Partner at Erskine Design / Uncle / Weekend goalkeeper / Handsome bastard.
Being seated next to new people at weddings, birthdays etc. the go-to conversation starters pop up early on: 'So, how do you know x?', 'What do you do for a living?'
Gave my website a bit of a 'performance polish'. It's pretty damn fast now! mathayward.com #geektweet
We've updated erskinedesign.com, removing the clutter, adding beautifully readable type and making it super quick to load. Take a look!
Without a database there's nothing to query when wanting a search function, so I went about building a work around.
I wrote a feature for Net magazine's December issue about creating a living modular framework.
This is a real discussion within the Erskine front-end team about CSS naming conventions for a button.
If you've got a copy of @netmag this month, check out my lovely face (and read my article) on page 84… instagram.com/p/hfxsDCS19w/
RT @erskinedesign Just launched — a mobile first redesign of http://endsleigh.co.uk
Being approached by a couple of enthusiastic students and asked “how do we get a job in the industry?” was a surprisingly awkward experience.
Music is an important part of advertising. It can evoke feelings which influence a consumers mood.
This week one of my colleagues was amazed to hear that Twitter is written using pure CSS and not a preprocessor.
The definition of spam is an unsolicited electronic message. (That and canned meat of dubious origins).
A while back I started working on a pretty nice, but simple, interactive HTML5 video.
As a web developer of some 10 years, there are two things I’m regularly asked by friends and acquaintances: “Can you build me a website?” and “Can you teach me web design?”
RT @erskinedesign Nottingham folks! We’ve planned a little breakfast event with two great speakers on web design and development — erskinedesign.com/blog/erskine-b...
SEO shouldn’t exist. In a perfect world, there would be no place for Brian the Search Engine Optimisation Consultant or any of his cronies.
Tribe Latest - Time to get your shades on and start selling createsend.com/t/r-036A7F4F19...
Last month Craig and I gave a talk at Second Wednesday, a monthly Nottingham-based event for creative and digital people, entitled The Responsive Web.
Been working on a pretty nifty HTML5 interactive video today. Keep 'em peeled. #flashisdead
I recently wrote a feature about responsive email design for Creative Bloq, an online magazine covering 3D, graphic design, illustration, web design.
Rob Antill recently launched his website showcasing his talent for Stereographic photography. By the end of the first day it had received over 6,000 hits and the logo masking was the hottest web design topic on Reddit.