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Created January 7, 2011 17:39
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shows some super fancy text kerning and positioning and shit. Uses jquery.lettering.js
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Page Title</title>
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Cardo:regular"' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
BODY {
background-color:#999;
font-family:Cardo;
}
#container {
width: 600px;
padding: 20px;
background-color:#FFF;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
margin-top:2em;
}
#header {
width: 600px;
line-height:490px;
height:600px;
background-color:#000;
color:#FFF;
text-align:center;
position:relative;
padding:0;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
}
#title {
position:absolute;
width: 600px;
text-align:center;
font-size:45pt;
}
#title .char1 {padding-right:.1em;}
#title .char2 {padding-right:.1em;}
#title .char3 {padding-right:.1em;}
#title .char4 {padding-right:.1em;}
#title .char5 {padding-right:.1em;}
#title .char6 {padding-right:.1em;}
#title .char7 {padding-right:.1em;}
#title .char8 {padding-right:.1em;}
#title .char9 {padding-right:.05em;}
#nav {
position:absolute;
top:4em;
font-size:16pt;
letter-spacing: 0.135em;
width:600px;
text-align:center;
}
#nav-items {
width:22em;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
}
#nav-items a {
padding-right:1.2em;
color:#FFFFFF;
text-decoration:none;
}
#nav-items .word4 {
padding-right:0;
}
</style>
<script src="http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery/jquery-1.4.4.min.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script src="jquery.lettering.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#title").lettering();
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="header">
<h1 id="title">FUNKATRON</h1>
<div id="nav">
<div id="nav-items">
<a href="#!posts" class="word1">POSTS</a> <a href="#!items" class="word2">ITEMS</a> <a href="#!about" class="word3">ABOUT</a> <a href="#!contact" class="word4">CONTACT</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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