_{Jamie Balfour's}Articles

Ever wanted to have Facebook in your Messages app on your Mac? Well, thanks to a bit of work you can.

In September 2014 I became a pescatarian and now I'm on route to become a vegetarian. This article describes my experience of doing this.

It is sad how the web has become this place where no individuals will create a custom website tailored to their own personality and requirements. The web consists of so many prebuilt sites that individuality is disappearing altogether.

This is my 2014 list of suggestions to the W3C for improving CSS. These are all things I'd like to see in the CSS4 specification when it gets considered.

Have you ever noticed how great mobile web browser development is? This article goes into a bit of depth about how CSS is miles ahead on mobile devices.

My CSS 2015 wishlist. I'm particularly hopeful about two particular features. This proposal may get updated as I think of more ideas.

CSS3 makes it easier to create printable content, but has it been implemented fully? In this article I will talk about why it is important to implement a print-friendly website using CSS and how it can be achieved. I will also talk about the concerns with websites as they are at the moment and how these concerns affect users.

Here's a look at the best of Apple's WWDC 2014. iOS 8 and OS X 10.10.

Responsive site design is quite easy but can be difficult to get spot on. This article looks at why and how a mobile site can be optimised better.

It's not something I like to say, but unfortunately, people do still use Internet Explorer 6 and 7. Therefore it only seems right to design websites to be fully compatible with them as well as today's browsers. This tutorial shows how to achieve this.