Tag: css

Another font-face test

While researching something else at work today, I came across Fontin sans by Jos Buivenga. I was immediately struck by it. Something about the hint of a serif in a sans-serif really appeals to me.
When I came home and looked into it further, I was surprised to find that the font was freely available [...]

Typekit Test

Late Friday evening, as I was working on my UXCampLondon presentation, I received a Typekit invitation. I haven’t had the chance to try it out until now.
So, I’ve run a quick test of Typekit on this blog. For the moment, I’ve chosen to use the Trial account, which has a fairly limited selection of [...]

WordPress Mobile Plugins

I’m currently taking the W3C’s Introduction to Mobile Best Practices. Having only briefly looked into mobile web design before, the course has been an eye-opener. I still have quite a bit to get my head around, and I thought I’d share some of what I’m learning.
Module 4 has an optional assignment to validate three websites [...]

London Web Standards May: Structuring CSS

It’s that time of the month again. London Web Standards will be meeting on Monday, 11 May.
This time, Justin Cormack of Squiz UK will be leading a discussion on Structuring CSS.
He’ll be covering techniques for creating modular, maintainable CSS. Along the way, he’ll be talking about Squiz’s mashable design, Nicole Sullivan’s Object Oriented CSS and [...]

Naked for a day

As you’re likely to notice if you’re visiting this site, rather than reading it on a feed reader, it’s naked.
I’m participating in CSS Naked Day. It is an effort to promote web standards by exposing the underlying structure of a site. The easiest way to do this is to simply remove all styling.
The [...]