Found: The long-awaited poster child for responsive design
It's finally happened. After almost a year of waiting, a team of web designers, web developers, an agency and many talented others have been working with a well-known newspaper to launch the…
Content first: why you should develop your content before you design your website
Should websites be built around the content, or should content be created to fit the design? Here’s an argument for creating content first – or at least thinking about content first. What is a web…
What’s CarbonGraffiti been up to?
It’s been a crazy start to 2011. In fact, the last few months have been an absolute whirlwind. Here are some noteworthy the projects we’ve been working on, with services ranging from consulting to cus…
Creating iPhone-ready sites using CSS media queries
Using A List Apart's article on Responsive Web Design (by Ethan Marcotte) as inspiration, this site now uses CSS media queries to determine a visitor's screen resolution and serve up an appropriate…
Web Design & Premier League Football: Why Man City's new site is leading the pack
The English Premier League is big money. EPL clubs are as much businesses as they are generational sporting institutions, a point proven when cumulative wage bills total £1.2bn, revenues top £2bn, a…
25 of the best SweetCron-powered Lifestreams
Lifestreaming. It can be defined as ‘an automated, effective way to centralize one’s various web activities into a single, unified website or stream’ and it can take various forms. Some people use servi…
October’s Top 10 most popular articles
After a busy month in October, here are the top 10 most popular articles from CarbonGraffiti.com. My new LifeStream on SweetCron If you haven’t yet noticed, there’s a new nav item at the top of this…
25 Great Marketing-Oriented Web Designs
Although website design is (in my opinion) one of the most hotly-contested environments on the web right now, most of the beautiful websites you see on various CSS galleries are single-service,…
The Reverse Tipping Point: Say goodbye, IE6
I really identify with Gladwell’s ‘The Tipping Point’. With web tools like Twitter available to all, positive momentum can grow within hours, not days or weeks, potentially creating a success overn…
Site Reboot!
CarbonGraffiti has had a facelift! Why? Because having an all-HTML site starts to become a burden when you want to make quick updates, and especially when those updates are of the blog nature. This…
Dental Tourism to China - Get your teeth fixed on a vacation of a lifetime
I’ve just finished another client’s website - http://www.incidentaltourist.com - and I expect good things from it. The interesting part about the website is the content itself; Dental Tourism is an int…
New Website Launched!
Finally, the new and much improved CarbonGraffiti v 3.0 website has launched. This new version's highlights include a better, cleaner look, improved functionality, and [much] more emphasis on both…