When we recently launched the redesign of the Black Cap Design website, I remember thinking ‘this wouldn’t have been possible a few years ago’. I’m referring specifically to the use of open fonts. The distinctive look of our new site is due in large part to the use of open fonts. In fact all of the fonts you see on this page are open fonts! Until (roughly) 2010, the Web supported just a handful of fonts. The reason? To work, […]
“I found this really cool image online and I want to use it on my website.” This is something we hear quite a bit when we’re designing or updating sites for our clients. I had a professor at Fleming College when I was studying Web Design there who went to great lengths to stress the importance of taking copyright issues seriously. I took her advice, and in turn advise my clients to take it seriously as well. In the early days […]
At Black Cap, we regularly get questions from clients like “what’s involved in getting a website project rolling?”, “what do you need from me?”, and “what’s better – a custom-built CMS or an open source CMS like WordPress?”. So, we were excited to find this great webinar – because it covers these questions and many more. The presenter takes a common sense approach, using plain language…no technical jargon! When we first listened (it’s audio with PowerPoint) we wondered if the […]
Hard to believe it’s been 8 years. Black Cap Design started unofficially in 2005 and officially in 2006 and the little Black Cap logo has been our emblem from the start. What’s that old saying about the ‘shoemaker’s children having no shoes’? So true! We’ve been so focused tending to our clients’ websites, the Black Cap site and logo were needing a fresh coat of paint. With a little help from Adobe Illustrator and a large pot of coffee, the […]