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Archive for August, 2010
100 free @font-face fonts
The term @font-face makes reference to a CSS rule that allows you to download a particular font from your server to a webpage so people are able to see it without having the font installed, in other words, we are talking about those typographic families or single fonts that are able to be used in different computers without having to be installed on a determined device. Until a few years ago, there were just a few font families that were readable from any PC, because they usually came installed in every PC, such as Arial, Helvetica and Verdana.
Today the range has became wider, allowing people to embed their favorite fonts to their websites by using a few code lines. On this article we will be reviewing some of the best free fonts ready for download that can be used along with the @font-face properties. These fonts will make your designs look the way they’re supposed to be from any computer.
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Icon tutorial: video projector
When you’re starting to learn how to create realistic objects in Illustrator you usually take a real life picture for inspiration and begin drawing it. On this tutorial we will offer a better solution for you to practice your skills in Illustrator. Throughout the whole post we will learn how to make a real object with Adobe Illustrator, in this case, we have selected an old film projector, such as the early 20th century. Get ready because it’s time to start, open your Illustrator and let’s go.
Best feedback tools
Each time you buy or sell something, either it’s material or not, you have the chance to leave feedback regarding your experience while making that transaction.
Feedback consists of a positive, negative, or neutral rating, along with a short comment regarding the topic in question. Both buyers and sellers build their reputations based on all the ratings and comments (feedback) left by their trading partners. This information is available in each member’s feedback Profile. Positive feedback tells buyers that they’re doing the things right, while the negative Feedback shows them that there are some remaining things to improve. On this countdown, we will be listing some of the most helpful websites that can offer you a complete feedback service, both free / pay and hosted / hosting.
The ultimate StumbleUpon guide
As many of us know, since the arrival of the web 2.0 era, many websites that focus on creating communities and sharing contents were released, all this sites stood in front of improving the interaction between users and developers.
We all know that when you’re looking for your website to outstand in front of the rest, it’s necessary a conscious and consistent process of promotion and socialization. The name world wide web itself describes the essence of the success on this environment, in order to make it on the www market, you need to become a valuable part of the community and not just a leech. Read more
Submit your blog and RSS to these 200 sites
As we all know, blogs are one of the growing powers on web, having this days specialized guys known as bloggers behind them. There are many ways to increase your blog’s traffic, which is the ultimate goal behind every blog on the web, for start, there is the SEO (search engine optimization) that guides the developers towards the implementation of more friendly websites; there is also the link baiting, which is the process by which people tend to place links inside their websites that connects to the ones that are placing the bait, usually this is done through downloadable links or offers.
Animated menu with jQuery and CSS
How’s it going guys?, I hope you’re doing great. Today we’re bringing you a very useful tutorial, it’s time for us to study how to develop a fancy slide menu using jQuery and CSS. Although it requires a considerable amount of code to run our menu, we will explain it as clear as possible to make it easy to understand, from organizing your folders to the complete source code, so you can have a complete guide throughout the entire process.
The essence of this code is generate an animated menu that ensures the visitor an interactive and pleasant experience and also notice the powerful tool that jQuery can be. OK guys it’s time, open your favorite web editor and let’s get it started.
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100 best places where to submit your vector tutorials
A couple of days ago, I was trying to submit the latest tutorial we made at Tutorialshock, I thought that it was going to be simple and will only take a few hours, but suddenly I found that it was not that easy. Most of tutorial directories are focused on Photoshop or programming tutorials, being less the ones that are willing to accept vector tutorials from programs such as Adobe Illustrator and Gimp.
That’s the reason why we decided to write this article, to help put people that are currently looking for high quality places to submit their vector resources, specially tutorials. We made a complete roundup around several places until we came out with this, we hope you enjoy it.
