Over the course of several recent projects, I’ve been experimenting with some alternatives to the usual cast of web fonts (Arial, Verdana, Georgia, etc.). I know this is nothing new, as countless other designers have had other fonts grace their designs. While the results of my experiments often prove less than successful, I proceed to share my experiences in pursuit of documenting web font knowledge. After all, what’s a designer’s job without a little challenge every now and then?
For those living in the comfort of Arial & Co., do not take this as a discouragement from exploring the outer limits of web fonts, but as a warning of what lies ahead.
Continue reading ‘(There Is Hardship) Beyond Arial & Verdana’
Last time around, I went about writing an article documenting a revision for Jehiah’s IE Button Width Fix that would allow it to behave correctly, given a proper DOCTYPE. It worked well, with a minor downside that it required the use of IE conditional statements in your HTML to dish out the fix to just Internet Explorer browsers.
Just recently, Peter replied to that article, proposing an alternative solution that did away with conditional statements. This would mean that you could include the CSS fix in your main stylesheet (and not in the HTML with the conditional comment, or in a separate stylesheet for just IE fixes).
Continue reading ‘An Even Better IE Button Width Fix’
I’ve been working on a couple of CSS layouts in the past few weeks and really got into using comments full blast. I also found some more interesting uses for CSS comments, aside from the usual authoring information and section markers. Most of you are probably doing these already, but I wanted to share them, anyway.
Continue reading ‘Maximize CSS Comment Usage’
Anything large and complex that’s broken up into smaller parts or pieces is easier to digest than when it’s a whole. In CSS, arranging the different styles into compartments and sections makes it much easier to recognize and decipher at a glance, as opposed to scrolling through one big lump of ill-formed code. Continue reading ‘CSS Code Visual Grouping Techniques’
Sometime in October of 2005, Jehiah Czebotar came up with the IE Button Width Fix. This workaround solves the extra side-padding problem that plagues buttons with long labels being displayed in Internet Explorer. Continue reading ‘Standards-Friendly IE Button Width Fix’
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