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To give developers a choice of high-quality fonts when using the Web Fonts API, we have created Google Web Fonts . There you can browse our catalog of available fonts, learn about the font designers who created them, and copy the code required to use them on your web page.
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I just discovered German manufacturer Böwer . For today's post I just picked out two of their pieces that really appeal to me because of their mimimal look and grapical appearance. Both are designed by Eric Degenhardt . What follows is the description of the furniture as they appeared on the Böwer web site. The true inspiration seekers will have noticed some illustrations in my Inspiration Stream from the All Day Everyday Project .
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960 Gridder - Lay out websites with ease.
The idea came when designing a website for a student organization where I worked with several designers that handed their lay outs and designs in Photoshop format with a similar grid built-in to me. After a while I noticed how hard it became to make sure everything looked exactly how they intended it, especially in the different browsers. 960 Gridder is cross-browser compliant and works well in Internet Explorer 6/7/8, Firefox 2/3 and Chrome.
Don’t Put Hints Inside Text Boxes in Web Forms :: UXmatters
This is my first Good Questions column for UXmatters . In this column, I’ll be writing about questions. When communicating with users in one direction, we typically ask them questions—often through forms or surveys. When communication goes in the other direction, we try to respond to users’ questions—both through the design of our Web applications and other products and, sometimes, in assemblies of what we hope will be their Frequently Asked Questions . “Hint text is rarely effective as a way of helping users, but instead becomes a default input.” In January 2010, Janet Six’s column, Ask Matters , “Label Alignment in Long Forms,” included extensive discussion of one of the most frequently asked questions about forms design: where to put labels in relation to their fields.
If FORM were a person, this would be a little peek into its brain. Cool things. Random thoughts. Even the silly and stupid stuff. Only without all the icky gooey bits.
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How To Design a Website in One Hour | MediaLoot
For most professional designers, time equals money. Creating the same quality work in less time means you can earn more money—so there is a significant incentive to work efficiently. In this tutorial I’m going to explain how it’s possible to design an entire website in under an hour, and I’ll show examples of the site along the entire process and at completion. You probably don’t want to do this for any really important projects you’re working on, but hopefully this exercise will give you a few tips to make your design process more efficient while still maintaining really high quality work. There are several principles that make it possible to create a website concept in one hour.
There are many different coding styles, some do not like indentation, some like to capitalize certain things, others like to add more than one element on a line, the main train of thought is they are all after one common thing: organization and better code. Without influencing my coding style, we’ll discuss ten tips for writing better CSS. Let us know what you think in the comment section! See you there ;) Commenting throughout your style sheet significantly helps you locate certain code blocks of CSS quickly and efficiently.
10 Great Tips for Writing Better And More Comprehensive CSS | SpyreStudios
