web design

Making Headway with Headway WP Theme

July 24, 2010

After seeing  April Tara’s blog I was pretty sure I wanted to try Headway. Her blog has some of my favourite things which I was using with the Thesis theme. I spent a couple of hours looking at themes. Before choosing Thesis I spent years looking at free themes and patching together what I wanted [...]

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Black Backgrounds Have Glare

June 23, 2010

One more reason not to use a black background on a website or blog… Glare! I have a new monitor, one that stretches wider than it is tall. It is also shiny for some reason. The one that came with this computer was not shiny but this one is. Anyway, I find websites and blogs [...]

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Is HTML 5 Real?

June 13, 2010

I found a link to HTML5 demos through Twitter. I lost track of the original link to whoever posted it on Twitter. The post says: So you’ve heard all rumors about HTML5 would take over Adobe Flash. While most web community argues that it’s possible or not, you must be wandering what makes HTML5 so [...]

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Fixed my WordPress List Formatting Glitch

January 28, 2010

I’ve made a few list posts, mostly bullet style. The problem was the formatting, all my points were crammed together in a solid block of text. It made the post kind of unsightly and not very easy (or desirable) to read. If I tried to add a space it would try to make it my [...]

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Hand Drawn Web Design

July 30, 2009

I made this list for myself a few weeks ago. I love the hand drawn element added to web designs/ site templates. I was doing some myself, posting drawings I had done to my personal blog. I would like to get back to that. Anyway, here for your viewing pleasure… my list of resources for [...]

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Pretty Simple Site Promotion Ignored

July 28, 2009

It bugs me when I go to a business or charity type of site and find they have nothing extra to offer me. Not only is it harder and harder to find a real way of contacting anyone online but they are often really skimpy on content too. What are they saving it for? Why [...]

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Playing Footsie with your Site

June 20, 2009

Can you do more with your site’s footer? This post from Smashing Magazine has a lot of ideas and design styles. The Blog Herald also wrote about making better use of your footer. I thought the best idea was adding a site map or at least a link to take you back to the top [...]

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Twitter Me This

April 4, 2009

Design Reviver has a post with “25 of the Best Designed Twitter Homepages“. Nice to see what people have done within the limitations of Twitter profiles.  If you are on Twitter have you done anything more than the standard with your profile? It might not seem too important but each chance to stretch your creativity [...]

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Personal Choices in Weblog Templates

January 27, 2009

How often do you change or customize your blog’s template (theme, your word of choice)? I find there is only so much I want to change through tweaking and the rest I hope to find in the template I pick. There are certain things I always look for, mainly to do with readability. I like [...]

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Top Five Blog Tips

November 20, 2008

Yes, you can be happy with a blog which doesn’t have all of these but we are all just a bit greedy for a little fame. Here is what you can do. 1. Content. Content is still king. It is what you have to offer. Have something to say. Say it in a way that [...]

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Lost in Commentary

November 18, 2008

One more thing to look at when you pick a new template for your blog… can you tell which comments go with which post? I’ve been finding it hard to tell. I tend to read more than the top post in a blog. So when I am somewhere down the middle and looking to leave [...]

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Risk your Blog

March 25, 2008

Word Grrls is going to get a make over. Not one of my own home spun half-geeked things. A real professional is going to work on it. I had thought to do it for That Grrl, my personal site. But, kind of a shame to do it there (I’ve already given that blog so many [...]

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Navigation, Style and Content

September 4, 2006

What are the keys to a good website? I think there are 3 main things. I have created this list from many years (since 1998) spent reviewing websites. Navigation, style and content. You can adapt that to NSC, or not. Not works for me, I’m not even sure how to say that. Anyway, navigation is [...]

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A Writer’s Website

May 15, 2006

Here are my ideas about making a writer’s site an asset to you and a resource for others to come to. It’s a bit scattered as I am leaving for Ottawa tomorrow and have some family stuff ongoing. But, I wanted to share the ideas while they were brewing around in my brain. I think [...]

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Website Tinkering and Tampering

April 10, 2006

Someone told me that the front page of my personal site is just a webring page. I was really peeved! I’ve worked hard to make that a nice entrance way. It still seems kind of unprofessional and “needs improvement” but it’s so much better than my first few versions. I’m getting the hang of tables. [...]

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