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Tristan Fitzgerald Associates website launch Article

Tuesday January 5, 2010

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I’m really excited to announce the launch of the new Tristan Fitzgerald Associates website – http://tfa-ltd.co.uk/. I’ve been working closely with Dan Angell (of TFA) over the past month to produce a simple, clean and informative site. I designed the logo, the site and built it using Textpattern, a sprinkling of HTML 5 and a few CSS 3 techniques; the awesome jQuery Tools was used for the tabs on the home page (expect a full write-up on my portfolio).

Check it out

I would love to know what you all think, please have a look at the site and leave a comment below.

MailTo Syntax Article

Tuesday March 24, 2009

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I have recently been designing some html emails for Arc & Co and they needed an email link within the body of their email. This link needed to include a subject, CC, BCC and body text and I did not know the syntax for all of it, so Google to the rescue where I stumbled upon a simple article on the University of Nebraska-Lincolns’s website which I am reproducing and adding to here for reference.

As the code used for html emails is still quite basic, so that all possible email programs can read them well, and I did not want to risk using a javascript based obfuscator I had to use the mailto syntax when usually I would use a great mac app called Enkoder (you can also use their online form).

More Useful Mac Apps Article

Monday March 16, 2009

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I wrote recently about my recommended ‘default’ apps for running on your mac, I have been doing some reading and have found quite a few more examples from other blogs.

Check out these links for great mac apps

The brilliant Open Source Mac

Increase your productivity with Fluid.app's SSBs Article

Friday February 20, 2009

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Lately I’ve come to use a great little app called Fluid that does a very simple thing; it creates a browser that only works for a specific site (or SSB); be it Gmail, Facebook or any other site, Fluid can make a specific version for you.

I usually go one step further than the ‘vanilla’ SSB as I convert them to a MenuExtraSSB (in the File menu of your newly created SSB app) so that they appear in the menubar at the top of my screen. This means they’re always available without having to switch apps.

Tutorial: How to integrate the CSS tricks jQuery Start/Stop Slider into a Textpattern site Article

Friday February 20, 2009

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My old portfolio home page had a slideshow with a few recent projects. It was, however, not too cool and took a bit too long to get through all the slides, so, I needed another option.

To my joy, while searching for a jquery slideshow thingy, I found that Chris Coyier of CSS Tricks had created a perfect example of what I wanted, enter the Start/Stop Slider

Ben Foster - The Process Article

Friday February 20, 2009

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In my last post I mentioned that Ben Foster’s new site, foster-films.co.uk went live, but I wanted to show some of my design iterations.

These are not exhaustive, but in essence there were 2 design revisions before the final design you see now.

What to install on your Mac - everything you need. Article

Tuesday January 27, 2009

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Quite a few people I know use me as a sort of technical support for when they purchase a new mac, I usually end up helping them set it up, point them to useful sites and downloading various programs to make their life a bit easier but also mine, because if I’ve done a good job, they hopefully won’t be needing to call em up again.

My mac, an ageing Power-Mac G5 Quad 2.5, is used mostly for my work but I also use it for everything else – photos, movies and music etc.. Leopard has almost everything you could need, if you’re just doing standard stuff, but not everything, and in this post I will show you what you can get, mostly for free, for you Mac.