chillu.com

I found it! ITC Officina Sans rocks my world! :D Other nice Sansserif-Fonts which complete the list in my post “Helvetica R.I.P.” below: Flora, Folio, Frutiger, Goudy Sans, Univers. In the post I also groaned on the lacking abilities to style fonts online: With a rather simple idea that lets you bang your head thinking “why didn’t I…” even this obstacle seems to be sovled. Shaun Inman presents the “Inman Flash Replacement (IFR)”-technique, which renders any given truetype-font inside a “flash-movie-header” dynamically. One of the first implementations can be seen at Hicksdesign – one of my personal webdesign-heroes g*. The site was recently redesigned, but in major parts “verschlimmbessert”, as we germans would say ;) P.S.: Everybody who understands the header for this entry IS A GEEK *g. OK, enough chaotic posts and nonsense for today.

RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication”, which essentially means you can read content (mostly news and weblogs) off-site in a standardized format. chillu.com also joins the hype, and for the whole crowd who already subscribed to my feed (so, essentially macsepp g), I’ve got a new feed-url. There are lots of applications out there for reading those “RSS-feeds”, such as Newsmonster (newsmonster.org, Plattform-unabhängig), NewzCrawler (newzcrawler.com, Windows) oder NetNewsWire (ranchero.com, Mac). On my Powerbook I prefer the latter in its new incarnation “NetNewswire 2.0” with tabbed browsing – yeah baby!

Two new – and long awaited g* – releases of websites: My former flat-mate Sebastian alias macsepp relaunched macsepp.com in a very nice css-only design and a rockin’ navigation-scheme. I wish I also had such a worked out “about”-section. He uses TextPattern, a promising and simple CMS (textpattern.com) – I’ll stick with Typo3 though, even if it drives me CRAZY most of the times ;) Along with this, his g/f Eva published her website with very clean colors, though lacking a bit of content (sidekick to eva* g*). Hope to see some bloggin’ and pics by those two, as they are in Australia for studies and would *have something to blog about. UPDATE: Eva’s Website is offline again, perhaps I was a bit too fast with my posting ;)

Whew, what a geeky weekend: I was in Berlin all the time, well…over internet-console. Certain circumstances (and a notion of self-destruction) brought me to reinstall my root-server at Strato/Berlin, complete with nine (partly commercial) websites and loads of email-adresses on it. Its about every webmasters nightmare, and took me one day preperation (backup, user-accounts, etc) and even more for the new setup. So, again a weekend lost to web-work – which happens too often in the last months. University starts again tomorrow, it’s getting fall – and I somehow missed out the complete summer being heads-down in projects. DAMN COMPUTERS!

I am in process of compiling some pdf-sheets for my applications (vita, short portfolio), which need a worked-out typography. I’ve done some searching for font-alternatives to the omnipresent Helvetica-Typeface – and found “Leapfrogging the classics” on underconsideration.com (nice design, btw). Check out the comments as well, lots of experienced guys in there. Short list of the supposed Helvetica-Killers: Gotham, Interstate, Hoefler Text (to be contd.). Have to stick to Helvetica for floating-text-webdesign though…sigh