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Community Project: Any Old Icon!
We're compiling an icon web font and we need your help.. If you've ever designed an icon glyph, but didn't actually use it for anything, now's the time to...
Ian Yates
23 Apr 2013
Web Design
The Best Way to Learn CSS
CSS works hand in hand with HTML; HTML sorts out the page structure, CSS makes it look pretty and adds subtle levels of interaction. As a web designer you...
Ian Yates
18 Apr 2013
Web Design
Your Logo, as a Web Font Ligature
Let's look at an alternative approach for displaying logos on a web page. Normally, you'll approach the challenge by using an <img> tag. Perhaps you'll...
Ian Yates
25 Mar 2013
Web Design
Life Beyond 960px: Designing for Large Screens
The premise behind a responsive web isn't purely that websites be built in a mobile-friendly way. It's about setting our content free so that it can be...
Ian Yates
12 Mar 2013
Web Design
The Anatomy of Web Typography
Every conceivable feature of typography can be referred to by its name. Whether you're talking about the typeface itself, or the arrangement of type within a...
Ian Yates
5 Mar 2013
Web Design
Working With WebINK: Pro-Quality Fonts for the Web
WebINK by Extensis is a web font service which gives you access to over a thousand font families, produced by the best foundries in the industry. As a...
Ian Yates
25 Jan 2013
Web Design
The Role of Table Layouts in Responsive Web Design
Fluid layouts are the perfect way to house our content at any viewport size. Text can flow as containers grow and shrink, images and even video and iframes...
Ian Yates
23 Jan 2013
Web Design
Jazz up a Static Webpage with Subtle Parallax
It's been one of the biggest web design buzz words for a while now, so today we're going to try our hand at a bit of Parallax. We're going to put together a...
Ian Yates
17 Jan 2013
Web Design
The Best Way to Learn HTML
Learning a new skill is often intimidating at first; knowing where to start, who to listen to, what to ignore - it can be a difficult process to get moving....
Ian Yates
15 Jan 2013
Web Design
A Beginner’s Guide to Pairing Fonts
Pairing fonts can be a challenge. Selecting two or more fonts which work well is one thing - selecting two which work together to achieve your typographic...
Ian Yates
26 Nov 2012
Web Design
Introducing Stacey: the Lightweight CMS Alternative
There's more to the world of content management systems than Wordpress, Squarespace and Joomla. I'm going to show you a lightweight and database free...
Ian Yates
8 Nov 2012
Web Design
Quick Tip: Make Telephone Numbers Do Something
I'm not going to begin this quick tip with the old "these days people view your websites on a multitude of devices" spiel, but it is true. Many mobile...
Ian Yates
31 Oct 2012
Web Design