Ego and flattery

by Rob Mason ~ August 20th, 2008

Apparently word is out about the design my this site, meaning I’ve been listed on all the following sites:

Thanks to anyone who voted or sugested me!

Weather and photo mashup

by Rob Mason ~ May 21st, 2008

Really neat idea by Chris Coyier and Richard Felix, that crashes together a weather API (Yahoo’s I think) with Flickr, to give you a weather check for your location and a nice photo!
The weather in Tewkesbury is...rainy!

Try your location. Link via That Standards Guy.

New look and feel

by Rob Mason ~ March 28th, 2008

The keener eyed will have noticed some changes around here recently. No not the technical hitches (damn htaccess files!). The new look and feel for Sponge Project!

Screenshot of Sponge Project

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How to design beautiful websites

by Rob Mason ~ March 10th, 2008

I’m not going to give you that secret, however one great pace to start is by buying “The Principles of Beautiful Web Design” by Jason Bearid. I did and I’m very glad I did so.

As the design of this site will attest, my design skills have a little room for improvement, mainly around the detail and polish. My hope was that this book would help me with some design structure and concepts on which to base my thinking. Continue reading »

Design Police | Bring bad design to justice.

by Rob Mason ~ March 8th, 2008

Brilliant! Design Police - “Bring bad design to justice”! Lots of nice little Post-It note style cut-outs to plaster all over people’s work if you don’t think it’s up to scratch. Please don’t use it on my site :)

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