How to Use Web Fonts with WordPress

There are a ton of choices if you want to use web fonts on your website. With those choices come different methods of incorporating them with WordPress. Let's do it right, and avoid problems later.
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Nesting Modernizr.js Selectors with SASS and Compass

If you're going to use CSS3 properties in your designs, it's a good idea to make sure you aren't trying to apply them where they aren't supported. Old browsers have a hard enough time trying to grok your newfangled HTML(5). Don't confuse them with transforms and text shadow.
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I'm Starting a Personal Journal

I always thought of my next door neighbor Ray as my grandfather. Ray was an old WWI vet, retired trucker, and junior golf instructor who had a stack of hardbound journals he had written in for decades. I remember one of the things he shared about his Parkinson's, was the difficulty writing in his journal. It had become a very important part of his life. I wish I had started one then, when I was a kid. Ray told me as much.
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Responsive WordPress Images

WordPress has a few default classes used for things like image alignment, galleries and other html output by core features. This is a combination of the styles found in the default WordPress TwentyEleven theme, and some modifications of my own. Include this snippet with your css to save a bunch of time building your responsive WordPress theme.
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Conditional Internet Explorer Classes for Thesis

I love a good framework. Just exploring different frameworks and trying them out for various purposes can teach you a lot. One of my side projects lately has been building my own WordPress theme framework, which uses Paul Irish's HTML5 Boilerplate. Still, most of my projects and clients are using Thesis, which is a WordPress theme framework that does much of the heavy lifting in building custom sites. I'm on a mission to marry the two.
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