SXSW Notes pt. 2 – Web Typography
March 19th, 2009
sxswtypography.com Why do web designers complain about typography? web fonts are limiting SIFR Font stacks complexity consistency across platforms Where do you find inspiration? print design thebookcoverarchive.com the content itself Current implementation? Don’t pretend the Web is a book Cambria adoption is around 40% questionablecharacters.com Try to make the design work with the fonts you [...]
GMail If Statements
February 26th, 2009
Last night I went to the Celtics/Clippers game in LA. Boston lost, but it was a great game; right down to the wire. Anyway, that’s not the purpose of this write–up. When I got home, I uploaded the pictures and e–mailed them out to my family (as I do). I sent them out to dad, [...]
Framing an Image
February 9th, 2009
I’m not sure exactly how well known it is, but you can put a background image on any HTML element… even an image. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it done on a live site before, but it can be very useful for creating an image template for repeated use; without having to do a [...]
Validating with WAI-ARIA
February 5th, 2009
I was reading Validating WAI-ARIA in HTML and XHTML. Since Roger has commenting turned off on his site now, I thought I’d write up a quick post with some thoughts on this. For those who don’t know, ARIA is a type of accessibility for Ajax apps (Accessible Rich Internet Applications). And WAI stands for "Web [...]
Where I Get My News
January 16th, 2009
This morning it occurred to me that I haven’t written a post about my RSS feeds. I’ve been meaning to for about a year now, but for whatever reason it hasn’t happened until now. I rely on my feed reader for a lot of inspiration so I feel like I should share that and maybe [...]
Centering an Image
January 6th, 2009
<div align=”center”> is deprecated. It’s been deprecated for a long time, but it keeps creeping up for things like center aligning an image. Another popular way to do this is to wrap an extra div around the image and set the text alignment to center. This creates (as you might know, I hate), an added [...]
For a Beautiful Web
March 12th, 2009
Every so often as I meander around the internet I find little bits of geek-dome brilliance in the markup of a site. This morning, I was reading For A Beautiful Web, a site put out by Andy Clarke. This site, by itself is a great resource, but that’s not why I’m writing this. I left [...]
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