I was speaking to a good friend today who was a little down trodden over a failed business venture, so much so his confidence has been severely knocked to such an extent he is looking at leaving his chosen career. This set me to thinking, failure isn’t as bad as people make out. We all have tried and failed at…

Today I have been battling away with various hacks/fixes and CSS additions to prevent my CSS based dropdown menu falling behind embedded Youtube clips on Safari and Chrome on PC. I tried the general wmode=”transparent” and such but for whatever reason it just did not want to work, after much playing around I found something works pretty well (with the…

If you hadn’t heard already the <time> element has been temporarily removed and replaced with the element <data> I’m torn on the decision really, from a semantic and accessibility point of view the element is very appealing, but I can’t honestly say I have seen it used in a way that has really made me stand up and say “wow…

Over the past few days I have made several mockups for clients and on each I have reached the contact page design and sat back and thought “there must be something else I can add in here…” The standard contact form usually has two columns, one has a wide contact form, the other has phone numbers, social profiles and maybe…

To be a freelancer, your own boss, the master of your own destiny. You can work when you want, you can handpick your work, take time off when you like, have late starts and work in your PJ’s… WRONG! The life of a freelancer might seem somewhat idealistic, but in reality it’s hard work and your work ethic and your…