IE6 equation

Jeremy Keith wrote an interesting article titled The IE6 Equation over at 24ways. Here’s the bit on the equation:

Let’s say that t represents the total development time. Let t6 represent the portion of that time you spend developing for IE6. If your total audience is a, then a6 is the portion of your audience using IE6. With some algebraic help from our mathematically minded co-worker Cennydd Bowles, Natalie and I came up with the following equation to calculate the percentage likelihood that you should be using Dean’s IE7 script:

p =  ... Read More

Hand off to client

I have almost finished stage 1 of my clients site and we’ll be ready to go live soon. I’ve been working slowly, but steadily on this one. Fortunately my client is in no rush and I am able to really think carefully before doing anything.

Anyhow I’m now starting to think about how to hand off the site to the client for when it goes live. Should I prepare some sort of guide with screenshots on how to update the site. If so should it be online, in MSword/pdf or both? What should be included. One area that concerns me is text styling. When ... Read More

New Client

Yesterday I recieved the signed contract and deposit for my latest client. This is going to be a big site and I’m looking forward to doing it.

The interesting thing here is that the client chose a template to download. I unfortunately misread emails and purchased the wrong template and had to purchase the correct one. Anyhow I’m not impressed with template-help.com as both times I downloaded the archived files I had to re-download it multiple times due to crc errors in the zip files. I ended spending about an 1 for each template trying to get ... Read More

Web ReDesign 2.0

On Friday I received my copy of
Web ReDesign 2.0 and started reading through it. This book is definitely going to be a very valuable resource for me as figure out my workflow and business practices. I’m very grateful to Leslie of EllisLab for recommending this book.