Whether you’re designing the poster for a new blockbuster movie or advertising colocation facilities, (for example, the Vancouver colocation center), your choice of font can make or break the reception of your communication. Here are few factors to consider before choosing a typeface:
Distance
The medium in which a font is going to be used has a lot to do with its value. Different considerations go into choosing a font for a billboard than for a mobile device. In this case, it’s matter of distance. Certain fonts work better from long distances, a prime example being Univers. Another thing to consider is x-height, which ensures that the bowl of the letter is at least 2/3rds the height of the stem. A higher x-height will make a font more readable from greater distances.
Size
Size matters. Gotham, for example, can also be read in small sizes. Georgia, because it works well in both small and large typefaces, is sometimes used to replaced Times New Roman. Verdana works well on websites because it has no serifs and its letter spacing is relatively loose. With regards to the size of screen, the main practical consideration is to be sure your font is web-safe. If readers can’t read your text, they’ll leave in a jiffy. Standard web-safe fonts are Arial, Verdana, Times New Roman, and Tahoma.
Is there an automated solution involving WordPress and Photoshop?
There is, and it is called Divine Elemente, a brand new plugin for WP that is designed to take templates created in Photoshop and integrate them into themes made for WordPress, and in addition to this, these themes carry with them top performance. You’ll find that this is a modern trend in designing websites:
In WP and in Photoshop there isn’t a bit of coding: It is as simple as design a theme, grouping a set of graphics together for it, and publishing it. The theme can be downloaded in PSD, several alterations can be added, and be up and published in moments. With this plugin you can get a PSD template of around 200MB in size loaded up and published in under a minute. The typography is precise in its pixelation, the fonts are custom styled, the stretch is seamless, it has a 960 grid — all as part of its unique benefits and features.
Whether you are selling web applications, windows software products, information products or eBooks, this brand new set of premium quality eCover action scripts and smart templates will help you do just that. And the best part is, you don’t have to be a “techy” person or have any design skills at all. These brand new action scripts and smart objects will do the job for you. All you need is Adobe Photoshop and a few minutes of free time.
What makes this set of actions and smart templates special?
Super fast: Each action takes under 20 seconds to render into 3D and the smart templates are even faster. That means you can modify and tweak your covers much faster.
Crisp 300 DPI Resolution: All the action scripts and smart templates are in high resolution ready to be used for print. There are no jagged edges or pixelation.
Unique “looks”: Even if you already have another set of actions or smart templates, you won’t find eCover types like these anywhere else.
Premium quality: Great care went into creating each eCover action script and smart template in this package. Each one is premium quality and as good or better than anything else out there on market.
Over 70 to choose from: There are over 70 action scripts and smart templates in this package so pretty much all eCover types are covered and there’s plenty of variety to choose from.
Brand new for 2011: These are all brand new actions and smart templates created in 2011, so you’ll be getting the newest and freshest “looks” for your products.
PhotoSwipe is a FREE HTML/CSS/JavaScript based image gallery specifically targeting mobile devices. This application is for developers and designers requiring an interactive image gallery on their mobile website with a look and feel of a native app that provides your visitors with a familiar and intuitive interface allowing them to interact with images on your mobile website.
PhotoSwipe is inspired by the iOS photo viewer and Google images for mobile and supports mobile handsets running WebKit based browsers, i.e. iOS, Android and Blackberry 6.
Features include:
Optimised for mobile devices running a WebKit browser.
Runs on modern desktop browsers, including Internet Explorer 8 and above.
Multiple input options including swipe gestures (both mouse and screen touches), keyboard control and an interactive on screen toolbar.
Responsive to device orientation changes.
Automatically scales images to maximise screen size and orientation.
Zoom / pan and rotate images (as of v1.0.4 – experimental iOS devices only)
Works with your markup and semantic structure. Does not enforce any specific markup.
Supports image captions.
Slideshow feature to automatically play through images in the gallery.
