some career ones as well. Some big; some small. I achieved one of those smaller ambitions today when Renegade Zen was showcased on CSS Beauty. Alright, it may
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Published on 09 Aug 2006
Generally speaking, I love what I do, but there are bits of my job which I could definitely live without. Moments in a project which I dread, or find myself avoiding like the plague. I know there’s no way around them, but I ain’t going to be a happy bunny. Here are my current Top 5 things in web de
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Published on 11 Aug 2006
We’ve all been there. It’s late into the night, deadlines loom, but that design must be finished off by the morning. As the hours tick by, your concentration wanes and you start making mistakes, losing focus and generally losing the plot. It’s at this point when you realise you’ve been working too
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Published on 15 Aug 2006
I realise I’m a bit late to this particular party, but I’ve always neglected RSS, partly due to the fact that I don’t really use it myself. Personally, I much prefer reading peoples thoughts, ideas and creations in the context of their own site. Lots of people disagree with me though, and RSS is hu
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Published on 16 Aug 2006
I started running a while back, partly just to get some more exercise and partly because it’s been a chance to enjoy our unusually fine summer in Scotland this year. One of the many things that make Edinburgh such a pleasant city to live in is its predominance of parks, hills and general greenery.
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Published on 28 Aug 2006
I just whipped up this small but perfectly formed microsite for Net Resources. Designed to support a marketing push for an SEO campaign which we launched, it’s a hidden “Top Secret” microsite accessed through URLs revealed in the print campaign. All very cloak and dagger stuff, and it’s likely to b
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Published on 30 Aug 2006
£500? £5000? £50,000? Obviously there’s no absolute answer to this, but we have to find some way of monetising our work, and that process has to be explained openly and honestly to our clients. It’s a delicate issue, and people often feel uncomfortable talking about money, but it’s important. I’ve
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