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Fresh Free Fonts: Audimat, Share
October 12th, 2006 in Fonts | 5 Comments
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
October 11th, 2006 in Fonts | 119 Comments
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
October 10th, 2006 in Developer's Toolbox | 2 Comments
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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(X)HTML template systems in PHP
October 1st, 2006 in Developer's Toolbox | 17 Comments
Web developers find themselves sooner or later in a dire situation: their scripts become an entangled mess of code. Program logic, presentation logic and in a worst case scenario even layout and design are so interconnected with each other that the further development becomes difficult. Would one have thought ahead and had created a […]
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Complete List of Best SEO-Tools
September 22nd, 2006 in Developer's Toolbox | 46 Comments
What are the best ways to boost your position in search engines? What keywords should you use on your web-pages? And which tools should you use to improve the quality of backlinks, link popularity and Google Pagerank? We deliver answers. Here is the list of the most useful SEO-tools you might be willing to use, […]
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Color Palettes: Insurance
September 16th, 2006 in Color | Comments Off
Last week we’ve started a series of articles called “Color Palettes” - an overview of the dominating colors in modern web design. Observing the web-sites of traveling companies, we’ve found out that they tend to use Blue and Yellow - obviously, these colors stand for Sea and Beach.
Different profile, different companies, different colors. Today […]
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