/blog/Recent content in Blog on Inspired!Hugo -- gohugo.ioen-gbAll rights, and lefts, reserved.Mon, 25 Mar 2024 20:53:20 +0000/blog/internal-templates/Mon, 04 Jan 2021 17:31:19 +0000/blog/internal-templates/A demo of Hugo’s internal templates./blog/ultravox/Fri, 01 Jan 2021 11:48:46 +0100/blog/ultravox/Any emergency can cause a huge surge in bandwidth, causing sites to become unavailable, but this site has been designed for high availability./blog/thoughts-on-accessibility/Wed, 04 Nov 2020 15:18:07 +0000/blog/thoughts-on-accessibility/I often see people relating web accessibility, #a11y, on the web directly to the requirements of people who use screen readers or other assistive technologies, or for the more narrow-minded; blind people./blog/typography/Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:28:36 +0000/blog/typography/We want our users to engage with our content, and great typography helps to do that. The easier it is to read, the better the engagemnent./blog/vegan-mumblecore/Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:28:36 +0000/blog/vegan-mumblecore/DIY readymade tumeric cornhole flannel try-hard occupy tbh craft beer aesthetic edison bulb slow-carb kogi./blog/bandwidth/Fri, 24 Apr 2020 11:48:46 +0100/blog/bandwidth/Any emergency can cause a huge surge in bandwidth, causing sites to become unavailable, but this site has been designed for high availability./blog/markdown-test-file/Fri, 24 Apr 2020 10:48:46 +0000/blog/markdown-test-file/Markdown is intended to be as easy-to-read and easy-to-write as is feasible. Readability, however, is emphasized above all else./blog/defining-a-performance-budget/Fri, 21 Feb 2020 14:35:14 +0000/blog/defining-a-performance-budget/We already know that web applications have balooned in recent years with the average website now almost 2Mb 🔗 ./blog/shopify-rocks/Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000/blog/shopify-rocks/Shopify is a hosted e-commerce solution trusted by businesses worldwide and is loved by store owners, shoppers and developers alike./blog/colour-magic-with-sass/Sun, 16 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000/blog/colour-magic-with-sass/Creating a complementary colour palette with Sass, and a quick glance at colour theory, is easy./blog/load-disqus-on-demand/Sat, 15 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000/blog/load-disqus-on-demand/If you care about your visitors only load Disqus comments on demand, as even an empty comment form weighs in around 226Kb./blog/free-adobe-webfonts/Wed, 12 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000/blog/free-adobe-webfonts/Adobe’s new free webfont service is a powerful challenger to Google’s webfont service./blog/install-jekyll-in-osx-mavericks/Thu, 30 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000/blog/install-jekyll-in-osx-mavericks/Installing the static site generator Jekyll has never been easier, this short tutorial will have you up an running in no time at all./blog/disabling-gantrys-less-compiler/Wed, 25 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000/blog/disabling-gantrys-less-compiler/I discovered serious short-comings with the automatic LESS compilation built into Rocket Theme’s Gantry 4 framework so I set about disabling it./blog/the-problem-with-frameworks/Wed, 05 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000/blog/the-problem-with-frameworks/A huge problem with frameworks like Bootstrap is that they deprive developers of a learning experience. How can we grow without the understanding that derives from that experience?/blog/go-grab-a-jekyll/Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000/blog/go-grab-a-jekyll/I wanted to share the fun I’ve been with Jekyll, so I put together a build that you can easily make your own. It’s fast, light and Github will host it for free./blog/a-brave-new-world/Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000/blog/a-brave-new-world/I finally made the big switch to OSX. I’m still finding my feet, but already discovering there’s things I love, and things that I don’t…/blog/a-personal-challenge/Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000/blog/a-personal-challenge/I set myself a challenge to build the best blog site I could, with the minimum possible amount of code. This is my first attempt, and I am quite happy with the results so far./blog/lean-and-mean/Sun, 24 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000/blog/lean-and-mean/I think we’ve become lazy when we build websites and the rise of chuck-it-all-in frameworks has only made things worse./blog/falling-in-love-with-jekyll/Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000/blog/falling-in-love-with-jekyll/I’ve now been building websites with Jekyll for a total of two days, and I am already in love. Completely! I’m now at point of wondering if I’ll ever build a site with anything else. It’s that good./blog/on-evolutionary-design/Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000/blog/on-evolutionary-design/I think this is true of most of us but I’m never really happy with the design of my own site, probably because I have so much freedom with it and so little time for it./blog/on-responsible-responsive-navigation/Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000/blog/on-responsible-responsive-navigation/Drop-down navigation for small screens is very popular in responsive web design, but why do so many approaches execute it the wrong way?/blog/joomla-html5-overrides/Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000/blog/joomla-html5-overrides/A set of semantic html5 overrides for Joomla which standardise and sanitise Joomla’s content output./blog/oneweb-the-philosophy/Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000/blog/oneweb-the-philosophy/If you’ve read I’ve ever written on Twitter, or ever met me, you’ll know I bang on about the whole ‘Oneweb’ thing a lot, but what does it really mean?/blog/on-content-and-design/Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000/blog/on-content-and-design/When designing this site, I spent a lot of time considering the importance of content & usability in a responsive setting, refining my existing content-first approach./blog/fixing-webfont-errors-in-joomla/Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000/blog/fixing-webfont-errors-in-joomla/A quick fix for the webfont errors generated by Joomla 3’s default template Protostar./blog/something-on-the-horizon/Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000/blog/something-on-the-horizon/Flowcart is an exciting new e-commerce extension for Joomla! Fast, responsive and user-friendly it will totally change the way you build stores with Joomla!/blog/you-code-i-design/Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000/blog/you-code-i-design/There’s nothing more infuriating to a designer than battling with the ‘design’ imposed by a component developer./blog/rwd-dont-forget-mobile/Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000/blog/rwd-dont-forget-mobile/Making it responsive is not the same as making a site mobile-friendly, no sir!/blog/joomla-gets-github-all-wrong/Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000/blog/joomla-gets-github-all-wrong/Contributing code to Joomla! should be easy and enjoyable. Instead it is slow, painful and downright difficult./blog/my-first-joscar/Fri, 25 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000/blog/my-first-joscar/I had an incredible time at this year’s J&Beyond, made even more memorable by the fact I have returned home with a coveted Joomla! Oscar/blog/html5-joomla-modules/Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000/blog/html5-joomla-modules/A new html5 module chrome for OneWeb, my responsive boilerplate template, brings html5 elements to Joomla! modules./blog/oneweb-template/Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000/blog/oneweb-template/I’m sharing my project starter; a responsive, mobile-first, HTML5 template for Joomla. The fastest, responsive Joomla! template ever made!/blog/bullet-proof-joomla-backups/Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000/blog/bullet-proof-joomla-backups/Back-ups of your site don’t have to be a chore, in fact Akeeba Backup can automate everything!/blog/replacing-the-joomla-favicon/Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000/blog/replacing-the-joomla-favicon/In this tutorial I explain how to replace the Joomla favicon with one of your own, something I’m asked about regularly.