MiracleDesign – Blog

On September 2, 2008 Google released a beta version of ‘Google Chrome’ for Windows, it is an open source web browser based on the WebKit layout engine/application framework.

When a new browser is launched as a web developer you have to understand how it works and how it presents sites you produce. Chrome really excels when it comes to speed and when developing a website this is very important. Visually speaking, I like the minimalist approach very much and the combination search/address bar works very well and saves on space.
From a purely technical standpoint, I think Chrome is a good(though not groundbreaking) browser, with good improvements in terms of speed and usability. However I hope there is further work on javascript support and a high level of security will hopefully be maintained.

Google Chrome will surely become more popular but with IE and Firefox around domination of the browser market is a long way off.

Elliott Dwyer – Human Interface Designer

Welcome to the MiracleDesign blog!

We have decided to use WordPress to publish updates and news about our work, WordPress is an open source blog publishing application, it allows you to either install their software on your server or get a free domain (example. miracledesign.wordpress.com) from them and simply work from their servers.

We have chosen to go with the WordPress domain because it means when software updates or security patches need to be installed its done by the team at WordPress which means we don’t have to constantly check for updates and mess around on our server installing them. The downside to this choice is that our blog is less customisable, this is something that doesn’t bother us in the slightest we’re perfectly happy with our design its a simple template (Benevolence by Theron Parlin) with a custom MiracleDesign header.

This will be our first of hopefully many posts on this blog so please check back soon and keep up to date with what we’re doing at MiracleDesign.

David Gilmer – Creative Director