I really like one of the typographic tricks Mark Boulton makes in his “Better Typography” presentation. (Slideshow of the presentation here. Around slide #109) He suggests “using the best ampersand available”. This just means that on some typefaces, the ampersand character can be a little lackluster and it can make a big improvement in style [...]
1. PNG is great, but I can’t use them because they don’t work in Internet Explorer.
This is one is almost entirely false. PNGs of any flavor will display in Internet Explorer, even back to some pretty old versions. The problem here is the alpha transparency of PNG-24’s doesn’t work in IE 6. That’s it. if [...]
Web design studio The Design Canopy is a beautifully designed site that makes use of a variety of beautiful web typography techniques. Here are some screen shots from different areas of the site that I find particularly nice.
The technique I want to focus on a little is from the first image. I LOVE that small [...]
Table Cloth
Alen Grakalic of CSS Globe has released Tablecloth, a really nice table framework.
The Glass Wall
I know I’m almost 6 years late on this one, but I just read “The Glass Wall” for the first time. “The Glass Wall” is a comprehensive walk through of the re-design process of BBC homepage. Some of it [...]
Here is a little trick for randomizing banners on your website. A bit quick and dirty. It needs to be on a PHP page to work.
First off we need to setup a folder on your server where the pictures will go. We need to name the pictures in order, for example, mypicture1.jpg, mypicture2.jpg and mypicture3.jpg [...]
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