The visual element of this site was designed using Sharpie pens on Moleskine notebooks, then Apple computers and Adobe CS products.
Our new-fangled logo is an illustration of a gentleman on an old-fangled bicycle — a penny farthing, in fact. We think it sits well with the slightly old fashioned feel of the site and corresponds nicely with our traditional values and strong work ethic. It also provides a visual cue for the phoneticism of our acronym – rider. And heck, Richard is all but obsessed with cycling.
It is not, as some of the more myopic commentators would have it, a wheelchair icon. Not that there would be anything wrong with that if it were.
Type for this site has been set in Tallys, Garamond and Georgia. Tallys is a fantastic and inexplicably free typeface from Jos Buivenga. If you’d seen the first incarnation of this website and wondered why we changed the design, Tallys was our inspiration.
This site has been put together by hand, from scratch — using Adobe Dreamweaver as a code editor. We care about web standards and accessibility — so we’ve used XHTML 1.0 Strict for the content and CSS for the layout of the site.
When it comes to hosting, we don’t take chances. That's why we employ the services of the rather lovely (mt) Media Temple for all our hosting needs.
If you have any questions regarding this site, please get in touch using email and we’ll do our best to help.