/Recent content in Hello. I make websites that are fast, accessible & responsive. Websites <em>built ^*for humans!</em> on Inspired!Hugo -- gohugo.ioen-gbAll rights, and lefts, reserved.Mon, 25 Mar 2024 20:53:20 +0000Fri, 24 Jan 2020 11:48:46 +0100/about/Mon, 20 Apr 2020 11:48:46 +0100/about/Unfortunately, I’m old enough to remember when Alta Vista was the best search engine the World had ever known and browsers came on floppy discs taped to computer magazines./404/Tue, 02 Feb 2021 18:32:51 +0000/404/Well, this is embarassing, nothing exists at the URL you requested./offline/Tue, 02 Feb 2021 18:32:51 +0000/offline/Your device appears to be offline. You may find some things don’t work as expected, or that you get reduced fucntionality while your device is offline./blog/internal-templates/Mon, 04 Jan 2021 17:31:19 +0000/blog/internal-templates/A demo of Hugo&rsquo;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./features/accessibility/Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:28:36 +0000/features/accessibility/Semantic elements, user-centric design and rigorous testing ensure that we ship accessible sites that adhere to industry best-practices as standard./features/seo/Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:28:36 +0000/features/seo/Fast, secure and without errors. With built in RSS feeds and automatically updated site maps, our sites get indexed quickly and keep us on top./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./features/ux/Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:28:36 +0000/features/ux/Everything we do is geared towards delivering a first-class user experience, because when your visitors are happy they&rsquo;ll hang around./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.Fri, 24 Apr 2020 11:48:46 +0100I wanted you to know that we all think you’ve done a sterling job and we’re very grateful to have come into contact with you./legal/accessibility/Fri, 24 Apr 2020 11:48:46 +0100/legal/accessibility/Accessibility is extremely important to us. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website./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./legal/cookies/Fri, 24 Apr 2020 11:48:46 +0100/legal/cookies/This site does not use cookies, none. If you&rsquo;d like to learn about cookies, how they are used by some other websites, and what that means to you Cookiesandyou./features/performance/Fri, 24 Apr 2020 11:48:46 +0100/features/performance/Our low-bandwidth, high-availability sites can handle huge volumes of traffic and still ensure your content gets to your users as quickly as possible.Fri, 24 Apr 2020 11:48:46 +0100Seth has been our Lead Developer on multiple Starberry 🔗 projects./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./legal/privacy/Fri, 24 Apr 2020 11:48:46 +0100/legal/privacy/We respect the EU’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and this policy explains how we collect and treat any information you give us.Fri, 24 Apr 2020 11:48:46 +0100Seth not only delivered great UX solutions, he also helped find solutions to the myriad commercial concerns and issues that accompanied our new business model./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 🔗 .Fri, 24 Jan 2020 11:48:46 +0100Fri, 24 Jan 2020 11:48:46 +0100Fri, 24 Jan 2020 11:48:46 +0100Fri, 24 Jan 2020 11:48:46 +0100/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&rsquo;s new free webfont service is a powerful challenger to Google&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;ve been with Jekyll, so I put together a build that you can easily make your own. It&rsquo;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&rsquo;m still finding my feet, but already discovering there&rsquo;s things I love, and things that I don&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s content output./blog/oneweb-the-philosophy/Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000/blog/oneweb-the-philosophy/If you&rsquo;ve read I&rsquo;ve ever written on Twitter, or ever met me, you&rsquo;ll know I bang on about the whole &lsquo;Oneweb&rsquo; 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 &amp; 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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s nothing more infuriating to a designer than battling with the &lsquo;design&rsquo; 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&rsquo;s J&amp;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;m asked about regularly./made/alliance-for-catholic-education/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/made/alliance-for-catholic-education/A complete refit of ACE&rsquo;s existing website with a modern, responsive front-end that and a design that respected the established heritage of the site./made/brian-teeman/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/made/brian-teeman/I created the award-winning template for Joomla! superstar and co-founder Brian Teeman&rsquo;s personal site./services/development/craft/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/services/development/craft/I have a ton of experience developing sites with Craftcms 🔗 ./services/support/e-commerce/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/services/support/e-commerce/Need a modern, user-friendly online store. One that doesn&rsquo;t want to make you pull your hair out?/made/fairbears/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/made/fairbears/Fairbears is a Joomla-based e-commerce site designed to offer an outstanding user experience on any web-enabled device./made/fairburn-primary/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/made/fairburn-primary/Fast, informative and easy to use. This school site is built with the fantastic CraftCMS, making it a breeze for school administrators to create and curate their content./services/development/hugo/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/services/development/hugo/User experience 🔗 Static html. Nothing is faster. Super-secure by design Developer experience 🔗 Steep learning curve Ultimate freedom./made/joomlafuture/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/made/joomlafuture/Lightweight, fast and unbelievably flexible. Oneweb is the finest responsive template framework ever built for Joomla./services/development/joomla/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/services/development/joomla/Heavily involved with Joomla!, as a user and contributor to the project, I’ve a wealth of experience delivering Joomla!/made/joomlanauts/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/made/joomlanauts/Joomlanauts is a professional theme shop that creates some of the best Joomla templates ever created; lightweight, responsive templates that cater to exclusively the professional Joomla designer and developer./made/lakefront7s/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/made/lakefront7s/Fast, lightweight and truly responsive the Lakefront 7s website publicises the tournament/made/legionella-control/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/made/legionella-control/A fast and flexible corporate portal built with Joomla/made/mooringboy/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/made/mooringboy/Designing a site prototype to validate the business model of an ambitious startup./services/support/support/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/services/support/support/Launch day is rarely the end-of-play. Real success online requires an SEO strategy, content development planning and a codebase that can evolve with your business./made/rachel-brown-beauty/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/made/rachel-brown-beauty/Rachel Brown Beauty is a lightweight, mobile-friendly, brochure site built around strong typography and a subtle pastel palette./made/radio-monaco/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/made/radio-monaco/A minimal, responsive design built on the Joomla platform for Monaco&rsquo;s leading radio station./services/development/shopify/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/services/development/shopify/Need a modern, user-friendly online store. One that doesn&rsquo;t want to make you pull your hair out?/made/spiffing-covers/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/made/spiffing-covers/Moving from Joomla to CraftCMS let the Spiffing team unleash their creativity./made/guggenheim/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/made/guggenheim/I was approached by the developers of the Guggenheim Foundation&rsquo;s UBS MAP project to create a lightweight, responsive Joomla template framework that could implement the ambitious design concepts in a scalable, modular codebase./made/venturi-automobiles/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/made/venturi-automobiles/Lightning-fast, and fully responsive. Internet Inspired created the Venturi Automobiles brochure site launched at the 2013 Paris Motor Show./made/winchester-white/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/made/winchester-white/I was commissioned by Starberry, an award-winning digital agency specialising in estate agents sites, to implement their designs using Joomla. I delivered a fast, responsive and UX-driven site for their client./made/winkworth-international/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/made/winkworth-international/As Lead Developer on this project for Starberry I created the template framework and custom extensions needed to implement their prestigious, UX-focussed, design on Joomla. Elegant, user-friendly property search for millionaires!