Weekly Link Round-Up #7

• Published: 11.23.2007
• Categories: Web

After a nice short week, and 2 days of eating and football, time to share my links for the week. This collection is only until Wednesday, but I still found a bunch of interesting things.

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Typography

  I need to go back and watch this movie again after seeing all the great typography that is used. Someone definitely put a lot of time and effort into choosing the typography for the movie.

• How Many HTML Elements Can You Name in 5 Minutes?

  Ready, set, GO! I got 51. How many did you get? I got basically all of the non-depreciated elements, except for a few. The ones I missed were like noscript, frame and things like that.

• How Many CSS Properties Can You Name in 7 Minutes?

  I got 67. There were some that I was smacking myself for not getting, but then there are a bunch that aren’t really supported.

• Apple Gets Creative With Mac Ads

  Can Apple do anything wrong right now? This ad is genius.

• Scientific Web Design: 23 Actionable Lessons from Eye-Tracking Studies

  A lot of this stuff is things most people probably know, but there is a lot of interesting stuff here.

• Interface Research (Survey)

  Take this quick 10 question survey from a class at the Art Institute of Atlanta. The results are about what I figured, except for 1 or 2.

• Does advanced search sound too advanced?

  Yeah, I think “Advanced Search” is not a good term. I like what Roger suggests: “Refined” and “Enhanced”.

• Understanding Web Design

  The Godfather speaks. A great article from Jeffrey Zeldman about how you can’t really design for the web if you don’t understand it.

• How to Size Text in CSS

  This was a great issue of A List Apart this week. This article shows different tests of sizing typography. I think the important thing in this article is that Richard is testing to see his vertical grid grow when users resize their text.