Text is text is text is text

June 13th, 2009

Posted by Leon and filed under Accessibility, usability and readability. 5 comments.

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).

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Two blog formats: magazines and journals

May 26th, 2009

Posted by Leon and filed under Favourites, Writing. 4 comments.

Blogs can be very loosely categorised as either journals or magazines, although many blur the line between the two formats.

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How print and web are different

April 30th, 2009

Posted by Leon and filed under Accessibility, usability and readability, Exemplars, WordPress. One comment.

Jason Santa Maria’s SVA Dot Dot Dot Lecture provides a wonderful overview of the differences between print and web design. It also raises some interesting questions about the history of web design, and how positive an influence print is.

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