Category Archives: 419

True Font Families

Posted on August 30, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

A List Apart is featuring an article on the future of CSS. Their prediction? Increased compatibility with web fonts, decreasing reliance on browser compatibility. Today, if a user doesn’t have a font, tough luck. But in the future? CSS coding … Continue reading →

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Sliding Header

Posted on July 31, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve created a “sliding header” technique: a CSS method for handling screen resize. Since buying a mac and regularly using Safari, I’ve been a bit more sensitive to the need to create pages … Continue reading →

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I didn’t make this…

Posted on May 26, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

…but my students did. Here’s the winning project from my “Project Website” design challenge this past semester: a new Indiana Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster site. Six groups of students redesigned and coded the website of a local non-profit organization. … Continue reading →

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Levinas website

Posted on May 5, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

I can’t remember if I posted about this before, but I finished the new NALS (North American Levinas Society) website a few weeks back. This morning I coded the conference schedule for 2007–an amazingly boring job that claimed 2 hours … Continue reading →

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CSS and Background Images

Posted on March 1, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

A couple of posts back I talked about the resume project my students have been working on–today we created a new style sheet for it using a background-image technique I first learned from Karl Stolley as a member of his … Continue reading →

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So busy…

Posted on February 23, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Doing all the wrong things. While I am supposed to be focusing on my academics right now, I spent the last few days in a design induced spree–CSS’ing everything in my path. It all started with my multimedia class. I … Continue reading →

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