Posted by woodenpier on September 28, 2010 – 11:34 pm
Making fonts work with the web has always been a problem for web designers and developers. There have been many attemps at trying to break the web-safe stranglehold of Arial, Times, Courier and Georgia in the past. The simple version is to replace text with images of more attractive fonts, but this leave gaping holes in your content when considering SEO and accessibility (search engine index spiders and screen readers can’t ‘read’ words that are sliced as images). There have been Flash based font replacement but this has always been cumbersome and requires third party plug ins to work.
Finally, Google has come to the rescue. TO be fair, the Google Font API has been around for a while now, but their library of open source fonts was limited and the technology hadn’t caught on. Basically, it works by allowing the client-side computer to access centrally hosted font files (at Google) so that they can be rendered within the client-side browser. Simple and effective.
There is a bit of code that you have to place within the website and of course you still need to pay attention to your CSS and styling, but otherwise, it is an extremely easy way to add a bit of text-happy beautification to your website.
a few example fonts from the Google font library
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Recently featured in the Harald Sun for his success with Miss Universe Australia contestant Holly-Anne Visser, DS Fitness founder Dominic Svarc knew he needed a top-notch design team to work on the launch of his new company website. Wooden Pier was happy to rise to the challenge and the resulting site was met with overwhelming success.
Named Thelonius after the famous jazz musician, WordPress 3.0 launched last week and reveled some excellent new features. Fully customisable dynamic menu support and an easier to use admin interface are just two of the features that we’ll be taking advantage of here at Wooden Pier.
We look forward to offering our clients the option to use this new version of one of our favorite (and easy to use) Content Management Systems (CMS) for their next site, or new site refresh.
The Wooden Pier Creative Media team is happy to announce the launch of the new website for 2010.
Our new interface is even easier to use and find all the great stuff you’re looking for. Be sure to check out our ever expanding portfolio of work including website design, branding solutions and graphic design.
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Enjoy the site and feel free to get in touch if you would like to talk about future design projects with Wooden Pier Creative Media.
