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Monthly Archives: August 2007
The rain in Spain
In 2001, when I first came to live in my present house in Calpe, the hill across the valley to the east was a sandy brown. A desert hill, which made you wonder what had ever been grown on its … Continue reading
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“No HTML Required”
In my last post, I passed on a useful CSS trick. Of course, this is of no use to would-be designers who want to stay away from HTML altogether. There is nothing wrong with this. If you want to design … Continue reading
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Does your white space vary too much?
In my last post I mentioned the importance of white space. In this respect, do your pages always look different on different browsers? Have you ever spent hours adjusting margins and padding in order to achieve an acceptable result in … Continue reading
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Design Elements: Text
Having chosen a base font, how do you best lay out your text? I’m not talking here about producing text (writing), I’m talking about laying out the text you’ve already written. There are two things that you have to bear … Continue reading
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Design Elements: Multiple Fonts
In my previous posts in this series, I have suggested a way of picking the best base font for a site. You pick a suitable paragraph from your existing text. You look at the fonts available across systems. You display … Continue reading
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Forms that don’t work
It gets worse. I thought yesterday’s post might be of some interest to the people who publish the Bulletin. I checked their Web site, and could find no e-mail address—in 2007, no e-mail address?—just a contact form. I’ve included it … Continue reading
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Unfinished Web sites
One of the things I do every now and then is check out the Web sites listed in Costa Blanca publications. Some of you may have come across the free booklet called the Bulletin, which comes out once a year, … Continue reading
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