May 9, 2012
It’s such an honour to have been recognized (along with the rest of the team) for our work on Fervr. It’s great to see that a small team from Australia can take on some of the big guns on the world stage.
I’m trying to make it to the Webby Awards ceremony in New York on the 21st May so I can accept the award in person. I’ve started a fundraising campaign to raise money to try and make sure that happens. I would sure appreciate it if you could make a contribution.
http://www.indiegogo.com/JordansWebbyTrip?a=177679
I’d appreciate it a lot…
May 2, 2012
Tagged: fervr, responsive design, webby, wordcamp, wordpress
Well there’s lots of exciting things going on at the moment.
The first is the Fervr has gone ahead and won The Webby Award for 2012 Best Religious/Spiritual Site. It is so exciting to be recognised in this way, and it is a privilege to work with all the others on the team - it is a fitting recognition for their efforts. You can check out our win, and who we were up against at the Webbys site.
The other news is that I’m really looking forward to speaking at this year’s WordCamp Sydney. I’ll be doing a short session on Responsive Web Design - what it is, and the best ways to attack it when using WordPress. It should be a really good time.
April 24, 2012
I have the great pleasure of being part of the team that works on a site called Fervr.
This year we have the pleasure of being nominated for a Webby in the Religion category.
There’s some amazing sites and some even more amazing design studios nominated, and it is great to be considered in the same company as them.
Fervr is run by a small team (there’s 4 of us), and it is a privelige to work with them. Everyone does fantastic work, and it is great to be recognised for that.
We’d love if you could vote for us in the People’s Choice award. Go on, do it.
February 13, 2012
The St George Illawarra Dragons , like many sporting teams, have been amping up their social engagement and online presence over the last 12-18 months. They’re doing a fantastic job of it, keeping in touch with fans on facebook and twitter (and even instagram), answering questions and engaging with them. They’ve even got a social network, mydragons.com.au centred around the team for fans to connect, share photos, stories, videos and more.
The one thing that find falls a little short is some of the visual design and interaction of the MyDragons site. So I thought I would take advantage of some quiet time over January and come up with concepts of how I might improve the look of the site.
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February 8, 2012
It’s been about 9 months since we arrived in Wollongong, and although it was a familiar place, it feels like only recently that I have been getting a better feel for what’s going on around the city.
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December 30, 2011
Tagged: design, media queries, responsive, web
There’s been a lot of buzz over the last couple of days about the increasing number different screen sizes on Android devices, and what this might mean for the future of the breakpoints we use for responsive sites. In particular Stephanie Rieger brought up the topic, and then Jeffrey Zeldman weighed in with his thoughts got some serious discussion going on in the comments.
November 29, 2011
Tagged: clients, design, media queries, responsive design
It’s still relatively early days in my experience of developing and rolling out responsively designed websites. One of the more recent ones, CEP Connect, was a phase 1 project which is currently entering its second phase. This is, of course, involving changes to the design of the site: the addition of new elements, and adjustments to others.
This has brought to light first hand, the impact that a responsively designed site might have on development time and cost when it comes to making changes down the track.
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November 20, 2011
Tagged: front-end design, front-end development, history, jordesign, pathways
It was only relatively recently that I came to the realisation that my real passion and skill is in front-end design and development for the web. I enjoy, and am capable, doing other design work but it seems that i really hit my stride working on web designs in photoshop and hand coding html, css and javascript to bring them to life.
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November 10, 2011
Tagged: challenge, design, redesign, responsive
Well the 24 hour redesign challenge that I issued myself is now over. Literally minutes ago, i closed my text editor and ftp app and let the dust settle. I thought now might be a suitable time to jot down some initial thoughts on how it all went.
Overall it was a lot of work, but not as hard as I had thought. Of the 24 hour period i spent just under 16 of it actively working on the site (with a few hours for sleep, food etc) which is not too bad an effort for coding up a site (and making a bunch of design decisions on the fly) from scratch. Read more…
November 3, 2011
Tagged: #24hrRedesign, challenge, css, design, html, redesign
This might be a bit crazy, but I think I am going to go out on a limb.
The current version of the Jordesign website is really very limited in it’s scope. It was launched in a hurry with the new branding in conjunction with buying a house and moving to Wollongong. It has served well, but it is time for something more. Read more…
October 26, 2011
Tagged: conference, design, notes, wds11, web, web directions
It’s been almost two weeks since Web Directions South took place in Sydney, and I still have much of what I heard over the two days flapping around in my head. I thought it might not hurt to get some of it nailed down here. The overall direction of the conference was thoroughly forward looking - many of the sessions carrying an message to embrace the medium of the web, and just simply make things. There was also a strong undercurrent of encouragement to shy away from existing design metaphors as a crutch and come up with designs that are truly native to the web.
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October 24, 2011
Tagged: design, redesign, site, writing
It’s been a little while, but I’ve finally returned the blog to jordesign.com. I didn’t set one up with the brief site redesign a few months back, and it has been irking me a little. It seems silly in some ways, as I am in the early stages of a full blown redesign, but i didn’t want that process to stop me from writing - which is something I really need to be doing more of.
So the design is spartan, and is bound to have some rough edges. It’s only been about an hours work so far, so I will need to keep tweaking. No comments, but let’s be honest - there were never any comments on the old site. Keeping the deliberately removed keeps the clutter down.
The important thing is that now there is Something there. Stay Tuned.
