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Whether you like or not, email is going to be with us for a while longer and for a lot of organisations it is their preferred method of communication. Unfortunately, as most of us know, it's not the most efficient, intuitive or spontaneous platform. Here are some handy tips so you can get to a zero-inbox.
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The devil is in the detail refers to an idiom to a catch or find a mysterious element hidden in the details. For me, this detail is the crafting of a website that goes beyond just its design.
I was asked recently for some advice on how to migrate a domain. A migration is effectively taking all the files that display your website in a browser and moving them from one place to another. But sometimes to move a domain you need to understand what each bit of the address does.
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I get asked this question from time-to-time, most recently by a student studying games development. Here is my quick ready reckoner that I produced which covers the basics types of systems, the complexity and rough cost.
morse code
A trip to Milton Keynes Museum and discovered a display about telephony where they had a clever Morse Code handout that I couldn't resist tweaking.
website width
A fellow graphic designer recently asked for some advice. They wanted to know what width to design a website to then be handed to the developer to build from.
top wordpress plugins
What better way to celebrate my lifelong love and affinity with typography than dedicating an entire year posting one of my favourite fonts each Monday morning on Twitter.
top wordpress plugins
I've been building websites since 1998 — with various legacy systems, dead and buried software and a few that survive. I'm sharing some of my experience and recommending my top five Wordpress plugins.
top wordpress plugins
That's what the dictionary defines as a ligature. I know the term for a very different use and if you've never heard of them before, to a type designer they are a key part of building a typeface.