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’
All that fuzz over the term ‘Web 2.0’ has reduced it to a mere buzzterm, a misnomer without clear intention. Heck, even ‘buzzterm’ and ‘buzzword’ got caught in the crossfire as innocent, excessively worn-out casualties. Continue reading ‘A Quick Web 2.0 Glossary’
Extensions are what make Firefox a truly great browser. Not only do they add extra functionality to its already-great out-of-the-box features, they also help define the role Firefox plays in a computer user’s life online. Continue reading ‘Six Essential Firefox Extensions For Web Designers’
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