Links of Interest

Arial or Helvetica?

Once there was a typeface called Helvetica. It was extremely popular. Later came a software company called Microsoft. Can you tell the difference between the original and the rip-off in these ten examples?
 
Blind Text Generator
In my option way nicer than lipsum.com. I HATE how you have to tell lipsum.com “how many paragraphs you [...]

How To Set Up and Host A Publicly-Accessible File on Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

One of the many good suggestions I got for hosting these video files was to use the Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service). I had heard about this before, but didn’t know much about it. Nothing like trial by fire to figure something out quickly…
 
Step 1: Sign up for Amazon Web Services
Simple enough. Go here to [...]

CSS-Tricks Video Screencasts Now Available

Alright I’m just gonna publish the link and see how it goes…
CSS-Tricks Video Screencasts
DISCLAIMER: These are my very first screencasts ever, so the quality is sort of rough, folks. I am going to keep at it though and I’m sure they will get better and more focused with time.
Also, I call them “podcasts” in the [...]

Prevent Menu “Stepdown”

If you are familiar with the concepts of “floats”, you know that if you float a page element to the left, that the next page element will move up next to that element on the right, if possible. But have you ever seen your floated elements “stepdown”?
This is a fairly common problem you can run [...]

Advice on Videos Needed

That’s just a little teaser graphic there for ya’ll =)
Here is the scoop. I’m all set up to start doing some Video Screencasts for CSS-Tricks. I actually already sort of shot the first one. I am on a Mac, so I used iShowU to record the video at 1280×800 with the Apple Animation codec at [...]