15 Excellent Examples of Web Typography
Some of the examples mimic the typography of print, while others actually leverage web technology, smart CSS and delicious HTML to make their pages not only aesthetically pleasing, but legible, user-friendly and easily navigable.
From the excellent I Love Typography, see the 15. I only just discovered this site and it really is text smart. This is part one of a showcase, so stay tuned for the next.
Fade Out Bottom
This is an effect where the bottom of the page seems to fade out. Verse chorus, verse chorus, chorous to fade. It blinking well fades out. Lord, I gotta get me one.
Create a timed stylesheet using PHP
My thanks to Harry Roberts for this little article on creating a timed stylesheet using PHP.
Basically this tiny PHP script will show you how to make a stylesheet switch depending on the time of day, similar to the one found here.
Ajax Pagination script
This script lets you draw content from multiple pages and display them on demand, using Ajax. Pagination links are automatically created, with each page downloaded only when requested (speeding up delivery and saving on bandwidth. An overview of this script now:
- The pagination interface for each Ajax Pagination instance is “free floating”, meaning it can be positioned anywhere on the page and repeated multiple times as well.
- Each page within the paginated content is fetched individually and only when requested for sake of efficiency.
- The settings for each Ajax Pagination instance is stored neatly in a variable object for ease of portability. This variable can be manually defined or easily dynamically written out based on information returned from the sever, such as via PHP/ MySQL.
- The entire paginated content can be refreshed with new data on demand, with the pagination links updated automatically as well.
This script is ideal for showing multi-page content such as “user comments” without reloading the rest of the page each time a comment page is requested.
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