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25 Free Font Sites
There is definitely no shortage of free fonts on the web. Yet, finding them can prove annoying when you are bombarded with pop up ads and false claims of free that forward you to pay sites.
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Live Markup Editor
I created a markup editor dubbed “Type Doc” to use when I didn’t have access to an HTML editor. Yes, notepad is always an option but this has live updating in the environment(browser) you are going to be using. Which could make for a nice learning tool because you will see your success and mistakes reflected immediately.
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Web Fonts Suck!
There’s no surprise that the fonts web developers are always required to resort to are depressingly limited.
The sure bets are Arial and Times New Roman. Everything else is a gamble on some level even with Vista introducing some new installed fonts.
You can always use a graphic, a graphics server or flash with embedded fonts to get the same effect you had in Photoshop, but let’s face it, one reason for a website is so you can be found.
Although image alt and/or title tags, and even flash content are now search engine friendly you still want the ease and accessibility of plain text. This makes web accessibility for people using screen readers because of a disability all the easier to implement. Don’t forget all the different platforms the web is viewed through these days. The last of the Mobile Browsers, Safari, Safari on the iPhone, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, Opera on the Wii, Whatever the Playstation3 is using, and whatever you guys run on Linux. Plain text as of now is just easier to adapt to the different environments.
The video below is an extensive look at fonts for the web from creative techniques to Arials origin.
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Reiq’s Corel Painter Tutorial
A common question I address is how to take a drawing and digitally ink it. Sit back and enjoy a video tutorial I found that shows the process.
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JavaScriptless Tool Tips
Tooltips are a useful feature that can be used to elaborate on information without creating another page or linking to another source. It presents the user with immediate results. There are a variety of tooltips available that utilize JavaScripts advantages. Even though most are widely compatible with browsers there is still a small percentage of users that would not see the tooltip when activated with JS.
To solve this problem a CSS solution can be deployed that would work everywhere. There are no bells and whistles but if you require them I would suggest going the JavaScript route.
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Flash Display Fixes
Displaying Flash in a browser sometimes causes display issues. Two common ones are extra space under the object and another is an outline around the object in Firefox 3.
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ActionScript 2 to 3 Object Properties
In ActionScript 3 accessing your favorite object properties no longer require underscores as they did in AS 2. Here are some examples that list the previous and current conventions.
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Random Functions
Random text or images is an easy feature to deploy that can develop interest on a project. Any application can benefit from not presenting the same information over and over during every visit. I have listed examples in JavaScript, ActionScript, PHP, and Coldfusion.
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Disable Safari’s Textarea Grip
A while ago an update to Safari enabled users to drag the bottom right corner of a text area and re size it to their hearts delight.
While some users may have good reason to increase the area, the majority of users would hardly notice the new feature let alone take advantage of it. Still others would simply abuse it and expand it to an unreasonable proportion.
