I design websites in Austin, TX. I love CSS, usability, and making music.
My first reaction on finding Font Squirrel’s free @font-face kits was pure joy. Here were completely free fonts licensed for use on the web. You can embed these fonts into your site and it will show up in every major browser, including Internet Explorer 6. What is @font-face? For the uninitiated, @font-face is a property [...]
Content first layouts can increase search engine visibility by placing your header and navigation area after the main content area in HTML. CSS can reposition the elements so they appear at the top of the page. What is a content-first layout? Most pages look like this to a search engine spider or screen reader: My [...]
So I finally got around to customizing my archive.php page. I wanted links to single posts rather than list full posts for pages and pages. Editing the loop was easy enough — I just pared down the loop code to make a list of permalinks. The tough part was getting every post to show up [...]
WordPress does something strange with the php include() statement. I don’t exactly know why, but I get a lengthy error if I try to use it in a WordPress theme. The popular solution is to sit down and carefully copy and paste chunks from your website into a new wordpress theme. I’m here to fix [...]
A trend keeps popping up that irks the usability geek in me: instructions on where users should be looking. Here’s an example from Yahoo News: Basically here they’re saying “you’re looking in the wrong place. What you need is up there.” This kind of execution wouldn’t fly in print, why do it online, where you [...]
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