October 08, 2004
Just when I thought I was about to get gazumped next Tuesday when my new iMac was supposed to be in, I get a call from the Apple centre telling me my iMac is in!
I was pleased to say the least. Anyway, i’ve got it and i’ll be setting it up on Sunday probably as i’ve got friends round for the weekend. As promised i’ll try and document the whole thing for those who are interested.
October 06, 2004
1.8GHz 17-inch iMac
Superdrive
1GB Ram
After justifying it to myself, wife, friends and colleagues, i’ve ordered a new iMac.
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Update 2 - 7th oct, 10.10am: Apparently one has been allocated from stock for me and it should be in next Tuesday. Thing is, as always, it’s down to me to badger the shop to give me an indication of progress, not the other way round. I still think they’re not quite telling the truth though.
Update - 7th oct, 9.15am: And so it begins. After ordering the iMac yesterday I was assured the items would now be on order and shipped if they were in stock (which they were). After ringing to pay this morning, they are now saying “let’s get it in the shop first, and we’ll take it from there”. I asked how long that would take, the bloke said it could be three weeks! Now, this is where it begins going wrong.
A word of advice for anybody who has customers - Don’t lie to secure a sale then fail to deliver, it sucks.
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October 04, 2004
Lots to look at this wet Monday morning.
Web Essentials in Sydney has drawn to a close. Great write up from Doug Bowman as always. Doug also has both his presentations available now at his site. They do make good reading and make sense, to a degree, out of context. Incidently, Doug archives all his presentation’s here, if you have a spare couple of hours, and are that way inclined, give them a read.
Another one bites the dust, Yahoo is moving to CSS. Good write up at Whitespace
Stylegala has launched a forum. Some good topics of conversation already.
October 01, 2004
Just posted the first the series of the Grid Articles. The first in the series - Why use a grid? - explains just that. The rest of the grid series:
Any comments about the latest, and upcoming, articles can be posted here.
October 01, 2004
Presentations by Doug Bowman and Dave Shea seem to be the highlights. Doug’s presentation is here - it isn’t accompanied by his voice, and the stylesheet doesn’t work, but it contains some useful stuff non-the-less.
Web Essentials 04 is a conference of Web Standards, amongst other things, currently going on in Sydney, Australia
September 29, 2004
Everything about returning from holiday is rubbish. From the packing to the checking in. No matter how quick your flight it always seems to take at least six hours travel time (in Europe anyway). Why is that?
September 14, 2004
Doug Bowman, of Stopdesign has gone back to the coloured version of his site (personally I liked liquid bleach). He’s added a Style-switcher, but he’s done it in a better way than those obscure, unlabelled buttons you see floating around. He’s added a preferences page where the user can choose their layout of choice and the results are cookied. Also, which is rather nice, the base text size is also cookied.
Firefox PR1.0 is out. Firefox was already a good browser in it’s beta stages. This release is simply the best browser on the mac at the moment. Very quick, stable and packed with useful functionality. This release see’s RSS being present now as Live Bookmarks, cool idea and stops me having to open my rss application to go through my feeds. If a site has RSS, a little icon appears, I bookmark it from there and that’s it!
September 10, 2004
Following a link from Jon Hicks, Ecto 2 beta has been released, in fact i’m posting this entry on it.
I’ve been using Ecto for a while now (ever since it was called Kung Log) to quickly post to this site. Quick, efficient and cheap and intergrates seamlessly with MovableType. In fact I rarely delve in the MT interface on a daily basis as Ecto is installed on my machine at work.
So, what’s changed in version 2? Quite a bit actually. Some of it good, some of it strange.
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I'm a graphic designer from near Cardiff in the UK. I've been a designer for over ten years now and primarily work on the web. I'm still partial to a bit of print every now and then though. I used to work for Agency.com in London as an Art Director before working as a Senior Designer for the BBC in sunny Cardiff. This was all before I took leave of my senses and formed my own design consultancy, Mark Boulton Design Ltd.
I've got a thing about grids and typography and occasionally ramble on about them to anyone who will listen.
If you're after simple, clean and effective web design; let me know.