Working on the Rhythmic Circus website today and just heard from a long-standing client that there is a new project in the works for next week.

Hope everyone’s Monday is going well!

I’m catching up on my web design reading today and I have to say, I just love doing this. There’s so much great information out there, and it just keeps coming.

The latest read is an old (2006! ancient!) article by Oliver Reichenstein making the case for always using web page body type set at 100% — that is adhering to the browser standard for average type size.

This tends to look a little yoooge to most of us — a little huge, is that an oxymoron or what? — but he makes a good point. Most of my web dev work tends to run at about 90% of standard type size, but I think they might be convincing me to try to go bigger. Especially as I get older, I noticed more and more how I just automatically bump up the type size on most sites I visit.

I cannot decide which my favorite quote is, this one:

Let your text breathe. Using white space is not a designer’s nerdy issue. It’s not about taste.

or this one:

If you can’t make your website look nice without text in images, I am afraid that you will have to start again from scratch.

Probably my only problem with that article is when I — by force of sheer habit — go to scale up the type on that page as I always do, it hangs up my computer for quite a while. It’s funny, it’s almost like they’re punishing me for trying, seeing as they put so much thought into the type size.

A friend sent me a heads up* about the website GeekGirlsGuide.com. I haven’t had a ton of time to check it out, and the site looks somewhat new-ish, but very promising.

First of all, it’s a gorgeous site. I love design that is unabashedly and adroitly feminine. We have — as in many things in our world — a little too much of the masculine represented in design, generally. So it’s always a nice change, especially when executed well, as this is.

Also, what a great concept! Two women web developers who are blogging about their work, and also taking questions, which they then answer in a friendly and accessible manner. Hooray! I plan to make the site part of my regular reading.

Regular reading which I haven’t been able to do as of late — way too busy. It’s all part of the ebb and flow, and it’ll all be waiting for me when the tide goes out again.

* The same friend who sent me the “colours” link a while back. Dang, she’s good!