So you want a custom font-face for your website. This is a great way to set your design apart and give your work a unique look and feel. There are a number of ways of getting that special font on your site the right way, but many more ways of doing it wrong.
Besides picking a font that is readable on both desktops and mobiles, you need to think about search engines as well. In the past, designers used graphics when they wanted to use special fonts. But graphics are generally unreadable by search engines. Instead, the modern technique is to use CSS to modify a standard heading tag or paragraph text to get that font you want.
Creativity means a lot in any kind of presentation. Whether it’s a logo, banner, advertisement or a complete design; being able to inject creativity into it not only helps in floating the message around, it also leaves solid impression on the viewer.
Good design is not easy thing to create, or it is often a very challenging job to discover creative designs. However, there are few ways by which you can improve your designing skills. One of them is analyzing others work and find the inspiration behind every details. Infect, it’s even easier if you can able to use others creative work in your design with proper permission and guidelines. For that same purpose every now and then some highly creative dudes create free design templates in form of PSD, vector, stencil, or icons to provide you help. Here we talking about free GUI element of iDevices like iPhone, iPad, iOS, and Mac.
What do you think is the most important aspect of successful social media marketing? Well, it isn't having the know-how to effectively use all of the available platforms. Sure, such knowledge helps, but that's something just about everyone can learn. You'll find that the most important aspect to successful social media marketing is having the right mindset.
Think about this: There are millions of people on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, but only a few thousand are actually using these media to their fullest potential. In this article, you'll learn what it means to have the right mindset and become one of the few who use social media marketing to its fullest potential.
As you may know it Facebook Development Platform is a set of services enabling developers to create outside applications that work with Facebook. It provides a set of APIs and tools which enable third-party developers to integrate with Facebook's graph API (known as Open Graph) — whether through applications on Facebook.com or external websites and devices.
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We've seen major development in past and as a result of these developments, Facebook hosted an unparalleled social experience both on its site and off. Companies like Zynga introduced hit games like FarmVille on the platform, and the “like” button social plugin launched on external websites. (In the first 24 hours, external site “like” buttons received 1 billion impressions.)
Many web publishers are scrambling to uncover a social strategy for their website. In the old days, traffic came from Google so publishers were entirely focused on writing high quality unique content in the hopes that search engines would send them traffic. However with many large publishers reporting that social is beginning to refer more traffic than search – publishers are on alert.
There are so many different social networks which have considerable traffic. As you’ll see below, it is important not to try and tackle each social network instead pick one that is a good fit for you. The advantage of their being so many networks is that you can do research to find the network which will give you the best chance to make an impact.
HTML5 is sure to be a big hit this year as far as web design trends go, and rightfully so. It aims to improve upon its predecessors by enhancing the language and support. It’s new, exciting, easy to understand and better than anything that has come before it while still being compatible and understandable by current media devices and web browsers.
![The Evolution of HTML5 [Infographic]](https://i1.wp.com/www.instantshift.com/assets/uploads/2012/07/the-evolution-of-html5.jpg "The Evolution of HTML5 [Infographic]")
As browsers increase their readiness to handle HTML5, more and more designers and developers are applying it to their commercial projects. It offers exciting potential for any project with much more intuitive sites appearing, making use of the extended video and visual rendering capabilities.