15 Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we find them, so you don’t have to. In this selection we’re glad to present you Aller Sans, Mayberry Pro SemiBold, Quicksand, Agrafa Hairline, Sketch Rockwell, Megalopolis Extra and a couple of other high-quality free fonts. Please read the license agreements carefully before using the fonts — the license can change from time to time. Free Fonts Of March1 features Myndraine, Museo Sans as well as handwritten and grungy fonts.40 Excellent Free Fonts For Professional Design2You can find over 80 more free fonts in our section Fonts3. 15 Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts Mayberry Pro SemiBold8 (registration is required) AscenderFonts released the font Mayberry Pro Semi Bold available for free download.
43 Web Design Mistakes You Should Avoid. By Daniel Scocco There are several lists of web design mistakes around the Internet. Most of them, however, are the “Most common” or “Top 10 mistakes.” Every time I crossed one of those lists I would think to myself: “Come on, there must be more than 10 mistakes…”. Then I decided to write down all the web design mistakes that would come into my head; within half an hour I had over thirty of them listed. Afterwards I did some research around the web and the list grew to 43 points.
The next step was to write a short description for each one, and the result is the collection of mistakes that you will find below. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. Wanna make money with your own website? The Essential Website Usability Checklist. Give me almost any website and I will point out at least one common usability mistake. Chances are your website is included in that group. You could be missing out on sales, loyal visitors and links due to a usability oversight that’s easily fixable. This post is a simple 13-point usability checklist for webmasters. Ever good website must be able to answer ‘yes’ to each of these points. 1.
The navigational links you want readers to use most often should always be close to the top of the screen. 2. Not everyone visiting your site has 20/20 vision, not everyone can distinguish between colors and not everyone has their screen set to a bright resolution. 3. Black text on a white background is hands-down the easiest color combination to read. 4. Your best or most important content is the real reason why your site exists. 5. 6. Whitespace helps frame your content and give it space to breathe. 7. Text running into images is another readability pitfall. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Or. The Ultimate Website Prelaunch Checklist « Boagworld. Digital Strategy Mobile: The estimated time to read this article is 10 minutes We’ve all been there. After months of development, meetings, conference calls, protracted arguments over typography, photography, colour ways and copy. All of a sudden the site is approved and the client wants it live.
Do you think to yourself, ‘I know every pixel on this site inside out’ and put it live? Hopefully not. By no means is this an exhaustive list. Either way, get your team together, get out the red pen and start ticking them off. Copy Checks Check your spelling. If it comes down to a web designer to highlight the smelling pistakes of a copywriter then so be it. Check your tone of voice. Ensure this is consistent across all your pages, that your audience is being addressed the same way throughout the site. Check your details. I’m quite serious about this. Check through any ‘hidden’ copy on site. Make sure you are not going live with any test copy on your site. Check your keywords. Check your titles. Security.
15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Your website is designed, the CMS works, content has been added and the client is happy. It’s time to take the website live. Or is it? When launching a website, you can often forget a number of things in your eagerness to make it live, so it’s useful to have a checklist to look through as you make your final touches and before you announce your website to the world. This article reviews some important and necessary checks that web-sites should be checked against before the official launch — little details are often forgotten or ignored, but – if done in time – may sum up to an overall greater user experience and avoid unnecessary costs after the official site release. Favicon A favicon brands the tab or window in which your website is open in the user’s browser.
And if you have an iPhone favicon: Titles And Meta Data Your page title is the most important element for SEO and is also important so that users know what’s on the page. Cross-Browser Checks Proofread Read everything. Kremer en Gunnink.