Web Font Specimen 30 Top Blogs For Social Media Updates | Showcases Social media is media designed to be disseminated through social interaction, created using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. Social media uses Internet and web-based technologies to transform broadcast media monologues (one to many) into social media dialogues (many to many). It supports the democratization of knowledge and information, transforming people from content consumers into content producers. In nutshell, Social media describes websites that allow users to share content, media, etc. Common examples are the popular social networking sites like Friendster, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc. Here we listing and describing Top Blogs For Social Media Updates that you should read. Social Media Networking really important for people who share interests and activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Social networking has created new paths to communicate and share information. Components Of Social Media Publication Tools :
20 New 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. In this selection we’re glad to present you Madawaska ExtraLight, Apparatus SIL, League Gothic, Contra and many other high-quality free fonts. New Free Fonts For Your Designs Madawaska ExtraLight Madawaska is a rugged slab-serif font in 7 weights with fractions, old style numerals & lining numerals. Apparatus SIL The Apparatus SIL fonts were designed to provide most of the symbols needed to reproduce the textual apparatus found in major editions of Greek and Hebrew biblical texts. League Gothic League Gothic is a revival of an old classic Alternate Gothic No.1. Contra This legible font family comes in 2 weights: Regular and Italic. Calluna Regular (registration is required) Calluna is a typeface with flow. It's done.
10 Web trends to watch in 2010 Mashable's Pete Cashmore says real-time communication, Internet TV and social gaming will be big in 2010. Mashable's Pete Cashmore lists his 10 Web trends that we'll be talking about next year Sparked by Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed, the real-time communications trend will grow The cloud-computing movement will see a major leap forward in the first half of 2010 2010 will be the breakthrough year of the much-anticipated mobile payments market Editor's note: Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of Mashable, a popular blog about social media. He is writing a weekly column about social networking and tech for CNN.com. (CNN) -- As 2009 draws to a close, the Web's attention turns to the year ahead. While Web innovation is unpredictable, some clear trends are becoming apparent. Real-time ramps up Sparked by Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed, the real-time trend has been to the latter part of 2009 what "Web 2.0" was to 2007. Location, location, location Augmented reality Content 'curation'
Sammelkarte: Brody Plakatklassiker Sammelkarte: Brody Plakatklassiker Für den Box-Weltmeisterschaftskampf Mike Tyson gegen Tony Tubbs gestaltete Neville Brody 1988 ein bemerkenswertes Plakat. Es wurde nicht verwendet, trotzdem ist es der Nachwelt besser in Erinnerung als der Wettkampf selbst. Tyson/Tubbs zählt zu Brodys großen Klassikern, weil es den Grundstock für 10 Schriften enthielt. Weiterlesen ... Als Neville Brody das typografische Poster 1988 zeichnete, standen ihm keine kompletten Schriften zur Verfügung. Dieser Brody-Plakatklassiker aus dem Jahr 1988 enthielt den Grundstein für zehn Schriften, die 1993 digitalisiert herauskamen (© FSI FontShop International) Der Ausdruck »World Heavyweight Championship« beispielsweise basierte nicht auf einem Konstruktionsprinzip sondern auf dreien, was sich am Großbuchstaben O recht gut erkennen lässt: sein Innenraum ist rechteckig, die äußere Kontur konnte jedoch drei Formen aufweisen: oval, Rechteckig mit abgerundeten Ecken oder achteckig.
