Joe Gillespie

Joe Gillespie is a graphic designer specializing in new media and is based in London, UK. From 1996 to 2005 he published Web Page Design for Designers, a site dedicated to the more creative aspects of Web design. He also designs screen fonts such as the classic MINI 7

Articles by Joe

Firefox 1.0 � the review! - Dec 1, 2004
Stop the Web, I want to get off - Dec 1, 2004
The last word - Dec 1, 2004
Paper vs. Pixels - Part 4 - Nov 1, 2004
Patently transparent - Nov 1, 2004
Buttons over images - Nov 1, 2004
Campaign Monitor - Nov 1, 2004
Buttons over images - Nov 1, 2004
Paper vs. Pixels - Part 4 - Nov 1, 2004
Campaign Monitor - Nov 1, 2004
Patently transparent - Nov 1, 2004
Paper vs. Pixels - Part 3 - Oct 1, 2004
BBEdit 8 - Oct 1, 2004
Spread Firefox - Oct 1, 2004
Absolutely relative - Sep 1, 2004
Paper vs. Pixels - Part 2 - Sep 1, 2004
CSS Layout Books - Sep 1, 2004
Debugging your Web pages - Sep 1, 2004
Adapting print design skills for the Web - Aug 1, 2004
Paper vs. Pixels - Part 1 - Aug 1, 2004
Adapting print design skills for the Web - Aug 1, 2004
Paper vs. Pixels - Part 1 - Aug 1, 2004
Flaming Pear WebMaster plug-ins - Aug 1, 2004
Where does the overflow go? - Aug 1, 2004
All you wanted to know about Web type but were afraid to ask - Jul 1, 2004
Xara X1 - Jul 1, 2004
Setting up your Mac as a server for testing Web pages - Jul 1, 2004
Transparency made clear - Jun 1, 2004
CSS From the Ground Up - 5 - a very good place to start! - Jun 1, 2004
CSS From the Ground Up - 5 - a very good place to start! - Jun 1, 2004
Transparency made clear - Jun 1, 2004
Screen Grabbers - Jun 1, 2004
SnagIt - Jun 1, 2004
HyperSnap-DX - Jun 1, 2004
SnapzPro - Jun 1, 2004
ScreenCatcher - Jun 1, 2004
SnapWeb - Jun 1, 2004
Open source, open wounds! - Jun 1, 2004
CSS From the Ground Up - 4 - May 1, 2004
Dynamic CSS animation - May 1, 2004
MacGimp - May 1, 2004
Netscape lives? - May 1, 2004
Film-strip rollovers: a simpler way to do rollovers - Apr 1, 2004
CSS From the Ground Up - 3 - Apr 1, 2004
JavaScriptThe Definitive Guide - Apr 1, 2004
Beginning PHP 4 - Apr 1, 2004
Learning Perl - Apr 1, 2004
Adobe^® GoLive^® CSS Palette - Mar 1, 2004
CSS From the Ground Up - 2 - a very good place to start! - Mar 1, 2004
QuicKeys X2 - Mar 1, 2004
Add a custom icon for your site - Mar 1, 2004
Mozilla Extensions - Feb 1, 2004
Mozilla 1.6 - Feb 1, 2004
Web Design Directory - Feb 1, 2004
Xara MenuMaker - Feb 1, 2004
MiniFonts - Feb 1, 2004
Features - Feb 1, 2004
Xara MenuMaker - Feb 1, 2004
MiniFonts - Feb 1, 2004
Features - Feb 1, 2004
Mozilla Extensions - Feb 1, 2004
What's New - Jan 1, 2004
Subscribe Me Pro - Jan 1, 2004
CSS from the Ground Up - Jan 1, 2004
Footnote - Jan 1, 2004
CSS from the Ground Up - Steps 12 through 15 - Jan 1, 2004
What's New - Jan 1, 2004
Subscribe Me Pro - Jan 1, 2004
Drawing with CSS - Jan 1, 2004
Advertisements on the Web - Dec 1, 2003
Lexar Media 128 Mb JumpDrive - Dec 1, 2003
Designing with Web Standards - Dec 1, 2003
Know your audience - Dec 1, 2003
Left Brain, Right Brain - Nov 1, 2003
Adobe GoLive CS - Nov 1, 2003
