Just a quick post to get this off my mind, its a simple little idea but I would argue that it makes a heap of difference to how users feel when they contact you and the quality of the information they provide when they do. Read the rest of this entry »
Forms are often the most over looked aspect of a web site, ironically they are also one of the most important as they act as the conduit for interaction and activity. Read the rest of this entry »
Okay so I get a pile of emails asking me how to become a freelance web designer and I often spend a while answering the specific queries individually, but figured I may as well do it publicly so its all shared. One thing to note this is just my opinion, I hold no responsibility if anyone acts on my opinion and isn’t able to pay the rent (I’ve come close once or twice in the past). Read the rest of this entry »
As part of my catching up with the work I’ve been creating in the last year I’ve collated nearly all off the blogs I’ve designed so far (Theirs still a few I have to update).
I’ve just finished a re-skin of http://mccoy-digital.com this follows a recent shift about of what sites live on what domains.
The following was a press release created by the folks at The Pond a great organization who represent my skills in New Zealand.
UK creative Richard McCoy, a man who was building websites at a time when most of us were still coming to grips with dot matrix printers, has joined The Pond as a senior web design director.
Since 1995 he’s built up a huge amount of digital experience working as a software engineer and senior web designer across a range of industries. In saying that, he has a definite bent towards social marketing. Read the rest of this entry »
A proliferation of lists exists about design and the internet and do’s and dont’s and whilst laying in bed this morning feeling like hell warmed up I thought I would go back to the original commandments from the big man (No not Jacob Nieslon’s use it lists, the other big fella ) and see what they had to say about the issue: Read the rest of this entry »
Its not rocket science, but I get asked about it a fair amount so here is a very rough and ready over view of how I develop an updatable, portable and search engine friendly navigation. I’m calling it the eclipse method because it relies on setting up the html and css so that when certain classes and sub classes align beautiful things happen.