If you have been designing for a while you probably already have your own favorite method of prototyping. Nevertheless, here’s a good alternative: Yahoo! offers a free, complete (grids, form elements, etc) stencils kit that’s available in many different formats (OmniGraffle, Visio XML, PDF, PNG and SVG).
One thing that prevents me from using common fonts like Tahoma or Century Gothic is the fact that I don’t know how many people have that font installed on their computer. Here’s an excellent article giving both the list of fonts and how many people have it on their PCs/Macs. For Linux, there’s also this list.
First, here’s the beta version. I’d say the most annoying part is the huge score, despite it being generally irrelevant. In a list-style page like Reddit, being on the front page is indicator enough for an article’s quality, without us having to know its score. And mackstann sums it up for me:
..by making the “score” larger and bold and outside of the rest of the text. In my opinion, people shouldn’t need to care much about the score of a link. If the algorithm is good then the numeric score is irrelevant…
Here’s Eric Meyer’s discovery on the issue. The intrinsic value of “normal” for different font faces on different browsers, it turns out, is totally wacky. The moral of the story is to simply avoid using it for any precision, cross-browsers compatible work. Which is all the time, I should say.
This is a happy day to be a Opera user. Still in alpha stage, Opera Dragonfly is a promising tools similar to Firebug or Web Developer Add-on, both for Firefox. By the way, here’s an entire Opera Widget section dedicated to Web Developer category.
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