2 weeks ago I attended my third and supposedly the final New Adventures Conference in Nottingham. NaConf has been one of my favourite conferences over the last few years, hence my attending of all three, however this years event managed to come out at the top. 

Last week I did a completely new thing and attended a design conference - specifically the New Adventures Conference in Nottingham.

The beautiful thing about PhoneGap is that we can use our existing web design skills set to produce native apps for iPhone and not have to cross-browser test our designs across an ever increasing multitude of web browsers, or so we thought.

Last week’s SPARKies event was Bath’s first tech awards ceremony and part of the first Bath Digital Festival - and we were shortlisted as finalists for the Best Digital Design Agency.

This is the second part of our Dojo and jQuery side by side series. If you’re not following allowing with the series, do be sure to check out Part 1: Dom Basics.

As mentioned in the previous article, the aim here is to provide a simple unbiased side by side comparison of common jQuery operations and how they are achieved in Dojo.

Today, we’re looking at animation and as a quick reminder you should assume that all the calls below are called when the DOM is ready.  If you’re not sure how to do this, checkout Part 1.

Lets go!

Dojo is a fantastic toolkit that we have used on many projects here at moresoda.  Although we still love and use jQuery nearly everyday, we use Dojo on projects where the front end requirements are more complicated than your average DOM manipulation and HTML5 shims.

This article isnt about preaching Dojos benefits though.  If you have a read of the features and benefits of Dojo you can make up your own mind.  That being said, Dojo can be harder to get into since is it a much larger than jQuery.

Hence my aim here is to provide a simple, unbiased side by side comparison of common jQuery operations and how they are achieved in Dojo.

I’ve been doing some playing with pseudo-elements recently on a personal project, and ended up doing a little bit of reading up about CSS gradients. I can’t remember where the article was, it’s not important really, but I wanted to share what I’ve managed to achieve with them.

For the second time in as many weeks, I have found myself talking to business owners about the lack of care they have been shown by their agency. I’m pleased to say neither related to projects we had delivered!

Looking for inspiration? Here are some website recommendations for you to feast your eyes on. This week’s selection includes an Oyster Restaurant and a Tasmanian Design Agency!

We send a variety of email marketing for various clients. Recent activity has prompted questions about ‘open rates’ and ‘click rates’ and what constitutes a successful campaign. ‘Open rates’ are expressed as a percentage of emails opened from total emails sent. ‘Bounces’ are different kettle of fish which can be discussed at greater length another time.