by admin on Saturday, July 26, 2008
Every now and again we take a look around, select high-quality free fonts and present them to you. We search for them and we find them, so you don’t have to.
This month we are happy to present you Freebooter Script, Cora Basic Regular, Walkway and Karabine. Please read the license agreements carefully.
Free Fonts Of The Month
Freebooter Script
Script type designed by Graham Meade, available in PC Type 1, PC True Type and Mac Type 1.
Karabine
A hand-drawing typeface by Jonathan Paquette. PC / Mac. Free for personal use only.
Walkway (TrueType)
Walkway is a large font family which consists of 31 font style, such as Rounded, SemiBold Reverse Oblique, Bold, Bold Reverse Oblique, Black, Black Reverse Oblique, UltraBold and further styles. Windows, Mac OS X, Linux.
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by admin on Saturday, July 5, 2008
After receiving numerous requests Google improves the indexing of Adobe Flash files.
Q: Which Flash files can Google better index now?
We’ve improved our ability to index textual content in SWF files of all kinds. This includes Flash “gadgets” such as buttons or menus, self-contained Flash websites, and everything in between.
Q: What content can Google better index from these Flash files?
All of the text that users can see as they interact with your Flash file. If your website contains Flash, the textual content in your Flash files can be used when Google generates a snippet for your website. Also, the words that appear in your Flash files can be used to match query terms in Google searches.
In addition to finding and indexing the textual content in Flash files, we’re also discovering URLs that appear in Flash files, and feeding them into our crawling pipeline—just like we do with URLs that appear in non-Flash webpages. For example, if your Flash application contains links to pages inside your website, Google may now be better able to discover and crawl more of your website.
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by admin on Monday, June 30, 2008
The Internet is constantly changing. BusinessWeek.com spoke to a bevy of experts and distilled the must-follow rules top online designers live by in 2008
Since the Internet emerged as a major force, altering everything from the way people work to the way they date, it has been a roller-coaster ride that made the world giddy. Microsoft , Netscape, et al. fought the browser wars, Web standards were championed, and the Web became community-minded and social, ushering in the reign of Facebook, Flickr, and You Tube. From boom to bust and back again, with staggering amounts of money changing hands at every point, the online industry rides on with no end in sight.
The Net has also attracted prophets, gurus, theorists, ecommerce specialists and evangelists of every stripe. Many of their promised game-changing technologies—Jini, DHTML, and countless others—never panned out, while seemingly simple innovations—metadata, XML, and CSS—have led to major breakthroughs. Meanwhile, Web design vogues from the effervescent jumble of HotWired to the stark utility of Google have continued to evolve and become more contradictory—and entrenched.
To try and make sense of it all, BusinessWeek.com canvassed a broad range of Internet luminaries to discover the design rules they live by right now. Contributors ranged from the guru of Web usability, Don Norman, co-founder of the Nielsen Norman Group, to the design director of NYTimes.com, Khoi Vinh, and John Maeda, president-elect of the Rhode Island School of Design. These 10 commandments of Web design for 2008 are the combined results of our survey. For the full list of contributors, see the end of the story.
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by admin on Monday, June 30, 2008
Our website showcased on CSS Based, a project focused on providing its audience with a database of well designed CSS based websites from around the world.
What are Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)?
Cascading Style Sheets describe how documents are presented on screen in the browser. CSS separates the presentation from the content. Changes to the presentation can be made in the style sheet and the changes are automatically reflected throughout the whole document.
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by admin on Friday, June 27, 2008
The web looks very different today than it did 10 years ago.
Back in 1994, Yahoo had only just launched, most websites were text-based and Amazon, Google and eBay had yet to appear.
But, says usability guru Dr Jakob Nielsen, some things have stayed constant in that decade, namely the principles of what makes a site easy to use.
Dr Nielsen has looked back at a decade of work on usability and considered whether the 34 core guidelines drawn up back then are relevant to the web of today.
“Roughly 80% of the things we found 10 years ago are still an issue today,” he said.
“Some have gone away because users have changed and 10% have changed because technology has changed.”
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