The Lighthouse Keeper’s cat

Happy naked day! ^_^…
To know more about why styles are disabled on this website visit the Annual CSS Naked Day website for more information.

This a follow up of the post “Gridding the 960 using a 16px-based-ruler” about a month ago and is based on the recent discussions about using baselines or a basic leading for typography on websites.

In my last webdesign layouts I tried to establish a baseline not only for the typography, but for the hole page. I have chosen 20px for the basic leading. This may seem quite high, but with a font size of 12px the line height is 1,667em which suits the typeface, text and measure.
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Whenever i try to design something for myself i just don`t get it right and nothing is good enough. So when i finally came up with a solution for the design for “The Lighthouse Keepers Cat” that was a weight off my mind and i think a relief for The Viech also, because the night before i was sitting in front of my computer crying that i can`t design anything and that i am the world biggest looser…
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There is an update to this post: “Gridding the 960 using a 20px-based-ruler and a 20px baseline”. Sometimes you even have to change your dearest beliefs ^_^!

A few days ago i did study “The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web - a practical guide to web typography” and i was again amazed how good this article is. I talked with The Viech about it. So today he send me another article about “Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid” by a list apart .
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On my way to the city I passed the Victoria University were i found this sticker on a waste bin…
The sticker is part of the campaign for “this is living” a free online (ad)game by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited. This is a very good example for guerrilla marketing.
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Today i picked the basic color-informations form the K2-Theme and overwrote them in my style to have an easier access for editing the colors… I am still quite happy with the K2-Theme (it is still in beta…), but i will change some parts and add other PlugIns - as i have already done. But the basic idea to extract “the loop” and give it its own page is great and i think these guys are doing a great job.
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The Viech did send me this link. I love it. Flash is back. Let’s make some more nice things like that and put all these JavaScript-Gurus in their place :-).

SWFiR > swf Image Replacement

To find out more read the article by Dan Mall @ A List Apart (where else…).

Semantic Flash: Slippery When Wet by Dan Mall