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I'll be doing a redesign of the blog over the next couple of days, so if you see anything weird here, that's probably what it is. …

Feel like the existing Shopify themes just aren't what you're looking for? Here's a new one for you. It's called Black and Blue. After having experimented with Shopify for a while, I decided that I wanted to design a theme for it to gain more understanding of the …

Rob Goodlatte has just released a really handy bookmarklet called Syncotype to help check the vertical rhythm of the typography on a web page. Once you've installed it, just click the Syncotype bookmark. You'll get a box to input the line-height and an offset from the top of …

This is an excellent interview with Mark Boulton. My favorite part… What education gives you is time and a different kind of pressure. In industry, the pressures are from the client, the market and making a profit. Design is a business, and as such, it's difficult …

One of my favorite ways to keep up with the latest news, techniques, and best practices is by listening to web design podcasts. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find a good list of them yet. So I thought I would put together a list of my own. d.Construct d.Construct is …

Although Windows Vista comes with ClearType already on by default, it looks like the majority of web design in a Windows environment will continue to be done on XP for a little while longer. And in XP it is turned off by default. (Yes, ClearType should be common knowledge among web …