Max Manders » Design

The New Look

maxmanders — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:00:32 +0000

I decided some time ago that I wasn’t happy with the way this site looked. Unfortunately I haven’t had much time to do anything about it. I’ve finally got around to making some changes, the most important of which you may notice is the minimalist design. I don’t know if I plan to change this any time in the future, but for now it will do.

I’ve also tried to pull in some data from other services I use (perhaps not as frequently as I would like) such as Twitter, Facebook and Flickr. To that end, my recent Twitter tweets are now displayed, together with my Facebook status. I’ve also pulled in some random images from my public Flickr collection.

Sitepoint Competition

maxmanders — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:09:48 +0000

Sitepoint have another competition on the go. The winner gets a copy of the new book “Principles of Beautiful Web Design”. The competition involves using CSS to style some simple markup that serves as an advert for the book. Unfortunately the markup hooks available for use with CSS are somewhat lean. I’ve given it a shot, as have others. Why don’t you have a go – you have until the 6th of April to enter as many entries as you like. Happy coding!

Refresh Edinburgh

maxmanders — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:29:24 +0000

Coming up in April is the inaugural Highland Fling conference. A meet up of web developers and designers aimed at getting the Scottish interweb community involved with some of the big names in web development. There are a number of speakers including Jeremy Keith. The day after the conference, Friday 06 April is Refresh Edinburgh. A more informal gathering where developers can discuss the state of the web with like-minded people. I will be there, and I hope as many other developers in Scotland as possible, who like me don’t often have a chance to meet and greet at conference-type-events, will be there too. See you there!