Adobe PhotoShop CS - Nov 1, 2003
Excuse me sir, your Flash is broken! - Nov 1, 2003
CSS-P in Current Browsers - Oct 1, 2003
CSS-P in Current Browsers 2 - Oct 1, 2003
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 - Oct 1, 2003
DOCTYPE & DTD - Oct 1, 2003
XHTML! - Sep 1, 2003
CuteFTP - Sep 1, 2003
XHTML in Dreamweaver and Golive - Sep 1, 2003
What's New - Aug 1, 2003
Factor-X - Aug 1, 2003
HomeSite and BBEdit - Aug 1, 2003
Obituary - Aug 1, 2003
Selling Your Ideas - Jul 1, 2003
Graphic Fundamentals 3 – Selling Your Ideas - Jul 1, 2003
Designing Websites for Every Audience - Jul 1, 2003
Cascading Style SheetsThe Designer's Edge - Jul 1, 2003
HTML Complete - Jul 1, 2003
Another One Bites the Dust - Jul 1, 2003
Wildform Wild fx - Jun 1, 2003
Mozilla Firebird - Jun 1, 2003
Wildform Wild fx - Jun 1, 2003
Mozilla Firebird - Jun 1, 2003
Feature: Graphics Fundamentals - May 1, 2003
Graphic Fundamentals 1 – The Big Punch - May 1, 2003
Spyder Monitor Calibrator with ColorVision PhotoCal - May 1, 2003
Hiding Stylesheets from Old Browsers - May 1, 2003
Turning the tables - Apr 1, 2003
Review: New Web Design Books - Apr 1, 2003
W3C 'Valid' Logos - Apr 1, 2003
Web Design as a Career - Mar 1, 2003
Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse Blue - Mar 1, 2003
Specifying small type sizes - Mar 1, 2003
Designing Effective Banner Ads - Feb 1, 2003
Attract - Feb 1, 2003
Identify - Feb 1, 2003
Entice - Feb 1, 2003
The mechanicals - Feb 1, 2003
Apple's Safari Browser - Feb 1, 2003
Random Banner Rotation Script - Feb 1, 2003
New CSS Books - Jan 1, 2003
Happy New Year! - Jan 1, 2003
Feature - Jan 1, 2003
Footnote - Jan 1, 2003
Macromedia Contribute - Dec 1, 2002
Meta tags - Dec 1, 2002
Box of Tricks - Nov 1, 2002
Multi-colored links - Nov 1, 2002
CSS buttons - Nov 1, 2002
CSS Image Rollovers 1 - Nov 1, 2002
CSS Image Rollovers 2 - Nov 1, 2002
Adobe Photoshop Elements 2 - Nov 1, 2002
Fringe Benefits - Nov 1, 2002
Thinking inside the box - Oct 1, 2002
The Box - Oct 1, 2002
Table Cells vs. CSS Boxes - Oct 1, 2002
Boxing Clever - Oct 1, 2002
Styling text - Oct 1, 2002
Adding another box - Oct 1, 2002
Multiple columns - Oct 1, 2002
Netscape Composer - Oct 1, 2002
Mozilla CSS Editor (CaScadeS) - Oct 1, 2002
CSS Positioning How the browsers cope - Sep 1, 2002
Introducing, Fun With Fonts - Sep 1, 2002
CSS for Layout - Sep 1, 2002
Absolute necessities - Sep 1, 2002
Relatively speaking - Sep 1, 2002
Padding anomalies - Sep 1, 2002
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky - Sep 1, 2002
How did the browsers do? - Sep 1, 2002
The Crunch! - Sep 1, 2002
Testing method - Sep 1, 2002
Adobe GoLive 6.0 - Sep 1, 2002
Macromedia Deamweaver MX - Sep 1, 2002
Zapping Cached Pages - Sep 1, 2002
Web Page Color Scheming using your photos - Aug 1, 2002
Adobe LiveMotion 2.0 - Aug 1, 2002
ColourWays Colour schemes by accident - Aug 1, 2002
Hot New Products - Aug 1, 2002
Get That Job! - Jul 1, 2002
Purpose - Jul 1, 2002
Presenting your work - Jul 1, 2002
What potential clients look for - Jul 1, 2002
What potential employers look for - Jul 1, 2002
