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What's Gutenberg trying to fix? WordPress has had a fundamental flaw for many years, one that page builders like Divy and WP-bakery have leveraged to much commercial success. That's the lack of a decent editing experience within the core experience.… Read more » -
Photobite: Announcing the New 2018 release
Some of you may already know PhotoBite, a collective of photographers, videographers and content creators who have come together to create a site to share photography and videography news, reviews, competitions and products. Over the last few years PhotoBite have… Read more » -
Happy New Year + 2018 Special Web Design Offer On All Services!
It's 2018, another year, another 365 days of pushing for a better web, a web where sites are fast, even on the slowest connections, where content is king and where I leave a trail of happy clients where-ever I go.… Read more » -
Twitter Introduces New “Night Mode”
Twitter yesterday announced that they've now enabled "Night mode" across its website, Twitter.com. Night mode was already a part of Twitters mobile apps, and it was only a matter of time before it headed in to save the poor eyes… Read more » -
Pet Projects: Midgr
The best thing about being a freelance web developer is the opportunity to work on side projects that tickle your fancy. In this case I had the urge to build a fun little tool that allowed me to work with… Read more » -
2017: Make February Your Web Design and Development Business Overhaul Month
We all do it, hell I'm as bad as the next person, overhauling everything simply because it's January the first and that's what you're supposed to do right? Well maybe. So hopefully you had a good Christmas and New Year… Read more » -
Tsohost Introduces “Let’s Encrypt” to Their Cloud Package
Tsohost have announced that user on their Cloud Platform can now access and use a free Let's Encrypt SSL certificate. The following excerpt is taken from the Tsohost blog, the post can be found here for your enjoyment. [blockquote] We’re… Read more » -
Miniman Web Design to reinvent strathardnews.com
On a personal level, I'm always looking to extend the work I do with local communities and charities, whether this be through pitching in at events, community tidy-ups or even using my second digital brain. I was contacted lately by… Read more » -
Offer: .london domains for only £4!
Yes, you read that right, you too can be the proud owner of a .london domain for only four of your measly British pounds. As some of you know I'm part of the team that owns and runs tWDF (The… Read more » -
Freelance woes: Freelance Sick Days
I'm late with my latest blog post, very late, but the subject of this post probably sums up quite why I'm so late this month, and it's to do with freelance sick days. As a freelance web designer I am… Read more » -
Font Duet: A curated selection of Google Font pairings
This handy tool by The Lonely Pixel makes picking and using the perfect Google font pairing pretty damn easy.
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Web Development Device Test Bench
One of the hardest parts of being a freelance web developer is setting up a device test bench and being able to test across a multitude of devices and platforms. Why is a device test bench important? Having a decent… Read more » -
A Quick Introduction to Google’s New Virtual Reality Embed Tool
On Wednesday google announced the release of their new virtual reality embed tool 'VR View'. Making it a hell of a lot easier for developers to quickly embed virtual reality images and videos in to their websites and apps. [caption… Read more » -
My first five years as a freelance web designer in Stirlingshire
In April of 2011 I relocated myself and my business from London. With a pin in Google maps the decision was made to move to a small village, just outside Glasgow, called Croftamie. In May, BT turned up and I… Read more » -
Freelancer Vs. Agency
I sat down this afternoon with the intention of researching and writing a post about when and why to choose a freelancer rather than an agency to work with on your website.
I then discovered my good friend and colleague, Chris Robinson over at The Lonely Pixel, had already done exactly thatPop on over and have a read!
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Web Design in Loch Lomond, What’s That Like Then?
Doing web design in Loch Lomond and the surrounding area is a privilege few can claim, but I'm glad I can. Channel 5 spent the year of 2014 filming a wildlife documentary set around the immediate area of the Miniman… Read more » -
Miniman: An excuse to ramble
So here we are, a Miniman blog. It's been almost 15 years since I dipped a toe in the world of web design and development, 10 years since people started paying me to do it and over 6 years since… Read more »