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Archive for July, 2007

Check your baselines with Syncotype

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Rob Goodlatte has just released a really handy bookmarklet called Syncotype to help check the vertical rhythm of the typography on a web page. Once you’ve installed it, just click the Syncotype bookmark. You’ll get a box to input the line-height and an offset from the top of the page so that Syncotype can overlay […]

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Link: Interview with Mark Boulton

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

This is an excellent interview with Mark Boulton.
My favorite part…
What education gives you is time and a different kind of pressure. In industry, the pressures are from the client, the market and making a profit. Design is a business, and as such, it’s difficult to remove yourself form those pressures to give you the space […]

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Helpful Web Design Podcasts

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

One of my favorite ways to keep up with the latest news, techniques, and best practices is by listening to web design podcasts. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find a good list of them yet. So I thought I would put together a list of my own.
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Avoid Eyestrain & Increase Productivity with ClearType

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

Although Windows Vista comes with ClearType already on by default, it looks like the majority of web design in a Windows environment will continue to be done on XP for a little while longer. And in XP it is turned off by default. (Yes, ClearType should be common knowledge among web designers, but I’ve run […]

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What I will blog

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

Each time I start a blog, I like to think for a bit about the sort of thing that I will be posting. In this case, my plans are to have posts once or twice a week that are either related to web design or of interest to web designers. More than likely these will […]

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