If you’re going to San Francisco Uh huh? Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair Really, that sounds a bit retro doesn’t it? If you’re going to San Francisco Yes? You’re gonna meet some gentle people there Oh well, that reassuring. What else am I going to do there?
Designing decisions: width
What’s the measure? In my previous post I wrote about my musings on heading hierarchy. The next issue I’m contemplating is width (or measure as it is sometime called). People use a range of monitors with different screen resolutions. Users hate scrolling sideways on a page that’s too large, especially if it’s to see important […]
Designing decisions: hierarchy
I’ve been reading so much about typography and layout lately; I’ve been inspired to design a WordPress theme. I’ve also been wanting to do it from scratch so that I’m completely familiar with all the code. I’m no PHP whiz, but so far things are working and I know what everything is doing in my […]
Blogging in 2008
What do I blog for? Well, it’s a new year. It seems like everyone has been summing up their achievements from 2007 and making goals for 2008. All good things. I’ve been thinking about the things that I want to achieve with this blog this year. Keeping this blog and my photoblog has been excellent, […]
8 random facts
A little while ago the Foo tagged me to write 8 random things about myself. Since I wrote 7 things about me recently I hoped it would be too much of cop-out to add one more. 8. I love the French language. I learnt a bit of it in high school and uni, but I’d […]
Color Picker in Mac OS X
I had no idea that Color Picker was so useful! Colour software and websites LaurenMarie from Creative Curio wrote a great article about color inspiration. After that I had a look around for a good website or program that could store your colour1 palettes and inspiration images.