Valentine

Image © Robynrg/Dreamstime

Have a lovely Valentine’s Day, my dear. Wish you were here right now. If you get too lonesome, there’s always Elvis’ voice in “...

Using HTML Templates

The following applies to using HTML templates with sNews.

Once you have sNews up and running on your server, be it local or remote, you will probably want to w...

A Roman, A Gothic & A Modern

The font used in the headline is Stone Print Roman, 48pt, with neutral kerning.

I think that my fascination for type began with transfers. I’ve always liked letter shapes, the...

Solving the base href dilemma

You may know this already: there is a problem with using a correct and perfectly valid tag, in Internet Explorer only. The tag is <base>.

To sum up the problem: the <base> tag i...

Troubleshooting

Sometimes errors will happen, in spite of best intentions. Here’s a run-down of the more common error messages that might occurr when using sNews, their possible causes and fixes .

Installing sNews

This info was originally written for sNews 1.5, in December 2006, and split over two articles. I have updated it a little for sNews 1.6, though most of the details are the same for b...

Need Help?

If you need help opening the Vista box, chances are you’re already in deep trouble...

Feels like we’ve seen this before somewhere, but never mind. Still funny.

(Via Gruber)

Webkit and @font face

I ran into a rendering bug with Webkit 3 nightly build, a couple of weeks ago, while toying with some ideas that have been incorporated in this version of frdk.com — a “bug” which affected In...