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August 9, 2011
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Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean.
A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth.
Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts — it is an almost unorthographic life. One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar.
The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious Semikoli, but the Little Blind Text didn’t listen. She packed her seven versalia, put her initial into the belt and made herself on the way.
When she reached the first hills of the Italic Mountains, she had a last view back on the skyline of her hometown Bookmarksgrove, the headline of Alphabet Village and the subline of her own road, the Line Lane. Pityful a rethoric question ran over her cheek, then she continued her way.
Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary re ...»See Ya
Transforms @font-face Expography
This is the first of what I hope are number of experiments I plan on working on over the next few months, all in an effort to get acquainted with some of the new CSS3 features out in the wild that seem to be gaining some traction.
The last few months have been pretty exciting, with all the talk about new CSS3 features and how browsers are adding support for them, it’s a great time to be a designer for the web. It’s a lot easier these days to experiment with different typefaces, layouts and techniques previously not available.
Take a look at the image below:
No, it’s not a poster. It’s a web page completely designed using basic CSS and new CSS3 techniques. Pretty impressive right?
How’s it done?
Pretty easy actually, I used basic CSS positioning and some of the newer CSS3 features to put it together. Below are a few samples of the code so you can get an idea:
@font-face
@font-face { font-family: 'ChunkFiveRegular'; src: url('Chunkfive.eot'); src: local('ChunkFive'),local('ChunkFive'), url('Chunkfive.woff') format('woff'), url('Chunkfive.ttf') format('truetype'), url('Chunkfive.svg#ChunkFive') format('svg'); }Transforms
-webkit-transform: rotate(1deg); -moz-transform: rotate(1deg); -o-transform: rotate(1deg);Text-Shadows & Box Shadows
text-shadow: 2px 8px #b5c1b8, -1px -1px #fff; box-shadow: 4px 6px #b5c1b8;The font used is called Chunk, a nice bold slab serif. The text is an excerpt from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Works in these browsers
- Firefox 3.6
- Safari 4
- Chrome 5
- Opera 10
IE can suck it.
So there it is. Nothing out of this world, however I think it shows the potential of CSS specifically the potential in using new CSS3 features.
In the words of Matt Brett:
“if you showed me that 10 years ago, my head would have exploded!”
Indeed. We’ve come a long way.
This is the first of what I hope are number of experiments I plan on working on over the next few months, all in an effort to get acquainted with some of the new CSS3 features out in the wild that seem to be gaining some traction. The last few months have been pretty exciting, with all the t ...»See Ya
August 7, 2011
Rockford Agency card
[Crime Mystery] We all hope that Chris Coan will be found safe and sound, if he wants to be. Still, the mystery surrounding his disappearanceengages the imagination.Coan wrote down the number "208" before leaving his job at a Subway sandwich shop in Enoch. Then he drove away and hasn't been heard from since.
Did police use the time-honored "scribble on the notepad with the edge of a pencil lead" technique to discover what it was he had written down? (This worked in The Big Lebowski and countless other spy movies and Perry Mason episodes, but it's really easier--though less cinematically dramatic--to hold the paper at an oblique angle to the light.) Why do police assume 208 is a phone number? It's only three digits. Nobody ever writes down just an area code or an exchange; phone numbers are seven or 10 digits. And Coan doesn't even have a cell phone. My theory is that 208 is a hotel room number. You wouldn't necessarily write down the name of a hotel if you knew where it was, but you would probably write down a room number if you were meeting a guest there. According to Bill Frost, if this were an episode of The Rockford Files, 208 would be the number of a locker at a bus depot.