The top five things I learnt at university this week
My colleagues are interested in what I’m learning so I thought using my blog was a good way of keeping my thoughts organised. I definitely learnt more than five things yesterday, but these are the ones...
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Google weights words which come at the start of the title tag. Put the most important information, usually the page title, first. Keeping things semantically correct requires a bit of thought....
View ArticleBaseline grid
A few of us were having a discussion about using a baseline grid during the break on Wednesday afternoon, and I said I’d post a link to an example with the grid showing. So, here it is:...
View ArticlePinning down the process
Pinning down the Process Rather than making a start on the specifics of the project this week, I decided to spend some time pinning down my own design and development process. Although this process...
View ArticleFive things I learnt in week six
Five things I learnt in Week Six I’ve finally got the hang of semantic class names/IDs. Don’t use names which describe how an element is presented (.red, #nav-left). Instead use names which give the...
View ArticleFive things I learnt in week seven
What Ajax allows us to do. I had heard of Ajax before last week, and I could even remember what the acronym stood for (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) but I didn’t realise what it actually does: allow...
View ArticleThe trick navigation of Mark Boulton
I was reading an article on Mark Boulton’s website, the first time I’ve visited it since the redesign. The article, A Richer Canvas, was interesting but that’s not what this blog post is about. The...
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