47 posts tagged “natalie-downe”
2007
Twitter / Natalie: Its announced and official... We’re both moving to Brighton in September.
Lithuania 2007 set on a Map. Nat has painstakingly geotagged 285 photos from our trip to Lithuania.
Natalie Downe: Lithuania 07. Nat’s been blogging our adventures in Lithuania.
oxfordgeeks.net
Nat and I had a bit of a mini-hackday this bank holiday Monday. Nat’s been doing a great job summoning local geeks out of the woodwork with Oxford Geek Nights event, but it’s still pretty hard to find other interesting events in the Oxfordshire area. It’s not that there aren’t any, it’s just that the geek community in Oxford is currently pretty fragmented.
[... 295 words]Talks for Oxford Geek Nights announced. Microslots on Yahoo! Pipes, Semantic Mediawiki, Second Life and more.
Oxford Geek Night 2
If you missed the last Oxford Geek Night, you really owe it to yourself to make it to the next one. If you were there then you shouldn’t need any convincing.
[... 180 words]Hacking del.icio.us with Python. Nat introduces snaflr, a Python script for republishing selected links from a number of del.icio.us users to one communal account.
Oxford Geeks hit the media! Coverage in the local newspaper and on the radio, with MP3s.
A Gathering Of Geeks. The Oxford Mail’s coverage of Nat’s Oxford Geek Night event.
First Oxford Geek Night a success! It really was the best evening geek event I’ve been to in a very long time.
2006
Del.icio.us fun with automated links. Nat’s documented one of del.icio.us’ least promoted features—the ability to auto-post your links to your weblog once a day.
Fast and Simple Usability Testing. Nat’s 24ways article on practical usability testing (and hedgehogs).
notes.natbat.net. Nat’s been blogging up a storm recently.
Using hasLayout to fix bugs in IE. With illustrative screen shots.
Natalie Downe: Inline image quotes. Neat CSS trick this one.
2003
Collaborative Redesign
Out with the orange, in with the green. As with my last redesign, only the CSS changed. A fun deviation with this one was that it was a collaboration between myself and Natalie over nearly 5,000 miles, using edit styles and AIM to pass each other snippets of CSS and instantly try them out.
[... 123 words]2002
Partner as a case study
I’ve been helping my partner Natalie Downe recreate her site using CSS and structural markup. She’s new to web design and has been taking to CSS like a duck to water—as a veteran of Microsoft Word globally defined styles come to her naturally and she took very little time to cotton on to the importance of seperating presentation from content. I’ve shown her tables as well but she isn’t really interested as she sees CSS as a much better solution for general presentation. I’m hoping to help run an HTML/XHTML/CSS training course at the University early next year with a heavy emphasis on structural markup, standards compliance and accessibility so it’s great to have a guinea pig to play with :)
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