Today, I’m happy to announce that the SitePoint Podcast has taken me aboard. Only a few weeks ago, my friend Patrick O’Keefe contacted me while I was in Florida about joining the show. Needless to say, I accepted. It has been a true pleasure to join the crew. It has already been an experience I […]
The day I denied Batman
Watching reruns of the 1960s Batman defined my early childhood. I lived on the edge of our family sofa. My eyes transfixed on Adam West, the face of my hero, the Batman. I was no couch potato, I was a fan. Fully garbed with my plastic mask and hand made cape. I suppose this is […]
Optimizing large font files for @font-face
@font-face font optimization has been to my mind recently. Due to the CSS Off that Unmatched Style is hosting if I’m forced to be honest. Now you may be wondering what I mean by font optimization for @font-face. In this I mean the reduction of the font file size. For example. Let’s say you have […]
IE seeping content link overlap CSS fix
Totally fired up about this one. I have not seen this Internet Explorer bug in a while so it was fun to fix. This absolute positioning error affects IE7 and IE8 for sure, and my guess is that it affects IE6 as well; and, we can and should all pray IE9 fixed this. Basically the […]
Web Fonts: Foundries Evolved
The road block It has been long hoped that fonts could one day be embedded on web pages accessibly. That time is now! Contrary to common belief, font embedding has been around for a long time. In 1996 the W3C chartered its first font working group and developed WebFonts (‘@font-face’). However, its implementation has been […]
