Monthly Archives: March 2008

Free Fonts of the Month: Advent, Sliced AB, Bobel, Oktober and Manu

This week I will present you 5 extraordinary fonts from deviantart.com, an outstanding community for art lovers.

Advent - This font features 7 weights (regular, light, extra light, regular oblique regular rounded, bold and extra bold) of advent along with carefully adjusted kerning. Unless written approval by the author Andreas Kalpakidis only personal usage of it is allowed.

advent

Sliced AB - The typeface includes many of the key elements you need in a font, upper and lower case, as well as numerals and punctuation. Created by Alex Banks.

slicedab

Bobel - by Chris Pitney. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.

bobel

Manu - Both, Oktober and Manu, are fonts designed by Alen Stojanac. The author grants permission to use, alter and distribute them, either commercially or non-commercially.

manu

Oktober

oktober

Prepare your Desktop for Easter

Easter is coming and as the holiday approaches, it’s time to get into the right Easter spirit. Out there you find a lot of bad wallpapers and icons for Easter. That’s why I carried together a few high-quality and well-made works.

Wallpaper

Happy Easter! 1280×1024

Happy Easter!

Easter Eggs 1152×864

Easter eggs

Happy Easter! 1024×768

Happy Easter!

Easter bunny 1600×1200

Easter bunny

Icons

Oslo Easter, a iconset of 12 icons

Oslo Easter

Easter icons, 4 beautiful icons

Easter icons

CSS, Standard Compliance and IE8

Nowadays quite everyone uses stylesheets to make their sites more beautiful - colored tables, customized lists and cool tag clouds. If you know the right tricks nothing is impossible, but there is one problem.. do you know which browsers your visitors have? Of course not! And speaking from usability not only standard conform stylesheets and (x)HTML structure is necessary, but also a browser-spanning steady behaviour.Acid3

CSS3 is in the works, while CSS2.1 still isn’t completely integrated in all the common browsers. Some even have problems with CSS2 specifications. So what to do..? At first if you want to know how good your browser renders the different CSS commands, have a look at the Acid-Testpage. This week a new test, including a lot of CSS3 commands, has been published. While no final-version of the most popular browsers achieves more than 50 percent, some nightly builds obtain good results. This doesn’t mean that it is impossible to create equal looking sites for any browser, but it shows you how different they interpret/not interpret each command. Always the best thing is to compare your sites in different browsers and if necessary make use of some hacks.

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