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Map the transparent layer of your PNG to a color
For those of us who still have to support IE6, one of the frustrating facts of life is that IE6 does not support full PNG-24 alpha transparency. Workarounds often include slow Javascript plugins, IE6 conditional CSS, or modifications to the visual design itself. All of these techniques are well and good, but there is one more trick you should have up your sleeve.
FAD ALERT: 'Birth of a Hero' font
Have you seen this font recently? I have, over a dozen times within the last month.
Rounded corners with CSS
Rounded corners are very commonplace in web design today. It is so common that the authors of the CSS 3 spec have decided to include it in the upcoming standard. Most browsers aren't supporting CSS 3 yet, but both the Gecko and Webkit rendering engines have had their own version of rounded corners CSS rules for a while now. It is a lot less work to simply apply a CSS rule to an element than to do it with images, so often recently I have been taking this approach. It doesn't work for IE. Internet Explorer users won't get the rounded corners. The corners are just a little added bonus to my users with the better browsers.
Technical tips for logo design
There are lots of articles out there that discuss the artistic aspects of logo design (this one is good, this one is too). I want to talk about the technical side of logo design and how flexible your logo needs to be. It helps to be aware of how your logo will be applied in the real world, and what problems you might encounter after you've finished drawing it. Here is my advice for when you sit down to draw your next logo, based on my own experience.