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If DaFont isn’t enough with 1000’s of fonts… try Fonts 500 — The Web’s Top 500 Free Fonts… all free and with a nice preview. 100 per page… easy to navigate and download what you like. Enjoy!

There’s virtually unlimited choice when it comes to finding a web host. Although, when you start comparing features, there’s only a handful that I’d really consider for my needs. A couple of marketing-focused hosts get my attention, but I haven’t yet given them business.
For the last 10 years, Pair Networks in Pittsburgh, USA have been […]

I came across Slide this week, which lets you create, save and share a slideshow of your own images.
And it’s free.
Once I’d uploaded my images (you can even retrieve them from online services like Flickr), I picked the “Yearbook” style for image transitions, and hey presto! Nice flash-based slideshow to host anywhere.
The uploading interface was […]

We have lots of royalty free stock sites we go to… here are two of my favorites, and they both contain bucketloads of free stock photography images:

Stock.Xchng: www.sxc.hu — billed as “the leading free stock photography website”
morgueFile: www.morguefile.com — contains high resolution digital free stock photography for either corporate or public use.

Unlike traditional stock photo […]

When it comes to web layout, there’s still a fair bit of argument over minimum layout standards: designing your website to meet the needs of the least technically enabled visitor you’re likely to get.
I was listening to an expert today who has recently started designing for a minimum 1024 pixel screen width. To make that […]