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Review: HTML5 & CSS3 for the Real World

Monday, July 25, 2011

product HTML5 & CSS3 For The Real World, written by Alexis Goldstein, Louis Lazaris and Estelle Weyl, is from Sitepoint (2011). This book takes on several topics that could fill an entire book individually, yet manages to serve each topic well. As you can tell from the title, the book talks about HTML5 and CSS3, [...]

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Useful Links: Google Fonts, Scientific wow, Teach with Twitter, Rap

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Google Web Fonts, V2. Now out. I tried out one the of fantasy fonts called Swanky on vdebolt.com. Scientific American has 60 new blogs under its umbrella. 28 Creative Ways Teachers are Using Twitter. Some of them are indeed creative. Hat tip to Spydergrrl for finding this climate change rap.

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Useful links: Bones, App Press, web fonts

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

This looks interesting. A WordPress theme developer that is meant to be customized. It’s called Bones and uses HTML5 Boilerplate, CSS3 and the 960 Grid system. App Press is a tool that helps you build apps for iOS. Web font hosting services – an overview is a huge grid showing just about everything you might [...]

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Find the perfect font combinations

Thursday, January 27, 2011

There’s FontFuse and there’s WebINK. They go together like oatmeal goes with brown sugar. One of them suggests pairs of fonts that look really good together. The other one offers up the fonts for embedding in your web pages at a reasonable price. FontFuse offers great font pair suggestions, like this one: They invite you [...]

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Useful Links: unsticky, internet TV, #askaconductor, local storage, search operator

Monday, December 6, 2010

25 reasons why I’ll leave your site in 10 seconds. Great read for the newbie students who are trying too much too soon. Warning to local TV: unbundled distribution is upon you is at Terry Heaton’s PoMo Blog. This seems like a huge trend to me. In fact, I’ll be posting my own article about [...]

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Useful Links: Difficult Fonts, Hardboiled, Firesheep

Monday, October 25, 2010

Making things hard to read ‘can boost learning’ at BBC News says that reading something in a “harder” font can boost retention of the information. The easy font they tested was Arial at pure black. The hard fonts tested were Comic Sans and Bodoni, both at 75% grayscale. Does that mean that if I can [...]

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Useful links: Influence, Font Previewer

Friday, July 30, 2010

From The Access Point, a listing of the most influential women’s voices on the web. ABIE from Access Communications The Access Point is using the post/graphic to bring attention to their new ranking tool, ABIE, that “determines online influence based not only on data from the top ‘ranking’ services out there, but also on factors [...]

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Improve readability with line-height

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

The CSS line-height property determines the distance or spacing between the lines of text on the page. In the print world, this property is called leading. Line-height can be applied to any text element, but it’s probably best to set it in the CSS rule for body in your stylesheet. All the textual elements on [...]

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