Monthly Archives: April 2008

The Rather Difficult Font Game

Surf over to I Love Typography and play The Rather Difficult Font Game. It’s challenging, and fun too. I love to see the different font faces and it’s very satisfying to get one right! If you are Very Good, you might make it to the top of the list on the Rather Impressive Hall Of [...]

A website as an application

There’s been a lot of talk lately of extending websites out from the browser (Silverlight, Expression Blend, Adobe AIR) and recently I found about Mozilla Prism. Mozilla is now at the point where they are releasing a new prototype that splits a website out of Firefox and installs it as a separate application on the [...]

Progressive enhancement: building a better user (and search) experience

As web development moves towards richer user experiences leveraging JavaScript, Ajax, Flash, CSS, Flex, etc. site visitors (such as people using older browsers or even search engine robots) can end up with a site that is inaccessible. Worth considering in your design and implementation planning is what your pages will look like when these rich elements are [...]