Web Site Graphics: Grid

The Web limits designers' typographic options by forcing them to adopt workarounds and rendering images to control basic attributes such as font choice, leading, and kerning. This collection features the best and cleverest sites which employ interesting type - whether that means expressing text in images, coding tags in HTML, or using Cascading Style Sheets to engage the eye through juxtaposition, spacing, and other typographic techniques.

Jeff Carlson spent several years doing desktop publishing before jumping into the Web publishing arena by founding and editing, eSCENE, the Internet's only yearly anthology of the best short fiction appearing on the Web. Jeff has published articles in HOW Magazine, Macworld, and Adobe Magazine, and was a contibuting editor and columnist for Adobe's online venture, adobe.mag. In addition to writing and editing, he's an accomplished Web designer and consultant through his company Never Enough Coffee creations. www.necoffee.com

For the past ten years, Toby Malina has worked for Thunder Lizard Productions and also independently as a graphic designer and Macintosh consultant. Her multi-faceted roles have included art director, production artist, MIS manager, software/systems trainer, and mental health professional. Her greatest triumph: wrenching a motherboard from the jaws of a client's basset hound and successfully reseating it.

Glenn Fleishman has written about technology and its use in several publications, including InfoWorld and NetGuide. He was a founding contributing editor and columnist for the print edition of Web Developer, and is a contributing editor and columnist for Adobe Magazine, where he writes the Web Watcher column. He works as a consultant, conference chair, writer, and itinerant perl programmer, and recently co-authored the second edition of Real World Scanning and Halftones. www.glenns.org