Zeldman’s redesigned Happy Cog and his story about his science teacher suggests a tricksy, sly, and clever man. By the way, buy his book, I did (and I’m not getting an Amazon referral for that).
Tag Archives: CSS
Keeping it semantic
As I rebuild the Wordpress theme for this site I’m trying to keep the markup nicely semantic. For those who don’t understand, the idea is to use only semantic tags in the markup - HTML tags that mean something in the context of the document, rather than HTML devoted to, say, presentation.
Going Naked
I missed going naked day but it’s inspired me to ditch my Wordpress theme and my CSS and build them again from ground up. Just for fun.
CSS Generic Fonts
When you define a font in CSS you should always use one of the generic fonts, either as the only option or as the last option in the font-family. For example:
font-family : Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
No doubt everyone knows about serif and sans-serif generic fonts in CSS. But wait. There’s more. CSS specs give five generic fonts. Here we are then:
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This is an example of your generic serif font.







