IETester: A cross browser compatibility checker
11th Aug
11th May
SEO Best Practice – 13 Top Tips for Web Designers
SEO fundamentally starts at the development stage of every website. Semantic code and SEO related structuring of the site’s source code will make you a favorite amongst the SEO collective in the department next door whilst equipping the website with …
7th May
Yorkshire’s Got Talent! 30 Top Web Design Companies and Agencies based in Yorkshire
Yorkshire has amassed an incredible level of creative talent over the last few years with new web design companies popping up all over the place. For those looking for expert advice and creative talent you no longer have to leave …
14th Mar
Herriots for Leisure – boutique hotel in Skipton
This week saw a new website launch at 9xb, a website I was very lucky enough to design, and for a client that was an absolute pleasure to work with.
Herriots for Leisure is an independent boutique hotel and restaurant …
12th Mar
Mozilla.org Redesign Phase 1
Mozilla.org, the non-profit organization who own the popular Firefox browser, are in the middle of a website redesign and have asked the Mozilla community for feedback on the first round of designs.
Happy Cog is working with Mozilla …
3rd Feb
Your CSS framework needs you!
What’s a CSS framework?
A CSS framework can help you achieve rapid development of websites, web apps and mashups. It eliminates repetitive tasks while prototyping designs by using …
9th Jan
What does rising netbook popularity mean for web designers?
Econsultancy released an article on netbooks, their ever growing popularity and what they could spell for the future for web design. The stats were incredible and highlights why we should start to consider them when building new websites. Read …
10th Dec
Website Life Cycle
1st Dec
10th Nov
Basic design principles explained
I work in the web design industry and I’m amazed every single day by the lack on knowledge, respect and understanding of the basic design principles that I take for granted. I trained for 4 years …
30th Oct
CSS Box Model Hierarchi
Yep the good old CSS box model, explained once more. The CSS box model is a fundamental element of modern web design that all web designers need to master. …
30th Oct
CSS for ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS – shaping up with CSS
Learning CSS from the beginning
CSS is an abbreviation for Cascading Style Sheets. Web designers use a CSS file to control the visual layout of a web page, grouping all styling declarations into one reference document while removing them from the …
1st Sep
Fresh new design, come and have a look
We stayed up into the early hours of the morning to bring The Floating Frog a swanky new design. It’s a bit brighter, a bit wider and has a few more features. Let us know what you think 
22nd Aug
WordPress theme for piggynap.com
This evening I finally got round to implementing a new WordPress theme for piggynap.com. It wasn’t a full theme build this time but it still took up the best part of my evening. I’ll be interviewing the owner of …
21st Aug
New Flickr group for WEB DESIGN
Due to the lack of groups on Flickr showcasing web designs I have decided to create a couple. The first is ‘WEB DESIGN UK‘ and the second …
