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Typekit: Expand Your Web Fonts

A collective sigh of relief is heard as web designers can now use more and more fonts without having to convert them into images! If you’re like me, you struggle with picking a font for your site that looks “pretty” or a font that can be used across browsers and platforms without loading problems. Sometimes [...]


Freelance Tips by Fuel Your Creativity

I wanted to share Fuel Your Creativity with everyone, particularly their Freelance Tips page. I was browsing through it this morning and found it to have a lot of great advice on a broad range of topics.
Specifically, I was reading Ethical or Unethical? which poses the question of whether it is ethical for your full [...]


Spec Work: Not Always Black & White

Ahhh spec work… a nasty little bugger! I for one am entirely against it. The more spec work being done out there, the less designers are valued. Hey, why buy the cow if you can get the milk for free, right? Why spend the time researching the right design agency, when you can just have [...]


45 Checklists for Web Design

I’m passing along this great post from Smashing Magazine’s blog entitled 45 Incredibly Useful Web Design Checklists and Questionnaires. Below is an excerpt from the post as well as a few examples of the checklists they provide. It’s a very useful post so check it out when you have a chance. Of course you probably [...]


Bing – The New Decision Engine

After seeing all the commercials and hearing all the hype about it, I finally decided to give Bing.com a go. Bing is a search engine that finds and organizes the answers you need so you can make faster, more informed decisions. It’s touted as “the new decision engine”. As I kept hearing about Bing, I [...]


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