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Joyent seek to renege on lifetime hosting deal 17 Aug 2012 | 01:32 am
Back in 2006 I invested $499 in a Lifetime ‘Mixed Grill’ hosting package from Joyent. The company was pretty young then and they used a series of lifetime package deals to raise capital. The deal on o...
A bit of a rant about Which? magazine 22 Jul 2011 | 10:30 pm
As we’re renovating our house and need to buy quite a few new household appliances, etc I decided to take up Which? magazine’s offer of trial membership so I could get access to their online reviews a...
Illustrator ’save for web’ anti-aliasing problems 24 Jun 2011 | 11:57 pm
Update: it seems I was completely wrong about this and Illustrator does have a special anti-aliasing option for type optimisation. The option is buried in a slightly strange place in the ‘Save for web...
A really simple font resizer using JQuery 3 Feb 2010 | 11:55 am
Sometimes it’s useful to have links or buttons to increase the font size on a website. Even though browsers have built-in functions to resize content, not all users are aware of this, or can easily re...
Using metaphors in web design 24 Sep 2009 | 04:44 am
Graphic design is all about communication, and on a website we usually want to communicate something about a service or product or organisation. We probably want to tell people about its benefits and ...
Setting up a local server on OS X Leopard 25 Jun 2009 | 02:39 am
This week I’ve spent quite a few hours trying to set up a local development environment on my new Mac. Although I’ve used the built in version of Apache 2, much of the other software that comes pre-in...
Correct use of HTML headings on a homepage 12 Jun 2009 | 04:20 am
There’s been quite a lot of debate about the correct use of HTML headings (H1, H2, H3, etc) to define a document structure. WCAG 2.0 says that we should create a correctly nested structure of headings...
Designing Web Apps Workshop with Ryan Singer 2 May 2009 | 04:57 am
Earlier this week I went to Ryan Singer’s workshop on Designing Web Application User Interfaces. Ryan is a designer at 37 Signals, the company behind the massively popular Basecamp project management ...
Customised search scope in WordPress 2 May 2009 | 04:09 am
Sometimes in a WordPress site you might want to have the option to search within different types of content. For example, if one category contains blog posts and another one contains white papers, you...
Adding a YouTube feed to a WordPress template 18 Mar 2009 | 03:19 am
The built in WordPress function fetch_rss() makes it easy to pull in an RSS feed from any other site and display it on your own blog. The function gives you convenient access to the raw data from the...
