Mornington Square
Have you ever felt the burning need to ride aimlessly aimfully around the London Underground? Well, then I have good news for you.
Category: Web Design
Fun with GIS
I've always been somewhat envious when seeing the various sites with nice maps of crime, prices and other things for non-UK regions.
Goodbye Wordpress, hello Django
While I have been a happy user of Wordpress for many years, it was about time I jumped ship and moved my blog to something that let me manage things like project lists more sanely, and so welcome to my new Django-powered blog.
In The Pursuit Of Shiny Web Stats
Being a very visual person, I naturally wanted a nice way of visualising the traffic lastgraph gets (especially as I nurse it through the initial round of bugs, most of which have gone). The ever-wonderful gltail always helps, but the same author has gone one further and come up with gltrail:
LastGraph3 Beta!
After much work, lastgraph3's beta is now out. Please be warned that it may not work, may explode, and may abduct your cat, dog or goldfish in the process of failing.
Django and Cairo: Rendering Pretty Titles
One of the overwhelming horrors of designing for the web (or so it would appear from a lot of the mockups I've seen) is that designers (and people who are just bored of Arial and Times New roman) want to make their titles on web pages using non-standard fonts. "But that's shockingly non-accessible and uses more bandwidth", I hear you cry; well, there's a reason the alt tag is around, and why broadband is much more common.
Re-Re-Redesign
I've redesigned the ByteHoard website again; for those of you who've missed its last two years this is about the seventh design. This new one focuses on clean lines and readability, as well as saving a lot of bandwidth.