I am a web designer & developer based in Galway, Ireland. Information on my work is available from my company site: Ambient Age Web Design.

I am also completing a PhD in Information Systems. My research is on the Adoption of IT Standards for technologies to support Ambient Intelligence.

Category Archives: Web Design

And….we’re done – Barkcamp Cork, ‘08

Ok, so a slightly late look back on Barcamp Cork which was on Saturday in the Cork Webworks. As I said, the community spirit is alive and well in the Cork Tech community. Over 100 people showed up, mainly from Cork, but also from Dublin, Galway (well, me anyway), and also from the North.
There were [...]

Barcamp Cork II

I’m heading to Cork for Barcamp next weekend (1st of November). There are lots of interesting sessions planned by the looks of things, and a good list of people attending so far. And it’s still a week away. The sessions cover everything from the technical to the business side of working with the web, with [...]

Firefox 3 – First Look

Image via Wikipedia
After playing with the latest version of the Firefox web browser, it seems a bit more impressive than it’s earlier versions. Some things that struck me after using it for a few hours were:

I’m probably most impressed that I used Google Webmaster tools and Gmail about 4 times and the browser didn’t crash….which [...]

hmmm…new & shiny website

I decided the old version of the site wasn’t working anymore, so I’ve cleaned it up and you’re looking at the result.
There were a number of problems with the old one, such as too much of the screen being taken up things that weren’t content. Because the original site was designed before the blog was [...]

ISME Survey on Web Design

The Irish Small & Medium Enterprise Association released findings of a survey this week on SME’s attitudes to Web Design and Development services in Ireland – further details are available on the Ambient Age site at SMEs Unhappy With Web Design Services?

PicLens – Immersive Photography Slideshows

PicLens is a web application that allows you to view photographs & images as a 3D “immersive” slideshow. It’s one of the most impressive web applications I’ve seen, and is well worth checking out.

Work Website Redesigned…

The Ambient Age website has had a bit of a facelift. Any comments on it would be appreciated….

Internet Explorer (Ver. 6) Layout Errors Fixed on Site

The errors that were breaking the layout of site have been fixed…Sorry about that!
They were caused by the way that version of the browser handles CSS padding and margins – even though the code was validating as compliant CSS and xHTML

New Site Up and Running

I’ve just got my new site up and running. There are a couple of small things left to sort out with it (in particular, I haven’t tested it in versions of Internet Explorer earlier than Ver7, so if it’s not displaying properly I’ll have any problems sorted out soon…promise).