Uses hardware acceleration where possible for smoother transitions and effects.
Can be integrated into jQuery Mobile.
Comprehensive customisation options:
Presentation controlled via CSS
Set whether the gallery loops or not i.e. when you reach the end, is the next image the first image, or does the gallery show a bounce effect to indicate that you have reached the end.
Hide or show captions and toolbar
Change caption and toolbar positions
Set the speeds of all animations used, from sliding in to fading.
This a free HTML/CV Resume Template suited for anyone who wish to advertise his/her skills and experience online through a professional and stylish design. This quick and simple to customize CV / resume template is clean, lightweight, and minimalistic.
Marketing Graphics Toolkit consists of 21 modules of premium graphics content that are geared specifically towards Internet Marketers. They are useful especially if you sell stuff online whether you are using an e-commerce website or you are using a couple of sales pages for your products. PSD sources are available for every module from the package. This ULTIMATE graphic source is meant to save you money and time.
For a one time payment of $9.95 you get:
Mini Site Templates
Premium Headers
Call To Action Buttons
3D eCover Action Scripts
3D Web Display Templates
Layer Styles
Hand Drawn Arrows and Doodles
Hand Written Fonts
Powerpoint Backgrounds
Bullets and Checkmarks
Numbers Icons
Guarantee Signs
Footers
Price Badges
Module Signs and Tables
Visual Headlines
Photo Frames
Secret Module – More Premium Headers
Secret Module – Abstract Backgounds
Secret Module – More Bullets and Checkmarks
Secret Module – Animated Arrows
See some screenshots of some of the features mentioned
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With 21 different Modules, there’s something for everyone here. Just one piece of content from this package can save you either a hundred bucks on designer fees, or hours of time trying to do it yourself.
Today I’d like to share with you 3 websites that I found where you can download free PSD designs for your project needs ;)
Premium Pixels is a collection of free design resources created by Orman Clark, a UK based web designer with a passion for all things creative. All resources are aimed at helping web designers either learn something new or just save a bit of time. All resources made available on Premium Pixels, including but not limited to, icons, images, brushes, shapes, layer styles, layered PSD’s, patterns, textures, web elements and themes are free for use in both personal and commercial projects.
365psd is a project started by Jonno Riekwel, aiming to help web designers by giving away free PSD resources everyday for one year. There are already hundreds of PSD designs ready to be downloaded. You can also purchase premium designs for as low as 3 euros.
Initially launched as a hobby site, PSDgraphics.com is a place where you can find lot of free stuff for webmasters and designers. You can enjoy here fully editable Photoshop PSD files and high resolution stuff including: abstract backgrounds, textures and patterns, PSD icons and graphics (e.g. ‘call to action’ buttons), web design elements, Photoshop text and video tutorials and Photoshop recreation.
Everyone who does logo design knows how hard it is to find the right font. Mainly if you have 100s or 1000s of fonts in your library it may take hours to find the ONE – speaking from my own experience. After certain time period I figured there are fonts I was using over and over. Seems they were perfect for logo design. Because of that, I put together a collection of 20 from my point of view ideal free fonts for our purpose. I am not saying they will be perfect for each single logo, but I am sure they will save you plenty of time :). Download and enjoy!
jqTransform is a JQuery Styling Plugin released by DFC Engineering, that allows you to skin form elements. The plugin is released under the GPL license and it is compatible with IE 6+, Safari 2+, and Firefox 2+. You can easily customize the form via CSS.
NiceForms is a non-intrusive JavaScript method that allows you to completely customize your web forms.
Features include:
Fully scalable form fields and buttons
Customize the look of the forms by creating your own theme
Buttons are automatically expanded to accommodate the amount of text present
Supports Keyboard-only navigation
Starting with the basic XHTML code for a web form, Niceforms parses the DOM tree, gets all the input fields, hides them, and positions their new graphical appearance in place. All this is done while preserving the date transfer and selection features of the regular form. Everything is done via javascript.
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