Blogs by Craig Dennis

You may remember a previous post of mine about the real-time web and various emerging technologies that will enable the transition for older technologies into this frontier. I mentioned how Twitter could be useful in Google results using Greasemonkey (which Google have since implemented themselves) and also how RSS was a dying technology in terms [...]

For this post the examples are focussed on web design however the points remain true with many other forms of design.
For those unfamiliar with the term white space, here is what Wikipedia have to say about it:
“White space or whitespace refers to the blank (white) area between written characters or graphic regions.” – Wikipedia
This is a [...]

Minutes ago Steve Jobs announced the latest product to change the world. We are of course talking about the much hyped and eagerly anticipated iTablet, iSlate, iPad. That’s right, they called it the iPad…

Will it actually be as good as the hype suggests?
Well here’s a breakdown of the features of the iPad:

The screen is [...]

For years web designers have had to deal with compatibility issues across multiple browsers and for just as many years have had to accept content being displayed in slightly different ways. This is unlikely to change soon but the differences are becoming fewer and fewer. To make the most of this you need to choose [...]

Why are we talking about related posts?
To try and improve the effectiveness of the Tamar blog, it was thought important to draw more attention to the related posts to reduce bounce rate.
The best option seemed to be to take the related posts from being just a list and make it larger and more visual. Sometimes [...]

Whenever a great idea for design pops into your head, the chances are you’ve been inspired by something you have seen or heard. This is how design trends are formed – an imitation with a twist, taking the best elements of design A, a dash of design B and adding in your own creative mix.
What [...]

So you need to find the answer to a question but the question you’re asking doesn’t have a ‘fixed’ answer. How does the web know what you are actually looking for and how does it know what it has will actually match it? Do we need a ‘new’ search engine or can we improve on [...]

There has been a lot of talk about the real-time web and how it is ‘the future’ but what exactly is the real-time web and why should we care?
Put simply, the real-time web is instant. You do something and the system you are interacting with knows what you have done, does what it does and [...]