Some Dos and Don'ts - Jul 1, 2002
Web Design Index - Jul 1, 2002
Web Page Thumbnails - Jul 1, 2002
What's New - Jun 1, 2002
Hot New Products - Jun 1, 2002
Style Sheets without tears - 3 - Jun 1, 2002
The PNG alternative - Jun 1, 2002
Wacom Cintiq 15x - Jun 1, 2002
Feature - Jun 1, 2002
Style Sheets without tears - 2 - May 1, 2002
Browser Statistics - May 1, 2002
Communicate - May 1, 2002
The 'No Tears' approach - May 1, 2002
Classes and Elements - May 1, 2002
Spanning Classes - May 1, 2002
Better safe than sorry - May 1, 2002
Adobe Photoshop 7 - May 1, 2002
Macromedia Flash MX by Mike Gilbert - May 1, 2002
CSS Copy and Paste problems - May 1, 2002
Style Sheets without tears by Joe Gillespie - Apr 1, 2002
Cascading Style Sheets - Apr 1, 2002
Family Affairs - Apr 1, 2002
Example One - plain old HTML - Apr 1, 2002
Anatomy of a style declaration - Apr 1, 2002
Example Three - small change - Apr 1, 2002
Example Four - The next step - Apr 1, 2002
Adobe GoLive 6.0 - Apr 1, 2002
CSS Font Specs - Apr 1, 2002
Function, Style and Accessibility - Mar 1, 2002
Buzzword - Mar 1, 2002
The World Wide Web - Mar 1, 2002
Purpose - Mar 1, 2002
Target Audience - Mar 1, 2002
Information, and beyond - Mar 1, 2002
Accessibility in practice - Mar 1, 2002
Beauty is in the eye... - Mar 1, 2002
Getting down to the real nitty gritties - Mar 1, 2002
Hemera Photo-Objects - Mar 1, 2002
ArtToday - Mar 1, 2002
Accessibility testing - Mar 1, 2002
Hot New Products - Feb 1, 2002
Online Validators Revisited - Feb 1, 2002
Adding DOCTYPE declarations in Dreamweaver and GoLive - Feb 1, 2002
What's New - Feb 1, 2002
Building a Better Web Page - Feb 1, 2002
Feature - Jan 1, 2002
Review - Jan 1, 2002
Hot New Products - Jan 1, 2002
Top Tip - Jan 1, 2002
Happy New Year. - Jan 1, 2002
Interface Design Primer - Dec 1, 2001
Now, here comes the graphic design part! - Dec 1, 2001
The Tabbed interface - Dec 1, 2001
Ghosting inappropriate buttons - Dec 1, 2001
Latching radio buttons - Dec 1, 2001
Adobe Illustrator 10 - Dec 1, 2001
New Masters Of Photoshop - Dec 1, 2001
The 'Prestige' - Dec 1, 2001
The Web Designer's Toolkit What to buy, and why - Nov 1, 2001
Swift3D 2.0 - Nov 1, 2001
Web Page Color Scheming - Nov 1, 2001
Hot New Products - Oct 1, 2001
It's About Time! - Oct 1, 2001
AutoFX Dreamsuite - Oct 1, 2001
New Masters Of Flash - The 2002 Annual - Oct 1, 2001
Underlined Links and how to get rid of them - Oct 1, 2001
Writing for the Web by Robert Whyte - Sep 1, 2001
Microsoft Word - Sep 1, 2001
Z- Write (MacOS and OSX) - Sep 1, 2001
IBM ViaVoice (Mac and PC) - Sep 1, 2001
WY(Think)IWYG - Sep 1, 2001
Layouts - Why bother? - Aug 1, 2001
GoLive in 24 Hours - Aug 1, 2001
GIF/JPEG combos. - Aug 1, 2001
What's New - Aug 1, 2001
Hot New Products - Aug 1, 2001
The Layout is dead, Long Live the Layout! by Maxine Sherrin - Jul 1, 2001
BoxTop Software SuperGIF 1.5 - Jul 1, 2001
Image Alt Attributes - Jul 1, 2001
What's New - Jun 1, 2001
Flash 5 Studio - Jun 1, 2001
Screen Resolution Grid - Jun 1, 2001
Hot New Products - Jun 1, 2001
Layout is not a dirty word! - Jun 1, 2001
Mega List - May 1, 2001
