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21 Awesome @font-face Embeddable Typefaces

September 18, 2009 by Jon 59 Comments

The 2 most popular typefaces used on the web today are surely Verdana and Georgia. They’re great and I used them all the time since they’re web-safe fonts. I use them mostly because I’m not a big fan of flash replacement techniques or solutions that require Javascript (sIFR, Cufon, etc…). But what about the @font-face […]

Filed Under: CSS, Resources, Typography

How To Create A Sexy Vertical Sliding Panel Using jQuery And CSS3

August 27, 2009 by Jon 183 Comments

More and more we see people using horizontal sliding panels on their websites. And they usually look very nice! Some will put a contact or login form in there, others will put some information about them and their website, or even things like a tag cloud or social networking buttons.

Horizontal sliding panels are great for many situations, but like everything else, they’re not always ideal. It depends on the project. To see what I mean by ‘horizontal sliding panel‘, go have a look at my other site Design-Newz, and click on the ‘want more‘ button that’s on the right above the navigation bar.

Filed Under: CSS, Design, jQuery, Tutorial

How To Create A Simple Portfolio Site Running On Surreal CMS

August 12, 2009 by Jon 23 Comments

I always enjoy working on new things and learn about new CMS and how they work and all. I recently connected with Cory at Surreal CMS, and I decided to write a tutorial on how to create a portfolio site and run it with Surreal CMS. It’s pretty simple actually. In this tutorial I’ll show […]

Filed Under: CSS, Design, Tools, Tutorial

20 jQuery Tutorials And Plugins To Impress Your Friends

July 19, 2009 by Jon 78 Comments

I have always liked playing around with jQuery and I’m sure many of you do too! In fact we’ve published some jQuery ‘getting started‘ guides here on SpyreStudios in the past. So this time I thought we’d go more in depth and I’ve hand-picked 20 awesome jQuery tutorials (most of them have working demos) Here […]

Filed Under: CSS, jQuery, Resources

25 Must-Read Books For Designers, Typography Lovers And Freelancers

July 10, 2009 by Jon 47 Comments

You may already know that I read a lot and of course being a designer and a blogger there’s many design blogs that I follow and read on a regular basis, but there’s also a lot of books about design, usability, typography, CSS, freelancing and a boat load of other related topics out there. All […]

Filed Under: Books, Business, CSS, Design, Typography

Quick Tip: Easy Way To Create Drop Caps On Your Blog

March 21, 2009 by Jon 16 Comments

A drop cap is when the first letter of a paragraph is larger than the average font size and that letter ‘drops’ down 2 (or more) lines. You can actually see this right here on SpyreStudios. I’ve attached a screenshot for those of you reading via a feed reader: No Need For A Plugin So, […]

Filed Under: CSS, Tutorial, WordPress

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