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What happens to your website if you die?
What might happen to your web site when you die is something most people probably haven’t thought about. Despite the language often used about ‘buying’ a domain name, you don’t actually own it in the sense you would own a piece of land. It’s more like renting it on a short or long lease from a domain registrar. If no one has gone into your account to renew it, the lease will expire and the property will go back onto the open market to be rented by someone else (90 days after the expiry date). With your web hosting, as an individual, your contract may come to an end with…
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100% Guaranteed Way to get Likes on Facebook
I have discovered the ultimate way to get a ton of likes on Facebook! Get a kitten. Post a picture of it sleeping. Seriously, the most liked thing I’ve ever posted. 😉 See also A Kitten Called Thing
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New Drabble: Not quite the right thing (Doctor Who)
Clara is on a mission to save the Doctor. Rating: G Genre: Drabble Read Not quite the right thing @ Global Domination Enterprises
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Your website is not a brochure.
In my post on responsive design one of the underlying themes was that modern web designers have been, and still are, held back by models coming from old media. The use of the term “brochure website” is another one of these unhelpful old tropes. It fails to articulate that a website is a thing in its own right. You don’t need to add the term “brochure” to it. When you do that you make a site less than it is capable of being by pigeonholing it into an older model of media interaction. A website is not a brochure. It is a website, which is a totally different thing on…
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The Humble Hyperlink
I’m a web designer. I drool over designs of websites and dream in CSS. I’m a developer. I love code that does awesome things. I love tying the two together and making beautiful things that do great stuff. But at the end of the day my favourite thing about the web isn’t the pretty sites or the funky coding, it’s the humble hyperlink. I saw my first site when the pages were grey and there was no funky code or beautiful design. I fell in love with the World Wide Web for one basic element of its underlying design: the ability to make connections. The other day I read an…
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New Story: Data Banks Full of Women (Doctor Who)
Summary: A sequel to Forever and Donna Down The Rabbit Hole. A meet up in The Library. Rating: G Genre: AU Story Notes: Set around The Doctor’s Wife but will make no sense if you haven’t seen The Name of the Doctor. Read Data Banks Full of Women @ Global Domination Enterprises
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Web Design has always been responsive
The hottest buzz term in the web design industry right now has to be Responsive Design. Article after article describes it as an enormous shift in the web cosmos that changes everything (!) I believe that this is web design illiteracy and a product of a vast misstep in how many people have gone about designing websites in the past. Seeing the principle of Responsive Design as something alien and weird is a mindset that’s coming from a very narrow view of what the web is and how to design sites for it. It’s actually easy to see how that narrow view developed over time and became the mainstream view.…
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A Weirdness of Spikes
This is a tale of three Spikes. One is a cartoon dog. The next is Spike on Buffy, played by James Marsters. The last is Spike on Press Gang. Both those last two are characters for whom Spike is a nickname. Spike on Press Gang takes his nickname from the cartoon dog. The characters real name is James. Dexter Fletcher, who plays him, is English but his Spike is American. James Marsters is American, but his Spike is English. That Spike’s real name is William. The cartoon dog was created by a guy named William.
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Organise Your IPad With 3 Home Screens
I love the simplicty of the apps display on my iPad. It’s unfussy and simple enough for a child to use, but straightforward and unfussy can also mean incredibly cluttered when you have a lot of apps. So how can you keep it unfussy but also efficiently organised? I tried searching for efficient methods for organising the apps, but all I found were articles telling me physically how to customise it using the inbuilt tools or offering really vague advice, like review them regularly to keep the numbers down. So I came up with my own system that seems to work well, and in a communal spirit I’ve decided to…
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Little Sister
At last year’s Vampire Ball I entered the fancy dress competition for the first time. Since Juliet Landau was attending I decided to make my costume a little bit left field (figured loads of other people would dress as Dru) and dress as a Little Sister from the videogame Bioshock, for which Juliet did the voices. Now I cannot sew, so I have to admit that I bought the dress (custom made for me). This thing arrived in pristine condition… and then the fun began! For some reason the skirt turned out really long – which was good in some ways as I am a little old and a little…
