Who is DigiKev?
DigiKev is Web design consultant Kevin Rapley who researches, plans, designs, builds and optimises Web sites using industry best practices, experience, an eye for design and importantly, common sense.
DigiKev builds Web sites with the visitors journey through a Web site in mind, ensuring a good experience.
October 14th, 2009
In my previous post about keeping a code snippets library I eluded to the fact that within this file structure I had created a number of HTML skeletons which give me a basis for beginning a new project. It removes the medial task of creating a container <div> and the usual suspects of a header region <div id=&quo;header&quo; />, content area <div id=&quo;content&quo; /> and <div id=&quo;footer&quo; />. I tab indent my code for easy scanning too so shaving off the few minutes laying these out correctly along with other items that may get missed within your <head> such as common <meta>. I took my skeletons a bit further by adding in unordered list items for the menu area, aside and footer. These may not all be used but it is quicker to delete than it is to type.
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Tags: CSS, HTML, semantics, sexy stylesheets, standardise code, working smarter
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October 13th, 2009
I have fallen short on this until recently. I had a number of production websites I had worked on with different techniques and interface design patterns which I knew where certain code was and could access to copy and paste bits out for editing. This is not the most efficient way to work as code still has to be found within the websites file structure and usually it has been highly customised for a particular job. It is better to store code snippets within a dedicated directory. I have been building mine over the past five or six weeks. As well as code snippets, I have taken it a little further and added a design patterns folder which contains anything from a simple menu to a JavaScript library driven carousel or image gallery glider. Each design pattern has its own folder and within it all the necessary documents to make up a working example: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, image assets.
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Tags: code library, code snippets, toolkit
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October 11th, 2009
It has been a while since my last post and for good reason. I have moved on from HRO’C as my wife, Gayle, and I are looking to move to Lincoln. Why Lincoln? We got married there in April because we love the city and the surrounding area. My parents and aunt and uncle live in Lincoln too. We are looking to put down roots in Lincoln and start the next chapter of out life together and start a family.
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Tags: commuting, hroc, techophobia
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