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Font replacement techniques

Like many other web professionals, I’m tired of the limited font set we have to work with. Gee, should I use Verdana on this site or Georgia? Maybe Arial? Meh. Bor-ing. The merits and legal implications of CSS3’s proposed @font-face are being hotly debated, which means the proposal

Constructive criticism for the new whitehouse.gov

The new whitehouse.gov site has received a lot of press since its unveiling a few days ago. Many have rightly given it kudos for bringing a modern sense of design and “Web 2.0”-style social practices to the White House. I agree the new site is a big

Fixed-width layouts

Note: This blog entry predates responsive design. All modern websites should be built using responsive design principles. While working on a recent web project at work, I wondered if I should go for a fixed-width layout or stick with my preference for fluid layouts. Fixed-width layouts are certainly easier to

SCORM 2.0: high-level solutions or low-level tools?

Matt Wilcox posted an interesting argument about the development of the CSS3 standard; I think the central points of the argument can be applied to SCORM and where we’re potentially headed with SCORM 2.0. After explaining some of the shortcomings of the current approach taken by the CSS3

Creating simple ungraded quiz questions with feedback using HTML and JavaScript

Clive Shepherd recently wrote about “inductive learning.” He said: In my post last week, Whatever happened to inductive learning?, I complained how difficult it was with current rapid development tools to write more conversational inductive questions in which you as author are able to comment on each selection that the

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