Site­point’s Web Design blog fea­tured an arti­cle this week called Cre­ate A Stu­dio Style Back­drop In Pho­to­shop, which pro­vides instruc­tions for mak­ing a glossy, reflec­tive sur­face effect, sim­i­lar to what you often see in adverts.

As the title makes clear, the tuto­r­i­al is for cre­at­ing the effect in Pho­to­shop — but real­ly, the same effect is fair­ly eas­i­ly achiev­able with some bleed­ing-edge CSS. That said, it won’t work in every brows­er, so cur­rent­ly it’s just a proof-of-con­cept piece.

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We, as web­site mak­ers, quite often advise our clients to avoid gener­ic link text (read more,click here, etc.), and explain that more ver­bose descrip­tions help give con­text to users with screen read­ers. But using seman­tic link descrip­tions actu­al­ly helps everyone.

I recent­ly read Peter Morville’s fan­tas­tic book, Ambi­ent Find­abil­i­ty, which defined real­ly well the moti­va­tion to use seman­tic descrip­tions for links: they give the tar­get page about­ness.

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