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If you haven’t heard of sIFR, it is Scalable Inman Flash Replacement which allows you to utilize flash, CSS and JavaScript to create custom typography on your web page. The font-family class in CSS can only load so many fonts as it will only load the fonts that the browser supports. sIFR allows us the option to use our own fonts and harness the SEO power of our text as we don’t have to rely on having images or flash files to display any custom text.

I’d like to look at a feature that more Flash developers would know about. I came across this issue when I was trying to find a solution to having drop shadows in my font, so my initial thought was to use the drop-shadow CSS class, but I didn’t like the lack of browser support for it, so that solution was out. sIFR seemed like the next reasonable solution to try. Since I prefer to use the jQuery library with any JavaScript that I use, I used the jQuery sIFR plugin. Read more »

Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Pretty interesting article for stepping into your first iPhone app. Read More…

How to Win Any Job on eLance, oDesk or Guru.com

I found this article really helpful in terms of how to promote myself to prospective freelance clients. It actually already helped me win one job. Although there are some spelling mistakes in it, take what you learn in terms of promotion and selling yourself and put it into your own words. Read More…

How To Write Viral Content For Your Website

Another article on writing, as a blog writer and gaining freelance clients, I find this to be a very important facet of skills that one should learn. It will only help you with your future skills. Read More…

CSS Font-Size: em vs. px vs. pt vs. percent

I’ve always wondered about the differences of defining font sizes in CSS. This article really helped bring clarity to that. Very nice breakdown of em, px, pt, and percent in CSS font sizing. Read More…

I am quite sure most web developers use Firefox as their main browser when developing. I’d like to pass on some tips that we as great and discerning developers should know.

• View Source Line Number

  When I was checking this site for HTML Validation, I found a couple errors in my code, so when I went to view source to see where the issue was, the lack of line numbers makes it hard to find where the issue(s) might be. Pages with multiple lines of code, become a nightmare to debug through this method, unless we use Ctrl-L(Windows and Linux) to search for the line number. This saved me a lot of time when I was doing this HTML Validation debugging!

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