Posts tagged ‘essential’

FT redesign: modern, readable and accessible

Posted by Leon and filed under Accessibility, usability and readability, Exemplars. 18 comments.

The FT’s redesign shows more ‘progressive’ newspapers the way ahead, without using an overly-complicated grid. And just 9 links in the navbar.

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Paragraphs on the web: a typographical guide

Posted by Leon and filed under Accessibility, usability and readability, How-to, WordPress. 3 comments.

The humble paragraph isn’t normally given much typographical attention, but this fundamental element of our writing needs to be treated with respect.

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Grids: Great, but use with care

Posted by Leon and filed under Accessibility, usability and readability. 7 comments.

Using grids for page layout is a great idea. But put the content before the grid.

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Simplifying The Guardian’s header

Posted by Leon and filed under Accessibility, usability and readability, Exemplars. 16 comments.

The Guardian is an excellent newspaper, but the design of the online version could be improved in several ways, starting with the header.

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Writing great articles: anatomy of a BBC news story

Posted by Leon and filed under Exemplars, Favourites, How-to, Writing. 10 comments.

The BBC writes excellent web copy. This post looks at some of the techniques the BBC uses to make reading from the web a pleasure.

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