Whenever I’ve used cufón, I’ve ALWAYS experienced a FOUC, otherwise known as a Flash of Unstyled Content. If you are experiencing the same issue, then this fix is definitely going to make you happy. I must give credit for the fix to Rogie King who worked it out like Jane Fonda in the 80s.
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From time-to-time I write for other blogs on the interwebs. Most recently I’ve been writing design critiques on PleaseCritiqueMe.com, a design critique blog that helps mentor other designers by addressing flaws and offering expert advice for websites that have asked for another opinion. The most recent critique I’ve written is on PixelFlips.com, the web design shop of Phillip Lovelace, a designer from the US, now living in Germany.
By now, you’ve probably seen IE6 Update, which is a javascript file you can include on your site that provides IE6 users with a message that appears to be a system or browser toolbar that provides users with critical information and a link to a required update (really it is just a link to download the latest IE browser). Recently Paul Boag recorded a short rant on AudioBoo which was very politely disagreed with by a user named Japh who believes the tactic is perfectly acceptable.
If you’re like me, you probably have been searching for a solid web font replacement technique which avoids replacing text with images or utilizing both Flash AND Javascript. In a nutshell, web font replacement aims to allow web designers to replace standard web fonts on a website with any font you can imagine while keeping your markup semantically meaningful, accessible, without ballooning page load times. There are few good alternatives out there but most require Flash and JavaScript. The problem with that is requiring an end user to have BOTH Flash and Javascript installed and turned on.
Layout, typography, and color all combine to make a great design.
You know, everyone has the moment in their life where they realize what they want to be. For me, it was a natural progression. My love for the internet and computers combined with my love for designing and building things that wowed everyone around me. Web design isn’t for everyone and there’s definitely a lot of talent required, but should you decide to make the leap into creating things for the web, I’ve put together some great advice for your journey.
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After seeing some CSS frameworks pop up over the past couple years, I thought it fitting to address the increasingly popular trend. In my opinion, I see CSS frameworks as a way to learn how other designers and developers work with layout, markup, and style to produce websites rapidly, semantically, and with great flexibility.
One of the guys I love chatting it up with is Jacob Gube of Six Revisions. Jacob recently posted a great Mootools tutorial on automatically adding image captions using Mootools. I enjoyed the tutorial so much I thought I would expand upon it and make it a MooTools class that can be reused for various purposes as needed.
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Everyone knows the basics, you have to support the current version of IE, Firefox, and Safari. On top of that, you have to make sure it functions/looks ok in IE6, Opera and Google Chrome, if your browser stats warrant. In this post I discuss A-Grade browsers, my personal testing process, and graceful degradation vs. progessive enhancement. Read on, my friend, and become an expert on browser testing.
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