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Articles // Date // 2008


Stop comparing Fireworks with Photoshop! : Jun 13 2008

Web Design : 25 comments

Chalk and cheese

This has been a running theme for a while amongst a few designers and developers.

I think a few designers – because they are used to the ‘one stop shop’ nature of Photoshop – think that FW is the Macromedia version of PS – an ‘either or’ situation. This is not the case …


Contingency planning on projects : Apr 20 2008

Web Design : no comments

Whoops!

Following on from Andy Rutlege’s excellent and common sense article : Calculating Hours – the Client Factors I thought I’d add a few of my thoughts on how to handle certain projects based on certain clients.

This comes from years of experience working with a variety of different sized companies and organisations, all of whom – as Andy discusses in his article – approach working with service providers, such as ourselves, in different ways. Firstly I would suggest you read Andy’s article before mine, he puts his points across in a such a way that I perhaps never could, not being a “writer” and all!


the WOMBATS new website : Mar 13 2008

Web Design, Music : 3 comments

The Wombats

Mercy Design , KevAdamson.com and Behind Design proudly present … a guide to the new ‘the WOMBATS’ website!

The WOMBATS are an awesome pop / rock / punk / indie band from Liverpool, UK who have had all their brand, album and marketing designed by the talented guys over at mercydesign.co.uk, who’ve now teamed up with m’self and Behind Design to do web stuff for it and that …


Featured in Web Designer Magazine : Mar 07 2008

Web Design : no comments

Featured in Web Designer Magazine

Imagine my surprise at hearing news from Nick La that I’d been featured on a double page spread in Web Designer Magazine (Issue 141 page 76). Finished imagining? If you can’t imagine, then I would describe my surprise as: “Heh! Sweet! Yep. Good.” or something similar.

The article was written by Steve Jenkins and was titled: “Steve Jenkins finds out what techniques make http://kevadamson.com tick along so very nicely”. So far so good …


This be my new design : Jan 08 2008

Web Design : 13 comments

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I hadn’t checked the my new site design in Safari and noticed, due to a slight slip-up in the mark-up, that the twitter / flickr area was not showing – this is now fixed. I also realised that Nick La’s comment in my previous post about font size was certainly a fair point when taking into consideration the Safari browser – so I’ve increased font sizes in certain areas a little to address the issue ...



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