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- Quick Course On Effective Website CopywritingMany dismiss copywriting as something that ad agency people do. Truthfully, all of us need to pay close attention to copywriting if we want to achieve our business objectives. The goal of a "regular" text is to inform or entertain. The goal of Web copy (and ideally your website in general) is to get people to do something—to sign up, make a purc […]
- A Foot On The Bottom Rung: First Forays Into Responsive Web DevelopmentResponsive design is the hottest topic in front-end Web development right now. It’s going to transform the Web into an all-singing, all-dancing, all-devices party, where we can access any information located anywhere in the world. But does responsive design translate well from the text-heavy Web design blogosphere to the cold hard reality of commercial sy […]
- How To Customize The WordPress Admin EasilyIf you're just getting started with WordPress, or have been running with default functionality for a while and now want to dig in with some useful and easy ways to customize your WordPress site, a great place to start is the WordPress Admin area, or backend. One of the great things about WordPress is that each part of the backend is easily customized […]
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- Responsive Images and Web Standards at the Turning PointResponsible responsive design demands responsive images—images whose dimensions and file size suit the viewport and bandwidth of the receiving device. As HTML provides no standard element to achieve this purpose, serving responsive images has meant using JavaScript trickery, and accepting that your solution will fail for some users. Then a few months ago, in […]
- Application Cache is a DouchebagWe’re better connected than we’ve ever been, but we’re not always connected. ApplicationCache lets users interact with their data even when they're offline, but with great power come great gotchas. For instance, files always come from the ApplicationCache, even when the user is online. Oh, and in certain circumstances, a browser won't know that tha […]
- Say No to Faux BoldBrowsers can do terrible things to type. If text is styled as bold or italic and the typeface family does not include a bold or italic font, browsers will compensate by trying to create bold and italic styles themselves. The results are an awkward mimicry of real type design, and can be especially atrocious with web fonts. Adobe’s Alan Stearns shares quick t […]
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- Line25 Sites of the Week for May 18th 2012Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs that I stumble across during my every day browsing. In this week’s collection, we have designs from Iris, Vimeo, Anthm, Little Red Letter and Olly Sorsby. Iris View the website Vimeo View the website Anthm View the website Little Red […]
- Showcase of Artistic Hand Lettering in Web DesignWith websites being built from digital code it’s difficult to imagine them being crafted by hand, but this post showcases a bunch of websites that feature custom hand lettering in traditional mediums. In place of fonts these websites boast hand crafted typography to add a real artistic touch to the design. G’nosh Austin Eastciders The […]
- Line25 Sites of the Week for May 11th 2012Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs that I stumble across during my every day browsing. In this week’s collection, we have designs from Guided Creative, Peaxl, Rdio, DS22 and Column Five. Guided Creative View the website Peaxl View the website Rdio View the website DS22 View […]