Is the Web Safe Palette really dead? - May 1, 2001
Adobe Photoshop Elements - May 1, 2001
Type Layer Tricks - May 1, 2001
What's New - Apr 1, 2001
Foundation ActionScript - Apr 1, 2001
Alignment for script readability - Apr 1, 2001
Flash - beyond animation 3 - Apr 1, 2001
Hot New Products - Apr 1, 2001
Flash - beyond animation 3 - Apr 1, 2001
Mega List - Mar 1, 2001
Flash - beyond animation 2 - Mar 1, 2001
How to produce a .SWF with streaming MP3s - Mar 1, 2001
Swift3D - Mar 1, 2001
DocType declarations - Mar 1, 2001
Mega List - Feb 1, 2001
Flash - beyond animation - Feb 1, 2001
Flash and Type - Layouts as you want them - Feb 1, 2001
Foundation Flash 5 - Feb 1, 2001
New Masters of Flash - Feb 1, 2001
Aligning Layers in Photoshop - Feb 1, 2001
Hot New Products - Jan 1, 2001
2001: A Space Odyssey - Jan 1, 2001
Comment - Jan 1, 2001
Review - Jan 1, 2001
Top Tip - White space exploration - Jan 1, 2001
Mega List - Dec 1, 2000
Logo Design Workshop - 3 - Dec 1, 2000
Adobe Photoshop 6 - Dec 1, 2000
Image Reduction in Photoshop - Dec 1, 2000
Web Design Mailing Lists - Nov 1, 2000
Logo Design Workshop - 2 - Nov 1, 2000
What's New - Nov 1, 2000
Hot New Products - Nov 1, 2000
Limitations, What Limitations? - Oct 1, 2000
Logo Design Workshop - Oct 1, 2000
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer - Oct 1, 2000
Apple Pro Mouse - Oct 1, 2000
Graphics and Color - Sep 1, 2000
You can't design Web pages on a Mac! - Sep 1, 2000
Adobe GoLive 5 - Sep 1, 2000
Step back. - Aug 1, 2000
That's professionalism! - Aug 1, 2000
The target audience - Aug 1, 2000
The Objective - Aug 1, 2000
Scope - Aug 1, 2000
Budgets - Aug 1, 2000
A Case History - Aug 1, 2000
Before you start! How to nail down a proper brief - Aug 1, 2000
Budgets - Aug 1, 2000
Administrative and Legal - Aug 1, 2000
The Sex and Chocolate Slimming Diet - Aug 1, 2000
Some tips to make your Web graphics and animation look more professional - Jul 1, 2000
Optimising your monitor for Web design 2 - Jul 1, 2000
Adobe Illustrator 9 - Jul 1, 2000
Web typography - Jun 1, 2000
Taming the Electronic Page - Jun 1, 2000
What's New - Jun 1, 2000
Swish - Jun 1, 2000
Web Page Razzmatazz - May 1, 2000
New Browsers - New problems - May 1, 2000
Now for some specifics that affect your design. - May 1, 2000
Stricter syntax checking. - May 1, 2000
HTML Validators - May 1, 2000
W3C Validator - May 1, 2000
Bobby - May 1, 2000
Dr. Watson - May 1, 2000
Web Graphics Optimisers - Apr 1, 2000
Conclusion - Apr 1, 2000
The File Formats - Apr 1, 2000
The Images - Apr 1, 2000
The Programs - Apr 1, 2000
Palettes - Apr 1, 2000
Where do I start? - Apr 1, 2000
Web Graphics - Apr 1, 2000
The Tools - Apr 1, 2000
Web Graphics programs - Apr 1, 2000
Advanced Techniques - Mar 1, 2000
Navigation - Mar 1, 2000
Advanced Techniques by Joe Gillespie - Mar 1, 2000
JavaScript Charts - Mar 1, 2000
Adobe SVG - Mar 1, 2000
File Compression Utilities - Feb 1, 2000
The Frame Game - Feb 1, 2000
What's New - Feb 1, 2000
Typography - Feb 1, 2000
Happy New Millennium! - Jan 1, 2000
Comment - Jan 1, 2000
Tricks and Tips - Jan 1, 2000
