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@font-face and email

If you don’t know, we run a service on font-face.com which allows font hosting for use with the @font-face ccs rule. (Please see font-face.com for more information)

Anyhow, we created this HTML email and decided to - just for fun - use the @font-face style rule. We knew that support in email clients was poor, but we figured that we aught to give it a go. We asked people to send info as to wheteher it worked or not and we created this table detailing the results.
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It’s the little things that matter

Just spotted this lovely little “easter egg” while creating an HTML email in mailchimp.
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inmeres in Galleries

With the redesign of inmeres, has come lots of praise.

We have also been nominated for the UniqueCSS site of the month for April 2009. We are up against some other great sites, so we can only hope we come out top. Best of luck to the rest of you!

This recognition testifies to your creativity and ingenuity.

Wish us luck and if you get the chance visit uniquecss.com and give us a vote! unfortunately we came 2nd to Kardo Ayoub, well done, a well deserved win!
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how to write good copy

Keep it short and to the point.

The end

Okay so that was a little vague, but it serves a good point. People don’t read on the internet, they scan. We are so used to searching on google, clicking links and finding we end up in the wrong place, that we tend to scan the page first to make sure we’re in the right place. In addition, we also do this in newspapers. Scanning the headlines, maybe the first paragraph and quickly deciding if we want to read further.

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Free wine images

We are offering you 2 free wine images.

You can use these in any visual way you please. Please value our rights however and NOT resell or distribute these images. Links back to this page are appreciated.

Enjoy!

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six free photo header images

We are offering you 6 free header images.

You can use these in any visual way you please. Please value our rights however and NOT resell or distribute these images. Links back to this page are appreciated.

Enjoy!

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Rob’s been published - again

Rob has a photo published in August 08’s Practical Photography magazine.

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Don’t be afraid of whitespace

What is whitespace?

Often referred to as negative space, whitespace is nothingness. A void of content. Subsequently it doesn’t need to be white, just blank.

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Fotobook review

I recently photographed a wedding. As part of the package I supplied a Photo Book. You know the ones… the photo albums that are printed directly on the pages and then bound, to produce an actual book. A great memento of the day and much more liable to survive the years.

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Illustrator for Web Design

Adobe Photoshop has for years been the web designers tool of choice. Fireworks is the developers Photoshop. But Illustrator is my (and many others) web design application of choice.
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