CSS image replacement, or Fahrner Image Replacement (FIR) as the original method was called, is a cool and useful trick that you can do with CSS to spice up some of the text on your web pages. The basic premise is that we replace plain text in HTML with an image; doing this not only makes the text (potentially) look better but also doesn’t carry the usual accessibility or search engine unfriendly consequences. I discovered recently that this technique wasn’t as widely known as I had thought so I figure I’ll do my bit for spreading another CSS technique to the masses.
Hello everyone and welcome to my new website – and the first post of my blog! The old site was pretty bad and hacked together just to get something up. I planned to eventually develop it into a simple content management system but time and elemental forces prevented me from doing so. Instead, I tried out a bunch of existing software and eventually settled on WordPress.