Whereis products

May 15, 03:59 PM Comment

I’m pleased to announce that the ‘mini’ site I built for Whereis has gone live. Whereis products explains some of the new features at the recently launched new whereis.com, as well as explaining how you can make use of whereis’ maps across a range of products including mobile and in-car GPS devices.

I built the site from scratch in (x)HTML and CSS to be as standards-compliant and accessible as the design would allow.

The help pages that I authored for Whereis are also now live over at the Whereis main site. You’ll need to click the ‘help’ button in the top right and then the ‘Help contents’ links to find it.

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Work update

Mar 25, 12:18 PM | Comment [1]

I just realised it’s been a really long time since I updated the portfolio section of this site. Not without good reason though, and it’s not because I’ve been slacking off and enjoying the Melbourne sunshine (the chance would be a fine thing). It’s because most of the projects I’ve worked on of late have either been internal web applications (so not available for public consumption) or have not gone live yet. As such I don’t want to publish anything visual just at the minute, partly because I’m not really allowed to in some cases but also because I don’t want to spoil the launches for my clients.

That said, I’m enormously proud of some of the things I’ve been working on of late so I wanted to share some of the more notable pieces to give some insight on what I’ve been up to:

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Lessons learned from Gordon Ramsay

Mar 22, 03:29 PM | Comment [1]

I’ve been loving Gordon Ramsay’s kitchen nightmares series’ (the British ones were much better than the American ones – much less ‘reality TV’ shenanigans).

Each week Ramsay helps a struggling restaurant to turn things around, always with the same basic method of combining determination, attitude and drive with keeping things simple, manageable and meaningful to the customers.

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Looking for freelancers

Jan 18, 01:16 PM | Comment [1]

Things are getting pretty busy here at BTD so I’m on the look out for good freelancers to help me out.

If you’re a web designer, standards-aware front end developer, flash designer/action-scripter or have experience in working with textpattern and you’re looking for short-term freelance work on an ad-hoc basis, drop me a line at freelancework@tollady.com

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Side notes

My little sister
Heres a little one-pager I just built for my little sister.

Jakob Nielsen ponders OK–Cancel or Cancel–OK?
Should the OK button come before or after the Cancel button? Following platform conventions is more important than sub-optimising an individual dialog box.

Flight of the conchords
This stuff is Absolute Genius

Web directions south - User experience conference
A full day conference here in Melbourne, focussing on concepts, technologies and techniques for building great user experiences on the web. Can't wait!

Redesigned BBC news site
The Beeb's 'refreshed' news site just went live. Read about what's changed on their editors blog site.