Top Internet Trends of 2000-2009: E-commerce Over the past decade, Amazon.com and eBay have continued to dominate the online retail market in the United States. However, there have been signs that more social and distributed forms of online shopping are gaining traction. eBay, in particular, is beginning to lose ground. In this post, we review the past decade of e-commerce and the key trends. Advances in recommendations technology, together with the emergence of social media and mobile commerce, have combined to change the way e-commerce is transacted. In a follow-up post, we look at current statistics for online retail. This is the third in a ReadWriteWeb series looking back at some of the key trends of the past 10 years. Recommendations Technology Advances Over the past decade the online retail industry has seen great strides in the use of recommendations technology. Many of the retail recommendations in use today rely on implicit user data. Social Media Takes Retail to Blogs, Social Networks Conclusion See also:
Bulletproof @font-face syntax Let me introduce you to the best way to do your @font-face definitions: This is the Fontspring @font-face syntax. I’ll circle back to why this is the best possible solution but let’s first review the other techniques’ weaknesses. Of course, the problem at the center of this is that IE needs an .eot font, and the other browsers must take a .ttf or .otf. May 12th, 2010. Okay, let’s see what we got here… Conditional comments (via) Ugh. Double declarations (via) The problem here is that, as Andrea points out, IE will actually download the .otf file. Because after all, IE doesn’t understand the format hint, right? GraublauWeb.otf’)%20format(‘opentype Oops, looks like someone forgot a ? Mo’ Bulletproofer (via) Richard Fink proposed this alternate syntax actually as a response to this post, but I’ve included it back here. The local reference Much more concise and clean. The other benefit.. if it just so happens that a user actually has your custom font installed, this’ll save them the download. Demo
Top Web Design Bookmarks of 2009 I read a lot of design-related articles & blogs online – I mean, really, what else can you do when you live in Edmonton, which was the coldest place in North America on Dec 13 at -58C with windchill? Anyway, I’m constantly bookmarking items I think might be useful for me as a designer in the future – some I never end up using, but some I definitely do! This year, I found some great articles on web usability (always good to be able to effectively communicate why you made a particular design choice to a client), WordPress and jQuery, as well as a few others. Here are my Top Web Design Bookmarks of 2009, with thanks to everyone in the design community who keeps openly sharing their knowledge. Perfect Full-Page Background Image CSS Tricks is a great website – a web designer’s goldmine, if you will – and this is but one of a ton of great articles on Chris’ site. 10 Usability Findings & Guidelines Hit the jump for more! ViewLikeUs BrowserShots Website Design & Development Project Checklist
Pentagrid Alphabet | Fontshop The designer of this FontStruction has chosen not to make it available for download from this website by choosing an “All Rights Reserved" license. Please respect their decision and desist from requesting license changes in the comments. If you would like to use the FontStruction for a specific project, you may be able to contact the designer directly about obtaining a license. Copy the HTML from the box below and paste it into your website or blog. Hide HTML 2010 Predictions Every year the ReadWriteWeb team tries its hand at predicting the future. Looking back at our 2009 predictions, we got some wrong (I predicted that Facebook would sign up to OpenSocial) but others turned out to be on the money. I correctly guessed that the usual suspects would remain unacquired in '09 - Digg, Twitter, Technorati - but that FriendFeed would get bought. Without further ado, here are our predictions for 2010. SEE ALSO: ReadWriteWeb's 2009 Year in Review. Richard MacManus, Founder & CEO, @rww 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Marshall Kirkpatrick, Lead Writer & VP of Content Development, @marshallk 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Sarah Perez, Feature Writer, @sarahintampa 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. iPhone app backlash begins. 8. iTunes announces a web service, thanks to the Lala acquisition. 9. 10. Jolie O'Dell, Writer & Community Manager, @jolieodell 1. 2. 3. 4. iPhone's exclusivity with AT&T will come to a breaking point and we'll see network-agnostic iPhones. 5. 6. 7. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3. 4. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2.
CSS for Accessibility CSS is magical stuff. In the right hands, it can transform the plainest of (well-structured) documents into a visual feast. But it’s not all fur coat and nae knickers (as my granny used to say). Here are some simple ways you can use CSS to improve the usability and accessibility of your site. Even better, no sexy visuals will be harmed by the use of these techniques. Nae knickers This is less of an accessibility tip, and more of a reminder to check that you’ve got your body background colour specified. If you’re sitting there wondering why I’m mentioning this, because it’s a really basic thing, then you might be as surprised as I was to discover that from a sample of over 200 sites checked last year, 35% of UK local authority websites were missing their body background colour. All it needs is the following line to be added to your CSS file: If you pair it with color: #000; Elbow room Paying attention to your typography is important, but it’s not just about making it look nice. For example:
Resources and tools for a Location-Independent, Digital Nomad En I thought it’d be helpful to compile a list of resources—consisting of books, tools, blogs, links, and guides which have helped me learn to brand myself, build an extensive network, travel around the globe, and design a business that I can run from anywhere in the world. Check back often, as the Thrilling Heroics Resources section will undoubtedly grow steadily as I learn more and as my business grows… I recommend bookmarking this page for future reference. Enjoy! Please note that some of the links below are affiliate links to products that will earn me a small commission that will help keep ThrillingHeroics.com alive. Required Reading for Bending Spoons Here are my “Most-Important Books”—or MIBs. If you’re just getting started, I believe reading them from 1-10 in this order would be the most intuitive mindset change from beginner to advanced, and have the greatest impact on you. How I Do It Build Your Business & Online Presence Gadgets & Gear for Digital Nomad Workers Goal-Setting Tools