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I try not to succumb to the lure of new design tricks but alas I am human. While I have been able to avoid several recent design trends, I must confuse the “wow” of parallax scrolling grabbed me by the brain and hypnotized me for some time. I was so stricken that several previous design concepts for [...]

Parallax Scrolling Effect – 12 Tutorials and Resources

Few words can describe the euphoria I felt upon learning of widespread @font-face support. The time and effort once required to make typographically pleasing websites would be reduced forever. The very notion of dropping tools like Cufon, sIFR and image replacement had me grinning ear for ear. And what of body copy? Designers could finally [...]

40 Web Fonts for Body Copy

I will be the first to say that it is questionable if HTML5 is really a realistic technology to use at this point. In most instances there is no reason to use a technology that is not widely supported when we have good options that are. That being said there are reasons to use HTML5, [...]

Safe Ways to Code a Site in HTML5 Now

There is so much that happens with web design it is easy to miss important pieces of technology. After all there are new technologies introduced all the time and a lot of the time they are never adopted (*cough* silverlight *cough*). I hate to say it that Microformats was never high on my radar. Over [...]

The Business Case for Microformats

Great designs take advantage of typography. The days of limited font choices and poor anti aliasing by browsers are long gone. Here are four modern font implementation techniques as well their pros & cons, examples & resources. All of which allow for proper semantic markup of content. Font Stack Pros Works in all major browser [...]

Best techniques for modern font implementation