The Venture Skills Blog

A recent Google Webmaster blog post finally put the last nail into the coffin with regards to content substitution or to give it the demonic blackhat term Cloaking…

A technique like sIFR still lets non-Flash readers read a page, since the content/navigation is actually in the HTML — it’s just displayed by an embedded Flash object.

Source:http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/07/best-uses-of-flash.html

So its ok for us to write text and then substitute that text with a flash or image file, now to be fair most SEO I think have been doing this with CSS image substitution for some time, but this is the first time that I have seen Google come out and say that its ok to use these techniques.
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So following in the vein of our accessibility drive and then our layouts we now turn our attention to some of the best ideas and tips when it comes to using Fonts and typography in your CSS based sites.
In case you were wondering…

Typography is the art and techniques of type design, modifying type glyphs, and arranging type. Type glyphs (characters) are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques. The arrangement of type is the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading (line spacing) and letter spacing.Wikipedia

These as always are in no particular order, but hopefully will help at least one or two people out.
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So we brought you some great CSS tips to help with accessibility over the weekend, and we discussed how layout helps users get into your page with our look at stumblers and Diggers habits, now its time to introduce the layouts…
These are our favourite CSS layout sites and scripts, enjoy
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We are in the last few bits of the new site and while designing it a major focus has been on accessibility and not just for search engines.
For us accessibility is built into the design its about reaching as many people as possible and giving as many people as we can the chance to read about our work and to enjoy our highly entertaining blog posts (no really they are). In European countries the various EU and country specific laws are pretty rigid and all web designers should by now be familiar with WAI Level 1 & 2 and be reaching and exceeding these standards as the norm. One of the major criticisms is that by following the standards you are left with dry boring sites, this just is not true! you can still have amazing sites and we are going to show you 5 neat tips to make your standards compliant site look just as good as it always did.
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