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Friday Focus 11/20/09: You’re My Type

We love our fonts around these parts, so here’s another batch for this week’s Friday Focus featuring excellent typography, and nothing but.

Friday Focus 11/06/09: Playing with Transparency

This week on Friday Focus: another roundup of sites that play the transparency card very well.

Friday Focus 10/23/09: Enjoy the View

This week on Friday Focus: websites that will make you want to get in the car or on a plane and head to these exquisite destinations. At least we can enjoy their views from within our own browsers!

Demystifying <pre> and <code>

When to use <pre> and <code>, and tips for doing so.

Friday Focus 07/31/09: Brilliant Lighting

Digitally recreating light is a pretty challenging task, and this week we’re going to look at websites that manage to use this effect brilliantly.

Friday Focus 06/26/09: Interactive Backgrounds

Backgrounds are so called for a reason. They’re meant to support and complement instead of attract and distract. This week’s featured sites, however, provide a whole other level of interactivity and usefulness to backgrounds. You decide if they’re a good idea or not. Either way, they’re interesting concepts that can only be executed on the Web, so, enjoy!

Friday Focus 05/22/09: Headshots

Don’t laugh! Don’t think it’s anything morbid, either! Let’s see how this week’s websites have made use of people’s heads as part of their designs.

Pretty up your tooltips

Make your tooltips more interesting with javascript or CSS.

Friday Focus 02/06/09: Boxed In

Let’s have websites with boxed-in content this week. How were these designed to produce such neatly-arranged yet still visually interesting content?

Avoid Using Generic CSS Classes

The W3C has worked hard to remove presentational elements from HTML. Unfortunately, old habits don’t die easily. This has resulted in some standard generic CSS classes that are contradictory to the intention of HTML and CSS. If you are using classes like .left, .right, and .clear you are guilty as charged.

Handling Headers: Where to Use h1 and h2

Should your logo be in a h1 code block, or should you use it for post titles, on your blog? What’s the correct way to use all those headers anyway. Let’s try and find out!

Friday Focus 07/18/08: Elegant, Exquisite, Extreme Details

Elegant, exquisite, and extreme details on these sites that are sure to please. Welcome to this week’s Friday Focus!