View from the Potting Shed

This morning I finished reading Mr Beck’s Underground Map: A History by Ken Garland. It has been sitting on my bookshelf since March when Hazel recommended it to me.
The London Underground map is truly a work of genius. It maps London’s underground railway lines and connections rather than faithfully recreating a geographically accurate map. […]

Photo by Tome213
When we got my Mum a PC a few years ago (Jane and I were still living in Inverness at the time) I looked around to decide on which Internet Service Provider (ISP) to choose for her. Those were the heady days of v.90 and v.92 dial-up modems and Pay As You […]

Spot the difference:

In the three years since Jeffrey Zeldman wrote his first edition of Designing With Web Standards his book cover has now turned green, the content has been printed in full technicolour and it appears (from the cover photo at least) that he now looks like Bob Carolgees in a beanie hat!
My copy […]

These days not only is there a big push for Web Accessibility it is a legal requirement in many countries, including the UK (although there is an interesting article about this on A List Apart).
It was Jeffrey Zeldman’s excellent book Designing with Web Standards (soon to be published in its second edition) that drove home […]

A few online friends have pointed me to this over the last couple of weeks, and for good reason. For equally good reason is it listed on the Web Pages That Suck website.
I am of course referring to the Association of International Glaucoma Societies website at www.globalaigs.org.
It’s not just the design. Or the colours. […]

Screenshot of ImageManager 2.0 plugin for WordPress 2
At last, I’ve gone and done it. I’ve finally upgraded my blog from WordPress 1.5.2 to the latest version, WordPress 2.0.2.
Back in January I tested out the then newly released WordPress 2.0 and decided that I’d hold back on my upgrade until I found a suitable response […]

A portion of the award-winning London Underground map. I used to live near Victoria and then between Elephant & Castle and Borough.
During the last couple of years as I’ve thought more about what makes for good website design I’ve been encouraged to read more widely around the subject of design in the real world. […]