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A friend recently asked for my advice on their personal, professional website. The experience allowed me to reflect on all that I have learned about digital communication. I thought I would share my notes below. Perhaps they will help with a digital project you are working on.  I've got a couple of notes on web design and also on editing content for a website. I've then added a list of tools I find really helpful when writing web content. This photo of a tree during sunset in autumn doesn't illustrate my points at all. I just like the image. Notes on the design More and more, I  think "good digital design" means "design which is accessible to all". Web content should be clear and easy to understand. It should also be accessible to people who have a disability which makes reading or looking at a screen hard.  There's a heap of advice about making the web more accessible. I follow some basic principles with my own content: Use high contrast between tex...

Hop aboard the Wayfarer  for wholesome, sci-fi escapism. I give this book a human thumbs up, an aandrisk nose nuzzle and a grum hoot. Throughout 2021, I want to read more new(ish) sci-fi from a diverse set of authors. Most of the sci-fi books I've read (and therefore most of the books  I've read) are written by white men. And I mean to cast no shade on the likes of Iain M Banks, Terry Pratchett or China Mieville - they're some of my favourite authors. But it's nice to mix things up.  Get on with it, Andy!  The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet  by Becky Chambers follows a cast of human and alien characters as they navigate their spaceship, the Wayfarer , towards a wormhole-tunnelling job.  The  Wayfarer  is a 'tunnelling ship', building wormholes to join distant parts of the galaxy together and is home to a unique set of characters. The plot follows each in turn, and I uncovered secrets and plotted plans with most of them.  There's the irreve...