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Well written words

May 10, 2005

The Woman of Words needed a website to help her find some freelance work.

The site is about as plain vanilla as they come but my rationale was that when you are promoting someone who works with content their site should be as transparent as possible to ensure that nothing detracts from such content.

Incidentally the site is the exact same markup as this one, just with a different stylesheet attached. Not anymore.

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Xylescope

May 9, 2005

Xylescope has been designed and developed for looking underneath the surface of web pages as you surf the web – it couldn’t be easier. Using Xylescope you can look forward to analysing complex CSS designs with incredible ease and experimenting with third-party sites, without having to download them onto your own computer first.

Xylescope – very handy indeed.

Random articles

How to Hire a Web Designer

May 31, 2005

A good article at Site Point on some of the things you should be considering when looking for a Web Designer . Other than me of course.

Heading to WE05

September 27, 2005

This afternoon I am flying to Sydney for WE05. Last year was excellent and this year looks to be even better. If you are not lucky enough to have a seat you can listen to full sessions via PodCast. This is a very generous gesture from the WE05 organisers and speakers and they deserve to [...]

Web design survey, 2007

April 26, 2007

A List Apart is conducting a survey on the Web Design industry. The results should be interesting. If you are a Website Designer and have a few spare minutes it would be worth filling in the survey.