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…
The built in WordPress function fetch_rss() makes it easy to pull in an RSS feed from any other site and display it on your own blog. The function gives you convenient access to…
The majority of web designers seem to use Photoshop, but Illustrator has some real strengths when it comes to designing web layouts. Moving and resizing elements on the canvas is much faster and more intuitive, and this helps make the…
