Smashing Magazine has a great new article on options for typography on the web. It covers javascript image replacement, Flash image replacement and the use of actual fonts on the web through new services like Typekit.
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Type on the Web
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009Flexible Scalable Background Images
Thursday, May 21st, 2009My friend Michael Bester (another former WMG Digital Properties employee) has a great blog post about creating scalable background images. I’ve built similar components for Flash Projects but this is the first really great example of this I’ve seen using javascript.
Improving upon Lightbox
Sunday, April 27th, 2008I’ve been a user of Lightbox for years. It’s an amazing step forward in usability for websites, a beautiful way to display modular information without annoying pop-ups. Recently two new frameworks have come to my attention.
Slimbox is a Lightbox compatible framework that is MUCH smaller than the slightly large Lightbox framework. Built off a different codebase it clocks in at about 7KB. It does one thing, and does it well.
Shadowbox serves a different, complimentary purpose, expanding greatly on the simple functionality LIghtbox is known for. It allows for modular display of images, image sets, flash, flash, video, quicktime and wmv (which worked great on my mac).