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I am sure everyone has seen it, but I made the containing HTML and CSS fully W3C valid. Google's PacMan home page...awesome.

It is located at chadsten.com/pacman. Link to source is there as well. Enjoy!

This is a developmental release! It is unfinished, but I figured I would keep a copy here when I make major changes.

I have been using, modifying, and reusing the same little PHP framework every time I do a simple non CMS site, both at work and freelance. I have decided to streamline it a bit more for my purposes, and release it open source.

The system really separates any logic code from the majority of the markup, so this is fairly easy for intermediate webmasters to edit content on.

Overview:

Working a lot with Drupal and Magento, I figured out a cool way to have drop shadows on system generated text without having to use GD or ImageMagick to create text images, which can be less SEO friendly and more resource intensive.
Edit: Also, the CSS3 property for text shadows isn't very cross browser compatible at this point.

Using simple XHTML and CSS, it is easy to make a cool drop shadow on any text you want. It does look better on larger text.

Example: