Who is DigiKev?
DigiKev is Web design consultant Kevin Rapley who researches, plans, designs, builds and optimises Web sites using industry best practices, experience, an eye for design and importantly, common sense.
DigiKev builds Web sites with the visitors journey through a Web site in mind, ensuring a good experience.
October 26th, 2009
I have returned from a week’s vacation in Dubai visiting my sister-in-law and brother-in-law with my wife. It was a mind blowing experience seeing such a young, yet highly developed city rising out of the deserts of the United Arab Emirates. Dubai has adopted a ‘no-holds-barred’ approach to architecture where seemingly structures and buildings rise out of the sea on reclaimed land. What I found fascinating and completely different to any other city I have visited is how Dubai groups and labels alike businesses, institutions and amenities. For instance, if I were to be visiting the offices of a local or international newspaper then I would be heading for Media City where I could find them all in the same locale. We drove past Internet City which housed side-by-side no less than Microsoft, Hewlett Packard Invent, Cisco, Oracle, 3M et al. I also spotted Festival City as well as a number of other areas either named City or Village.
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Tags: dubai, User Experience, ux
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October 17th, 2009
I had a good conversation with Michael Wood yesterday whilst I was writing up a document on why I felt our design team, going forwards, should be using Cufón instead of sIFR for text replacement. Michael pointed me in the direction of a couple of sites that were inspirational to him and put forwards the argument that he has read too many times the cussing from web designers complaining about the lack of typefaces available that are considered web safe. Safe fonts are those that are regular system font installations for either PC or Mac. Those same web designers that complain could in fact vastly improve the typography of their sites by learning typographic skills. When looking at their personal website and sites that are in their portfolio it is clear to see that they haven’t mastered the art of type setting for the web.
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Tags: cufón, font, gutter, kerning, leading, line-height, michael wood, sIFR, system font, typeface, typography, web safe font
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October 15th, 2009
Today is Thursday and I have been commuting to Sheffield from Birmingham since Monday. I thought this week was going to be really tough. A bedding in period. Surprisingly I have got into a good routine of preparing everything I need the night before, going to bed early and feeling (relatively) fresh when I rise in the morning. The train journey has been painless so far (touch wood) with no delays or cancellations. You’ll probably have noticed that in the free time I have been able to write a blog post Tuesday, Wednesday and today. I have felt fresh at work and been very able to read TechnoPhobia’s extensive and well documented methods of working and breakdown on clients. I have even completed some billable work, get me!
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Tags: commuting, karrimor, luggage
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