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Responsive Web Design and decorative ‘junk’

Responsive Web Design isn’t just about better serving mobile customers. One thing that I’ve ended up doing as part of the responsive re-work of the hospital site is re-thinking some of the design decisions that were made last year when … Continue reading

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Making our main menu responsive

Here is a quick video of the new responsive version of our main menu: The main thing I wanted to achieve here was that the menu should at no point be hidden from view (displayed as an icon > dropdown). … Continue reading

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Responsive testing/hacking

It may not appear obvious but the hospital website was built with a responsive (fluid) layout in mind. There just wasn’t time to finalise all of the changes and do full testing before launch so a fixed-layout was used at … Continue reading

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Your INTRANET is bad and you should FEEL bad

Truth is your Intranet is bad. But so are everyone else’s right? Yes, yes they are. And especially in NHS organisations. Take ours for example: It’s an in-house cobbled together classic-ASP mess that has been hacked up and re-worked so … Continue reading

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My inspiration wall

Bookmarking inspirational and interesting web designs is all well and good but how can these be used when starting a design project? When I researched the new hospital website design I knew the sort of design I needed to create … Continue reading

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