After some discussion at Creative Curio I was starting to think that building a site similar to PSDTuts for GIMP tutorials would be cool. I haven’t seen much in the way of GIMP tutorial sites that I really like; except for Meet the GIMP, but video tutorials are different in my mind. Before I go […]
Blogging
Designing decisions: width
What’s the measure? In my previous post I wrote about my musings on heading hierarchy. The next issue I’m contemplating is width (or measure as it is sometime called). People use a range of monitors with different screen resolutions. Users hate scrolling sideways on a page that’s too large, especially if it’s to see important […]
Designing decisions: hierarchy
I’ve been reading so much about typography and layout lately; I’ve been inspired to design a WordPress theme. I’ve also been wanting to do it from scratch so that I’m completely familiar with all the code. I’m no PHP whiz, but so far things are working and I know what everything is doing in my […]
Blogging in 2008
What do I blog for? Well, it’s a new year. It seems like everyone has been summing up their achievements from 2007 and making goals for 2008. All good things. I’ve been thinking about the things that I want to achieve with this blog this year. Keeping this blog and my photoblog has been excellent, […]
8 random facts
A little while ago the Foo tagged me to write 8 random things about myself. Since I wrote 7 things about me recently I hoped it would be too much of cop-out to add one more. 8. I love the French language. I learnt a bit of it in high school and uni, but I’d […]
Going on a sailboat…
I’m going sailing! Well, I hope I’m going sailing. I’m leading on a children’s sailing camp until Friday. There should be sailing involved, unless it really does rain all week as is predicted. It’s not getting wet that’s a problem (obviously!), but lightning and 10-20 knot winds can be. I really intended not to be […]
