Posted on Sunday, May 20th, 2012

There’s no sure-fire, single method for handling your media queries when it comes to developing your web site for responsiveness but if you’re looking for the simple-is-best approach, here’s one that I’ve used which seems to work more often than not. What we can do is at least begin with a starting point and adapt from there based on our needs.
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Posted on Sunday, April 22nd, 2012

I’ve noticed over the last year or so that while some of my work has been pretty solid and unique, other projects tend to start off using a lot of the same approaches to the design phase. It’s one thing to be good at what you do and it’s another to be able to have fresh ideas at every turn. When I start noticing that I’ve started a project with design choices that are too similar to ones I’ve used, I have to ask myself – is it because those choices are proven or am I just being lazy, or worse, uninspired?
Everyone has their own ways of dealing with creative ruts and here are some suggestions that have worked for me.
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Posted on Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

I was having a very stressful Monday and was wallowing a bit this evening. Somewhere approaching the transition into Tuesday, I had this sudden idea that I put into action. It’s a simple project called OttawAwesome.
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Posted on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012

Although responsive web design has been around for around a couple of years now (give or take), it’s been in the last few months that the practice has really taken off. Some swear by it, others think it little more than a gimmick, and the rest are somewhere in between. Is responsive web design all it’s cracked up to be? Let’s talk about it.
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Posted on Tuesday, March 27th, 2012

Well, it’s been almost a week since we moved the office from the near-boonies to downtown. We’re on Rideau close to Dalhousie, which means that we get to immerse ourselves around actual society. And what with the weather last week being so nice, well, so far, so good.
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