Silo

A repository of excerpts, examinations and experiments, iterated arbitrarily in keeping with the diabolical alliteration of this sentence. Some refer to log entries, which they support. Others stand alone in glorious solitude.

Typography
CSS
HTML
1. HTML <button> test
2. Placeholder markup with lorem ipsum
Microformats
1. Plain old semantic HTML badge
PHP
1. Discovering PHP versions and modules with phpinfo()
Created Elsewhere
1. Free WiFi Places in Bristol (Google Map)

Type tree with words forming the branches.

Lately in the Log

We, Who Are Web Designers — Mon, 19th Sep 2011 {58}

In 2003, my wife Lowri and I went to a christening party. We were friends…
Ampersand, the Aftermath — Wed, 22nd Jun 2011 {2}

The first Ampersand web typography conference took place in Brighton last…
Design Festival, The Setup, and Upcoming Posts — Mon, 20th Jun 2011 {0}

Wow, this has been a busy period. I’m just back from the Ampersand…
Web Design as Narrative Architecture — Wed, 30th Mar 2011 {10}

Stories are everywhere. When they don’t exist we make up the…
Ides of March — Tue, 15th Mar 2011 {4}

My friend and colleague, Chris, has shared a spiffing idea, the Ideas of…
2010 in Retrospect — Wed, 29th Dec 2010 {7}

Analog, Mapalong, more tries at trans-Atlantic sleep, Cuba, Fontdeck, and…

Remarks from the log

By Dirsur in Smoothing out the Creases in Web Fonts:

Very Nice. Thanks for the article
By Leo in We, Who Are Web Designers:

Thanks for a great post it makes for a really good read, you raise some great points anbout fonts and page load…
By Iqbal in We, Who Are Web Designers:

What a fantastic article. “Tempered by over fifteen years of failed experiments on late nights with misbehaving…
By Sam in Ampersand, the Aftermath:

I’m nutted that I missed this, I would have loved to of seen David Berlow’s presentation. Maybe next…
By Jorge Cocompech in Web Design as Narrative Architecture:

Hello Jon: Where can we download the paper? Congrats.
By Birger in Typeface != Font:

Thanks for that informatinal posting. Before reading I didn´t have the slightest idea what the difference…

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This simple dish was created with a little xHTML, a dash of CSS and a pinch of PHP. It’s garnished with hAtom, hCalendar, XFN, hCard and rel-tag with a large slice of accessible intent. Hopefully it plays nicely, all the time.