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Let's be fair, few customers are professional writers and few hire one when making a web site. That is why I now include professional copywriting into every estimate as a non-removable item. When customers are adding their own copy to a site, I give them ten simple tips to follow.
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The United States' soon to President Barack Obama's choice of Tobias Frere-Jones' Gotham typeface has been well documented.
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24ways goes from strength to strength each year and I was so pleased when Drew McLellan asked me back to contribute again.
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Judging from the response from the people who attended, our first Visual Web Design Masterclass in London this month was a huge success. As a large part of the day was spent learning about typography, both relating to type and to layouts devised from typographic principles, I chose to illustrate the lessons by typesetting The Waste Land, a poem by TS. Eliot. If you weren't able to attend, now is your chance to take a look at the results of my experiments.
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One of the questions that I get asked quite frequently is until CSS3 moves forward, is there anything new we can say, or write, about CSS?
. That's a good question. Not as good perhaps as Why does Gordon Brown do that funny thing with his mouth?
or Would Eddie Izzard make a good Doctor Who?
, but quite a good question none-the-less.
Paul Boag on how progressive enrichment improves accessibility, reduces costs and ensures every user gets the best experience possible within the limitation of their choice of browser.
Reduces the size and complexity of your CSS by programmatically stripping unneeded content, stripping redundant calls, and intelligently grouping the remaining element names
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Collection of fab mug designs. I picked up the Alcatraz inmate tin mug when I went to the island this summer.
John Allsopp on taking a plain old boring HTML button, and 2.0 it up the wazoo over at 24ways.
Nick Cowie on how to make funky Web 2.0 buttons from text just using CSS that does not break in older browsers.
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The web has changed, and so has the art of creating web sites. So how do creative designers learn to be artistic yet functional? With Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design.
In this new video, Andy Clarke follows up on the core principles from Transcending CSS, taking you even further along the path to creating beautiful and accessible web sites.
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