A friend of mine has decided that he wants to be a web designer and has enrolled in a course to learn the basics of web design. It’s been really interesting getting feedback from him on how people regard web design these days and the most common thing he reports back about is that everybody [...]

After installing an app last weekend I’ve had Crawler.com hijack my browser to be my default search engine. I didn’t tell Crawler.com to do that so I’m pretty pissed off with them and every attempt to uninstall the damned search engine has failed.
The hijack doesn’t appear to have had a massive effect on boosting their [...]

This isn’t a design post, but more of a tip to stop you being driven insane whilst you have to use IE7.
Does anybody else find the sound that IE7 makes when it loads/reloads pages really annoying? It’s that irritating “tick” sound when you open a new tab and load a page. Or when an application [...]

As a designer I’m quite often working on text files here & there and sometimes cutting & pasting data from various sources into MS Word means that the formatting is all wrong (tip: paste into notepad first to strip formatting then paste that output into Word) or there’s no formatting at all.
For instance – [...]