Remember Ceefax? Even if the name doesn’t ring a bell, you’ll probably recall the bright, blocky text and painfully slow loading times. Back in 1974, how else were you supposed to check the latest football scores - wait for Match of the Day?

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Building themes for Tumblr can get quite complicated. What's not so great is that there is no way to get Tumblr locally to easily develop the theme you need. Tumblr has no stylesheet support, so aside from adding plain CSS code in the same HTML file or uploading a processed CSS file each time, you're a bit stuffed.

Using CSS Preprocessors To Develop Tumblr Themes With Dropbox

Tumblr's great for both brands and individuals. Each blog represents them as a person through various forms of media. A great theme created for your specific use-case can turn Tumblr into the perfect platform to express your creativity.

Introduction To Developing Tumblr Themes

And so it begins. Choosing an angle for the app. You've got to look at different elements of who you're designing it for, what they would require and how best to present that information. So I did just that in a brainstorm like all the cool kids do.

Designing a Legoland App

Nothing really exciting update-wise, just dropping in to say that the blog has had a little nip and tuck here and there, so now it looks a bit more fresh.

New look!

So Christmas is over. Time to get back to the grind, I guess. There's been an update to Spaced before this one, admittedly, but I'll tell you more about that when there's more substantial an update.

A redesigned 1000words

It's that time again, time to design another project. This, the final one of our first term, is HTML5. Obviously, it's not exactly a ground-breaking technology in terms of coding something awesome but we need to show we can adapt to new standards. What better way to do that than to make something I can showcase my other work on. Win win, no?

Designing a HTML5 Portfolio

Yes, you guessed it, it's work time again. This time the BA IMP gods that be have set us a lovely Flash task to fulfil. The brief? "Just make something in Flash". Oh, okay.

Flash Game - Idea and Design

So I, more recently than Spaced, had another crit session but this time about my PHP work. This time 1000words was under the microscope.

How to improve 1000words

A while ago, back when I handed in Spaced for the critical evaluation (the bit at the end of the two weeks intense learning to get feedback for our actual hand-in date) I got a fair chunk of feedback from people playing it and people watching people play it.

Tag: Design