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You get a request through your website about doing some design work. The job seems right up your street and the money is good so you decide to take it on. Great, you then have whatever form of communication is possible with the client to establish the brief and determine what they had in mind and what direction to go in with the design. But hold on, what happens when there is no brief? How do you pull of that pleasing design when you don’t know who it’s going to be used by and what they do?

I’m talking about designing a free template. In this specific case, a Wordpress theme. You may know I’m in the process of creating my first free theme and I’ve scrapped several designs thus far. Want to know why? Do continue reading then…

Seems kind of ironic that I’m writing about how the written blog appears to be on its way out but there we go. Online video is only getting bigger by the day. More people are abandoning podcasts in favour of video/screencasts, there’s a lot more video popping up in blogging and live streaming continues to grow too. Are we witnessing the gradual downfall of the written blog? Let’s find out…

After listening to the recent episode of the Boagworld Podcast and twittering my thoughts, I got a message from Paul saying he had not included Mint in the discussion about web stats as he had not looked at for a while and therefore couldn’t give an up-to-date opinion. I was asked to write a review about the current version and that brings me to this entry. Let’s take a look at Mint.

The internet is back. Well, my connection is at least. I have moved to a new provider with a lot more benefits and features. I was offline for a week or so and planned to work on a couple of Wordpress themes locally to use up my time but found that it simply wasn’t working for me. This ladies and gents, is what I’m calling ‘The Productivity of Distraction’. Wondering what I mean? Read on then!

Yeah, the title is true and yeah, the above image is what it looks like - I stopped my site from working properly in IE6 & earlier. Want to know why? Read on…