Category Archives: Design Technique

Choosing The Right Font – I Chose The ‘Furry’ Option!

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One of the important decisions to make with the website redesign for fog of eternity was the right font to use. I needed something that was clear and accessible, very readable, and which worked well both capitalized and in lower […]

Giving Depth To Web Design With Drop Shadows

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Two dimensional mediums are flat. Flat is boring. The web is a two dimensional medium, so websites are boring. OK, not always true, but pretty often! Artists over the centuries have developed many ways of giving the illusion of depth […]

Why Style Guides Are Cool

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Style guides are a great addition to any web designer’s service. For larger companies and clients they’ll be an expected part of delivery, or they may provide you with a style guide you have to follow. For smaller clients they […]

Dynamic CSS Backgrounds

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There are lots of examples of great backgrounds in website design. Most of the time those backgrounds are static artwork into which web page content is integrated. CSS allows for the integration of some movement into a background image when […]

One Joomla! Template, Unlimited Stylesheet Options

It took me a while to like Joomla!. It’s not the most immediately welcoming of content management systems either in its user interface or to design and style. I’ve worked with it for a while now and it’s definitely grown […]