Hmmm.

It’s been a while coming, but I’ve finally decided to succome to the blogosphere. Not that I made that decision today you’ll understand, but that I finally got around to actually writing something!

I have some general ideas about what I want to use the blog for. First and foremost I’d like to use it to talk about website design and the topics that skitter across the surface of that.

I like to view myself as a half-breed, someone who isn’t quite one thing or the other. But unlike Hagrid from the Potter books, my split is a philosophical one in that I believe I’m part programmer and part designer. Not necessarily two skills that go hand in hand it can often be remarked. The programmer element of me gets excited when creating fancy little bits of code, replacing massive functions with tidier, more maintainable snippets. Whereas the designer side goes leg quakey at the mere thought of transparent PNGs and CSS positioned layouts!

However, probably my biggest focus shift over the years has been towards usability and accessibility. Including the great idea that websites should be intuitive to all, not just the disabled nor just the wiz kids.

It’s not always something I (or others) succeed at, but it’s something that, even if I just help one person, I’d like to share and hopefully improve my own implementations by writing about it here.

Well, we’ll see how well I manage to keep those good intentions, with my initial target of two on-topic posts per week. I might add the odd off topic thrown in if something has made me think about it so much that I’m compelled to put pixels to page!