I don’t know whether it’s really half of all sites, but it’s probably around half of the ones I see when I’m browsing around. Let’s say 40-60%. Something that common, you want to know what it is and avoid it on your own site, right? Well, here it is: The text is too damn small. […]
Archives for June 2012
Where did writing begin?
By Tim Gray
I thought this would make for a slightly different post. We’re talking a lot about written communication. So, what about writing’s first beginnings for humanity? The earliest known writing seems to be from the ancient civilisation of Sumer; which suits me because I think Sumer is cool! It’s pretty much the birthplace of (western) civilisation. […]
Design in the mobile age
By Tim Gray
Over the last few years, computing has been moving from “What machines can we give people?” to “What do people want to be able to do?” The number one answer to that has been mobility. If computers can do cool things for us, we want to access those wherever we are, not just at our […]
Don’t be a video-mugger
By Tim Gray
If you embed a video in a web page, don’t set it to start up automatically. Ideally, don’t even have it downloading automatically. When I come to your site, why should my data feed slow down because of content I might not want? Worse still, why should my music listening (or other video watching) be […]
Formatting graphics for web pages
By Tim Gray
One common mistake I see on web pages is people not knowing how to format graphics properly; or not taking the trouble to do it. To be fair, the software spoils us a bit. We can throw in any graphic file, and set it to resize however we want. Just like magic! But of course […]