Archive for February, 2006

Front page get’s new design

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006 | WeeklyPosts | 5 Comments

I updated the front page for http://gmu.mossiso.com

I’m using a content management system that I built myself. Looks pretty cool, I think.

I just need to fix a few things with the links, how they’re displayed. I need to be able to order them how I want.

Anyhow, the code is available for anyone who wants it.

And to fulfill the CSS assignment, I made sure that the site validates as standard compliant CSS and HTML (don’t worry about all of the warnings in the CSS, who wants to add all of that extra stuff anyway).

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What’s the deal with typography

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006 | WeeklyPosts | No Comments

Post for February 7, 2006

What’s the deal with typography? one may ask. It’s all just words on a page, or screen. Does it even matter? Here are some thoughts as I read through the class readings.

From A List Apart (nice site change, by the way):

Particularly in a medium that invites a thousand distractions, anything that we as web developers can do to maintain the reader’s focus and keep her eyes moving smoothly over our text can only benefit our content.

That’s a good point. Some web sites are tooooooo busy. Anything to focus the reader’s eyes on that which is most important.

This NY Times article didn’t seem to have too much on the corrolation of links and footnotes. It was more of “footnotes are out because of links… here’s a history about links and why links are important.”

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