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Don’t you love it when ads on websites take up 75% of the space

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"I hate it when people call themselves ‘entrepreneurs’ when what they are really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on. They are unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in business. That’s how you really make a contribution and add the legacy of those who went before. You build a company that will still stand for something a generation of two from now. That’s what Walt Disney did, and Hewlett and Packard, and the people who built Intel. That’s what I want Apple to be."

— Steve Jobs (via mrsteveheyes)

(Source: xbitlabs.com)

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Framework Awesome: Hi Matt, Interstate, and Flexible Models →

frameworkawesome:

First of all, please welcome the second developer to Eddy’s team, Matt (dVyper). He’s already started pushing some good changes and fixes to Eddy, including a dirty typo I made and some new functionality - the ability to use ‘IN’ in your Model::get() ‘WHERE’ clause!

Related to that, we’ve been…

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HTML select, Crazy Egg, IE and iframes - UPDATED

Today I was talking to a good friend of mine about a problem that a client of his was experiencing with their ecommerce checkout. Some users were getting to the final stage and holding on there for a few minutes then simply dropping out, for no apparent reason.

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Lessons I’ve Learned from Steve’s Apple

1. Be personal
2. Create a few beautiful, usable products
3. Make sure ‘it just works’
4. Be prepared, and don’t be afraid, to change your mind
5. Don’t stick doggedly to a piece of tech just because you’ve invested heavily in it - if it’s not right, it’s not right, so get rid
6. Create a complete customer experience
7. Don’t compete; innovate
8. Don’t be afraid to charge a premium
9. Regular release cycles
10. Stoke the fires of rumour…
11. But be cautious with the media
12. Don’t just give people what they want or even what they think they need
13. Build a great brand image
14. Only make things worthy of your brand

I drafted this brief post a couple of weeks ago, originally entitled “Lessons Apple Has Taught Me”. Felt like it needed finishing off and changing a little in light of recent events.

With Flipstorm I’m going to keep all of these in mind!

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Don’t use .local for local web dev

I just found out something totally ridiculous. For a while now we’ve been developing on our local machines with fake domains, as you do.

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I just read an amazing blog post by Jon Tangerine. Although I don’t class myself as a web designer, his modest self-affirmation has made me contemplate my own journey into and through this fascinating industry.

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Introducing: Built With Bootstrap →

A new blog I’ve set up to discover and showcase sites and apps built with Bootstrap, Twitter’s toolkit for kickstarting new web projects

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What Makes a Website Big?

Measures of scale are one of the cornerstones of the human understandings of the universe and everything in it. Without understanding large and small, big, heavy, massive, microscopic, light-years, nanometers (I could go on), our perception of creation would be entirely different.

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CommandQ →

If you use a Mac this will probably be a life-saver! Don’t know how many times I’ve wished for something like this.

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