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Helvetica

Helvetica, which has been called the official typeface of the 20th century, is celebrating its 50th birthday this year.

(Via Clement Pananchikal)

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Web 2.0

Web 2.0 for Designers

Enter Web 2.0, a vision of the Web in which information is broken up into "microcontent" units that can be distributed over dozens of domains. The Web of documents has morphed into a Web of data. We are no longer just looking to the same old sources for information. Now we're looking to a new set of tools to aggregate and remix microcontent in new and useful ways.

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There are six trends that characterize Web 2.0 for designers.

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1. Writing semantic markup (transition to everything XML)
2. Providing Web services (moving away from place)
3. Remixing content (about when and what, not who or why)
4. Emergent navigation and relevance (users are in control)
5. Adding metadata over time (communities building social information)
6. Shift to programming (separation of structure and style)

(Via bokardo)

Hanging Punctuation

Hang lists and hang quotation marks, when using pull quotes and quotes within a body of text.

Five simple steps to better typography - Part 2

Adobe Buys Macromedia

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia (Nasdaq: MACR) in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion.

Link: Adobe and Macromedia

(Via SitePoint Forums)

View Source of Flash

If you use Flash, and want to share your work, you can now easily add a view source menu item to allow downloading the source code.

Usage :

Place the viewFlashSource.as file in the same directory as your Flash source file (FLA), and add the following line to the main timeline of your source file:

#include viewFlashSource.as

You can then specify the source URL through the flashParams HTML tag / attribute.

There are two values you can specify:

flashSource : Points to a URL to download the source for the contnet.
contentLicense : Points to the distribution / re-use license for the content.

<embed src="example.swf"
quality="high"
bgcolor="#ffffff"
width="550"
height="400"
name="example"
align="middle"
allowScriptAccess="sameDomain"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
flashVars="flashSource=example%2Efla&contentLicense=http%3A%2F%2Fcreativecommons%2Eorg%2Flicenses%2Fby%2F2%2E0%2F" /> 

Adding a View Source Menu item to Macromedia Flash Content

(Via Creative Commons Weblog)

Making Complex CSS Simple

Making Simple Work of Complex CSS Layouts: a step by step tutorial for building a flexible CSS based site in an hour.

(Via 456 Berea Street)

2005 Colour Forecast

Adam Polselli predicts the "in" colours of 2005: "Adam Polselli's 2005 Color Forecast"

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Strategies for Long-Term CSS Hack Management

Strategies for Long-Term CSS Hack Management : How to manage CSS hacks effectively and which hacks you can employ to solve common compatibility problems.