10 Fonts You Can Embed with Cufon and sIFR
From Cats Who Code, a round-up of 10 nice fonts that are available (licensed) now for embedding in your websites.
Cufon, Sifr and Flir are very powerful tools for designers and developers: They allow you to embed any font in a web page. Though, you have to be careful with font licences. In this article, I’m going to show you 10 very good looking fonts that you can embed in your websites.
10 Fonts You Can Embed with Cufon and sIFR »
Logo Design Toolbox: 60 Resources for Logo Design
Designm.ag rounds-up over 60 resources for logo design, including sources of inspiration, blogs, tutorials, articles and case studies.
Logo Design Toolbox: 60 Resources for Logo Design » (Design m.ag)
5 Must Have Sans Serif Fonts
Looking for some nice (and free) sans serif fonts? Worrkup has 5 nice ones, worth a look.
5 Must Have Sans Serif Fonts »
Teach Yourself Graphic Design
The always useful PDSTuts+, has a great round-up today which constitutes a course outline for anyone looking to lear Graphic Design through self-study.
If you would like to learn graphic design from the ground up, through self directed study, then this article lists some great resources that will get you started with your design education.
As someone who has taken the "self-taught" route for everything web-related, I know it's possible. And having a set of resources packaged up is a great head-start.
Teach Yourself Graphic Design: A Self-Study Course Outline »
Today's Web Design Round-up
For your design inspiration, Line 25 highlights the Letterpress Text Effect in this web design trend showcase.
Web Design Trend Showcase: Letterpress Text Effect »
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Curon Vs. Typeface.js, Which One is Better?
Kilian Valkhof has a nice article comparing the two fairly recent font-replacement scripts Cufon and Typeface.js. The article details how both scripts work, their properties, file sizes, how to convert fonts to work with the scripts and how to include them in your website.
The side-by-side comparison comes up pretty close, which is illustrated with a demo comparison page. A great read for anyone interested in these new font-replacement techniques.
Cufon vs. Typeface.js, which one is better? »
5 Must Know Web Design Polishing Techniques
From site Line25, a nice article detailing 5 simple techniques that can give any website an "extra level of detail" and make a website more polished.
5 Must Know Web Design Polishing Techniques »
30 Creative Examples of Using Paper in Web Designs
Using paper as a design element is very popular at the moment and Six Revisions has a great showcase of some of the best examples of this trend. Worth browsing for some great inspiration.
30 Creative Examples of Using Paper in Web Designs »
10 Creative and Rich UI Interfaces and How to Create Them
Site noupe.com has a nice article today, illustrating how to create some great interfaces using JS, Ajax and CSS techniques. A nice article, worth a read.
10 Creative & Rich UI interfaces & How to Create Them »
35 Free Fonts to Enhance Your Designs
From Instant Shift, 35 nice and free fonts for use in your designs. A nice round-up, worth a browse.
35 Free Fonts to Enhance Your Designs »
A Few Font Posts Worth Browsing
From Tripwire Magazine, 65 Hand-picked Free Fonts for Serious Designs »
Find some tips for web typography at Master Web Typography: 8 Detailed Typography Tips for the Web »
5 Simple Ways to Improve Web Typography
Webdesigner Depot has a nice article today, detailing 5 ways to improve web typography, including CSS resets, whitespace, font choices and more. A good read as a reminder of some best practices for web typography.
5 Simple Ways to Improve Web Typography »
100 Free Seamless Vector Patterns
Site Pattern Head has a great big collection of free, seamless vector patterns that are ideal for web design and print work. Vectors are great to use for any design project as they can be scaled to any size without losing quality. Some nice looking patterns, definitely worth a look.
100 Free Seamless Vector Patterns Ideal for Web Design and Print Work » (Pattern Head)
40 Super Sleek Fonts for Clean Web Design
Web Design Ledger has a big round-up of "sleek" fonts that would all go nicely with a clean or minimalist web design. Worth browsing for some new font finds!
40 Super Sleek Fonts for Clean Web Design » (Web Design Ledger)
10 Web Typography Rules Every Designer Should Know
Webdesigner Depot has a nice article today, looking at some rules of typography that any designer should know and use. Nicely illustrated and worth a read!
10 Web Typography Rules Every Designer Should Know » (Webdesigner Depot)
70+ Website Background Trends, How To's and Best Practices
Background images are very popular right now and site noupe.com has a great, big round-up of examples, how to's and resources for how to get the look.
Web designers compete to impress visitors with distinctive and appealing visual elements. Background images are one of those visual elements that when designed properly, can create an amazing atmosphere and convey the style the designer has chosen.
Website Backgrounds: 70 Impressive Trends, How To’s & Best Practices » (noupe.com)
Web Design: From Good to Great in 25 Links
Website Ten Thousand Things has a nice list for anyone interested in web design, highlighting articles that focus on refining web design skills. Many may be familiar to anyone who follows these type of links but it's always nice to revisit some of them, as well.
