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Blog posts on design & web and its wonderful people ツ

02 Nov 2026

The Web Rebellion Project

Handcrafted, accessible & with an attitude to boost.

21 Oct 2026

Hold G to see the grid

A peek under the bonnet of a web layout

06 Oct 2026

Revisiting a Guardian storytelling piece

A trip down memory lane

01 Oct 2026

Pride in the craft

The wonderful work of my students.

favourites

Sites I love ~ shown with screenshots (for posterity) and links, for enjoyment and inspiration

abstract animated nodes • Etienne Jacob • • Ernst Haeckel • • fromjason.xyz •

geekery

My little notebook for solutions, tricks and hacks.

Surviving the crop

November 3rd 2026

Pre-launch checklist for the little details: favicon, manifest and Open Graph

The curious case of the visited link

October 29th 2026

The little white lies the browsers tell

Home is where the fonts are

October 12th 2026

Self-hosting web fonts, the easy way

Round and round

September 21st 2026

Fighting the rounded-corner takeover

appendix

This site includes a wonderful little tool called #grid [hash grid] ⁓ created originally by the lovely AnalogCoop, now maintained by Jon Gibbins ~ a huge thank you for sharing it. It shows the grid underneath the design, activated by a keystroke. Try it and see ;)

Hold G to see the grid. To keep the grid on the page, hold G and press H, then let go of both. Press G again to switch it off.

Single-key shortcuts can get in the way of voice control and some assistive technology ~ hence the grid also has a button, and the G shortcut can be switched off (◠‿◠)

what’s behind this site

CMS
WordPress ♥
code
HTML, CSS, vanilla JS
tools
Nova, Espresso, Affinity
grid
#grid: Jon Gibbins
+ accessibility update by Claude
typefaces
Newsreader, Yaldevi
design & content
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