Category Archives: design
My current programming font
[ad#content2]There have been tonnes of debates over which font is the best for programming. Everyone has their preference. My current preference is TheSans Condensed Mono by LucasFonts.
The font is used in all of O’Reilly’s programming books, and that’s how I originally found out about it. It has got all the attributes of a great programming [...]
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Better looking fonts
[ad#content2]Browsers can only display fonts which are installed on a user’s machine. To make your page design consistent across different computers, you’re limited to using only a few fonts which are installed on most computers. As a result, the typography of your website can be difficult to get right.
The following fonts are deemed web safe
Arial
Courier [...]
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Improving my object oriented design skills
I’m very interested in building web applications at the moment. I’ve been learning PHP on and off for about 3 or 4 years, but have really got into it over the last 6 months. I’ve probably learned more over the last 6 months, than in the previous 24 months. [ad#content2]
I’m getting proficient. With help from [...]
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Good color combinations in action
Instead of fooling around with theory, I’ve decided to do something a bit more practical in this post. I’m going to take 2 popular websites, and analyse the way in which they use color. The 2 websites I’ve chosen are Digg, and MySpace.[ad#content2]
I’m going to break my color scheme analysis into 2 parts. The first [...]
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Choosing the right colors for your website (part 2)
I’ve talked about tools to help you create color schemes for your website, but what colors should you actually choose? To use a color scheme generator effectively, you need an idea of the kind of color scheme you want.[ad#content2]
Creating any color scheme begins with choosing a base color. To help you choose a base color, [...]
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Choosing colors for your website
I’ve decided to start a miniature series on an area of website design which has always given me bother – choosing the right colors. However these days, picking a good color palette shouldn’t be difficult. There’s tonnes of software out there to help you, and many helpful communities who have already done all of the [...]
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Learn to program, it will make web development that bit easier.
As a web developer you’re not expected to be brilliant at designing, programming, marketing, and monetizing a website. A CEO of a company ensures that all the various departments of a company work together, effectively. That’s just like the role of a web developer. For example, a web developer makes sure that the programmer and [...]
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A great free icon set