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• On my bookshelf: Web Design and Marketing Solutions

  15 May 2008 by Clive Walker

  I am reading Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites by Kevin Potts at the moment. The book aims to provide advice for anyone who wants to build better business websites.

• CSS Tip: Expand your font horizons

  01 May 2008 by Clive Walker

  It is sometimes easy to get into the habit of always using the same font declaration in your style sheet for every website you do. Even though the number of fonts that are common to both Mac and Windows systems is pretty small, there are a few variations worth trying.

• YAML CSS framework

  25 April 2008 by Clive Walker

  These days, there are quite a few CSS frameworks popping up all over the place but YAML has an interesting and attractive CSS layout builder tool as part of its arsenal. This works really well and, in conjunction with the core YAML CSS framework, it allows you to build fixed and fluid CSS layouts with a few clicks of your mouse.

• Link checking your website

  22 April 2008 by Clive Walker

  I maintain several personal websites including a pub guide and a directory of pub links. In the latter case, it is particularly important to keep up-to-date with invalid links.

• Future of Web Design 2008 review

  18 April 2008 by Clive Walker

  Yesterday, I attended the Future of Web Design in London. I enjoyed the conference which featured presentations about all aspects of the web design process from inspiration, through user experience, to design and deployment, and promoting and maintaining your website. Here's my short review of the day, with apologies if I do not mention every single speaker. These are my highlights.

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• HTML text editors

  14 April 2008 by Clive Walker

  In recent months, I have been using a variety of HTML text editors with several different website content management systems (CMS), including Wordpress and Textpattern, and with ecommerce website administration control panels.

• Wild Blueberry

  02 April 2008 by Clive Walker

  Wild Blueberry provides management accountancy and business planning services for businesses in Sussex. For this particular website, I used a slightly different starting point for the website layout and, as a result, the final version includes some different design aspects to my 'usual'. Let me explain.

• The Future of Web Design 2008

  25 March 2008 by Clive Walker

  I'm attending the Future of Web Design conference in London in a few weeks time and I'm hoping for an interesting day 'away from the office'.

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• Color scheming

  19 March 2008 by Clive Walker

  I am trying out ColorSchemer Studio on a 15-day trial at the moment and it seems to be a very useful little application. I think I'll be buying the software in a few days time.

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• Textpattern for all sorts of websites

  12 March 2008 by Clive Walker

  If you have used Textpattern to build a website or blog, you'll likely know that it is a fine tool for the job. At least, I think so.

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