Web Design: From Good to Great in 25 Links (Ten Thousand Things)
How to Make iPhone Webclip Icons
If you're looking for a nice addition to your site, why not consider making an iPhone Webclip Icon? Fortunately, there is an easy how-to to follow. Be sure to read the Addendums at the bottom for some refinements.
HOWTO: iPhone Webclip Icons - Dan Dickinson: The Primary Vivid Weblog
15 Footers with Great Usability
If you've been thinking about sprucing up your website footer, you might like to browse this collection of 15 footer designs.
Footers are becoming an essential strategy to engage visitors. Leaders in the industry are moving toward implementing effective footer features and creating a place for presenting, displaying and branding to their audiences in a very personal way by providing intuitive nature.
15 Footers with great usability
Best of CSS Design 2007
Design website Web Designer Wall has worked up a really nice list of what they consider to be the best of CSS design from 2007. If you're looking for some design inspiration, this is a great place to start!
24 Ways to Impress Your Friends, the 2007 Edition
It's been a pre-holiday, web dev and design must read for the past two years and the 2007 edition of 24 Ways has just posted Day 1 - 24 ways: Transparent PNGs in Internet Explorer 6.
Be sure to grab the feed or bookmark to catch all 24 ways to impress your friends.
Element of Web Design: The Polish
Elements of Great Web Design: The Polish is a great walkthrough on how to add polish to your web design using Photoshop.
It's well worth a read and be sure to check out the before and after demonstration to get a real feel for the ways you can take a good design and make it a great design.
Complete Typography Guide
Complete Typography Guide - over 200 links related to typography, including typography basics, tips and tutorials, free fonts, online font tools, desktop font tools, resources and more.
Rotate, scale and blur for screenshot presentation effect
Why just present a plain old screenshot when you can rotate, scale and distort it" Weblog mezzoblue shows you how to apply this cool effect to screencaptures in his blog entry Simulacrum.
Making a Good Favicon
Making a Good Favicon - Snook.ca offers some thoughts and software suggestions for making a good favicon for your site.
Typography for Headlines
Typography for Headlines | Smiley Cat Web Design. Remember the comment showcase from a while back? Well here's another one, only this one is showcasing headlines. This is an excellent way to see the styles and trends and a great way to find inspiration all in one page!
Free Web Page Headers
Free Web Page Headers | High Quality Images for Personal Websites and Blogs - cool! And if you don't already know, they show you how to use them!
All Time Top 5 Designs
Just Keep The Change - All time top 5 designs - at least according to this author.
I think the choices are all pretty solid, although I'm personally not that blown away by #4. I like a lot of the parts of it, just not all the parts together.
Get Color
Netcocktail :: Get Color - a look at color schemes for web design, with screenshots and color chips from well-known websites. File under Inspiration.
Top Color Combinations for Web Design
Top Color Combinations for Web Design - a comprehensive look at color combinations for web design, with lots of nice examples and a guide to color for web design as well.
Current Web Style
Current style in web design - a round up of current sites, and their common elements.
How to Make a Blog Header Graphic
HOW TO: Make a Blog Header Graphic at PaulStamatiou.com - great tutorial.
DarkEye
Dark Eye - Living Design Showcase. The site says that DarkEye is "what you make it" but I say it's a good looking, design showcase/rating/inspiration site with some nice goodies that make it a worthy stop in search for inspiration.
Protruding Image Effect
JeffCroft.com: Simple Protruding Image Effect. Hmmm. Interesting.
Design in Flight
design in-flight - on the web. Good stuff.
Pixel Perfect
Pixel Perfect - Free Image Archive. Always nice to have another resource for free images.
Content in minimalist designs
Adding in tabs, blogmarks and a blogroll | Blog | 1976design.com offers up a really nice way to offer more content, while keeping true to a minimalist design. Some great ideas in this implementation that I'm bookmarking to study later ;)
Pixel2Pixel
Pixel2Pixel - handy tool to re-color gifs, especially useful for altering background patterns to match your page colors.
Get the Look!
AdamPolselli.com :: Get the Look! The newest addition - Chic Simplicity.
Style Guide
Economist.com | Library | Style Guide - a great resource for getting the writing part right.
Design Matters
Design Matters - beautiful and informative!
Top Ten Design Mistakes 2002
Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002 (Alertbox Dec. 2002)
Web Style Guide
Web Style Guide, 2nd Edition - a wealth of information!
Optimal Web Design
Optimal web design is an interesting site focusing on designing for usability. Lots of good information.
Design Matters
Consumer WebWatch: How Consumers and Experts Rate Credibility on the Web would seem to show that while content may be "king", design does matter. Interesting study on commercial sites and perceived credibility.
Web design reading
Good Practices seems to have some excellent links for web design resources.
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