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Increased On-line traffic – BlogRUSH brings new readers to your blog.
BlogRUSH has been released with a tremendous reception. This new widget is spreading like wildfire across the blogosphere. We’ve placed the BlogRUSH widget on 2 of our blogs. I wouldn’t say it greatly increased on-line traffic but it’s still early in the game to know how well it will work. I’ll give it some time [...]
The Design of Sites: An outstanding guide to Web Design.
“The ‘pattern’ book has become a familiar genre for frequent readers of technical manuals. The idea is to sift through mountains of architectural or design schemes and then to categorize and catalogue the most frequent ideas and present their strengths and weaknesses. This type of book has been a success in software engineering, but can [...]
Here’s a Quick Way to deal with Display Resolutions in your Web Design.
One of the main considerations of designing a web site is the display resolution you plan on using. You’ll need to decide on which resolution is best for your site and your visitors.
Some web sites are designed with a fixed size, meaning they stay the same size regardless of the size of the browser window. [...]
Font Goblin: The Best Fonts of 2006 and beyond!
So many fonts, so little time. Here a fantastic list of fonts from the Font Goblin. The people over at Typographica.org have scanned through the thousands of fonts that came out in 2006 and late 2005. They’ve filtered out the unusable ones and have come up with a list of their favourite fonts.
Little know secrets for designing killer forms!
Forms are an unruly bunch. They’re used each and every day for collecting all kinds of user input and information collection on the web. Unfortunately the design of the many forms on the web is not consistent from one site to another. There are forms I can get through without too much trouble and other [...]
Better Web Design with Contrast and Meaning
A must read for anyone interested in the fundamentals of creative communication and conveying meaning in our designs. Useful across all areas of design and art, these fundamentals break down into artistic vocabulary (line, form, color, texture) and artistic grammar (contrast, balance, harmony).
An excellent article on contrast, it’s effect on the visual message and how [...]
Lorem Ipsum: It’s all Greek to me!
If you’ve ever been without proper copy for a web page layout you’ll appreciate this online tool. It’s an online generator of greek text also know as Lorem Ipsum. ‘Lorem Ipsum’ is the first two words you’ll see in a passage of greek text.
There’s more info about Lorem Ipsum on the site if you’re [...]
Image Power Searches: Finding the perfect image fast!
Having the right image on your web site can add visual excitement, turn heads your way, enhance your message and inspire further reading of your content.
Finding the right image isn’t always easy. There are lots of fantastic stock photo sites out there that have a huge collection of professional images to choose from. Unfortunately going [...]
Font Goblin: Free Fonts for your Web Designs
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Here is the first of a new series of posts that will feature a bunch of free fonts we’ve collected from all over the web. Our Font Goblin gets to go out (when he’s been good) to hunt and peck around for the newest free fonts. He brings back any free fonts deemed worthy [...]
7 classic design styles to inspire your web designs
Looking for some good inspiration for your web designs? Here is a great lesson on some basic design movements. You will definitly expand your creative scope and open new ideas and ways of thinking about your designs.
Larrisa Meek does a great job explaining 7 design movements, affectionately know as Design-isms, and how today’s web design [...]
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