Author: Dee Dubs

/* Times New Roman-based serif */
font-family: Cambria, “Hoefler Text”, Utopia, “Liberation Serif”, “Nimbus Roman No9 L Regular”, Times, “Times New Roman”, serif;

/* A modern Georgia-based serif */
font-family: Constantia, “Lucida Bright”, Lucidabright, “Lucida Serif”, Lucida, “DejaVu Serif,” “Bitstream Vera Serif”, “Liberation Serif”, Georgia, serif;

/*A more traditional Garamond-based serif */
font-family: “Palatino Linotype”, Palatino, Palladio, “URW Palladio L”, “Book Antiqua”, Baskerville, “Bookman Old Style”, “Bitstream Charter”, “Nimbus Roman No9 L”, Garamond, “Apple Garamond”, “ITC Garamond Narrow”, “New Century Schoolbook”, “Century Schoolbook”, “Century Schoolbook L”, Georgia, serif;

/*The Helvetica/Arial-based sans serif */
font-family: Frutiger, “Frutiger Linotype”, Univers, Calibri, “Gill Sans”, “Gill Sans MT”, “Myriad Pro”, Myriad, “DejaVu Sans Condensed”, “Liberation Sans”, “Nimbus Sans L”, Tahoma, Geneva, “Helvetica Neue”, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;

/*The Verdana-based sans serif */
font-family: Corbel, “Lucida Grande”, “Lucida Sans Unicode”, “Lucida Sans”, “DejaVu Sans”, “Bitstream Vera Sans”, “Liberation Sans”, Verdana, “Verdana Ref”, sans-serif;

/*The Trebuchet-based sans serif */
font-family: “Segoe UI”, Candara, “Bitstream Vera Sans”, “DejaVu Sans”, “Bitstream Vera Sans”, “Trebuchet MS”, Verdana, “Verdana Ref”, sans-serif;

/*The heavier “Impact” sans serif */
font-family: Impact, Haettenschweiler, “Franklin Gothic Bold”, Charcoal, “Helvetica Inserat”, “Bitstream Vera Sans Bold”, “Arial Black”, sans-serif;

/*The monospace */
font-family: Consolas, “Andale Mono WT”, “Andale Mono”, “Lucida Console”, “Lucida Sans Typewriter”, “DejaVu Sans Mono”, “Bitstream Vera Sans Mono”, “Liberation Mono”, “Nimbus Mono L”, Monaco, “Courier New”, Courier, monospace;

Check out here for some great font references.

http://www.cssfontstack.com/

/* Smartphones (portrait and landscape) ———– */
@media only screen
and (min-device-width : 320px) and (max-device-width : 480px) {
/* Styles */
}

/* Smartphones (landscape) ———– */
@media only screen and (min-width : 321px) {
/* Styles */
}

/* Smartphones (portrait) ———– */
@media only screen and (max-width : 320px) {
/* Styles */
}

/* iPads (portrait and landscape) ———– */
@media only screen and (min-device-width : 768px) and (max-device-width : 1024px) {
/* Styles */
}

/* iPads (landscape) ———– */
@media only screen and (min-device-width : 768px) and (max-device-width : 1024px) and (orientation : landscape) {
/* Styles */
}

/* iPads (portrait) ———– */
@media only screen and (min-device-width : 768px) and (max-device-width : 1024px) and (orientation : portrait) {
/* Styles */
}

/* Desktops and laptops ———– */
@media only screen and (min-width : 1224px) {
/* Styles */
}

/* Large screens ———– */
@media only screen and (min-width : 1824px) {
/* Styles */
}

/* iPhone 4 ———– */
@media only screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:1.5), only screen and (min-device-pixel-ratio:1.5) {
/* Styles */
}

blockquote {
background: #f9f9f9;
border-left: 10px solid #ccc;
margin: 1.5em 10px;
padding: .5em 10px;
quotes: “\201C””\201D””\2018″”\2019”;
}
blockquote:before {
color: #ccc;
content: open-quote;
font-size: 4em;
line-height: .1em;
margin-right: .25em;
vertical-align: -.4em;
}
blockquote p {
display: inline;
}

The blockquote displays in standards-compliant browsers with the “big quotes before” effect, and in IE with a thick left border and a light grey background.
Unlike other blockquote techniques, this style does not require a nested block-level element (like p). As such, it turns a paragraph into an inline-styled element to keep the content from dropping below the quote.

.clearfix:after { content: “.”; display: block; clear: both; visibility: hidden; line-height: 0; height: 0; }
.clearfix { display: inline-block; }

html[xmlns] .clearfix { display: block; }
* html .clearfix { height: 1%; }

This clearfix code has been around the Web for years circulating amongst savvy web developers. You should apply this class onto a container which holds floating elements. This will ensure any content which comes afterwards will not float but instead be pushed down and cleared.

I miss working in flash 5. It was a great development environment. It bridged the gap between visual art and code art. Allowed some creative and exciting user interaction. For the next gen it will all be about css and html 5. I am devving some “TimeLines”  , “Movie Clips” and some “Stages” for creating stuff.  Here is the “Stage” template: stage

Here are some prototypes of a “Movie Clip” made from jpg series.  Bubbles

Guie blink

Here is a comparison of image series rendered in flash, and using my “Movie Clip” and “Timeline”  prototypes