Month: January 2009

2008 has been a rough ride for many of us, but typographically it has been a triumph. Proudly broadcasting from our much praised new website, MyFonts has observed a continued increase in font quality. Our foundries haven’t disappointed: old friends have continued to deliver excellent stuff; and several well-respected foundries, as well as many promising new ones, have joined MyFonts to enlarge our choice of excellent typefaces. This newsletter lists the year’s most successful fonts in each genre. Based on sales numbers, it was ultimately put together by you, our faithful customers. Thanks for being part of the jury!

Colors – it sets the tone (no pun intended) and message of a website. Designers often spend hours, even days, researching and coming up with a harmonious and usable color scheme. In this collection, you’ll find 30 brilliant (alright – pun intended) web designs with vivid and colorful themes that evoke feelings of vivacity and dynamism – to inspire your color palette.

Beautiful and creative website footer designs from all over the world.

Background patterns play an important role in the design process. You can make Your work easier with online background pattern tools. Keep in mind that their capacity is not like that of graphic programs however, if You need striped, dotted or tiled backgrounds they are really useful and faster than others. I have listed all online free background pattern generators which I use when I want to create striped, tiled, tartan or dotted backgrounds.

Uplifting true stories, funny jokes and cartoons, magazine articles and celebrity interviews, all from Reader’s Digest. Share funny pictures and video, play free games, enter our sweepstakes and more.

Nature is fascinating, and some of Nature’s best work—or evolution rather—is illustrated by a group of animals that have evolved adapted to mimic leaves. Leaf mimics employ a heightened form of camouflage to evade detection from predators or prey. These animals make use of extraordinary color patterns, in addition to modified exoskeletons, skin, scales, and behavior to take camouflage to another level. See more animal camouflage here.

From the Center for Public Integrity – An assessment of executive branch failures since 2000

MSPaint is actually a very powerful image editor. Here's all the things about MSPaint you probably didn't know.

When it comes to design, there’s a plethora of free web-based tools to help you accomplish tasks such as color palette selection, creating unique fonts, editing images, and testing typography. In this article, you’ll find a bunch of handy online utilities for designers.

My friend Amanda had never seen a whole Star Wars film. When I asked her if she wanted to watch the original trilogy she said that she would, but that she already knew what happens. So I took out my voice recorder and asked her to start from the top. I then created some very basic animation in Final Cut to go along with her narration.

We've now released our second search engine algorithm research report. This time, we have analyzed Yahoo's new algorithm and compared their keyword density with Google results. We analyzed the top 10 results for single word queries on Google and Yahoo for the analysis. Research similarities and differences between Yahoo and Google results.

Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. By creating and submitting Sitemaps to search engines, you are more likely to get better freshness and coverage in search engines. Google Sitemap Generator is a tool installed on your web server to generate the Sitemaps automatically. Unlike many other third party Sitemap generation tools, Google Sitemap Generator takes a different approach: it will monitor your web server traffic, and detect updates to your website automatically.

Employee Training: Ten Tips For Making It Really Effective – What to look for when searching for a business web hosting service. – Training & Development

If you haven’t grabbed your free beta copy of Windows 7 yet, there’s good news: you’ve now got 2 weeks to do so. Microsoft made the offer Saturday evening after what started as a well received offer turned into a potential PR disaster for Microsoft as servers failed and many people were simply unable to get their hands on the promise download. Microsoft’s Brandon LeBlanc writes on the Windows 7 blog: