Tag cloud
See my latest projects
About this site
This site is proudly powered by WordPress. If you like what you see, why not subscribe?
Copyright © 2008-2010 Aaron Russell. All rights reserved.
Wednesday, 10 June 2009

If you’re a conscientious web designer or developer who cares about accessibility, then I’m sure you’ve spent the last few years drilling yourself into the habit of using relative font sizes (EMs or percentages) rather than absolute font sizes (pixels – PX)?
Now with the advent of modern browsers and full page zooming (as opposed to just text scaling), I’m sure I’m not the only person that’s been wondering whether we still need to be going through the painstaking task of calculating relative font sizes?
[Read more →]
Monday, 8 June 2009

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been using ExpressionEngine on a client project. Other than briefly playing with it about a year ago, this is the first time that I’ve really got to grips with ExpressionEngine and deployed it on a live project. So, I thought I’d share some of my initial impressions.
[Read more →]
Last week I asked the question on Twitter, “What HTML element do you use for each line of a form? P, DIV, or something else?” So, how do you do your forms?
This years season of 24 ways article has come to a close and with it a reoccurring theme of controversy has arisen: designing in the browser. I offer my thoughts on why it misses the point.
The problem with CSS pre-processing frameworks is that they don’t really fit within the average web designers’ work flow. So I built an extension to LESS for creating cached stylesheets your PHP projects can use.
Are you a web designer or are you a web developer? Let me guess, you are a bit of both. Does that mean you are “doing it wrong”?
If you’re like me then your life revolves around email. Unfortunately the grip that email now has on all our lives creates as many problems as it solves. Learn how I control my Inbox.
“@RyanRoberts I think I'd need to sit 3M away to feel comfortable. My eyes are bad enough, their deterioration does not need any encouraging!”
Posted about 2 hours ago.
This site is proudly powered by WordPress. If you like what you see, why not subscribe?
Copyright © 2008-2010 Aaron Russell. All rights reserved.