How to Spot Quality When Choosing a Font for your Design Work

We live in amazing times if you’re a typeface addict like I am. My current collection reaches into the five figures, and yet I still venture out on the web to look a new "fix" a couple of times a month.

How to Spot Quality When Choosing a Font for your Design Work

There are many sites that feature new typefaces for purchase and for free, and this is one of them. But how do you know if you’ve found a well-designed typeface? And what can you do if your font falls short?

Use these guidelines as you peruse typeface samples so you can choose to fall in love with a typeface that will love you back.

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Effective and Powerful CSS Tools & Generators for Designers

CSS has come a long way from formatting the structured content. It was used to control layout of documents precisely and to apply different layouts to media types. Today CSS is used to give the look and feel of giving importance to the layout and design. It saves the time which makes loading much faster and is quite easy to maintain. But not so easy to design a page with CSS because of the compatibility issues with different browsers and even the best designers may find it time consuming to develop the whole by themselves, due to which they have to rely on online tools sometimes because they are quite easy to download, work well with your browser and provide you with ample time for testing too. So we have development tools which help you to overcome these problems.

Effective and Powerful CSS Tools & Generators for Designers

We present you with some of the solutions in the form Powerful and Effective tools presented in this section which allows you to overcome the inconsistencies of the browsers and also gives a new and fresh look to your website.

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Professional Admin Templates License Giveaway and a Special Offer!

Once Again, we’ve got something special for our community. InstantShift again came up with cool freebies giveaway as promised. This is our way of saying thanks to our readers for being part of the iShift community and helping us make it to where we are right now. We at InstantShift love to give away things regularly, all year long. This time I’m pleased to announce our latest giveaway where you all have a chance to win 3 Free Professional Admin Template licenses each from Admin Templates (worth $45 each) which provides a great way to effectively manage your site's back-end.

Professional Admin Templates License Giveaway and a Special Offer!

These Templates are flexible, standards-compliant (XHTML) Admin Template that is professionally built for beautiful website back-ends which fits to any project.

So Hurry up, read the rules, drop a comment to enter in this contest.

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Online Copywriting: Make Your Website Copy Dazzle

If there’s one generalization you should make as a website writer, it’s that your visitors have short attention spans and are overly saturated with information.

If you’d rather generalize, then just think about this fact: search is the most popular function on the internet. This means most visitors to your site are looking for something in particular. If they click on your site and can’t tell whether you will provide what they are looking for, they will leave.

Online Copywriting: Make Your Website Copy Dazzle

Internet users think of their time as precious and the internet as a never-ending trove of information. Your visitors are information scavengers with little loyalty and even less time; this means you need to tailor your writing specifically to them to get their attention.

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