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One of the most practical articles you’ll read in a while on CSS was published in A List Apart this week: How to Size Text in CSS. Alhamdulillah I’ve been struggling with trying to figure out which way to size CSS texts.

NYC started a pilot program to place wayfinding “compasses” outside of Subway stations.

Design + Geography + NYC = I LOVE!

No, this is not one of those charity posts.
It’s all about my favourite plugin. Imagine a plugin that could improve
the typography of your page with no complicated setup. Controlling type
online can at times be difficult. However, things have just gotten a
whole lot easier with the release of the Typogrify plugin.

Garret Dimon explains how to design Better Web Forms by slightly redesigning eBay’s Registration.

Too many designs fail the squint test that Mullet & Sano pushed over and over again in Designing Visual Interfaces. Dimon shows a quick and simple way to do it through Photoshop.

456 Berea St summarizes a solution to the problem of screen readers ignoring “display:none”.

Ryan Nichols gives an overview of their rebranding of FOWA (Future of Web Apps). The breathless result was not by accident, but was very process driven. Great work.

Michael Bierut sounds off on the role of designers.

Preparing your files for Printing on a Commercial Printing Press.

• Terminology
• Choosing your printer
• Information for your printer
• Out of your hands and into the printers
• Prepress
• In the pressroom
• The finishing area
• Distribution
• After burn - Time to clean up

Found via many sites is the awesome Blueprint CSS Framework developed by Olav Bjorkoy.

The BBC’s Fifteen Web Principles

1. Build web products that meet audience needs
2. The very best websites do one thing really, really well

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