CSS typography: setting a vertical rhythm

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…

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Speaking to other SSH users

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…

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  • 19 Dec 08
  • filed under Code

Upgrading to WordPress 2.7

I’ve just upgraded this blog to WordPress v2.7 and I must say I continue to be impressed by the improvements that are being made. The admin area is now even more slick and user-friendly. In fact, it’s beginning to feel…

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A bit of a buzz

With a view to better sharing our web design skills, a few of us have knocked up a little site for our informal freelance network.

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Don’t ask users what they want

It’s a common misconception when undertaking user research that we need to survey a bunch of users and find out what they would like in (a new version of) a website. I’ve had clients sometimes get skeptical about doing user…

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A new job

Although my work with Jackfruit Design has been going really well, and I’ve been busy with some interesting web apps over the past 6 months, the solitary working lifestyle has recently become a bit isolating. So last month I…

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Importing del.icio.us bookmarks into Firefox 3

I’ve been pretty impressed with Firefox 3, the new version of the browser launched by Mozilla on June 17. It feels a lot snappier on OSX (it no longer lags behind Safari) and the new implementation of the address…

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Chef fights Tesco over chicken welfare standards

Celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall plans to force Tesco to change its policy of selling chicken meat reared in intensive units, by tabling a resolution at the supermarket’s shareholder AGM. Excellent. But according to a BBC report, Tesco says the chef…

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