Design

Finally an accessible way to render text within your designs with out having to use flash/images with alt tags or JS with descriptors.

Cufon is a way to “render” your text on screen giving you cleaner looking fonts – i have put together a working example here

I wouldn’t use this with p tags or anything below a H2 as it isn’t selectable.

So you want to tell the world everything you do? Seems that people are tweeting about all sort of stuff… i am not a massive fan but have had some clients who want there own look and feel.

I have put together a multilayer photoshop document so you can see what i belive is best practice within the twitter environment.
NB – this is for screen res of 1280 X 1024 and above.

Download the PSD document here | 1.14Mb

Another consideration when designing a web site is what size do you design for? The type of site and who it is for will determine most of this although in general you should have ready made up standards.

My rule of thumb is to design for screen resolutions of  1024 x 768 although make sure you that have certain elements display correctly in 800 x 600.

The “certain elements” include Navigation, H1, first line of copy within the page fold and branding.

I have put together a chrome which has a few of my rule of thumb positionally as a guidance.

Download PSD chrome | 721 KB psd
Download PSD chrome Zip file | 84 KB Zip