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As web designers, it is our job to grow with the trends of the Internet. As new technology emerges, it's our position to jump on board and see where it can take us. This includes trends all over the web, typography being a major player. Many designers don't consider type as a field of interest or focus. Ironically, typography is possibly one of the most important parts of our dynamic web. It helps deliver a website's content to users from all over the world and it truly is an art to study. I'll be getting into a few concepts about typography for the modern web. Things haven't changed too much since the previous years of web design, however many new techniques are being utilized and shared amongst the design community.

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"A visitor recently asked me whether it was possible to point multiple domain names to one website, more or less the conceptual reverse of what I wrote about in "Can I Create Multiple Websites with One Domain Name?". This article discusses why a person might want to do this, how it can be accomplished, and provides a practical guide on the additional steps you need to take in order to avoid losing potential search engine ranking as a result of doing things this way."

Grunticon makes it easy to use HD-ready (retina) vector illustrations, icons, and background images in your web project without the hassles of spotty browser compatibility. The tool processes a set of SVG files, generates PNG fallback images for legacy browsers, and exports a demo page showing how to use the final icons.

Grunticon makes it easy to use HD-ready (retina) vector illustrations, icons, and background images in your web project without the hassles of spotty browser compatibility. The tool processes a set of SVG files, generates PNG fallback images for legacy browsers, and exports a demo page showing how to use the final icons.

"Helium is a tool for discovering unused CSS across many pages on a web site. The tool is javascript-based and runs from the browser. "

A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web aims to teach you techniques for designing your website using the principles of graphic design.

Bring the power of the iPhone and iPod Touch GUI designed by Apple in your own web applications and give the the best user experience to your visitors and customers.

A Google Chrome extension useful to inspect the meta data found inside web pages, usually not visible while browsing. Meta data is not just the usual HTML meta tags, but the XFN tags, various microformats, the recently introduced canonical attribute, the no-follow links and so on.

CodePen is an HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code editor right in your browser with instant previews of the code you see and write. It's great for showing off your work and seeing what amazing things other people are doing with the web. It's also great for troubleshooting problems and getting critique.

"Checkpoints Accessibility - check WCAG and Section 508 guidelines against many file types: find flashing GIFs, untagged PDFs Broken Links - check for broken links and spelling errors Compatibility - check for HTML, script and image formats that don't work in common browsers Search Engine Optimization - check Google and Bing webmaster guidelines Privacy - check for compliance with EU and US law Web Standards - validate HTML and CSS Usability - check against Usability.gov guidelines"

A Firefox extension to analyze typography across a number of web pages to improve consistency and optimise performance of type-related CSS.

"Create unique web design with Twitter Bootstrap. Kw: themes, templates, styles. generator. customize."

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