Archives
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Why most websites are still rubbish
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Scherzo theme update
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What makes an online advert?
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ITV News website redesign
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A responsive layout is just one part of a mobile friendly site
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Getting rid is always the challenge. Or: The circular nature of building the same thing again and again
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When display: none may still be useful
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Good book design is silent
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Keeping the web open
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It’s 2012 and we still have pop–ups
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Percentage based layouts: Some notes
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Taking Scherzo 3 for a spin
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Byline your article and there’s more chance I’ll read it
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On meaning in HTML (notes)
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Integrating social media services in your website design isn’t vital in the slightest
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Spam for the weekend
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Designing navigation for narrow screens
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What next for Scherzo?
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Scherzo and images
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Scherzo 2.42 released
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A mobile first approach to design: Use text instead of images
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Getting WordPress tag clouds to display more than 45 tags
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Mobile first images should work well on mobile phones
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If you’re writing your own copy make sure you do one thing
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Blogs with no archives
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Web writers should know HTML so teach it in school
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Documents, not posters
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Obama shows Ed Miliband how to do blogging
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What next?
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A story in 50 words
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Keeping stuff out of your RSS feed
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The lift off approach to projects
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16 pixels
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Reading newspaper articles involves looking at words
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It’s not about technology. It’s how you approach things.
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Websites in 140 characters
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Google scratch an old itch
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My mobile first ‘framework’
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It’s all marketing
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A little knowledge
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My bottom line
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Desktop first
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Why justify?
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Scherzo 2.4 update
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Tinkering
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World domination and the end of the printed word
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Adding
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I am not Natwest Bank
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When failure demand is OK
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Scherzo, mobile first (and what that means for you)
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You’re not reading this on a mobile phone
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Adding borders to elements using box-shadow
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The W3C mobileOK Checker looks for all the wrong things
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HTML5 practicalities: forget microdata and RDFa and use microformats instead
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Adding Google fonts to your WordPress theme without touching template files
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An HTML5 challenge (which lead me to think: Why bother with HTML5 sectioning elements?)
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Why business writing is rubbish
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Scherzo 2.3 released
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Putting content and meaning first
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Why I’m not fully supporting Internet Explorer 8 and older in future versions of Scherzo
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5 reasons from Sales for making sponsor logos bigger on your website
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Minimalism
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Scherzo 2.2 released
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Limiting comment length and other ways to improve conversations
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Natwest: Online banking with a SMILE!
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Scherzo update (version 2.1)
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A great user experience is based on good hygiene
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Scherzo version 2 released
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An ode to Firefox
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Scherzo 2 update — problems with child themes
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Searching for search is illogical
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Testers for Scherzo 2.0 required
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Adblockers, IDs and class names
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Modifying Scherzo? Use a child theme
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Scherzo theme updated to version 1.6
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It’s 2011 and we still have pop-ups
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In praise of standfirsts
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Scherzo theme update: version 1.5
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Scherzo theme added to the WordPress directory
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How to build your own website and save all of 200 quid
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Short attention spans, mobile phones and the future of reading
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Another Scherzo theme update
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2011
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Google thinks Radio 5 last updated its home page in 1971
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Forget ems and use pixels instead
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Why it’s still worth using ems instead of pixels
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Why icons are bad for website navigation menus
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Beware the about class
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The Scherzo theme for WordPress (update)
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The Guardian: Mobile versus desktop design
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Mobile phones and problems with ‘proper’ responsive design
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Time, HTML5 and Google Search results
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Greater Manchester Police and using Twitter to get a point across
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Offloading blog comments (and conversation)
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Notes on designing for mobile phones (even if they’re not made by Apple)
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I’m stupid and I press the big blue button
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How to write a blog post
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Microformats, microdata and RDFa
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Nailing the section tag
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BBC news nav a mess
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Google docs and privacy labels
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Improving WordPress search
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Why marketing emails should be simple
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Does Twitter need an Edit Tweet button?
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When is mystery meat navigation acceptable?
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Making calls to action work
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Taxonomies for new subjects
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Re-introducing the 133 theme for WordPress
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Curating ones and zeroes
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Defeat, reading and politics
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Typekit: Online purchases that please
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Times in sensible nav menu shocker
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Good web copy is boring
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Why I don’t like Tumblr & Posterous
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Page titles that link to the same page: Pet peeve 287
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Only humans carry their past around
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An aside really isn’t a sidebar
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Unify: making sites simple for clients
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Conversion design & users: Investigating the Baymard Institute
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Vertical navigation and not making users think
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Balance, dramatic tension & the empty column
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Adventures in HTML5. Part one: Using HTML5 now
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Good copy redeems bad layout and typography
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Introducing the 133 Theme for WordPress
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Simple navigation: making it easy to reach lots of content
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Introducing the Scherzo theme for WordPress
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Just in case you forgot
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End of an era
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The books
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Using online design techniques in printed newspapers
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105 reasons not to leave comments (but commenting here is just fine)
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Paragraphs part II
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When Twitter falls over on August 6 2009
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Web pages, more fonts & what you need
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Online newspaper layout: 10 years and 10 steps back
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Text is text is text is text
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Using Twitter for blog subscriptions
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Introducing the FON theme for WordPress
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What is semantic HTML?
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Two blog formats: magazines and journals
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How print and web are different
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Poor sign up processes: Love Film
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Leading and measure: experimenting with different values
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Controlling excerpts and content length in WordPress
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Styling WordPress posts according to their mood
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Fancy transparencies with rgba
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Go forth and HTML 5
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Introducing the Gigantic theme for WordPress
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Watching the sky
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Simple, complex, ordered, butchered
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Leon Paternoster version 5
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4 changes that would make WordPress even better
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2008: sites, highlights, lowlights
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Horizontal navbars: CSS/HTML how-to
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Readability and font sizes
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FT redesign: modern, readable and accessible
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Nielsen or not to Nielsen
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5 dos and don’ts of submitting content for editing
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Writing WordPress themes is easy
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Single columns, Andy Rutledge, loss of laptop: 123
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Produce!
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Really simple design: a second example
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Paragraphs on the web: a typographical guide
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Going pink for October
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Grids: Great, but use with care
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Site redesign
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Simplifying The Guardian’s header
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Introducing the Velouria theme for WordPress
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Really simple web design: an example
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Latest work: Ipswich Scrabble Club
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Welcome! Smashing Magazine readers
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Image replacement: problems when words are pictures (part 1)
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Comments, spam: problems
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Writing great articles: anatomy of a BBC news story
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Unintelligible business language #1
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When CSS works beautifully
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A brief update
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About the “Into the White” theme for WordPress
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Introducing the Into the White theme for WordPress
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Smashing Magazine’s ideal blog layout
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Recreating the Guardian’s masthead
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6 newspaper writing techniques for the web
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Simple is difficult, right?
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Pleasing textual effects (#1)
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5 web design sins from the experts
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Guardian redesign
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Why use grids?
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Wainright typography
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Supersize your site – big text sizes
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Reduce your site
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How to get leading right (part 2)
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How to get leading right (part 1)
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Your best microcontent of all
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Times for print, Georgia for screen