April 28th, 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. 6 Comments.
For web developers and designers the question of who owns your portfolio is an important one. It is a question that is not as clear cut as you might think. It seems that depending on your circumstances, you may not have any legal right to display the work that you produce. The general opinion is split into [...]
April 7th, 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
What’s been going on recently? – well quite a bit really. I’m now settled into my new job at Consumer Focus Labs. We’ve spent a few weeks getting our systems set up (not as easy a task as we’d have liked), our development environment in place and courting ideas from anyone and everyone. We’re now [...]
March 23rd, 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
I’ve been a part of the team at VSI for the best part of nine years, originally as a summer job, but more recently as a full time developer. During this time I’ve seen significant changes in the way the internet works, from new technologies and new standards in design, to new ways of communicating [...]
March 6th, 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Earlier today at the Future of Web Apps conference in Dublin, Robin Christopherson from UK charity AbilityNet gave a talk on website accessibility. I’ve seen quite a few different talks and sessions on website accessibility and understand how important this topic is. This talk however really hit home – Robin is blind and gave the [...]
December 29th, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Recently, the UK Secretary of State for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Andy Burnham did an interview with The Telegraph. During the interview he confirmed that the government was looking into a cinema-style rating system for websites. As a web developer, hosting provider and internet user, I do not understand how such [...]
December 21st, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Last week I was busy trying to put together a new design website design for an important client at work. As always, we were on a very tight deadline and it had to be completed the end of the next day. I’d left work early so I could concentrate on the design without being distracted [...]
November 28th, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
The web design & development industry is incredibly fast paced. What is current and acceptable today, might not be tomorrow. New technologies are being developed all the time, new ways of doing things, new ways of thinking. As I’ve mentioned before, keeping on top of these changes is almost a full time job in itself. [...]
November 13th, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Selene M. Bowlby, a web designer and developer who has recently taken the jump into full time freelance work has just posted a blog entry with 60+ essential feeds for freelance web designers. She made the post in response to an open thread on Freelance Folder asking “How Do You Stay Sharp?“. As a web [...]
August 31st, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. 1 Comment.
I’m a little behind the times, but better late than never! Techcrunch, a technology blog covering ‘web 2.0′ and internet start ups had a bit of a redesign earlier this week. As a blog that I keep track of all the time, I’m really pleased to see it move away from its previous, cluttered look [...]
July 23rd, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
On Monday, the social networking site Facebook released its new design to a selection of its members. Over the next few weeks, this major update will be pushed out to everyone registered on the network. Yesterday evening, a discussion began on Twitter surrounding the new Facebook image – with a number of users who don’t [...]