The English Guy Web Design

I just set up Jan’s new blog (‘The Dog Blog’)! This is her first foray into the blogosphere, I think she’ll enjoy it since it’s about her dogs. I found a couple of great pics of Taz and Zig that I’ll use for the masthead, “dog” it up a little bit for the theme.

We all have the right to live, isn’t it enshrined in the Constitution to a certain extent? But now, with the death of Terry Schiavo, I feel the debate will linger for many years to come. What about the right to die? Many other “civilised” nations have adopted this, allowing for euthanasia. If you’re not [...]

Since I was trained as a scientist (I have a degree in Chemistry) I am ALWAYS reading news about science. I read RedNova, New Scientist, and many more publications when and if I can. That’s why this post, which found at Kottke.org, really intrigued me. It is so fascinating that there are things we cannot [...]

Just had to mention this one - all those sharks gathering off the coast of Florida (Deerfield Beach) - what an amazing site. As the MSNBC commentator mentioned, more people are killed by vending machines falling over than by sharks each year (ROTFL!). Also, nearly 100 million sharks are killed each year, most of them [...]

Well I remember the tsunami in December, I’m sure most of you do. Maybe you gave a few $ to help out with the relief efforts, or you melancholically watched the TV and did nothing. Either way, doesn’t matter. The scientists predicted that there would be a large aftershock, and look what happened, an 8.7 [...]

It used to be, a long time ago, that you could count on the big news outlets (such as CNN, MSNBC, etc) to be clean and nice. And by that I mean no popups, nothing that I would have to click to get rid of. Now? I went to MSNBC this morning to watch the [...]

I was just reading on MSNBC about new experiments performed to test how Christ was crucified. Apparently the actor playing the Christ part couldn’t lift a traditional Latin cross, which at 380lbs was simply too heavy. They hypothesize that convicts carried the T-bar only, and the roman soldiers on site fitted it on the main [...]

I found a good film, something that I was transfixed with. ‘The Dreamers’, a film set in 1968 about an American boy in Paris during the riots, a very good film. It was a sad ending, but nevertheless a good story. Definately something I would suggest, although it IS a bit x-rated

So now that we have cellphones that can do pretty much everything from invading someone’s privacy with camera’s, to getting stock quotes, writing your diary, you name it. But that’s not the end of it, in fact that’s really the start of it ALL. And by that, I mean the web. Now, we have to [...]

I don’t know about other designers, whether they wrestle with visual design, or the overal information architecture, but the hardest thing for me to decide on is the typography. I prefer to use serif fonts, particularly Georgia and Palatino, but lately I have begun to use the Arial and Helvetica fonts more and more. [...]