Elements of a Web, Text and Font, Web Design
HTML clipboardAccording to classic principles of web design, everything at the bottom of the page isn’t that important. Most users think like that. And most designers are convinced that this is true. Site elements at the bottom of the page aren’t really able to catch visitors’ attention which is why footers are often forgotten or ignored and not given the attention they deserve.
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What are footers good for?
Basically, footers need to provide users with the information they are looking for. This is why contact details and a brief information about site or / and site owners needs to be placed in the footer. Corporate designs may need to provide driving directions, telephone number, a web form or at least an e-mail.
However, you can also use the footer to express something artistic and very personal. For instance, if you are a Seinfeld fan, why don’t place a small Kramer somewhere next to the contact details in your footer? Thus, with one small detail you can make your site more distinctive and focus visitors’ attention to yourself.
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1. Imitate proximity to the ground
Well, that’s quite strange. But we’ve observed this trend too often to dismiss it. Many designers tend to imitate the proximity to the ground. This means that they attempt to complete layouts with illustrations of the ground — in such cases trees, birds, buildings and the horizontal perspective are usual. Funny characters, mascots, illustrations and hand-drawing are also typical for such footers.
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Indexed in June 2008
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Text and Font, Web Design
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Typographers use layout techniques like single line boundaries, indents, outdents and versals (drop caps etc.) to punctuate paragraphs in a stream of discourse. Block paragraphs are common to the Web, indented paragraphs are common to print. Browser vendors gave us a default block style of flush left, ragged right with a single line boundary, but there are many variants we can pick from depending on the context.
In any project, the text itself will have its own tone, rhythm and meaning. It’s our job to provide it with a stage on which to sing. Typography serves the spirit of the text, bringing it before an audience, and then quietly fading into the background as the reader delves into the meaning..
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Technology & cost influencing style
Materials and technology have always influenced calligraphy and typography. Papyrus was used from the 4th century BC. It was brittle, so papyrus was rolled instead of folded. Parchment codices became more popular in the 5th century AD. The finest parchment was vellum, made from the white skin of a calf. Next came paper: Invented in China in the 1st century, the first latin text was written on paper around the 10th century. By the mid-15th century it was becoming dominant..
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Indexed in June 2008
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Accessibility, Text and Font
As webdesigners, there is one question that we get more than any other from people thinking about their first website: “Can I use my favorite ultra-rate XYZ font?”
The answer, more often that not, is “unfortunately not”. In this post, I’m going to give a quick overview of what you need to know about web-fonts for your website.
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A website has to work in lots of environments
Websites need to work on PCs that run about 5 different kinds of Windows Operating Systems (Vista, Windows 98 etc.), plus an assortment of Macintoshes and Linux computers, plus handheld devices. Oh, and did I mention that there are at least three important versions of Internet Explorer, plus other web browsers such as Firefox, Safari, Opera and others?
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Full article: http://www.alledia.com
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Indexed in May 2008
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Client-side Scripting, Custom Programming, Text and Font, Web Design
Webdesigners always have to make sure that they use a common font for their website, otherwise it’ll display incorrect on browser that don’t have the font installed. This can be really annoying if you want to use a nice custom font. You could load the font in Photoshop and save it as an image, but this isn’t dynamic and is not SEO. Here are two solutions on how to make dynamic custom fonts.
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PHP Image Replacement
Original story at dezinerfolio.comAs you could see above, the dynamic text are all images. It uses PHP and JavaScript that replaces all the content in specified tags with images. For example, the dynamic tekst above uses the following code:
<script type="text/JavaScript" src="ifr.js"></script>
<h2 class="title">This is a dynamic custom font</h2>…
Full article: http://www.marcofolio.net
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Indexed in May 2008
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Text and Font
A companion reference to the articles, Smoothing out the Creases in Web Fonts and What Future for Web Typography & Screen Fonts? The bold, italic, bold italic and small caps variants may not appear in the typeface but have been included for display reference.
Core Web Fonts
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Full article: http://jontangerine.com/silo/typography/web-fonts/
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Indexed in May 2008
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Accessibility, Sound and speech, Text and Font, Web based Application
The ability to convert speech-to-text and text-to-speech is an amazing technology development with multiple applications. The software solutions I’ve heard the most about when it comes to speech to text functionality is Dragon NaturallySpeaking and IBM ViaVoice..
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When it comes to converting text to speech, Talkr is the main website I’m familiar with (and have integrated here on my blog) which creates (for free) an audio podcast of text entries on any blog.
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Full article: http://www.speedofcreativity.org
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Indexed in April 2008
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Text and Font, Web Client
Designers often choose one of the core Web fonts for body text because they are widely available, but like all typefaces, they render differently on different operating systems.
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Core Web Fonts
In August, 2007 Apple and Microsoft renewed the license for the core Web fonts. It was anticipated, but still, there was a collective sigh of relief that the fonts would still be common to all major operating systems.
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Full article: http://jontangerine.com
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Text and Font, Web Design
The browser wars of yesteryear were a frustrating period for anyone working on the Web. We’ve come a long way since then. Following the vanguard of Opera, Safari and Firefox, IE8 will be the first Microsoft browser to pass the ACID2 test when it’s released in 2008. Congratulations to the IE team! 2008 may well be a seminal year for Web standards.
However, the same might not be said for Web fonts..
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Full article: http://jontangerine.com
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Text and Font
There are basic rules-of-thumb followed by good designers when choosing fonts. The guidelines below apply to any documents, with special notes about website design as well.
Use standard fonts for your primary content.
For websites,
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Full article: http://www.surelutions.com/aboutfonts.html
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Indexed in March 2008
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Text and Font, Web Performance
Introduction
When we first started building our site with Textpattern, we noticed sluggish page load times that seemed downright unacceptable. After a bit of research and fiddlin’, we finally got out of Textpattern the performance we’re used to seeing on static page managers. The following tips are for the 1.0rc3 version of Textpattern.
1. Turn off logging.
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Full article: http://particletree.com
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Indexed in March 2008
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