Archive for the ‘HTML & CSS’ Category

What’s up with Lucida’s growing popularity?

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

After frequently running into what this non-designer guy describes as that sorta round-y, bubble gum, mac-y font, I started to wonder if there was a pattern and some explanation.

Firebugging revealed what every mac user could have told me, that it was Lucida Grande. Old web posts said this was dangerous as Lucida didn’t come standard [...]

First Republic site migration goes live

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

The big migration to the new First Republic design went live and they are very happy. One opinion from a staffperson (not on the client team):

Just want you to know that I was on it today and it looks soooo much better.  Much easier to read. :)

FRB

Transition from Design Comping to Production

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Oftentimes during the design phase of a project, we’ll get the design concepts looking just right in Photoshop and Illustrator. Then you get to the “production” phase—that is, actually coding HTML and CSS to match the concepts. At this phase, some ask why is it that production HTML cannot look pixel identical to a design [...]