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This wordpress theme offers a simple, snappy and colorful skin for your new or established blog. I’m not sure where the name comes from it just seemed to fit at the time and so became Swooshy Blog.
The design is based around swooping lines and curves. The homepage features an enlarged header that shows the latest [...]
With the usage of IE6 finally declining the majority of us can now afford to be a bit more forgiving in our cross browser testing. Despite this in some circumstances the percentage of a site’s IE6 users is still far to high to do anything other than link a separate stylesheet and spend hours writing [...]
Due to my previous musings on @font-face and the ongoing issues of embedding beautiful font faces, I thought it was only apt that I give the newly launched Typekit a quick once over and see just how useful this font as service offering is. I’m going to approach this review trying to forget most of what I already know about @font-face embedding.
Since launching the site I’ve had a few emails regarding the font being used on allcreatives and also the technique used to embed the font. Despite two previous posts on the progress on @font-face I realised I hadn’t actually posted up on how to implement @font-face effectively, so here it is.
Any designer worth his salt will be familiar with jQuery in one form or another. The uber cool Javascript framework has become a staple of many a design studio worldwide and why not? Quite frankly Javascript frameworks don’t come much better or more importantly easier to learn than jQuery. What follows in this writeup however is a practical example of a native Javascript function that designers using jQuery or otherwise may never heard of let alone used …
So since I last posted about the joys and ultimate instability of the @font-face CSS property I’ve been keeping both eyes peeled for any further progress from the incredibly smart people who solve these kinds of problems. Progress over the last few months has been rapid …
This template displays a taster of what is to come from the CSS 3 spec, mostly the lovely rounded corners and the much troubled @font-face. There are also a few pseudo css selectors used to control some elements.
Google @font-face and you’ll be hit with thousands of results, articles explaining how to use it and the great flexibility this CSS 3 property introduces to designers moving into the future. Dig a little deeper and you’ll discover that while @font-face is incredibly useful for designers, it is ultimately flawed and doomed for failure in its current form.
XSLT is a great language used with XML files and is a language that we hope to cover a bit more of here on istmay. If you are new to XSLT and are dealing with stylesheets the following snippet of code could be invaluable.
