Social networks are getting more and more popular. People use them to connect with friends and colleagues, stay up-to-date on things that interest them, you can even use them to assist in your job search. But there are so many different ones out there. I have a Facebook fan page and a Twitter account focused primarily on this site. But are there other social media sites that you use?
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If you're looking for inspiration for your next design project, I would suggest looking at the images displayed on deviantART. This site hosts all types of art from photography to anime, but the part that I find most inspiring is the web interface design section. I love browsing through these when I'm bored or looking for my next idea for a project. Many of the designs are quite beautiful.
Since this was the main objection groups like Mozilla had against using this codec, chances are that Firefox will soon be updated to use it. Then you'll only need to save your videos in two formats: H.264 and Flash (for IE). And when IE 9 comes out, you will only need the one format.
Choosing a layout method is often very personal. One person might prefer absolute positioning while another only uses floats with relative sized blocks. An elastic layout is often considered the most flexible, because it sets a specific size for major text blocks while leaving the rest of the layout to stretch to fit the available space. But fixed width layouts give the designer more control over how the page will look. And others prefer a completely liquid layout because the page stays consistent no matter how big or small the browser is. And of course, some people still prefer tables for layout despite the many reasons to use CSS instead. What layout style is your preference?
What do you think? Does learning the back end of web design (HTML and CSS) hinder a designer's creative process? Or does it help? Do you find developers as annoying as Polomo does? And what about the developers out there? Do you agree? Should you be focused only on the code and making sure it slides into a designer's vision with no hiccups? Or do you find web designers just as annoying?
Thanks, Polomo, for taking the time to post your feelings. It should make for interesting debate.
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Creating a site favicon doesn't require that you invest in an icon editor. This site will take any picture you upload and convert it into a favicon for you to upload to your website. There is even a readme file that tells you how to get your favicon to display in the browser. If you've wanted a custom favicon, but didn't want to create one yourself, this is a great tool. You can also use it to convert your site logo into a favicon.
The meta description tag is an important tag for SEO because nearly every search engine uses this as the description of the page in their search results. But many people don't have time to create a description for every page that they put up. Do you change your meta descriptions or do you have a default one that you use for most or all pages on a site?
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It’s easier to view your typography and make changes to it as you watch, and the CSS Type Set helps you do that. You can set one of 10 font families, your font size (in pixels or ems), the font color, alignments, and other font styles. Then, what’s useful is you can change the letter spacing, word spacgin, and line height with sliders. You slide them back and forth to see how your font looks. I wish there were more font families to choose from, but the 10 they have are fairly common on the web, so at least you would know that most people could see the font you chose. This is a useful tool for quickly getting a sense of how your word-, letter-, and line-spacing affects your text.
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