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Brewing: Negra Cerveza

August 4, 2011

Getting back on the home brew bandwagon. After a successful IPA this spring, it’s time to try it again with a Mexican style dark beer. I’m sticking with the pre-fab kits from The Beer Nut…

Technical drawings of a Mini - made to look a little yesteryear

Don’t Minify on the Fly

June 15, 2011

In the name of speeding up your site you may hear that minifying your CSS is both awesome and easy. I’ll agree that it’s very easy, and in the name of speed I can concede…

Responsive Web Design – The Book

June 7, 2011

A Book Apart released Responsive Web Design today and I picked up a copy. I’m excited to get a better understanding of the whole responsive web picture – but I’m especially interested in hearing Ethan’s…

Designing for Mobile First

June 7, 2011

I’ve recently been involved in a project with a company who had interest in my work with mobile design with media queries. Before I began we talked what tools we wanted to use to create…

Go Mobile with Responsive Design

May 6, 2011

Designing for the web has always been like catching a greased chameleon – as soon as you get a good grip everything changes and you’re looking for the elusive lizard on some new technological rock.…

Spigot featured on Mediaqueri.es

April 18, 2011

Media Queries has kindly featured spigotdesign.com in their gallery of sites that use media queries for responsive web design. It’s a great place to go for inspiring designs that use @media in their development. I’ll…

Conceptual image of social media. Colorful squares mostly.

Use Social Media the Smart Way

April 8, 2011

Blog First Social Media websites play an important part in marketing your business – there’s no denying the power they have in getting the word out on your brand. But how much time and effort…

The Admin Bar and Absolute Positioning

March 28, 2011

The latest release of WordPress (3.1) comes with a new ‘Admin Bar’ – a small area at the top of your site that displays (for logged in users) quick links and easy access to some…

Nibbler: Awesome Website Testing

March 25, 2011

There’s a lot of ways to test and benchmark your website, but few are as fun as Nibbler. And it’s free! What does Nibbler do? Nibbler will go through 5 pages of which ever site…

How to get Google to Like You

March 22, 2011

So you want Google to like you, eh? You want to be at the top? Well good, because the top is a great place to be. It’s not easy to get there, though – so…