Review - Jan 1, 2000
E-commerce Growing Pains by Joe Gillespie - Dec 1, 1999
Pick a cart, any cart ... - Dec 1, 1999
The shopping metaphor - Dec 1, 1999
Hierarchy of information - Dec 1, 1999
The onus on the designer to get it right first time - Dec 1, 1999
Summary - Dec 1, 1999
The Quest for a Cart by Terry Kluytmans - Dec 1, 1999
Where to start - Dec 1, 1999
Web-Safe 2000 - Nov 1, 1999
Restricting your palette - Nov 1, 1999
Monitor color depth - Nov 1, 1999
Some important things to remember about using color - Nov 1, 1999
Nikon Coolpix 950 - Nov 1, 1999
PNG - The 'other' graphics file format - Oct 1, 1999
Adobe Photoshop 5.5 - Oct 1, 1999
Resolution - Sep 1, 1999
DPI - Aug 1, 1999
In vector terms, this simple rectangle can be described with just four numbers, the yellow ones. - Aug 1, 1999
<BODY> Language 3 - Jul 1, 1999
AutoF/X AutoEye - Jul 1, 1999
Consistency - Jun 1, 1999
Adobe Photoshop 5.02 - Jun 1, 1999
<BODY> Language - May 1, 1999
BoxTop ImageVise 2.0 - May 1, 1999
What's New - May 1, 1999
Designing for 'The Other' platform - Apr 1, 1999
Fonts - Apr 1, 1999
Color - Apr 1, 1999
Browser Differences - Apr 1, 1999
... And all the other stuff - Apr 1, 1999
Gamma Toggle FKEY - Apr 1, 1999
Conceptualisation - Mar 1, 1999
The brief and proposal - Mar 1, 1999
What to do about a bad, or nebulous brief - Mar 1, 1999
Preconceptions - theirs or yours - Mar 1, 1999
Conceptual design - The creative process - Mar 1, 1999
Ideas vs. style - Mar 1, 1999
Creative flow and barriers - Mar 1, 1999
Copying other people's ideas - Mar 1, 1999
Avoiding, and using clichés - Mar 1, 1999
Psychological barriers and how to break them down - Mar 1, 1999
Blaming your tools - Mar 1, 1999
Using the best tools for the job - Mar 1, 1999
From idea to Web page - Mar 1, 1999
Prototyping in Photoshop - Mar 1, 1999
Self criticism - Mar 1, 1999
And finally... - Mar 1, 1999
Solitude - Mar 1, 1999
Small GIF and JPEG files - by design, not just optimisation by Ben Summers - Feb 1, 1999
Extensis PhotoGraphics 1.0 - Feb 1, 1999
Smaller JPEG Files - Jan 1, 1999
What's New - Jan 1, 1999
A few final notes - Jan 1, 1999
Macromedia Dreamweaver 2.0 - Jan 1, 1999
Graphic File Formats - Dec 1, 1998
VisiBone Swatch for Adobe Photoshop and ImageReady - Dec 1, 1998
Web Advertising - Nov 1, 1998
Monster Munch by Joe Gillespie - Nov 1, 1998
Interface - Oct 1, 1998
Design Perspectives - Oct 1, 1998
Web Site Garage - Sep 1, 1998
THERE IS AN attitude on the Web - Sep 1, 1998
It's the difference that makes the difference! - Aug 1, 1998
HTML vs. WYSIWYG by Terry Kluytmans - Aug 1, 1998
Bare Bones Software BBEdit and Macromedia HomeSite - Aug 1, 1998
The Future of the Web - Jul 1, 1998
Web Page Animation - Jul 1, 1998
Macromedia Shockwave - Jul 1, 1998
Macromedia Flash - Jul 1, 1998
Java Animation - Jul 1, 1998
BoxTop Software GIFMation - Jul 1, 1998
Branding on the Web - Jun 1, 1998
Adobe ImageReady (beta) - Jun 1, 1998
Identity Crisis - May 1, 1998
Where do I begin? - May 1, 1998
Introduction - Apr 1, 1998
Design and Function - Apr 1, 1998
Macromedia Fireworks (beta) - Apr 1, 1998