In this article, I’ll present 24 font stacks used by major online newspapers based in United States and in France. I’ll compare the American and European typography under this respect and, hopefully, I’ll get to some conclusion.
What are font stacks
Font stacks are lists of font family names; they live in stylesheets; their members are comma [...]
I’m not a JavaScript fan, but I must admit it mkes happen lots of pretty things. This is probably why about half of the web design articles I read every day are JavaScript related. JS slowly got more and more popular, and sometimes I thing this frenzy is not so different from the overuse of [...]
As you know, Adsense ads perform best when they’re embeded in the main content. But, as you also know, the content of a WordPress blog is displayed by a tiny template tag, i.e. the_content(). So, theoretically, you don’t have many options when it comes to deciding where the ad will appear. Using the default code [...]
Published on May 22, 2009 in tips and tricks · (Reply)
This is a very easy trick that anyone can implement. It takes only some image editing, a little bit of attention and patience and some template files editing.
1. You realized your blog needs a header image
A header image means branding. It speaks to your readers in a symbolic manner. Readers land on a page of [...]
Published on May 10, 2009 in free themes · 28 comments
Doc is a one-column theme, with a fixed width and lots of white space. It is intended to spoil your content and to satisfy your users’ reading pleasure.
Doc is minimal. I mean really minimal: it has the simplest layout and the most basic color scheme. Anyways, this simplicity only affects the design; the code is [...]
If you take a look at a design showcse, you’ll notice that there definitely is a “wood trend” out there. And it’s been there for a couple of years now. Desks, tables, fences, wood walls, cork boards, blackboards, you name it. Actually this “wood trend” is a part of a wider trend, which one could [...]
Published on April 30, 2009 in Wordpress · 2 comments
During the last few weeks, I’ve received lots of emails containig a recurrent question about changing the colors of the themes I created. In the beginning I thought it was fun to reply to those emails, but I soon relized that my squeduled tasks were weeping sad and lonely in their blank documents. So I [...]