sIFR and WordPress: a Pretty Easy Combination

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

[Edit 11 June 2008: this post is somewhat out of date as I've now stopped using sIFR on this site. I got rather fed up with its imperfections to be honest. ]

The typography of this site was looking a little dull, so I thought it might be nice to use sIFR to jazz things up a little. sIFR - which stands for the rather daunting-sounding Scalable Inman Flash Replacement - uses a some neat trickery, a combination of Flash, Javascript and CSS, to change fonts on a page dynamically when it is loaded. This means you can use heading fonts which are

A BIT OFF THE WALL

without having the pain of creating substitute images for every item of text.

So, what does it take to get sIFR working with WordPress? (more…)