Alex Walker
Alex manages design and front end development for SitePoint.com and writes for Design Festival's monthly design newsletter.
Alex Walker
One of the main tricks to good design is finding the right questions to ask at the right time. But how do you find those questions? The Design with Intent Toolkit may help.Read More
Googlites Ray Cromwell, Stefan Haustein and Joel Webber have just released an amazing '20 percent project' that makes you wonder whether HTML5 doesn't have natural limitations.Read More
Confession time: Somewhere down the back of my T-shirt drawer there's a black tee with a red dinosaur and the word Mozilla in blocky soviet-industrial type. It's from a time when Firefox was young... Read More
We all know what it's like. You need to finish that blog post/copy/presentation but the inspiration just isn't hitting you. Why not duck across to your Twitter feed, check email or see what's... Read More
Digital civil rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation has released an eye-opening online tool called Panopticlick, designed to demonstrate exactly how uniquely identifiable you are — even if... Read More
Although still in closed beta for the moment, soon anyone with a little HTML and JavaScript know-how should be able to use the Ovi SDK/API to tap map data from any mobile application or web app. Read More
You could be forgiven for thinking that Flash was the only way you can add cool interactive graphs to a website. In this week's article, Alex shows us just how far this is from the truth, introducing... Read More
GazoPa have just launched a new service into the image search space adding some interesting new ideas, including sketch-based search, an iPhone app and a Firefox extension. Raw but potentially pretty... Read More
I came across a CSS peculiarity recently that had me scratching my head, so I thought it was worth popping in a little post here for future Googling head-scratchers. Read More
Browser support for CSS3 is continually improving. In this article, Alex walks us through a few of the coolest CSS3 properties supported in the latest development release of Firefox (3.6 alpha).Read More
One of the areas I've always felt Fireworks had Photoshop covered was in its PNG export facility. As well as being more flexible and advanced, it almost always produces smaller files. But can you do... Read More
It's great to be able to break outside the standard user experience to make people sit up and take notice. But what do you do after you get their attention? Sometimes nothing. Read More
Here's a little bit of coffee break fun for geeks and code monkeys: the #songsincode meme on Twitter.Read More
At a recent State Department Town Hall Meeting, one of Hillary Clinton’s staffers wanted to know why IE6 was mandated for State Department use. Have reports of IE6's impending demise been... Read More
