Way back in the day, if you wanted to have some other font face gracing your pages, something other than Arial, Verdana, Comic, Times, Georgia etc etc, then you had to use a graphic.  There were a set number of “web safe” fonts available and all html websites had to abide by it.  Unlike the [...]

Font choices are a critical part of web design. Any graphic designer worth her salt should have a library of carefully hand-picked fonts at her disposal at any time. It’s not enough to have them, she should know how and why each of them works. Newcomers to the wonderful world of font tend to get [...]

I had a couple of people ask me recently, how do you get the little image next to your site name when you add it to favourites, or when it’s in the browser? Suprisingly simple, its called a fav icon it sits in your root directory with the name favicon.ico. Well thats all well and [...]