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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- 14 Jan 09
- filed under Code, Projects
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
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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- 16 Dec 08
- filed under Software
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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- 2 Sep 08
- filed under Miscellaneous
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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- 14 Aug 08
- filed under Design
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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- 31 Jul 08
- filed under Miscellaneous
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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- 27 Jun 08
- filed under Code, Projects
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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- 8 Jun 08
- filed under Miscellaneous