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Color Palettes: Real Estate

What color palettes are used in the industry? What about your competitors? How to establish yourself as a new trend in the field which is dominanted by other companies? We take a look at different branches of modern life and analyze, which color patterns are the most popular.

In order to be successful, solid real […]

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CSS: Techniques, Tutorials, Layouts

Since web-development is a quite dynamic field nowadays, new techniques are being developed and updated all the time. A primary example are CSS-related techniques, which emerge almost every day and offer more possibilities for fellows web-developers. We keep an eye on the recent developments and collect new ideas and methods for our readers. A “fresh” round-up of the “fresh” CSS techniques, tutorials and layouts.

PS: You might be willing to check out the List of CSS Tools, too.

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Stock Icons: An Overview

Whether you develop a software application, write an Ajaxified web-app or design a Web 2.0-stylish site, you can’t get away from tiny, small, nice and extremely helpful icons, which make the text more readable and present the information more vividly. Some icon sets can be downloaded for free. But the most beautiful ones have […]

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Fresh Free Fonts: Audimat, Share

Just few days ago we’ve posted a list of new free quality fonts but the feedback from our readers, and the feedback was and remains tremendous. Over the last days we’ve received many e-mails with further free font suggestions and we’d like to share them with you. Among new free fonts - Audimat and […]

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19 More Free Quality Fonts

Almost a year ago I’ve posted an article called “20 Best Free Quality Fonts” in my blog - a list of fonts, which are likely to be used rather for official, serious presentations (such as business sites) than a colourful teenager’s homepage. I didn’t expect something unusual, I didn’t think about any traffic problems, provider complaints and negative users’ feedback.

But, actually, I should, I REALLY should. Over this year my personal pick on free quality fonts popped up in dozens of discussions about web-typography and led dozens of thousands of web-developers and curious users to my blog. The page still remains popular today, and it is instantly updated. However, over the last few days I’ve decided to revisit the old sources, take a look at new fonts and choose the most beautiful ones, which aren’t included in my old fonts’ collection. In fact, many new fonts occured - some of them just weren’t available for download one year ago, some of them were created over the last 12 months.

The results are listed below - the most beautiful fonts, created by the open-source community and free for personal, academic and (sometimes) commercial use. The disclaimers are changing from time to time, so you better first take a close look at disclaimer before using the font in a commercial project.

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Wikipedia: Services, Tools, Engines, Tutorials

Wikipedia. Everyone knows it. Everyone uses it. But how to use it effectively?

if you thought of Wikipedia as just a free online-encyclopedia, built by enthusiasts from all around the world, you’ve seriously underestimated its influence. In the era of constantly growing Folksonomies Wikis - so-called Wikipedia-engines - are usually one of the essential tools, which enable users to collect information, share it and use it for personal, business and collaborative purposes. If you know what I am talking about, you should have take a closer look at dozens of useful tools, which can make the life of wikipedianers easier. With them you can collect information in a more efficient way; besides, they will help you to find the information you are looking for much-much-much quicker. An overview of the essential services, tools, engines and tutorials related to Wikipedia and Wikis - for our readers.

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