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The CSS 3 Trick with jQuery to make rounded image

Another thing to consider is that many Windows users have the Office suite or at least MS Word which comes with many fonts preslected for installation. Also look at the fonts used by OpenOffice and other popular opensource editors.

These additional fonts are also good potential candidates for your font-family!

nice menu building technique

Dynamic, sliding JS based on JQuery menu with sliding images (used by wp.pl, itc.com, etc.)

Over the last few months, I've spent more time than I intended on exploring the whole idea of fonts and typography for the Web. (My friend, typography expert Simon Pascal Klein, writes, "The former is a stylized set of glyphs of characters," while "the other [is] the whole art of creating type and setting it into the written word." For more clarification and illumination, consult Jon Tan and Mark Simonson.) In the process, I've been considering the idea of font stacks-using the well-known font-family CSS property-to list as many different fonts as possible in order to optimize the web site experience for a maximum number of users.

esterday's post showed how to hack the :first-child pseudo-class into IE6 with jQuery and CSS. Continuing with that theme, today and tomorrow we'll show how to enable transparent PNG support in IE6