Monthly Archives: March 2009

Time for some CSS debate

That’s the best pun I could think of, pretty lame to be hon­est. My first foray into shared exper­i­men­tal CSS (pro­pri­etary WebKit prop­er­ties used to cre­ate a clock ani­ma­tion) has fired up an inter­est­ing debate; where should the realm of cas­caded style sheets end?

Track outbound links using Google Analytics

Track every­thing”, lest vital vis­i­tor trends fall through the cracks — that’s my newly endorsed web ana­lyt­ics doc­trine. As a pre­cur­sor to the quan­ti­ta­tive ‘what’ and the qual­i­ta­tive ‘why’ we need that cold hard data before analy­sis can begin; Google Ana­lyt­ics is the pop­u­lar har­vester of choice and out of the box it grabs a […]

Creating the first design

For the default FofR Online theme, the first of many, I have cho­sen a sim­ple appear­ance that focuses on the beauty of fonts and typog­ra­phy. The header uses a sans-serif font, on OS X this will be Hel­vetica Neue, on Win­dows the CSS font stack allows the design to fall back to the more common […]

Let’s get the ball rolling

Good evening, day, or morn­ing, depend­ing on the time you read this. Wel­come to my online port­fo­lio, my sand­box for design, my play­ground for web devel­op­ment, my plat­form for indus­try opin­ions and my busi­ness, “FofR Online”. What does FofR stand for? It’s Czech for “move it”, it’s a com­mon typo of for and it sits […]