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Update to blog restyling

Here's a small update to the post about blog restyling. I've changed the stylesheets and the .IR code to use the Corbel TrueType font, instead of the Segoe Media Center Light font that nobody knows :-)

So, if you see plain old Tahoma in the text of this post, you should download the Microsoft Vista & Office 2007 fonts.

Labels: Corbel, fonts, Office 2007, opentype, truetype, update, Vista

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  Posted by oVan on Friday, April 27, 2007 | PermaLink | 0 comments

SuperWasp Blog Restyled

Today I've relaunched the SuperWasp blog, using a Blogger skin I developed for my family blog TV15. Several modifications were made to the skin to accomodate the longer posts: on the main blog page and on all archive pages, long posts appear with a scrollbar (on the latest browsers of course), while on the single post pages they appear as one big article.

One of the other techniques I used in the restyling is dotIR (Image Replacement for .NET). Actually, I modified the code from Milan Negovan's .IR, which on its turn is based on sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) Version 2.0b2 by Copyright 2004 Mike Davidson, Shaun Inman, Tomas Jogin and Mark Wubben.

So what does .IR or dotIR do, you might ask?

It replaces the headings and titles in the webpage with (in our case) a graphical version based on a TrueType/OpenType font. This enables web designers to use any font you like, as long as it is installed on the web server. The biggest drawback of course is that it relies on scripting and that there's a small performance hit. You cannot simply replace any text on the webpage with this technique.

Leave your comments on the new style, and problems you might encounter under this post.

Labels: blog, design, dotIR, relaunch, sIFR, skin, truetype

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  Posted by oVan on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 | PermaLink | 0 comments

Download new Vista fonts legally!

It's so easy... just download and install the free Microsoft Powerpoint Viewer and you will have the beautiful Microsoft Vista and Office 2007 fonts on your system: Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Consolas, Constantia and Corbel.

Labels: download, fonts, free, legal, Microsoft, Office 2007, opentype, truetype, Vista

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  Posted by oVan on Wednesday, April 11, 2007 | PermaLink | 0 comments