We’re pretty excited today as our latest product has gone into Beta with a small group of users. Perch Runway is essentially a superset of Perch functionality, a product designed to take the cool things that are part of Perch but with a focus on larger and more complex sites. Before we started to work … Selling Simplicity
Adding some sort of social proof to landing pages is a great way to encourage people to consider trying or purchasing your product. That social proof usually comes by way of reviews and testimonials, and if you have ever tried to ask people for these you’ll know it can be a slow process. If your … Using tweets as social proof
“Take a moment and think about the tools, products, and services that really make a difference in your life, and then show them your appreciation through proactive support” This quote comes from an article I tweeted about earlier today, What goes around comes around, on the Offscreen Magazine blog. The piece struck a chord and … Support the independents
As regular readers will know I am something of a fan of the CSS Grid Layout Module and I’ve been writing and speaking about it over the last couple of years. My latest book CSS3 Layout Modules covers several grid examples and I have just returned from Frontend Conference where I was speaking on the … Grid by Example
In episode 46 of Bootstrapped.fm Ian and Andrey interview Jeffrey Way from Laracasts. It’s a great interview for lots of reasons but a section towards the end really jumped out at me. Jeffrey said something about how people want to complicate business but very often what it comes down to is a gut feeling that … Do you “trust your gut” or rely on data in business?
Three weeks ago I was working on my iMac on a Saturday morning and the display went crazy, forcing me to restart. I did some searching and discovered that this was a known issue, and that Apple were replacing cards exhibiting this problem free of charge. Great! I called Apple Care and they confirmed that … Apple and the 3 week video card swap
I’ve been following the CSS3 Grid Layout specification since the early days, writing about the IE10 implementation in my book CSS3 Layout Modules and for 24 Ways. When I last wrote an update here everything was theoretical, as there was no browser implementation at the time. Now, with support for the latest version of the … CSS Grid Layout: getting to grips with the Chrome implementation
To be able to do any kind of accurate planning you need to be able to make a reasonable estimate of how long upcoming tasks will take. If you are a freelancer working for clients, you will usually need to give some kind of estimate of time and cost. If you move into working on … How to become good at estimating time
I work from home running my own business, I’ve been running a business since 2001 – we did have an office for a few years but once we stopped taking on client projects to focus on Perch full-time, the office made little sense. In addition to Perch, I write books and articles and speak at … GTD and OmniFocus 2 – my productivity workflow
Earlier this year I was invited to speak in Berlin at UIKonf. As a web developer this was not my usual audience but I had a really great time. I hope my practical talk on the differences between advice aimed at funded startups, and that which is useful to the rest of us was helpful. … We’re Not “Doing a Startup” – video from UIKonf