Rich "The Hubbins" Claussen - PDXUX.Net Meeting

Monday, October 29, 2007

It hasn't been that long since the last PDXUX.Net meeting, but I wanted to get the word out early on this one. A couple things to note up front:

This meeting will be held at Corillian in Hillsboro
The meeting will be on the 2nd Tuesday instead of the 3rd to avoid Turkey-Day conflicts.

WHAT:	November PDXUX.Net Meeting
WHEN:	Tuesday 11/13/2007 6:30 p.m. Socializing & Pizza (by White Horse) 7:00 p.m. Presentation
WHERE:	Corillian Cafe 3400 NW John Olson Place Hillsboro, OR 97124
WHO:	Scott Vandehey Scott is a web developer and CSS Ninja working at Pop Art who has been making websites for over ten years. He lives in NE Portland with his wife and baby daughter, and is probably not a Cylon.
TOPIC:	Introducing sIFR Scott will be introducing sIFR 2.0, a method of inserting rich typography into web pages without sacrificing accessibility, search engine friendliness, or markup semantics. sIFR is meant to replace short passages of plain browser text with text rendered in your typeface of choice, regardless of whether or not your users have that font installed on their systems. It accomplishes this by using a combination of javascript, CSS, and Flash. It is this technology which provides the nice looking custom type headlines you see on sites like Nike, ABCNews, Aston Martin, and others.