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Life & fun · March 29, 2011

My imageless one page website, thanks to CSS3

I recently rebuilt my website as digital business card, which serves a simple purpose: Say hello, then point people in the direction of the places I inhabit on the web. At the time I was playing around with the HTML5 boilerplate and Google web fonts, and it inspried me to try to implement the logos of the sites I link to with CSS rather than images. You can view it at: http://colin-gourlay.com/ You'll need a modern browser to see the effects in action, but if you're still using IE6/7/8,I hope you can still appreciate the degraded appearance! Is it effective? Are CSS + custom fonts not quite…

My imageless one page website, thanks to CSS3 launched on March 29, 2011 with 7 votes, #100 of 272 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 15 years on.

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I recently rebuilt my website as digital business card, which serves a simple purpose: Say hello, then point people in the direction of the places I inhabit on the web. At the time I was playing around with the HTML5 boilerplate and Google web fonts, and it inspried me to try to implement the logos of the sites I…

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