Category Archives: Mobile

Quality English Presentation: The demise of the desktop

In early November, Quality English were kind enough to Eurostar me down to Paris to present to their member schools on digital marketing. The presentation, entitled ‘The demise of the desktop: Digital marketing and the mobile web‘ is now hosted on Slideshare, as well as embedded below.

Found: The long-awaited poster child for responsive design

It’s finally happened. After almost a year of waiting, a team of web designers, web developers, an agency and many talented others have been working with a well-known newspaper to launch the much-anticipated and new Boston Globe website. Why is this big news? Because the new Boston Globe isn’t an ordinary newspaper website. For the [...]

Genius use of QR codes in S. Korea

Cheesy promo-speak aside, this video highlights a really creative use of QR codes, piloted in South Korea by – surprisingly – Tesco (renamed HomePlus for the Korean market).

Blippar – A pretty impressive AR app

Check out this fantastic Augmented Reality app demo, found from econsultancy’s article Can Blippar make QR codes redundant?.

A great primer on responsive design

I just came across this fantastic presentation, given by a company called Livefront, that gives a great background on what responsive design is, as well as some of the more technical stuff that’s required, should that be up your alley.

What’s CarbonGraffiti been up to?

It’s been a crazy start to 2011. In fact, the last few months have been an absolute whirlwind. Here are some noteworthy the projects we’ve been working on, with services ranging from consulting to custom email design & build using MailChimp to full websites built on either WordPress or Buddypress. Have a project you want [...]

EnglishUK Presentation on Digital Marketing

On January 27th I gave an hour-long talk on ‘The Future of Digital Marketing’, speaking specifically to the ELT (English Language Training) industry. The conference was put on by EnglishUK and described as follows: “The English UK Marketing Conference, organised by the English Language Promotions Group (ELPG), hosted by UKTI and supported by Cambridge ESOL [...]

Creating iPhone-ready sites using CSS media queries

Using A List Apart’s article on Responsive Web Design (by Ethan Marcotte) as inspiration, this site now uses CSS media queries to determine a visitor’s screen resolution and serve up an appropriate version should the viewer be visiting from an iPhone. If you have an iPhone next to you, give it a try.

Excitement, interest and the social, mobile web

‘What do you think? Should I focus on SEO?’ A friend and colleague asked me this question recently, interested in breaking out of their current web publishing role and exploring some new, exciting options in the industry to keep interested. I replied with my usual garble about SEO – that it’s *not* something to focus [...]