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Exploring Web fonts, moving beyond Arial and Verdana

February 17, 2010 By Chrisdigital 2 Comments

Exploring Web fonts, moving beyond Arial and Verdana

I’ve primarily used “Arial” and “Verdana” as my html text fonts. Recently, I’ve been re-visiting that as a rule. There’s been a number of Windows and Mac OS updates in the “wild” for a while now, so perhaps my options have expanded and I thought it’s a good a time as any to freshen up my work…

I take a look at some cross-platform options, font replacement techniques, font embedding and what future standards might offer an intrepid developer down the road…

Filed Under: Web Design Tagged With: Cross-platorm Web fonts, CSS3, Font embedding, font-family, Fonts, Future of Web typography, HTML5

WordPress line break bug in posts

February 16, 2010 By Chrisdigital Leave a Comment

WordPress line break bug in posts

Recently I ran into a weird issue in Wordpress as I was remixing an older theme for a friend’s blog. Like most people, I operate under the assumption that Wordpress’ visual editor will work as the name sounds. But sometimes you can run into instances where the visual formatting of the entry/post you see in the control panel, does not match up with the content’s appearance on the blog. Glitches can show up when you hit the publish button, in this case- disappearing line breaks are the culprit. The source of the problem is likely a combination of at least two things…

Filed Under: WordPress Tagged With: blog theming, Bug fix, fixing WordPress line breaks, Line break, Plugins, Post formatting, TinyMCE, WordPress line break bug, WordPress theme tip

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