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The Power of Open Fonts
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 in Content and Format  tagged Open Fonts / Typography / W3C / WOFF by

When we recently launched the redesign of the Black Cap Design website, I remember thinking ‘this wouldn’t have been possible a few years ago’.  I’m referring specifically to the use of open fonts.  The distinctive look of our new site is due in large part to the use of open fonts.  In fact all of the fonts you see on this page are open fonts! Until (roughly) 2010, the Web supported just a handful of fonts.  The reason?  To work, […]

5 Reasons Why Your Site Should Be Standards-Compliant
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 in Website Management  tagged assistive technology / Cascading Style Sheets / CSS / Flash movies / Google Chrome / HTML / Opera / operating systems / PDF / Safari for Mac / standards-compliant / Unix / W3C / WaSP / Web Browser / Web Validator / Windows / World Wide Web Consortium / XHTML by

Web Standards: Test Before You Buy! The last time you purchased a vehicle, it’s a safe bet you took it out for a test-drive first. After all, you’re not buying it just to have it look good sitting in your driveway! In the early days of the Web, the only way to test-drive a website was to visit the site, look at it, and test the links to make sure they worked. The Web has come a long way since […]