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With WordPress 3.0, the creators really gave the blogging platform another dimension for those of us wanting to make the most of it as a fullly functioning CMS. One key addition was the introduction of custom post types, used in conjunction with the custom post meta features the two become a very powerful tool for [...]
My recent post on fixing ClearType issues in IE7 and IE8 sparked some great conversation and in the process educated me a lot further on the existing pittfalls of @font-face embedding. My original fix, like many, was born out of pure necessisity. I needed a solution to allow me to present smoother embedded type faces [...]
This plugin is a simple fix for anyone having issues in IE7 and 8 when embedding custom fonts using the @font-face selector. Microsoft’s ClearType functionality can at times cause embedded fonts to render hard and jagged as opposed to smooth and anti-aliased. You can see the article that this plugin originates from here. If you [...]
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.
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 …
