http://www.ampersandindustries.co.uk Web development with Drupal and WordPress, consultancy and training in Cornwall Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:43:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For a long, long time websites were restricted to using the web safe set of fonts - fonts that you were pretty sure would be on the computer of anyone who visited the site. In the last few years various font replacement techniques have been used, some more succesfully than others. Sifr ... http://www.ampersandindustries.co.uk/fonts/ NotCot is a great site for flagging up interesting products, projects and ideas around the web. It's updated a lot and this means that there are now a large number of pages to navigate through. So many that it could be a bit unwieldy to navigate. They've build a very compact, ... http://www.ampersandindustries.co.uk/interesting-site-and-navigation/ Font Aid is a project that brings together designers who create a themed font that is then sold to raise money for charity. The fourth project created a font called Coming Together, full of great Ampersands and the money goes to Doctors Without Borders. http://www.ampersandindustries.co.uk/font-aid/ Design Shack have a great article linking to various great uses of Ampersand. Perhaps getting close to Christmas is a good time to highlight some of the cool things on here! http://designshack.co.uk/articles/typography/ode-to-ampersand-30-inspiring-images-of-our-favorite-character http://www.ampersandindustries.co.uk/another-great-showcase-of-ampersands/ When I used to teach Photoshop at Adult Education classes, people always used to think Photoshop could work magic, that you could cut people out of a photo and the background behind them would be suddenly visible. I blamed this on programs like Spooks that used to show this all ... http://www.ampersandindustries.co.uk/cool-photoshop-demo/ A great looking site after my own heart with a love of ampersands. This is going to go on my daily check list of sites: http://ampersandampersand.tumblr.com/ http://www.ampersandindustries.co.uk/ampersand-showcase/ no face to face meetings this afternoon so should be safe with garlic mushrooms for lunch # smugness from easy parking at blue bar for meeting offset by them being closed for a month # Still lunch at http://bit.ly/7aPoNv was very good so that helped make up for it # Hard to feel ... http://www.ampersandindustries.co.uk/twitter-updates-for-january-2010/ at royal festival hall about to pull sandi toksvig's christmas cracker. Stephen mangan guesting tonight apparently # Working in London, getting a bit excited that it's snowing. # Created my first book using http://www.blurb.com last week, just arrived. Very excited. # It's a photo book version of my travel blog from last year ... http://www.ampersandindustries.co.uk/twitter-updates-for-december-2009/ The 2009 Open Source CMS awards have been announced with great results for the two main solutions that we use at Ampersand. WordPress won the Best Overall award. Some recent examples of sites we've built with WordPress include this site,  21st Century Boy and Kate Kerrow. Drupal won the Hall of Fame ... http://www.ampersandindustries.co.uk/good-news-in-open-source-cms-awards/ Tempted by picture frame with "casual bevelled edges". Rather than strictly formal bevelled edges I presume. # On the look out now for one with nonchalantly bevelled edges # @camelwinemaker see HFW was cooking with your wine tonight on River Cottage # http://www.ampersandindustries.co.uk/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-11-22/