Positively Deranged

A design and writing blog

Online newspaper layout: 10 years and 10 steps back

Do online newspapers provide a better reading experience than they did ten years ago? Yes and no, but the fear of not slapping as much content as possible on the page, the overuse of complex grids and advertising immaturity means there’s a lot of room for improvement.

Text is text is text is text

There’s nothing wrong with web pages that look boring and conventional. The role of web design is to make content comprehensible, readable and accessible (and any other -ible or -able you can think of).

Using Twitter for blog subscriptions

I’ve decided to try an experiment. Instead of placing a Subscribe by email link in my sidebar I’m going to encourage readers to follow me on Twitter instead.

Introducing the FON theme for WordPress

FON is a simple, readable theme made with 100% organic Georgia.

What is semantic HTML?

It’s often considered ‘good practice’ to make our HTML as meaningful as possible by using class names that relate to an element’s purpose rather than its appearance. But can class names actually give content a semantic ‘boost’? And does using presentational names somehow make our content less meaningful?

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About me

I'm Leon Paternoster, a web content editor and designer with an interest in usable web design and typography. You can email me at leon.paternoster@gmail.

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