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Fake images please? The Essential Guide to @font-face. Fonts on the Web The days of being limited to a handful of fonts on the web are very close to being a thing of the past.

The Essential Guide to @font-face

The problem is no longer a lack of viable solutions, but rather, an abundance of them. Technologies like Cufon, sIFR, FLIR and @font-face all represent different groups of developers placing bets on what they believe to be the future of web typography. There is, as of yet, no consensus in this ever-evolving game. All of these methods have perfectly valid arguments both for and against their use. Further, even the most popular browsers support each of these technologies in widely varying degrees. However, the @font-face CSS method is among the strongest, simplest and most flexible competitors in this game. This guide will teach you how to implement @font-face with cross-browser compatibility and will also look at a number of the supporting services that have arisen, making it even easier to use custom fonts in your web designs.

Licensing and Free Fonts. The freelancer’s toolbox: 33 useful apps & websites for the freelance designer. As a freelancer, managing your time and business is mandatory if you want to get some time for designing.

The freelancer’s toolbox: 33 useful apps & websites for the freelance designer

All the softares and websites introduced in this article can save you some precious time and money. Money tools & Invoicing 1. Hourly Rate Calculator A great tool for the freelancer starting out. 2. Once you know what your hourly rate is, you can start using it to give estimate to people asking you for quotes. 3. Send, track and collect payments quickly. 4. A simple and straightforward invoicing solution that also integrates with PayPal and Google Checkout.

Backup & Security 5. Awesome online backup tool, user friendly and quite cheap if you go for a paid plan. 6. Mozy is another popular online backup tool, you can try Mozy for free! 7. OpenSource antivirus for both PC and Mac, have a more secured computer is better right? 8. Surf anonymously, Tor helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy. 9. Parallax Gallery. In this tutorial, you will learn how to make a Flash parallax scrolling gallery from scratch.

Parallax Gallery

Parallax scrolling is frequently used in most 2D animation and games, where the background images and foreground images scroll at different rate of speed. This will create an illusion of depth as the background images are moving slower than the foreground images. View Demo Gallery Download Demo ZIP 1. First we need to make a tiled wood floor image. 2. Now make a new document, 2520 x 450px. 3. Make a rectangle shape just below the wall. 4.

Select foreground color #f0ecd6 and make a rectangle shape above the floor layer. 5. Paste in your vector logo on the wall. 6. Now it is time to add in some furnitures in the scene. Couch's Shadow Make a new layer. Go to Edit > Free Transform (Cmd + T). Little Boxes. Galleria – Responsive JavaScript Image Gallery. How To Create a Cool Animated Menu with jQuery. In this tutorial we’ll be building a cool navigation list complete with a sliding hover effect.

How To Create a Cool Animated Menu with jQuery

Learn how to build the concept in Photoshop, lay out the basic HTML elements, style everything up in CSS then tie it all together with a few lines of jQuery to create a semantic, accessible and degradable menu design. The design we’ll be building features a cool label image that slides into place under each navigation item on hover. We’ll build the design to work without jQuery first of all to ensure it’s widely accessible to users without Javascript enabled, then enhance the effect with jQuery for the majority of users. View the animated menu demo Create a new document and fill the background with a light beige. Use a subtle grunge Photoshop brush to add a little extra texture to the top centre of the canvas. Draw and fill a rectangle to create the base of the label graphic. Use the Polygonal Lasso tool to draw a small triangle. All the menu needs now is a series of text links. <! jQuery.