Site Maintenance
I’ve been fiddling around with the site some more lately, so if something’s not working please let me know.
The most obvious change is the new header graphic. I’ve long been looking for a simple header graphic but couldn’t find the right typeface, until i recently found jethose in the free font section of identifont. Almost exactly what i had in mind all along. You can download the font @transporter.at, it comes in full, loose and pixel flavours. Did i mention that it’s free?
After reading this sitepoint article about css image replacement which highlights two techniques, i decided to use the method introduced by Mike Rundle because it works without additional markup and works perfectly well most of the time: it’s quite simple, is compatible with any modern browser (the very definition thereof explicitly excludes netscape navigator 4), degrades reasonably well in older browsers with poor css support and works with screen readers and print stylesheets. The only downside i can currently think of is that the replaced text won’t be displayed in modern browsers with image loading deactivated because the text’s actually pushed far off-screen, but that’s a nuisance i’m willing to accept. It’s also the image replacement technique used by Jeffrey Zeldman, so i guess it can’t be too bad.
The other, more subtle change happened with the print stylesheet. Wordpress already comes with a fairly decent print stylesheet, but it’s far from being perfect and this has bothered me for quite some time now. Following this alistapart article i made a few cosmetic changes. Additionally, urls will be included in parentheses right after a link when you print out posts, turning printed links from completely incomprehensible and irrelevant into just slightly annoying. I guess that’s the best you can get without using semacode or qrcode. Wait, that’s a neat idea, i should look into that for the next version of my print stylesheet. Anyone done something like that?