Well after 15 years in Michigan I am moving back to my home state of California! I moved to Ann Arbor in the early 2000’s as a student at the University of Michigan. In my senior year, I met my husband who was attending college there. After graduation, I moved in with him and 2 years …
Once upon a time I went to law school. I was in my mid-20s, I was having fun working as a paralegal, and law school seemed like the logical next step. I wasn’t sure I actually wanted to be a lawyer, but I figured that by the end of three years of law school I’d …
Web designers talk a lot about the separation of presentation and content. In essence, the goal is to set up your HTML — your content — so that it is purely semantic. Your content is composed of words which are arranged in outline format. You use HTML to organize that content into headings, paragraphs, lists, …
There are are hundred if not thousands of free photo editing apps available for mobile devices. These work great for social media sharing but so well for blogging and commercial work. I reall do not know anyone that updates their website from mobile. I have tried and it does not work out so well. For …
One of my favorite sources of “inspiration” is Vince Flanders’ Web Pages That Suck — a wonderful compendium of, well, what it says. It’s more than just a compendium, though, because Vince, who coined the term “mystery meat navigation,” actually analyzes what makes each site so bad. Using real live websites as examples he points …
The other day I was explaining to a client how to update her new WordPress site. I showed her how to create a post and she turned to me and asked, “Now how do I make em-dashes?” I hugged her. Like all typography nuts, I firmly believe that the details matter. That proper use of …
When it comes to Web 2.0 there here are some of the big ones. Blogger WordPress.com Weebly Webs I think this is such a good thing. Both platforms offer free hosting and CMS for those that want to start blogging. WordPress WordPress.com advantages: WP has a much cleaner and efficient code and loads faster Has …
While I have always tried to code my websites so that the layouts won’t break when you bump the text size up a few notches, until recently that’s been an exercise that felt somewhat abstract to me. It was something on my checklist, along with good color contrast, alt tags, and all the other things …