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January 27th, 2010
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Fundamentals of CSS for Web Designers
Any book can explain how to code CSS, but you don't talk in abstract code. You talk about colors, forms, and compositions. You don't speak in code, you speak in styles.
Web Typography 2009: What Was…
January 17th, 2010
Last night On Slideshare.com, I posted an edited version of the slides I used in my Web Typography lectures last year, and they seem to have gotten some notice. Slide share featured the slides on their main page, resulting in several hundred views.
I’m currently working on a new revised lecture for 2010 to present at [...]
10 Last-minute Gifts for Web Designers
December 17th, 2009
Q: What do I get for the Web designer who has everything?
The long answer is that, whether it’s Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or another December holiday (I prefer Saturnalia myself) the Winter Solstice is traditionally a time of gift giving. So, what to give to that Web designer you know who has everything they need to actually make Web sites?
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December 17th, 2009
Q: Should I use Hex or RGB values to define colors in CSS?
The short answer is RGB.
The slightly longer answer is that Hex values have become the de facto standard for use in CSS code and both developers and designers are used to them.
The long answer is that, in the final design on the screen, [...]
Using WEFT to Create EOT Font Files for Internet Explorer
December 1st, 2009
Until recently, the only method for creating the EOT was to convert TrueType fonts (not OpenType) files was using The WEFT application, created by Microsoft in the late 1990’s and not updated in almost 10 years. If you need to do things the hard way, here are instructions for using Microsoft Weft.
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