This morning I learnt abour sIFR, the Flash tool that lets you put text in any font possible without ruining your HTML or busting your browser! There are lots of advantages to this. First, this technique gives the browser several options for rendering your content. If you’ve got Flash installed then it shows the custom [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Saving the World from Arial: sIFR
Posted in Uncategorized on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I was a kid,
Posted in Uncategorized on August 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I wanted to be an architect. I did the drafting classes and the math and all, but when it came time to draw reliefs, my little red head shut down.
After years of listening to people say “Anyone can draw, it’s like learning to type!”, and wincing; I’ve decided to commit some real time to overcoming [...]
SitePoint Strikes Again–
Posted in Uncategorized on August 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
OK, I’ll admit it: when I saw the title, I thought, “I bet I know all those. Whatever.” I was right for the first 20 of these 37 Steps to Perfect HTML Markup, but the last 17 were pleasant surprises. Now I’m sayin’ :”Open your HTML purse and throw these in. You can never have [...]
Accessibility starts with text sizing.
Posted in Uncategorized on August 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As a beginner, I had no idea why one would choose percent over em’s, or pixels over percents to specify text size. You are hereby witnessing my breakthrough to intermediate, with this article on text-sizing strategy!
Basically, you want to stay away from absolute sizing methods, so that those who are interested can use their browser [...]
New word, new mission:
Posted in Uncategorized on August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
meme:
An idea that spreads across society like a virus.
New AmosKane Mission:
Make one internet meme that shows up here, sometime before I need a toupe.
Last Friday, I learnt about iFrames.
Posted in Uncategorized on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s the love, from htmlcodetutorial. Also enjoyed yourhtmlsource for this one. I was studying the design of Trickwood, by 3dB Creative here in Seattle, and realized I hadn’t used iFrames before. iFrames plus-es: you can imbed not only another html page, but a Word or Acrobat doc; you can have iFrames interact with each other [...]
