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To tweet or not to tweet?

Written by Katie Cory

in Current Affairs

I will be the first to admit I was sceptical about Twitter. I really didn't see what the fuss was about; I didn't feel the need to tweet or tell the world I was eating spaghetti bolognese for tea, after all that is what Facebook is for. I didn't see why I only needed 140 characters to be a micro blogger when there are blogs that allow me to write however much I like. My disdain for twitter wasn't because I was adversed to new fads; I had a Myspace account where I crudely hacked the code and styled it, I'm an active member of Facebook following friends who I have not seen for a decade and I hate to admit this, I believe I had a Bebo account many eons ago but the least said about that the better.

The best Drupal typography module?

Written by Katie Cory

in Designing

I come from a print background and moving from print to web has obvious differences; margins need to be tighter, screen dpi is smaller but the main challenge I discovered was designing with web standard fonts. In print I can use hundreds if not thousands of typefaces, in web I use Verdana, Arial and Georgia. Using the same three fonts day in day out is tiring, there's only so many times you can capitalise Verdana or underscore Arial. Having said that, 2009 is said to be the year of typography in web design, with many new techniques such as Typekit in development.

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