Aug200920

Carl Gordon

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What’s that font?

What’s that font?

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Sometimes when I ask the client for a copy of their logo I get a letterhead or business card given to me, so I then ask if they have a digital version of the logo, which is greeted with a puzzled look and “I’ve got it on a CD but I’m not sure where it is”. Sometimes you get given a brochure, advert or a link to a website and they want that font. So what do you do when all you have is the image and want to know the name of the font? You can spend hours searching through thousands of fonts, or online there is a handy site called WhatTheFont, it’s still in beta but I have used it a couple of times with great success.

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Aug200910

Fixxxer

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Doctypes… What are they?

Doctypes… What are they?

The <!DOCTYPE> declaration is a top-level tag-like reference known as a Public Text Identifier. It is used to activate, or switch between browser modes. The <!DOCTYPE> declaration is the very first thing in your document, before the <html> tag. This tag tells the browser which HTML or XHTML specification the document uses. Without a doctype declaration in the beginning of a html document, the browser will run in Quirks mode, and not in Standards mode. It is also one of the few tags without a closing tag.

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Aug200904

Fixxxer

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CSS: The Why and the How

CSS-based layouts and proper use of CSS are at the root of web standards. While there are many in the design community constantly beating the drum for wide-spread CSS use and overall compliance to web standards, you need to understand the benefits so you can decide to follow this design path yourself.

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