I recently wrote a post that contained 140 characters of Lorem Ipsum for you to use when adding dummy text for twitter posts on sites and that.

Apparently, proper dummy content shouldn't be Latin because blah blah blah, pedantic pedantic pedantic ...

I don't see the issue. It's all just letters bunched together with spaces and punctuation to form words and sentences.

But anyway. I'm an accommodating kind of chap. So - for the peculiar particular amongst you - I proudly present: Philip the Purple Otter:

Far away, in a forest next to a river beneath the mountains, there lived a small purple otter called Philip. Philip likes sausages. The End.

* Oh yeah, and read this post in full for details on how to play a part in Philip's on-going adventures - and win a prize of reasonably good proportions! ...

It's not often I write a web development tutorial, but I came up with this today for styling pagination, and I thought I might share. It uses:

• inline-block
• a splash of negative margins
• a sprinkling of negative word-spacing (although kind of optional, as I'll explain)
• and a couple of IE only rules

I'm sure it's already been done before by someone, but I thought I'd share anyhow.

Let me know your thoughts, and if you find any issues and such ...

An article discussing how, as standards designers and developers, and with the emergence of animation and transitions in CSS, we should take off our accessibility hats and invest more time viewing the best examples of animated Flash websites.

I believe there is valuable and useful considerations that can be learnt from the years of experience Flash designers and developers have had  in dealing with animation as part of the web user experience.

Make a nice cup of tea and have a read ...

A couple of years ago I was featured in a double page spread in the national publication: Web Design Magazine.

Well, I'll be blown, it seems I'm in there again!

Issue 167. Page 62. Top 24 Personal portfolios.

"An online portfolio is a designer's window to a 24/7 global audience. And for this very reason it should be attention-grabbing, functional and informative. Here we choose 24 portfolios that we think fit the bill perfectly."

Looking at the other 23 examples, I'm in good company.

Chufty McChuft :)

In reference to my previous posts: "What I need to spin a good web" and "Project workflow for a web project", I have realised that it may be useful for my clients to see an example of what a simple site-map and site-plan looks like.

This post will show a 'made-up' simple version that will hopefully prove useful to the client at the early stages of project planning.