Smooth Text
Posted on September 6, 2005 - Filed Under Web / Design / Dev
If you’re tired of crappy HTML headlines and titles with only a handful of fonts to choose from then you need to check out SiFR. It uses Flash, JavaScript and CSS to make accessible, beautifully rendered text in the font of your choice.
I use it for the headlines on this site and from what I’ve seen so far it’s pretty neat. As a bonus it’s also standards compliant. I’ve started using this at work for give an extra little kick to custom dynamic templates. It sizes and scales to fit in the specified area as well, so if it gets populated with to much text it scales down to the correct size.
The way it works is that you write your HTML like normal and then as the browser renders your page if Flash and JavaScript are enabled it replaces the text for the HTML tags or CSS classes you’ve specified. So if you set it to have all H1 tags to use Garamond Light Condensed then anything falling between your opening and closing H1 tag gets turned into your fancy font.
Pretty cool.
You should give it a try.
Freak on a leash
Posted on September 4, 2005 - Filed Under Misc
I went to the Zoo today and had a pretty good time, it was a good opportunity to try out my new camera. As we were walking along checking out the animals someone pointed out that some children were on leashes. I’ve seen this before and thought it a little strange. Anyway, I got an amusing shot of a couple leashes in use.
A List Apart Redesign
Posted on August 25, 2005 - Filed Under Web / Design / Dev
A List Apart, a site for people who put wheels on the web and make it go, just launched an awesome redesign. It’s amazing how attractive and complex you can make a site design while still holding true to web standards. I love the little circle with the edition number. It all really looks wonderful, you should check it out.
Droorings
Posted on August 19, 2005 - Filed Under Web / Design / Dev
This is a really fun site developed in Flash. It hosts a beautiful collection of illustrations an sketches from LeUyen Pham an artist from Southern California.