Last week I attended the Information Architecture Summit in New Orleans (oh yeah!) and talked about the Cross-Channel Experience with 700 of my closest peeps.

Ian is the Lead Solutions Architect at Piehead Be forewarned, this is a bit techier than the typical Piehead blog post. The idea of having variables in CSS has been something that developers and designers have argued about since the very beginning of CSS. Like the PC vs Mac debate, there are many passionate folks both [...]

The hype around SXSW each year is impressive to say the least. Having been a person who hadn’t gone before, I had painted a mental picture of mind blowing sessions, countless conversations with high level executives and social parties where everyone seemed to be checking-in or sharing a photo via their smartphones.

Since ancient times, when users were ‘surfers’ and Netscape still roamed the Information Superhighway, screen resolution has been a concern for web developers. It was difficult enough in bygone eras to determine how much content could fit onto a screen before the user was treated to an unseemly scroll bar along the bottom of their browser. A developer had to carefully plan the dimensions of their website to accommodate the four or five monitor resolutions used by the broadest possible audience.

According to the market analysis firm Canalys, nearly 500 million smartphones were shipped worldwide in 2011, compared to (only!) 415 million PCs. The predictions for smartphone sales in 2012 are even higher.