It slipped by me that just last week — a few days before Canberra’s first BarCamp — Eric Meyer wrote an article responding to Johnathan Snook’s announcement that he doesn’t use reset stylesheets. Following that came Jens Meiert’s arguments that reset style sheets are bad.
I can see where Jens is coming from but don’t see any compelling reasons that would […]
Last Saturday I had the pleasure of presenting my first presentation on typgraphy, at Canberra’s very first BarCamp. The talk was titled “Beautiful Web Typography: 7 tips on de-sucking the web” and is available via:
Slideshare;
Slideshare as a PDF (requires an account);
here as a PDF;
and thanks to Nathanael, as a MP3 audio file.
I think I crammed too much into the […]
Over a year ago four of us — Andrew Boyd, Nathanael Boehm, Stephen Collins and myself — sat around a café here in Woden, Canberra discussing the logistics of running Canberra’s first BarCamp.
Two days ago, April 19th we finally ended up kicking off BarCampCanberra1, here at the ANU. With over sixty people we had three streams going throughout the day […]
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I’m back. Finally.
So, a little about the design — I decided quite early I wanted to stick to a solid grid foundation. The website is built around four columns, each columns measuring 200 pixels with 25-pixel wide gutters. To ensure content doesn’t sit beside browser window borders I’ve also installed 40-pixel wide left and right hand margins giving […]
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