Wrapping text around irregular shapes
More then one top London-based design agency I've worked with recently have just loved designs with cut-outs. It's almost like all designers want to do is carefully trace around the edge of a photographic image and then place it over a flat graphic background.
Designers love text that wraps around these images too. Which makes me howl: "You're note designing a flat pic - this is a living, breathing website you ****!".
Clever bloke Rob Swan has come up with a solution which I wish I'd got a round to doing:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sandbags
Pleasingly it's all accessible code too. I haven't tried it, but the principles are sound. It's PHP-powered but I imagine you can rejig it for ASP, Java or Perl if that's what floats yer boat.
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