http://www.craigkoster.com/blog Design, Develop, & Deliver Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:59:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Found a nice set of free @font-face kits from Font Squirrel today. I have not used the @font-face functionality of CSS 3 before so I gave it a try here to test it out. Works great and it was easy to implement. Fonts seen in the example are Hill ... http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/font-squirrel-free-font-face-kits/ Hilarious Dilbert today. They're always pretty funny but this one hits home. http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/classic-dilbert/ Found a great Photoshop action today that turns any image into a Polaroid picture. Here's a shot of an old town in Alaska. Just go to this site and download the action file. Install into Photoshop, open your image, and play the action and you're good to go. http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/photoshop-polaroid-action/ I've accumulated quite a bit of home video on my hard drive and wanted to see how I could archive all my clips onto an external USB drive. After some Googling and experimentation I found the following to work nicely: 1) Right click in the 'Events' panel at the lower ... http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/imovie-08-archiving/ Occasionally I try to come up with logos for fictitious companies just to practice my design work. Here's one I did today for a company called 4Square. http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/logo-of-the-day/ Stop Password Masking (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) Usability suffers when users type in passwords and the only feedback they get is a row of bullets. Typically, masking passwords doesn't even increase security, but it does cost you business due to login failures. I'd agree that masking does inhibit user feedback and causes some ... http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/stop-password-masking-jakob-nielsens-alertbox/ Build Your Own Captcha and Contact Form Ever get hit with spam through the contact form on your personal site? Well, here is a short tutorial on how to build a custom captcha to keep the bad guys out. Nice tutorial on building a contact for with a captcha in PHP. http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/build-your-own-captcha-and-contact-form/ Email Standards Project Our goal is to help designers understand why web standards are so important for email, while working with email client developers to ensure that emails render consistently. This is a community effort to improve the email experience for both designers and readers alike. Just found this via http://fixoutlook.org. ... http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/email-standards-project/ Check My Colours It is a tool for checking foreground and background color combinations of all DOM elements and determining if they provide sufficient contrast when viewed by someone having color deficits. Nice little tool to ensure accessibility compliance. (via www.zeldman.com) http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/check-my-colours/ 8th Grader Builds Solar-Powered Bike With GPS, iPod Dock : Gas 2.0 Eighth-grader David S. Dixon–along with his dad David G. Dixon–has built a street-legal quadricycle powered by a solar-charged electric motor. The bike not only carries his dog and three friends, but it has also has an iPod dock and ... http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/8th-grader-builds-solar-powered-bike/