Monday, April 09, 2007
This video from YouTube shows a certain conflict between old and new teaching styles.
At the London College of Printing they still make use of letterpress type to teach typography. You can see this video on YouTube here:
Friday, March 09, 2007
A couple of times recently this has presented a problem and an interesting challenge.
Poets create their work with a view to wanting a particular layout of the words. Some may prefer the lines centred and others left aligned. Some poets may want their poems displayed with the wrapped line (where it is a long line) centred or right aligned.
So what would be the best way to display poems? What have others done to resolve this complex issue?
Sunday, July 16, 2006
I sometimes receive text documents with headings or emphasis achieved by using uppercase letters. What can we do about this?
Users of word processors often find sneaky ways to emphasise headings by using bold or increased font sizes. During the import into HTML or CMS we can easily remove these un-wanted styles, or convert them to the most appropriate tags (eg. b becomes strong, i becomes em). Uppercase letters are different though because they have (usually) been typed in using the capital letters on the keyboard.
Monday, June 28, 2004
I often observe that web site addresses are published in print and there seems to be little consistency in the way people do it! I thought I should investigate the minimum web address that needs to be indicated to get a successful hit on a web page. Most people would be happy with http://www.someplace.com and all browsers will add the http:// on to this automatically. Do we really need to show the cryptic "http://" ?
This web site is a kind of depository for all the things about getting stuff onto the web.
Remove unwelcome formatting from MS Word
Mandarin Design: CSS Boxes and Borders:
Everything you need to now about borders ...
Wimpy Website Audio and Video:
Not free but looks good
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