APEX News - December 2009
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It's 'Double Banger' time . . .
Due to the forthcoming Holiday Season our Editor decided to provide a double issue to allow for a break through December and January. So relax and enjoy!
UITest Web Development Tools.
One of the most concise listings of Web Development Tools I have ever seen may be found here and just about everything you can imagine is available. NOT TO BE MISSED!
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Logo Design Toolbox: 60 Plus Resources for Logo Design.
Logo design is of particular interest and focus to many web and graphic designers. At this link they feature more than 60 resources for logo design including sources of inspiration, blogs, tutorials, articles and case studies. There are many excellent resources for finding logo design inspiration and they provide more than 20 for you to check out. Some are galleries dedicated to logo design and others include a specific section or category for logo design.
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Web Typography: Font Embedding Service.
There are a lot of options out there for using other-than-websafe fonts in your website designs. Dynamic text replacement methods or resorting to very long fontstacks (where most of your visitors won’t see the font you wanted anyway) have long been the standard for using anything other than websafe fonts. But the @font-face function changes all that. With most major, modern browsers now compatible with it, services are cropping up all over for providing the fonts you want to embed on your site without eating up your bandwidth and server space. Check it out!
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Hundreds of @font-face Font Kits.
Download hundreds of prepackaged @font-face kits which include four font formats, CSS and HTML code. Access link for more details. Don't see what you need? Try their @Font-Face Generator. Upload your own fonts and get a kit back!
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Making Your Web Colors Visible For All – Five Color Accessibility Tools.
If you are designing, or re-designing your web site, it is time well spent running your website through the color accessibility tools at the above link to ensure that your site can be seen correctly by as many people as possible. Most of these tools use WC3 guidelines to perform their various operations.
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Thanks to
UITest.com
DesignM.AG
Noupe
Font Squirrel
SitePoint
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