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 help users…
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 the time) and several…
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 raw data from the feed, so you…
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…
An increasing number of people are starting to think about vertical rhythm in their web typography, so I thought I’d share my CSS implementation, which uses ems (to allow for text resizing), a global line-height and negative margins for headings.
The basic idea behind composing to a…
A not very useful tip:
To check who may be on your machine, open the Terminal and type ‘who’ (or to see who was on recently, type ‘last’).
To send everyone a message type:
echo ‘Stop sneaking around on my machine’ | wall
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