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  • 5 Useful Tools for Stunning Web Typography

    Apr272010
    5 Useful Tools for Stunning Web Typography

    CSS Type Set CSS Type Set allows you experiment and create different CSS styles using their simple UI. You can alter the look and feel of your inputted text with their different attribute controls, including font size, line height, letter spacing, font weight and a fair few more. Once you are happy with your new [...]

    CSS Text Shadow Property

    Apr262010
    CSS Text Shadow Property

    The CSS Text Shadow property allows designers to add creative effects to the text on their website without having to render the block of text as a image. This is a huge advantage for many reasons, but most importantly for usability and SEO. Although the Text Shadow property is not necessarily a new thing (first [...]

    Using @font-face

    Apr232010
    Using @font-face

    @font-face is a CSS property that allows web designers to use custom typefaces on a website that aren’t installed on the browsers computer. This means that designers can now start to move away from web-safe fonts such as Arial, Georgia, Times New Roman, Verdana, Trebuchet and the gorgeous Comic Sans and replace them custom fonts. [...]

    5 Reasons to use Magento

    Apr192010
    5 Reasons to use Magento

    Magento is an open source ecommerce platform that has helped revolutionise online shopping. We recommend Magento to each of ecommerce clients and it has been highly praised for different reasons. In this short blog post we will aim to list 5 of the most impressive features we have found laying around in Magento. Multi-Site Functionality [...]

    WordPress 3.0 Features

    Apr182010
    Wordpress 3.0 Features

    Since it’s creation in 2003, WordPress has rapidly grown and has became of the most popular pieces of open source software available on the web. Starting off as a blogging platform many Web Designer now use WordPress as a comprehensive Content Management System, based on it’s adaptability, userfriendly admin panel and the inexhaustible amount of [...]

    Photoshop Disasters

    Apr122010
    Photoshop Disasters

    To help celebrate the release of Adobe Creative Suite 5, we thought we would compile a collection of some of the biggest commercial Photoshop disasters to date. Pepsi’s Reflection Michelle Obama looking like a Toy Story character. Victoria’s Secret Handbag? ComputerDesks.com up the ante Nice Nails Missing something? Instant seat filler 500,000.00 Dollars? Head transplant [...]