Why does K2 come with the post content justified by default?
It looks crappy.
Though I guess if you want a sidebar on the right, having justified text is nice since you get a clean, uniform break between text and sidebar (rather than the jagged space created by left-justification). But I’d say it’s not worth the resulting mutilation of post content (that is, when justification is used). So I might try switching the sidebar over to the left side if I can find some time to play with it.
Justified text
Justified text is set flush with the left and right margins. Page layout programs use a hyphenation dictionary to check for and apply hyphenation at each line’s end and then adjust word spacing throughout the line. But even with sophisticated page layout software, justified text blocks often suffer from poor spacing and excessive hyphenation and require manual refinement. This level of control is not even a remote possibility on Web pages. The most recent browser versions (and CSS) support justified text, but it is achieved by crude adjustments to word spacing. Also, Web browsers are unlikely to offer automatic hyphenation any time soon, another “must” for properly justified text. For the foreseeable future, the legibility of your Web documents will suffer if you set your text in justified format.
[From TYPOGRAPHY: Alignment @ Web Style Guide 2.0]
IndieKarma. Micropayments that work?:
I got an email weeks ago urging me to look at a new micropayment system called IndieKarma. Pretty much every other micropayment scheme I’ve seen is too clunky to actually be useful, but I was pleasantly surprised with IndieKarma when I got around to checking it out. Here’s how it works.
If you’re a blogger or web site owner, you sign up, put a bit of JavaScript code on your site, and whenever a reader who’s signed into IndieKarma visits your site, you get a penny. Seamless and easy.
Ooooh, sounds awesome…! Maybe I’ll try it…
(Via kottke.org.)
I just want to take a moment to recognize both the great work that my friend Haseeb has been doing, but also his uncanny ability to design an amazingly sexy website that is just so cool you have to see it with your own eyes (go! Right now! http://www.rememberafghanistan.org)
Also, I encourage everyone in the greater Middlebury region to attend the symposium of the same name which will begin this coming week and will cover various aspects of the Afghan situation.
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Style-Linked Fonts - ITCFonts.com:
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