Well I started this post knowing full well there’d be plenty of resolution posts around as we enter this new year, and having not got this finished quickly, there are plenty around. You can’t really make anyone follow a resolution and you should all take up your own but here’s five suggestions from me, if you have room in your life for 12 then head over to Six Revisions and have a read of A Designer’s List of New Year’s Resolutions.
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The Randomiser Interview #3 – Chris Spooner
I hope you’re all enjoying this series of interviews, you can see the previous ones here – Random email interviews.
On to interview number 3 and it’s the turn of well know graphic designer, freelancer and writer/blogger Chris Spooner.
Why are you browser testing last?
We always seem to leave browser testing till the end, open up Internet Explorer and within about 10 seconds of page load there’s a variety of swear words and we go off to hack our CSS or put in IE only style sheets. God help you if you go crazy and open up IE6, you’re sure to find some form of mess awaiting you.
Recently though my work habits have changed and I’ve decided to stop leaving it until the end, this has been prompted by a few things such as approaching the end of a project having not checked in IE7 and sending a colleague off to show the site to a client who, you guessed it uses IE7. (Sorry Andrew!)
Coupled with that I’ve started to develop sites in Google Chrome. I was impressed with Google Chrome when it first came out and apart from a few too many crashes with flash content it was pretty slick. However the lack of developer tools left me developing in Firefox and using two different browsers seemed a bit impractical.
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Five Technologies That Will Keep Shaping the Web in 2010
My second post on Six Revisions and as we approach 2010 I take a look at what is behind the emerging web trends.
So head on over to Six Revisions and have a read of the article.
It must be worth a read as it’s made the front page of digg and been tweeted around a bit!
The Randomiser Interview #2 – Grace Smith
Well the randomiser interview series continues and if you don’t quite know how it works then have a read of interview #1 with Jacob Gube.
So for the second interview it’s the turn of serial twitterer and owner of Postscript 5 studio, Grace Smith.