There’s a great article (as usual) over at Andy Rutledge’s blog. In bad layout conventions, he highlights some of the “bad” choices web designers make when, predominantly, moving their product from print to web.  Choices such as 3-column or broadsheet newspaper layout come under Andy’s eye and he breaks down the supposed pro’s and con’s.

I’ve always found the layout “discussion”, both internally and with clients, coming down to siding with the familiar. Hopefully as more people, such as Andy, talk about the need to shift focus from emulating the old and forging ahead with the new we will see the web shift more towards it’s potential.

Perfect time for us around Cleveland to start thinking about this and be part of the change.

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Richard Rutter has a great article, How to Size Text in CSS, on A List Apart this week.  He breaks down how to achieve uniform text resizing across the most used browsers at the moment.

It takes a little math and some CSS dabbling but it’s well worth it.

I was lucky enough to see the presentation he gave with Mark Boulton at SXSWi’07  - one of the highlights of the whole conference and explores the same thinking about web typography, but in greater detail.

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When this article showed up in my feed reader this morning, I couldn’t contain my excitement.  That’s why I’m sharing it with you: CSS@Ten: The Next Big Thing, by Håkon Wium Lie (the guy who proposed CSS), talks about web fonts, their history and their future. There’s some pretty exciting stuff in there–I highly recommend a read, then a re-read.