In Print

December 16, 2009

Web Design For Developers is now available in print and the Pragmatic Bookshelf is shipping out all of the preorders. This book aims to teach you the basics of web design and guides you through picking colors, choosing fonts, setting up a grid, and then walks you through planning and implementing a site redesign. It’s […]

Creating Favicons Online

December 14, 2009

Favicons, or “Favorite icons” are icons associated with your site. The icon appears next to the address bar on most browsers, and is often used as the icn for the bookmark or tab associated with the site. There are many different ways to create favicons. In the book, you saw how you can use Illustrator […]

@font-face Generator

December 2, 2009

More and more browsers are able to handle embedded fonts, but getting the right formats for each browser can be tricky. For example, Internet Explorer requires a proprietary format called EOT, or “Embedded OpenType”, but getting fonts in that format isn’t easy and Microsoft’s tools don’t seem to work all that well for some people. […]