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Webdesign Inspiration Gallery #1
Presenting our first showcase of favourite recent designs from around the web. Be inspired by them, as we are.
“To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.” – Steven Wright
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Desktop and Web Typefaces – An Exciting New Era for Designers
Today Myfonts.com announced a new service allowing designers to subscribe to a vast number of desktop typefaces by Monotype foundries. Over 2200 to be precise.
Combined with webfont subscriptions provided by fonts.com (or typekit), web designers now have an incredible arsenal of fonts to try out, with complimenting systems that make experimentation convenient and cost-effective, contributing hopefully to more interesting design.
Simple Search Engine Ranking Reports
We provide custom SEO services to improve our clients’ search engine ranking. This requires consultation to craft an optimisation strategy that suits you. Researching your industry, reviewing your current website content and code, and choosing keywords to target and advertise on.
Such custom services can be too expensive for some businesses. But we now offer a simple product to help you monitor your search engine ranking for 15 keywords on 4 search engines.
Chinese and Other Non-Latin Typefaces for the Web – Google Noto to the Rescue
If you’re designing for multiple-language web interfaces, you’ll want to consider Google’s beautiful Noto typeface as a great starting point for non-English views.
Google’s Noto typeface was designed specifically to support all scripts in the Unicode standard. It is a huge ongoing project that was released into the wild in 2013 to help with font support and consistency on their Android phones.
You can read about the rationale and learn more about it from Google’s own Material Design specifications.
While Google are using this in their mobile device interfaces, we can also use them to our benefit when designing and developing for screens, or even for print.
The Irregular Grid – The Layout to End All Layouts
We’ve been using irregular grid layouts a lot recently. Of all the options for laying out items of content this one keeps asserting itself as the best tool for the job.
And here’s why.