Web designers and developers have long demanded consistency of standards. It’s frustrating when web pages appear differently on different browsers. Internet Explorer is the most criticised browser for needing “hacks”. Yet in the absence of consistent standards Internet Explorer provides one of the most helpful services to designers.
I’ve seen a lot of powerful recommendations for [...]
The last couple of days I’ve worked on migrating Fog of Eternity to WordPress. That job is now done, and you’ll see that I’ve used the opportunity for a redesign of the site. I’ve been really impressed with WordPress’ flexibility of design, and I think the move has given the blog a lot more scope [...]
On Friday I wrote about the importance of styling your website so that it prints well. As promised then, I’m going to go into a bit more detail on how to develop an effective print stylesheet for your site.
CSS can be targeted easily at different media types, so you can have one stylesheet controlling the [...]
That website you just designed is great. It loads quick, looks cool, and ticks all the right SEO boxes. But you know what? There’s a lot of people out there who still aren’t comfortable with the internet. Some of those people are in positions of influence, positions to give you business. They might not understand [...]
I was looking over my Google Analytics statistics today and took a look at the breakdown of screen resolutions used by visitors to the site. I noticed that while the majority of visitors use resolutions of either 1024×768 or 1280×1024 some significantly higher resolutions such 1920×1200 were starting to creep into the statistics (and indeed [...]
One of the biggest advantages of the Firefox web browser is the wide variety of useful add-ons. These are small pieces of software which extend the functionality of Firefox. Some of these add-ons, and particularly those related to web accessibility, I highlighted before in ‘Some Useful Firefox Add-Ons For Designers’.
More recently I’ve been using a [...]
