Comments for Paul Randall

Comment on Language Agnostic Programming by jamie knight

jamie knight — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:17:36 +0000

Hiya Paul,

I agree completely, some of the best programming courses out there, don’t teach any code but instead focus on the logic and how to write elegant well designed code.

I dont know if you have ever seen any of the pattern books, they are books which describe design patterns for common coding / structures, they are written in psudo code and are often great / interesting reads.

Cheers,

Jamie + Lion

Comment on The Merits of Wordpress by jamie knight

jamie knight — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:05:23 +0000

hiya paul

interesting post, i have written a couple of small CMS system and mostly agree. for many many sites an off the shelf solution (WP, textpattern symphony etc) is great, but for certain niche sites (tiny microsites, sites with sign up requirements etc) then a niche CMS can do the job.

Having your own CMS is a lot of work (i have one, but i still only use it on 50% of sites i do!) but it can be very rewarding, it can make that 2-3 hour wordpress site and complex client support a 10-20 min integration job with minimal interface and support issues.

I dont think there is one CMS perfect for everything, slowly i am starting to use multiple systems depending on what the site is for / will do. Right now i am using a combination of perch, textpattern my own CMS and occasionally symphony (which is more of a framework than a CMS).

Great post!

Cheers,

Jamie + Lion

Comment on The Kitchen Sink of HTML by Paul

Paul — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:25:49 +0000

My twitter account is @paulrandall

Comment on The Kitchen Sink of HTML by Ming Dicus

Ming Dicus — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:29:24 +0000

Hey do you guys have a Twitter account I could follow? I’m sick of using RSS feeds! It’d be great if you did it’s a lot easier to find updates since I use Twitter so much! I’ll be back for sure!

Comment on CSS3 Multiple Backgrounds by Dave Randall

Dave Randall — Wed, 26 May 2010 20:16:26 +0000

I think its great i only wish i was clever enough to understand it all!!

Comment on Site Refresh by Paul

Paul — Fri, 21 May 2010 22:56:37 +0000

Thanks Adam, glad you like the design!

Work is going great thanks. I’m really enjoying it, especially all the designing I’ve already been able to work on.

Comment on Site Refresh by Adam Wintle

Adam Wintle — Fri, 21 May 2010 20:13:59 +0000

Great work on the new site design! I’m really liking everything; especially the typography and extra attention to the CSS.

How are things going at Higher Sites?

Comment on Should The Grid Be Visible? by Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:49:24 +0000

Great points Ben. I’m designing a site at the moment where the grid is so obvious, it looks a little regimented (even without displaying it).

I guess a design could even lose a little bit of it’s magic if the grid is shown, especially for complex layouts where the grid isn’t obvious at first.

Comment on URL ABC by Martin Bean

Martin Bean — Tue, 18 May 2010 10:32:01 +0000

Same method of marking up the list as I used!

Comment on Creativity by find

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