My Journal

Increasingly I’m getting emails with the above mentioned somewhere in the email and really it’s getting annoying for oh so many reasons:

Spam

First there’s the fact it’s spam, yes spam is a problem that is likely to never go away but it doesn’t stop it being an annoyance.

Continue reading “We would like to get your website on first page of Google”

Through the latter part of 2009 and continuing into 2010 the web community has been buzzing about font embedding. The growing support for font-face throughout modern browsers brought us more options than the few “web-safe” font’s that have been in use since the early days of the web. Although the support was there it still took the likes of Typekit to bring us new font’s en-masse. Their system of using the font’s managed to quell the concerns of some font foundries and open up a wider range of font’s for us to utilise.

Yet many designers have taken the fact that we can use these new font’s as carte blanche to go mad, using new font’s at every opportunity. Yet in truth the web isn’t ready for all these fonts, or at least our systems aren’t.

Continue reading “You’re using font embedding wrong”

I’m going to keep this post pretty short, really and just show off the final designs. Well when I say final that’s only if I don’t get any feedback from anyone commenting below or from Doug that affect the designs somehow.

Below are the home page and the individual post page, also there’s a homepage showing the various hover effects that can be attributed to various elements on that page. Hope you like

Continue reading “A New Design: Part 3″

This past weekend, rather than get on with the stuff that I really should have been doing I instead started working on a new design for my own website. What started as realign of the background and header became something completely different.

On a side note quickly, I’d love to be able to post this stuff to dribbble, so if anyone has or gets any invites I’d be very appreciative of one.

Continue reading “Codename: Harmony”

Earlier in the week I wrote a post asking for some feedback on a design I was working on. Even though the design was only in the very early stages I got a good reaction as well as some good feedback. Since then I’ve been working on the design and I think It’s time to try and see what people think.

Continue reading “A New Design: Part 2″