Make readability better with system and web-safe fonts

Like so many of you, I consume numerous online articles and blog posts on a daily basis. I read each day on the web for professional and personal reasons. So for me and you, it’s vitally important that article content be readable with ease and …

Jony Ive has a full-time writer on his staff. Maybe you should too.

When Jony Ive, the long-renowned Apple product designer, left to create his own design firm, one of his first hires was a full-time writer. In a Wall Street Journal feature on Jony, he talks about the importance of using words to articulate a product design, …

Consider system fonts for better text legibility

Typography is one of the exciting aspects of web design. You get to choose a web font that nicely matches your style, personality, or brand. We gravitate toward a particular web font because of the appeal of its typeface design. Basically, we’re drawn to a …

Want a company blog? Great! Just don’t do this.

There often comes a point in time when a company wants to add a blog to its corporate website. A corporate blog is a good idea as a new channel for reaching out to a company’s targeted audience. A blog lets you communicate to customers …

I miss the in-person events

Last month (September 2022), I attended my first convention-type gathering since before the pandemic. It was a 3-day conference for the WordPress community in San Diego. It was a great occasion to get the latest on what’s happening with the most popular web content platform, …

The future of WordPress is here, and it is exciting

I recently spent a weekend at WordCamp US in San Diego, the annual national gathering for the WordPress community. It was their first in-person event since 2019, after canceling in 2020 and going online for 2021. This was also the first time I physically attended …

Taking action after networking

Sometimes you come away with an immediate follow-up item after a professional networking event. While at the national conference for WordPress, I had mentioned to several people about making videos on web development and cameras, and having them hosted on my YouTube channel. They were …

Racing toward a deadline

I have been preoccupied the past two months with all things WordPress. In particular, I am devoting as much as possible to getting acquainted with the next-generation WordPress ecosystem – commonly known as Gutenberg or Full Site Editing. The reason? Well mainly, I’m ambitiously tooling …