Category Archives: Code

Using & Abusing Google Webfonts

By Joel Byrnes | Published: November 11, 2013

Central repos for webfonts are probably one of the greatest things to happen to the visual web.  Hundreds of fonts are now easily available to spice up your content. I’ve recently found a few nice nuggets for those that use Google’s webfonts, that I thought are worth sharing.

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CSS Document Link Icons

By Joel Byrnes | Published: January 31, 2011

Sometimes you will find yourself linking to documents from a page.  Suppose you need to link to a PDF, an Excel spreadsheet, or a Microsoft Word document.  I think that it is in good form to visually denote that these links will begin a download. In a lot of cases, these types of links look […]

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List of Countries

By Joel Byrnes | Published: January 27, 2011

Image via Wikipedia Once in a while, you are working on a project where you need a list of every country on this planet.

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Change AdSense Colors

By Joel Byrnes | Published: November 2, 2010

If you are still using the “old” code to display Google AdSense ads, there is a little know feature that allows you to change the colors dynamically. I have no idea what Google’s official stance on using this feature is, as they say that you cannot edit the code that they give you to paste […]

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