I am quite a purist when it comes to writing HTML and CSS or any code for that matter. Scepticism for any way of automating this process is normally quite high. Lately though I have discovered Zen coding which initially I put down as “another one of those crapy scripts”. After giving this a try I jumped on the bandwagon with gusto. Currently I use at least some of the features everyday and here is why…

I have been neglecting this blog and not posting as much as I should so I am going to do some small snippets of information on web design and development, when I feel the need!

As the title so rightly says, it is very important to set good font and background colours when building a website. I think this is something that is so often neglected, mostly I think because we use images and don’t think about what happens if those images do not load or a user has opted to not display or download the images. What happens when you have a dark image on a white background and to provide good contrast to the dark image you set the font colour to white? Well you end up with something great when images are turned on but when they are off you end up with white text on a white background. Not good to anyone!

This is something we need to remedy and here is how.