On Monday I became the third employee of H1, a small, family owned web agency based in Helsinki, Finland. Aki and his wife Jaana are both very experienced web professionals, and I’m proud to be working with them. Looking forward to an interesting time!
On Pragmatic Responsive Design
Responsive design shouldn’t be just about checking screen width and removing stuff on mobile devices, even though this is what it often amounts to. I also admit to doing this myself. Designing with a mobile first approach is sensible, but we run into problems with the typical wireframes/photoshop/html pixel-perfect workflow.
Stephanie Rieger made this excellent presentation on pragmatic responsive design with lots of good points:
You should check out her other presentations too.
Sorry about the feed spam
Sorry about the feed spam yesterday, all the duplicate entries were caused by an unattended redirect loop which is now hopefully fixed. Let me know if you still have problems.
Simplify permalinks for better SEO
The latest WordPress 3.3 includes a fix that removes the performance problems related to using just /%postname%/ as your permalink structure without any prefixing dates/numbers. According to Joost de Valk, using dates in URL’s can result in poor click-through-rate, so I thought I’d go ahead and make the switch.
Check out the instructions on Joost’s blog. He also has a nifty tool for generating the necessary .htaccess redirects.
A Finnish-American wedding
