Site Reviews - Week 7

http://ilovetypography.com/
Hugely informative site about typography, including thousands of fonts, (at least) hundreds of articles, and too much knowledge to assimilate in one shot! The article 15 Excellent Examples of Web Typography was really informative, making me realize my fonts were boring but adequate!

http://typographica.org/
Typographica is an online journal about typography, with articles that convey news, opinions and commentary on fonts and other typographic designs. One of the cool parts of this site was the "Typefaces of..." a variety of years. The ones immediately accessible from the front page were 2004-2007 by year. My favorite was BistroScript, seen here.

http://abc.planet-typography.com/
This "virtual museum of typography" is divided into four subcategories:
- Classic (1480-1890)
- 20th Century
- Modern
- Miscellaneous
Unfortunately, none of the links seemed to work, so I was unable to peruse beyond the main page.

http://www.alistapart.com/topics/design/typography/
A List Apart is a magazine published for web designers, so the content on this page is relevant, practical and interesting to examine from a designer's point of view. A couple of the articles I looked at discussed grid systems for positioning text, formatting text in CSS and using CSS to actually retrieve fonts from online for site visitors so the text does not have to be frozen in image form. Pretty cool stuff!

http://www.noupe.com/css/using-css-to-fix-anything-20-common-bugs-and-fixes.html
This article is amazing- 20 step by step fixes for CSS to polish up the minor issues that crop up with web design. Straightforward, it provides an image of the code so that it's easy to grasp and copy, which is a huge asset to newbies.