Web Design Blog - June 06, 2008

Safety in Numbers and Letters

As a web designer sometimes I feel imprisoned by "web safe" fonts. I can only take so much of Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Times, and Georgia. I'm all for being safe, but occasionally you have to break the mold and live a little. That's why I've included this list of "sorta web safe" fonts. Go ahead, try them out. You can always set up your CSS to fall back on one of the trusty 5. 1. Arial Black, Arial Narrow 2. Baskerville 3. Copperplate, Copperplate Gothic Light 4. Gill Sans, Gill Sans MT 5. Cen... read more!

Jun 06, 2008 6:26pm by Jeff Nicholson

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useful php function, strtotime

PHP has a lovely little function called strtotime. Many of you know how useful it is, but some of you may be looking for an easy quick way to do some simple date calculations.If you wanted to find what day is two weeks and 1 day from now, you could do something as simple as: [code] $the_day = date('m/d/Y',strtotime('+2 week +1 day')); [/code] It is really that simple. You can also use this function for a quick conversion of user input/database fields to a Unix timestamp for further manipulation.... read more!

Jun 06, 2008 11:34am by Mike Vandenberghe

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