Development

Aug
12

FireFox 3.6 Alpha – visual tab previews and faster start-up times

Alexander Rehm on August 12th, 2009

Mozilla Labs has just released the first alpha of Firefox 3.6, code-named Namoroka, built on top of Mozilla’s Gecko 1.9.2 layout engine. With it, Mozilla promises JavaScript improvements, startup time speed-ups, visual tab previews and behavior tweaks, capability for additional CSS3 properties, among the most notable changes. The startup time and JS speed improvements are [...]

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Feb
22

The most useful FireFox Extensions of February

Alexander Rehm on February 22nd, 2009

Those of you following me on twitter know I tend to spend a bit of time every couple of days in finding new extensions for FireFox (and sometimes Thunderbird) which are making my life as an Information Architect, Web Designer or Project Development Manager easier. These extensions may be some all of us have been [...]

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Dec
19

Firefox extensions for usability, accessibility and SEO experts

Alexander Rehm on December 19th, 2008

My day to day work consists of a lot of time spending on the internet, looking at web presences of current clients, prospective clients and their (and our) competition. My tool of the trade being FireFox 3 (especially considering that IE seems to have a little problem). I am using a number of addons which [...]

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Sep
29

How to invoice for design work – a quick guide

Alexander Rehm on September 29th, 2008

So you have finally done it, you are a freelancer or have set up your own little design agency and you have your first clients with jobs coming in. And now comes the time that a project comes to the point where money is involved, be it just before the first 1/3 of the project [...]

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Jul
23

On outsourcing work in the web design industry – things to look out for

Alexander Rehm on July 23rd, 2008

Not so long ago I received an email from a former student of mine who has just started up his own design studio asking whether or not outsourcing work to contractors, freelancers or studios makes sense and what to look out for. Especially for upcoming design studios or companies / agencies who are lacking in [...]

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Jul
17

WordPress 2.6 upgrade – small downtime, but Whatwasithinking is back!

Alexander Rehm on July 17th, 2008

We apologise for the 15 minute downtime last night, we have just ugraded WordPress to version 2.6 and the Automatic Upgrade plugin died on us due to a read-write permission error (I think!). But we are back now, happy days! I am still working on getting my Yahoo-map-based travelblog prototype online, the Flash image-uploader is [...]

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Apr
1

Designing for the mobile web

Alexander Rehm on April 1st, 2008

Alexander Rehm discusses design and development for mobile web devices, from pre-requisites to information architecture, design, development and usability testing

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Apr
1

Upgraded and ready to go!

Alexander Rehm on April 1st, 2008

WhatwasIthinking.co.uk has just upgraded successfully to Wordpress 2.5

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