There are more options than ever for getting unique, good looking fonts into your pages. Apart from @font-face, here are your options for font embedding services and font replacement techniques…
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Roundup of Font Embedding and Replacement Techniques
Posted: 3 years ago in Articles
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Beautiful CSS: Organizing Your Stylesheets
Posted: 3 years ago in Articles
An article anout CSS stylesheet organization. The separation of style and content that makes CSS so awesome can also make it difficult to understand. Adding to that difficulty is the fact that each designer may have a different way of organizing stylesheets. If you inherit someone else’s site, this can cause some problems. In a perfect world everyone’s CSS would be well-organized, easy to scale, and easy to understand. We may not be able to attain such CSS Nirvana but we can at least make it easier on ourselves and those we work with by following this set of guidelines…
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CSS Fonts for web design: a primer
Posted: 3 years ago in Articles
Modern CSS provides web designers with an unprecedented level of control over online typography. Restrictions are still imposed however by the limited number of “common” fonts—those typefaces that are generally available cross-platform. This article looks at the fonts web designers have available to them, and also considers their suitability for various tasks…
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Why your Web content will look darker on Snow Leopard
Posted: 3 years ago in Articles
If you’re a Web designer, expect your CSS colors and your untagged/unmanaged images to look darker on Snow Leopard than on previous versions of the Mac OS. You’ll also see less of a visible color shift when going from Photoshop to Flash or other unmanaged environments (e.g. Internet Explorer).
Why is that? Apple has switched to a default gamma of 2.2, which is what Windows has used for years. Colors that aren’t color-managed are going to look darker on the whole. Your whole display will now be closer to what Windows users see…
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15 Ways to Optimize CSS and Reduce CSS File Size
Posted: 3 years ago in Articles
I have gathered a long list of CSS optimization and file size reduction techniques that have been using by most designers/developers. Depend on the complexity of your CSS code, these techniques might greatly reduce your CSS file size, or maybe just a few kilobytes…
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A Crash-Course in Advanced CSS3 Effects
Posted: 3 years ago in Articles
Webkit is one of the few – if only – browser engines that really embraces advanced CSS3 effects. Unfortunately, this presents somewhat of a double-edged sword. We get to play with all of these amazing effects – such as CSS masks, reflections, transitions, animations, scaling, etc. – yet, we can’t truly implement them into our projects until more browsers provide support. With all of that said, it’s important to be on the cutting edge of what’s possible…
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Web fonts and standards
Posted: 3 years ago in Articles
It remains to be seen whether a font-licensing standard and universal browser support for @font-face will kill the middlemen, or whether the middlemen will prove so successful that they delay or stifle the adoption of a font-licensing standard and allow Microsoft to shrug its shoulders indefinitely at supporting @font-face for anything beyond its proprietary EOT file format…
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Mastering CSS, Part 2: Advanced Techniques and Tools
Posted: 3 years ago in Articles
CSS is one of the most basic building blocks of modern web design. It creates the structure and style that surrounds your content and is capable of making your site a joy to use or a pain in the neck. Mastering CSS is one of the most important things a web designer can do, and has really become an essential criteria for being a successful designer.In Part 1: Styling Design Elements we covered the basics of web design with CSS. In Part 2 we’re offering up some more advanced techniques and effects you can achieve with CSS. Everything from creating your own online apps like calendars to styling web pages for use with the iPhone to some basics of working with CSS3 is covered here…
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Making Forms Convert Through Awesome Inline Labels
Posted: 3 years ago in Articles
Forms are everywhere on the web – it’s the primary way users can interact with a web-based system. If your site or app uses forms and we’d bet that it does those forms need to be well designed, or users aren't going to follow through. They may not sign up for your service, they may not fill out their demographic information, they may not even log in again after sign up. We love well-designed forms here at ZURB, and recently we’ve been exploring some cool new tricks for how we can display form inputs and labels in a concise, usable and totally awesome way…
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5 CSS3 Design Enhancements That You Can Use Today
Posted: 3 years ago in Articles
Cascading Style Sheets CSS is the language of Web design, and the next generation of CSS design properties are just chomping at the bit to be released.Are you eager to start using them, but don’t know where to start?Although many of the new properties are not yet “official”, some browsers have already implemented many of the features of the coming CSS Level 3 specifications.The problem is that many browsers -most notably Internet Explorer – have not.The trick to using these new CSS3 features is to treat them as design enhancements…
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