41 posts by Anthony Dillon
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Design and Web team summary – 27 March 2018
by Anthony Dillon on 27 March 2018
The design and web team work on a wide array of projects throughout Canonical. Therefore, we are split into seven squads to handle different aspects of the...
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Webteam development summary
by Anthony Dillon on 6 September 2017
Iteration 6 dating between 14th to the 25th of August This iteration saw a lot of work on tutorials.ubuntu.com and on the migration of design.ubuntu.com from...
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Cookie notification component
by Anthony Dillon on 22 August 2017
We’ve all seen the annoying cookie notification which website owners are legally obliged to include on their sites. We can’t avoid them, so let’s have some...
Ubuntu
Designing in the open
by Anthony Dillon on 25 April 2017
Over the past year, a change has emerged in the design team here at Canonical: we’ve started designing our websites and apps in public GitHub repositories,...
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Web team hack day
by Anthony Dillon on 8 August 2016
Last week the developers in the web team swapped the office for the lobby of the hotel across the street. The day was geared up to allow us to leave our daily...
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Using Vanilla with Jekyll
by Anthony Dillon on 19 November 2015
We’re using NPM as Vanilla’s package manager. Which gives us a number of advantages such as, an easy way to install and update the CSS framework. This all...
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Introducing Vanilla
by Anthony Dillon on 22 June 2015
Why we needed a new framework Some time ago the web team at Canonical developed a CSS framework the we called ‘Guidelines’. Guidelines helped us to maintain...
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Making ubuntu.com responsive: JavaScript considerations (14)
by Anthony Dillon on 17 June 2014
This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. The JavaScript used on ubuntu.com is very light. We limit its use to small functional elements...