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Recently at Mark Boulton Design, we’ve been working on a redesign of the global visual language for a large sports network. Like many web sites delivering news and editorial content, they rely on advertising for their revenue — either through … Continue reading
Off the back of this article in Net Magazine last week, and the subsequent few tweets popping up in my stream, I’ve finally managed (in no small part from the help of Nathan and Alex) to pull together some of … Continue reading
Back in 2003, when I first got wind of Web Standards, I was working at the BBC in Cardiff. I read Jeffrey’s book and followed the excited writings of Doug, Dan and Dave. The web was electric with promise of … Continue reading
Last week, Andy Clarke announced a new CSS group I’m thrilled to be part of: CSS Eleven. I’m going to leave the detailed explanation to Andy, but in a nutshell, the group is going to help the ‘W3C’s CSS Working … Continue reading
There has been a lot said recently about Vertical Rhythm. Richard Rutter began the work on 24ways last year with the piece ‘Compose to a Vertical Rhythm’. This was built upon by Wilson Minor on A List Apart recently with … Continue reading
In the Web Standards community we hear the words ‘Semantic Markup’ thrown around a lot as a concept—the right thing to do— but I know a lot of designers who are trying to learn this stuff are being confused by … Continue reading
Here I am, sat on a train, stuffed full of Sushi awaiting the train to finally pull away so I can start my long trip home (about four hours depending on which signal’s decide to fail). After buying my 12inch … Continue reading
I’ve just received my copy of Professional CSS – Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design so I’d thought I’d share my first thoughts after flicking through the book.
It’s amazing how productive an afternoon watching a gig can be. Following Joe Clark’s excellent presentation at @media and his equally excellent article at A List Apart, I thought it’s about time I did something to address the accessibility options … Continue reading
After being featured by those lovely people at Stylegala and CSS Vault I thought it might be a an idea to give a bit of a deconstruction of the design here at markboulton.co.uk. This post was also prompted by Narayan … Continue reading
In less than an hour i’ll be getting in my car, with my wife, and off to visit friends in London. Really looking forward to it. It’ll be just over three years since i’ve been to London properly after living … Continue reading
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