 As a web designer, one of the things that has frustrated me over the years is the limitation in using different fonts on websites. There are only a handful of fonts that are considered “web safe” and honestly, using those repeatedly can get a little boring.
In the past, designers have resorted to creating graphic images to use fancier fonts for page titles and optimizing those images with alt and title tags to help with search, but the more graphics you have on the page, the longer it can take to load, so this isn’t always a great solution.
So why then can’t we just use any font on our web page?
There are a small collection of fonts that …
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While many themes have their own built in menu features, combining those with the custom menu feature in WordPress makes it much easier to create the menu that you want for your site.
The WordPress menu features allow for simple drag and drop placement of menu & sub-menu items, as well as customize what the menu item label and title attributes will be. I like to use my theme’s menu styling options for background color or images, rollover colors, menu height, etc., but then use the menu features that are available within WordPress for placement and customization of individual menu items. Whether you’re using a page menu, a category menu, or both, this combination will provide you with much more …
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 Every now and again it is necessary to manually install a plugin for WordPress, instead of going through the automatic process that is provided in the plugin dashboard. Especially if you are looking for a particular plugin by name, WordPress will not always find the exact one you’re interested in, however you have access to the download through the plugin website.
In this example I will be installing the Add Google Plus One Social Share plugin to my website San Joaquin Valley Fun. While I don’t believe this is one that cannot be accessed through the plugins dashboard in WordPress, for demonstration purposes, I will be installing this manually.
To install plugins, or …
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This is a guest post by author Warren Kings.
If you’re stuck in a creative slump it’s worth checking out the mad-skills of other artists for some inspiration. There’s nothing like a challenge to set off a bright idea – it may just be the thing you need to get your groove back. Photoshop is an immensely powerful tool, and it’s got unlimited potential if you have the imagination and know-how to make something come to life. If it’s a new technique you need, there are loads of awesome tutorials online to help you get there, and artists post work almost everyday for you to gaze in amazement at. Just take a look at the following awesome pieces…
 Disintegration
This human disintegration image was created solely in Photoshop by a …
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 I’m sure you’ve experienced it too, you log on to a website and the images v – e – r – y s – l – o – w – l – y appear on the page. You wait, tapping your finger, as they scroll into view, almost one line at a time, until they finally load.
Why does this happen on some websites and not others? It’s very simple, actually. The photos have not been properly optimized for the web.
The definition of optimize for this purpose, according to dictionary.com, is “to write or rewrite, so as to maximize efficiency and speed in retrieval, storage, or execution”.
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 In this day and age, you wouldn’t think there would be much in the way of limitations when it comes to building a website, right? Up until recently, that wasn’t the case, at least not where fonts for your website are concerned.
Pretty much, there are just a handful of fonts that are considered “web safe”, meaning that you can use them and be confident that they are being rendered and displayed properly on the machine of your website visitor. These fonts include Verdana, Arial, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Eras, & Palatino Linotype, to name a few. They’re pretty straightforward and don’t always allow for lots of creativity to just jump from the page.
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A common practice in blogging is to share the love and display buttons of other bloggers & businesses on your website or blog. This is a more attractive way of giving someone a link back to their website, and it helps to provide your community with other sites that they mind find interesting or helpful.
What if you want to provide a button for someone else to share the love with you and give you some exposure? Buttons are easy to make and writing the code to provide for it is a snap, so there’s no excuse now to not have one! This tutorial will explain a little about the graphic work involved and then provide you with instruction on how to create the code for that button. All someone has to do is grab the code, put it …
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 Using templates is an easy & smart way to maintain any website. They allow you to make changes to the site’s structure and main elements and apply them to all pages that are based on that template, saving valuable time and frustration in updating pages individually.
When creating a template in Dreamweaver, the process is pretty straightforward.
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Funny thing happened to me the other day……….
I sat down to write this blog post, and a few paragraphs in I decided it was time to head over to my blog dashboard and get a couple of screen shots. Imagine my shock when I loaded up my admin page and got the most awful error message! My blog was gone! I had to laugh at the complete irony of the situation!
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**UPDATE** Within a couple weeks of this post, Facebook has decided that FBML will no longer be available after March 11th. Existing users tabs that use FBML will still function, however no new tabs can be added, and it is unclear right now if we will be able to edit existing tabs.
So, iFrames it is! This is actually a little easier, since you can create your page with regular HTML and CSS and your CSS can be written into the page, you do not have to use an external file sheet just to satisfy Internet Explorer! For a complete tutorial, courtesy of HyperArts Web Design, visit this post http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/tabpress-create-iframe-page-tabs-fan-page-free-static-fbml/.
Many parts of the tutorial below will still be applicable, with the exception of installing the FBML application. If you have any questions, please feel free …
…Continue reading How to Build a Facebook Landing Page with IFrames
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