Fadtastic the multi-author web design trends journal has added a new feature of feeds from around the web with the focus on design. If you feel the need for some design food then it’s a great place to discover new meals all served on one big footer.

Design for me is really about those small details. With technology pretty much anyone can make a web page. This is not saying it’s a well designed one. For me, the design comes from the layered small details to make up the entire thing and I believe that the true ‘art’ of design is in these little things.

Yes, it’s that time again. 9rules is opening up it’s doors to new members for round V on October 25th. I can’t shout enough about the greatness I’ve got from being a member both from the people I’ve met through it and the experience itself. It really has made me step up to the plate more and that can only be a good thing. I would encourage anyone to give it a go and even to try again (it took 2 attempts to get in for this blog and the first rejection only served to make me more determined). While much blog polishing goes on take time to enter the guess the number of entries game on 9rules and see if you win the mystery prize.

I admit to being old enough to remember the 80s the first time around. It started with me being 5 and ended with me being 15 so the 80s did hang over my entire childhood. The first time around things like rah-rah skirts, leopard print and leggings seemed harmless enough. I remember my cooler (she seemed so cool to me) cousin being into Adam and the ants and playing me records when we’d go around to visit. I even recall listening to Blonde and other such bands at hers as she was approaching her 20s by the end of the 80s so spanned that nostalgic period of music. I have tried to forget her brief foray into Wham and Duran Duran.

The final design is now done bar the usual tweaking and pixel poking for the next flavour for Diary of a website. It has morphed quite a bit along the way from my usual plan but still is around the strawberry flavour. Keep an eye out as it will be going live on the 1st of October to tie in with the Pink for October. I encourage everyone else to get out their pink pixels for this worthy cause. If nothing else it might result in a web that we all need shades for one month to see. I think it’s great also that this month links with the start of the doom and gloom that is the UK autumn and then winter. Nothing like a bit of pink to bring that cheer back.

The ultimate solution to any boredom situation is now confirmed as torturing poor Elmo.