Incredibly cool rendition of Darth Vader using only various sized fonts. This is even better than the CSS Homer Simpson the Michael posted.
I especially like the chest-plate detailing. Very creative.
Visit Ironic Sans for the full story and a Font Leia as well.

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Smashing Magazine has posted 10 Usability Nightmares You Should Be Aware of and it’s a great read. Several things in there that all developers have probably been guilty of at one time or another. Read it and then try to remove as much of them from your sites as you can.
Smashing Magazine also provided a [...]

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Playing around with DotNetNuke again today for work and the CSS implementation leaves a lot to be desired. For some reason (open source? - multiple contributors?) the CSS has hundreds of redundant definitions and the code base itself adds unnecessary or at least unwanted IDs or CLASS tags to everything.
Rather than have a single FONT-FAMILY [...]

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I’ve blogged about Project Rooftop before in previous incarnations of this site, but it deserves another mention. They’re currently running a spotlight on Supergirl, who could definitely use a redesign right now. A few of the images I recognize from the Draw Supergirl Meme that was making the rounds in early February, but it’s nice [...]

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Don't Click It is a great, innovative site that everyone should check out. Is it the wave of the future for computer/mouse navigation? I can't say, but there are some interesting and fun experiments that make you think.
The basic idea of the entire website is to navigate the entire site without once clicking your mouse [...]

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Here’s a cool Flash app. that lets you generate a superhero/superheroine by selecting a number of options. You can select a genre (hero, fantasy, sports) and then male or female. From there, you can select any number of options as well as coloring. Very cool little site and definitely worth spending a few minutes there [...]

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