As we’re renovating our house and need to buy quite a few new household appliances, etc I decided to take up Which? magazine’s offer of trial membership so I could get access to their online reviews and test results.…
Update: it seems I was completely wrong about this and Illustrator does have a special anti-aliasing option for type optimisation. The option is buried in a slightly strange place in the ‘Save for web’ dialogue, under ‘Image size’. Select ‘Type…
Sometimes it’s useful to have links or buttons to increase the font size on a website. Even though browsers have built-in functions to resize content, not all users are aware of this, or can easily remember how to increase the…
Graphic design is all about communication, and on a website we usually want to communicate something about a service or product or organisation. We probably want to tell people about its benefits and strengths. Of course one way to do…
This week I’ve spent quite a few hours trying to set up a local development environment on my new Mac. Although I’ve used the built in version of Apache 2, much of the other software that comes pre-installed with OS…
There’s been quite a lot of debate about the correct use of HTML headings (H1, H2, H3, etc) to define a document structure. WCAG 2.0 says that we should create a correctly nested structure of headings, not least to…
Earlier this week I went to Ryan Singer’s workshop on Designing Web Application User Interfaces. Ryan is a designer at 37 Signals, the company behind the massively popular Basecamp project management software (which I use myself all…
Sometimes in a WordPress site you might want to have the option to search within different types of content. For example, if one category contains blog posts and another one contains white papers, you might want to allow people to…
