Next month I’ll be giving a presentation to some university students who are part way through a degree in web design and development. These students are hoping to join the industry in various different roles at the end of their course. I would love to include some tips from other people working in the industry. … Your advice for students who want to work on the web
I have been posting more frequently lately, and felt that the longer entries were not very readable. This led me to spend some time last weekend attempting a bit of a redesign of this site. I’m not a designer, but I’m hoping this is an improvement over the previous templates. As this is my own … Blog redesign
Yesterday on Twitter Elliott Jay Stocks opened up a huge debate by stating: Honestly, I’m shocked that in 2010 I’m still coming across ‘web designers’ who can’t code their own designs. No excuse. Elliott has also gone on to clarify his thoughts in a blog post and I thought I’d add my thoughts to the … Should web designers be able to build their own designs?
I wouldn’t normally write a blog post in response to my own post, however I’ve had such a lot of comments that I really wanted to properly respond. Firstly, I did not expect this to touch the nerve it so obviously has with so many people. I wanted to offer my support to the women … Women and the backchannel responses
Yesterday Drew and I were fortunate enough to be invited down to take part in the 12 hour marathon that was the live recording of the 200th Boagworld podcast. It was a brilliant day, great people, a lovely friendly atmosphere down at The Barn, and lots of interesting people coming on the show and talking … Women and the backchannel
As a company edgeofmyseat.com don’t need to do a lot of responding to tenders. We sometimes help our design agency clients with their pitches but it is fairly rare for us to get a RFP direct to us. However, when we do get sight of these documents – perhaps because we have been approached directly … Spec work for web developers
I read with interest Clay Shirky’s post, A Rant About Women and a response by Tom Coates – Should we encourage self-promotion and lies. Clay’s premise is that, “not enough women have what it takes to behave like arrogant self-aggrandizing jerks”. Now I’d hope that most people, male or female, wouldn’t like to be described … On self-promotion, lies, and being a woman
One of the great mysteries of life as a web developer is the number of people who are willing to spend several thousand pounds getting a site or web application developed, only to then want it to be deployed on the cheapest of cheap hosting. At edgeofmyseat.com we pride ourselves in developing efficient, scalable applications. … Choosing web hosting
A little late, I thought I would kick off the new year here on rachelandrew.co.uk with a round up of last year and some hints as to what I might be up to during 2010. Despite the recession 2009 was a good year at edgeofmyseat.com. We launched our mini Content Management System, Perch, at the … Looking forward to 2010
As I mentioned in my last post, last year we moved the business accounts for edgeofmyseat.com from Quickbooks to Xero. I’ve been asked for my opinions of Xero a few times recently and so thought I’d write this up here and it may be useful to others. Why move from Quickbooks Before discovering Xero.com I … Moving accounts from Quickbooks to Xero