Weekly wwww

The mega agency R/GA goes from an all-black look to a (mostly) white one, and from Flash to a heavy javascripted approach on their web site. The details and high quality design, however, remain intact.

With all the progress of late into embedding custom fonts in web pages, Web Font Specimen is a very useful tool in determining how different fonts will look on the web. A List Apart's Real Web Type in Real Web Context discusses this in more detail.

A quick and easy solution to force the presence of scrollbars at all times in order to avoid the unfortunate content-jumping effect when navigating from one page to another.

Dan Leavy of Sparksheet sits down with web design world legend Jeffrey Zeldman and gets a little insight into doing things the right way.

A look at how the recent economic downturn is affecting color, design, and overall brand direction.