MiracleDesign - Blog

Google Chrome: Quick Review

miracledesign — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:48:06 +0000

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

Miracle Design going Mobile

miracledesign — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:26:38 +0000

We have finally begun working on a mobile version of our main website. With mobile technology advancing at a great pace it won’t be long before we will find a mobile version of all the major websites. Shrinking a site down to fit on a mobile device can be very difficult, its important to make sure the user can read all text comfortably and view any images with ease. The site must function just as well as the full size version otherwise the user experience is not likely to be satisfactory.

Overall we feel that the design is the most important part of a mobile site, people who have viewed web pages on mobile phones or PDA’s know all too well the mess that can appear when you visit a site that is badly designed. When building a mobile site we focus our efforts so that every element of it looks just right and make sure it can be viewed by all the most popular mobile browsers. Here’s a picture of what our site might look like once its finished:

Nothing Short Of A Mobile Miracle

We hope to have the mobile side of our site up and running very soon.

David Gilmer – Creative Director

Miracle Design on WordPress!

miracledesign — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:07:59 +0000

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