21 August 2009
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My favourite photo from July 2009 is the same one I have already shown from my trip to Cotswold Wildlife Park. What makes it stand out is the combination of crisp focus, bringing out the detail of the subject, set … Continue reading
20 August 2009
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Here is a book review I posted on LibraryThing last month: Fifty Degrees Below by Kim Stanley Robinson 20 August, 2009 by Wulf Forrester-BarkerbookBook Review0.3 Rating: 3 / 5 It was not until I did some follow-up research that I … Continue reading
19 August 2009
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As part of our preparation to move into House244, we have been engaged in another round of evaluating the stuff we own and deciding how much more we can do without. On the discard pile were a couple of old … Continue reading
17 August 2009
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We had a very pleasant weekend and are looking forward to a decent week. That includes weatherwise. There is the problem of reliability of weather forecasts. For example, the BBC, for all it’s reputation, doesn’t seem able to produce particularly … Continue reading
15 August 2009
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A few weeks before I started the final stages of work on the new site, I came across SlickMap CSS. This provided a stylesheet that transforms a nested list — a structured way of presenting the information — into a … Continue reading
14 August 2009
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Two of the features of tne new site have been in place for some months because I was able to introduce them as subtle enhancements to the previous version of the site: Microformats Microformats are ways of embedding meaningful information … Continue reading
13 August 2009
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Visited one of #Oxford’s famous pubs, The Trout, tonight. Okay but seemed too busy and trendy to reach the top of my list. See my twitter feed to see more of my tweets and sign up to twitter to reply … Continue reading
12 August 2009
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As well as the fixed-width layout, grid design and subtle details I wrote about yesterday, the typography is an essential element of site design. I have not quite climbed up to the sharp edge of what is possible — dynamically … Continue reading
11 August 2009
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An obvious change between the two versions of the site is that the design is wider. The old version was 800px wide but the new one is fixed to 960px wide. From what I have read and observed, this is … Continue reading
10 August 2009
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Last week I was pleased to finally unveil a new design for the website of my employer, the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences. I had been gradually refining the department’s public facing website since I arrived there … Continue reading