22 Completely Free Fonts for @Font-Face Embedding Are you getting bored of using the same old fonts in your websites? If yes, then @font-face is the device that you are looking for. It allows you to embed any font according to your wish into the websites. This device is helpful to abolish the monotonous use of same fonts each time you create a website. Web designing is a creative job and like any other creative job it asks for variations. @Font-Face embedding is the latest in the string of efforts. The most important part of this is that these fonts can be availed for free from the internet. Colaborate Greyscale Basic Quicksand Open Sans Condensed News Cycle Latin Modern Sans Existence Light Lacuna Regular Josefin Sans Std CuprumFFU Droid Sans CartoGothic Std Bebas Metrophobic Enigmatic Asap Cicle Prociono Raleway Jura Hattori Hanzo League Gothic
Clean Up Your Mess - A Guide to Visual Design for Everyone Khan Academy A comparison of leading WordPress theme frameworks If you’re going to design a WordPress site, there are a few ways you can start. Many designers start with an HTML template that they then add WordPress code to. Others start with the basic WordPress code and design around that. But others begin with a starter theme or framework, which is arguably the most efficient way to create a WP theme. So you know you need a framework if you want to be more efficient in designing WP themes, but there are dozens of starter themes and frameworks out there. The answer to that is with the list below. PageLines Platform Pro Price: $95 – $175 | Details PageLines Platform Pro is a drag-and-drop framework for creating custom WordPress themes. Main Features Platform Pro is a great option for designers who want to quickly customize designs for their clients. SWFPress Price: Free – $150+ | Details There are tons of frameworks out there that make creating a WP theme quick and easy. Thesis Price: $87 – $164 | Details Elemental Price: $59.99 – $149.99 | Details Toolbox
Dynamic Page / Replacing Content By Chris Coyier On This article is an update to this old article, which had an ugly demo and a variety of techniques in it no longer probably considered good practices. This new demo is much cleaner, up to date, and fuller featured. Because the old article was a bit of a different scope, I'll leave it alone, just refer to this one. Update January 2013: There are better practices now, detailed here. Let's say you wanted to make a website where clicking buttons in the nav would dynamically load some content. View Demo Download Files #The HTML: It all works without JavaScript There is no excuse for the navigation of a website to be completely broken without JavaScript enabled. The navigation links to the files that contain that content, and are fully formed functional pages on their own. <nav><ul><li><a href="index.php">Home</a></li><li><a href="about.php">About</a></li><li><a href="contact.php">Contact</a></li></ul></nav> #jQuery JavaScript The JavaScript is the fun part here! #Prereq #Code Dump
30 Absolutely New Free Fonts for Your Designs While it comes to website designing, we all pay the maximum attention to the color, graphics and images of a site. However, free fonts are very important part of any design. People come to know about the main ideas of your business through the contents that have been posted on your site. And these contents must be written in perfect free fonts so that the viewers don’t face any problem to see and go through them. That is why selecting the right font for your website is very much essential in order to get a good response from the visitors. Website designers should have keen eyes on that part along with the other aspects involved like color combination, drop down menu and image positioning etc. Sometime designers find it a difficult to get the right font that will be perfect for a certain site. While choosing the fonts, you have to keep one thing in mind that these are the base of your communication with your online customers. Rex Hagin Archive Static The Kabel Bispo FV Almelo Villa Didot Accent
Live Case Study: The case of 300,000 pages and counting. | The Man Who Sold the Web Blog This is my first live case study. In this case study, I will build and grow an autoscale, autopilot, value-add site from scratch. The purpose of this case study is to demonstrate techniques in real time. With the exception of coding the initial site (these activities are tabulated under day 0), everything is done in real time, including domain registration. The subject of this case study will be a a niche jobs search site, built off the Indeed API. Indeed.com is an established jobs search engine of US-based job opportunities. Our niche job search site will focus on clerical jobs. Now, how does the autoscale work? First, upon launch, the site will have 300,000 pages. The US has about 40,000 active zip codes. That’s just the starting point. Now, let’s put down some goals for this site that we can measure against. Create a massive, autoscaling site via an API. Instead of adding more goals, I’ve decided to just track the key milestones achieved so far: Site indexed by Google in 1 day. dave
SQL Injection - Hakipedia SQL Injection is one of the more popular application layer hacking techniques that is used in the wild today. It is a trick that exploits poorly filtered or not correctly escaped SQL queries into parsing variable data from user input. The idea behind SQL injection is to convince the SQL application (whether MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, ORACLE etc) to run an SQL string that was not premeditated. Severity Relatively High Exploit Likeliness Moderate SQL Injection Types There are a number of categorized SQL injection types that can be executed with a web-browser. Poorly Filtered Strings Incorrect Type Handling Signature Evasion Filter Bypassing Blind SQL Injection Poorly Filtered Strings SQL injections based on poorly filtered strings are caused by user input that is not filtered for escape characters. Code that is vulnerable to this type of vulnerability might look something like this: $pass = $_GET['pass'];$password = mysql_query("SELECT password FROM users WHERE password = '". Signature Evasion
How To Build a Social Networking Site using WordPress To create a social networking site, you can either register a free account with a third party social networks provider or install open source software on your server and be your own administrator. There are pros and cons in these two methods. The first method allows you to handle your social networks without any technical knowledge, but you risk losing all your data when the third party site close down. The latter requires you to have certain technical knowledge, but you get full control over every single detail in your site. With the release of BuddyPress, there is now a third way that is both easy to handle and allows you to have full control: turn your WordPress site into a social networking site. BuddyPress is not a standalone social networking software. In case you are rushing off to grab the software and install on your site, here is the warning: BuddyPress doesn’t work on just any version of WordPress. Installation Activating BuddyPress in the Plugins page Features Useful Links
20+ examples of beautiful and inspiring fonts Choosing fonts for design projects can be a daunting task because there’s thousands of fonts out there all over the web that you could use. Whether you’re looking to create a big, bold logo for your business or work on a poster for an event here’s a collection of inspiring fonts that are perfect for use whatever your project may be. The collection covers a variety of themes from vintage to clean and simple. Remember to check the license before using any of these fonts commercially and any restrictions on use. Neo Deco Neo Deco is a beautiful, professional font that works well for logos. PLSTK is a completely unique font. Kabel Kabel is a well designed, interesting font. Kilogram Kilogram is a solid, bold and headline font. Code is a very nice, simple and clean font. Another unique font, Telefono, has loads of added detail to each glyph. Novecento Hagin Looking for a headline font that stands out? Paranoid VAL is a fun font that looks great. Absinthe Feeling the need for a vintage font? RBNo2 Nomed
The Worst Bad, Ugly & Horrible Logo Designs Sponsor- – Logo design in today’s world is totally under rated. People do not understand how important a good logo is and how valuable it is to their business and this is why I am highlighting some of the worst logo designs out there. By outlining these bad logo designs (in my opinion) I hope to raise awareness of how important it is to have a strong brand & identity for your business or product. If you are after examples of high quality logos be sure to check out some logo design inspiration galleries. Further suggested reading: What was your favourite ugly / bad / horrible / phallic logo design? Sources: ArtistMike | YourLogoMakesMeBarf | WebDesignIdeas