Databases are for Pussies
thelincolnshirepoacher.com
thelincolnshirepoacher.com
I think it's a great idea to design user interfaces before writing code. I find it really helpful for figuring out what actually needs to be done.
Also, sometimes I find that an idea that's easy to express in code is not always as easy to express in a user interface.
I have a feeling that this is why the majority of UI's designed by programmers suck.
Starting with the design is for pussies too ... considering that a mostly static design is really different from the end-result and you won't see the problems with it until you've got real content, this after you've waisted hours and hours on bikeshed issues.
Doing contracting work for clients for whom you can't explain that the design they are seeing isn't final and that they should focus more on the actual workflow / functionality ... that's for pussies too :)
And speaking of real clients that want to click the kitty ... trust me, they won't appreciate your HTML5 compliant code, or a font that doesn't render well in WinXP.
I can't try tyrone :(
Not sure where to submit bugs because the article tells me to use thor instead and that pixii isn't maintained.
It's using Typekit @font-face for good looking text, Perhaps that's the problem?
Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/poqp7.png
You could try going through readability: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
I feel guilty for derailing this thread now... :(
Do you have some stats to go with that?
The one IE user was me checking it out. About 35 of the Safari visitors were me too!
Also, I reckon your site looks fantastic. Just sayin' :-)
The font is Times New Roman and the site is readable (had to increase font size).
I'm not sure what you're talking about -- the only real problem I can see with Firefox on Windows is that the font is far too small for a serif font to be readable on screen.
(side note: I universally hate serif fonts on screen, which is why I always force fonts to Calibri. I did disable forcing fonts to check your site out, though, but I'm afraid it hasn't swayed my opinion of serif fonts one bit. I'll continue to force fonts until most web designers switch to sans-serif.)
You are totally right, looks like I was wrong. When I checked it out on a Windows machine it looked like @Devilboy's screenshot and I (wrongly) assumed that is how everything looked. Cleartype mustn't have been enabled.