A quick introduction to me, my name is Dan and I'm a print and web designer based in Aylesbury. I have been working as a designer for about 10 years now initially as graphic designer before embracing the internet and becoming a web designer as well. In the past I have worked for a wide variety of clients from as large as Kodak, Tefal and Toshiba down to small one man bands and pretty much everything in between. For more about my career history please feel free to have a look at my CV and Portfolio.

TringRugby goes live

Posted October 30th, 2009 by DannyMax The TringRugby website has now gone live, although some sections are still under development the bulk of the site is now done and can be seen at www.tringrugby.com

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Why no IE6 Support?

Posted May 28th, 2009 by DannyMax

As promised I just wanted to explain why this site is not supporting IE6. The main reason is that on this site I wanted design without the constraints that IE6 imposes, as a designer I don't like to be told I can and can't do by a web browser. However I do appreciate that I can't just forget about older browsers. When designing a site for a client they are more interested in communicating their message than having a graduated transparency behind their phone number and rightly so. About 15% of web users are still using IE6 at the time of publishing this post (see www.w3schools.com for more up to date details) and potentially that is a lot of lost custom if users cant access content properly. So there always needs to be a compromise between design and content as neither would work on its own. On this site I have taken that the view that as the design is what I am trying to communicate a little less emphasis can be put on the content and that I can spend some time adding in amended CSS at a later date.

So those are the reasons that some people might not be seeing this site quite right if they haven't upgraded to a newer version of IE or better still Firefox. For now I will just have to hope that it's not long until everybody is using a nice shiny new web browser!    

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Dannymax.co.uk finally goes live!

Posted May 18th, 2009 by DannyMax After a weekend of furious html and cssing I have decided to just go live. There are proabaly a few typos and I know there is a lot of coding that needs tidying up but I wanted to actually get the site live sooner rather than later, so if you see anything thats not quite right, thats one of the things I havent got round to yet.

Like alot of sites now this site is not designed to support Inernet Explorer 6, more on the reasons behind this next time. If you are using IE6 you really should upgrade to a newer version click here to download Internet Explorer 8 not only will you be able to see this and many other sites in their full glory the newer version is much more secure.
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