Tag Archives: CSS

Opera recently released a set of succinct educational articles on the foundation of the web, standard technologies and well-written introductions to vital web design topics, aptly titled the Opera Web Standards Curriculum (WSC).
At first I asked myself why something like this was necessary in the year of 2008—don’t students get taught web standards through college […]

Because it’s type-related I couldn’t resist waiting another day before publishing this…
…Yesterday I was going through an old un-named sketch book. Right at the back were these beautiful hand-drawn versal letters and an entire page of weaving ornaments:

Versals, drop capitals or raised capitals are large and often ornately decorated capital letters marking the opening of a running […]

It slipped by me that just last week—a few days before Canberra’s first BarCamp—Eric Meyer wrote an article responding to Johnathan Snook’s announcement that he doesn’t use reset stylesheets. Following that came Jens Meiert’s arguments that reset style sheets are bad.
I can see where Jens is coming from but don’t see any compelling reasons that would […]

Last Saturday I had the pleasure of presenting my first presentation on typgraphy, at Canberra’s very first BarCamp. The talk was titled “Beautiful Web Typography: 7 tips on de-sucking the web” and is available via:

Slideshare;
Slideshare as a PDF (requires an account);
here as a PDF;
and thanks to Nathanael, as a MP3 audio file.

I think I crammed too much into the […]