Andy Vaughn

Monthly Archives: April 2010

How to write CSS for a CMS

When writing CSS, it’s very important to pay attention to the “cascading” factor in your stylesheets, as opposed to simply adding style on top of style. When writing CSS for a content management system, it is vital to harness the strength of the cascade, and not repeat yourself. I’m going to show you how I […]

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Museo Sans 500

Today I switched my body font from Qlassik to Museo Sans 500. I also replaced the italic styles to Museo Sans 500 Italic. It’s a great-looking sans-serif font created by Jos Buivenga based on the Museo font. I downloaded the fonts from MyFonts and created the @font-face stack through FontSquirrel. Let me know what you […]

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Chess Puzzles

Chess Puzzles is a website that I designed and strategically programmed for John Bain two and a half years ago. It’s still going strong, with over ten-thousand visitors monthly playing and participating in the daily puzzles. The website was built using WordPress as a CMS, and the chess tactic engine was programmed using a custom […]

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