September 26th, 2007
by Robin Tebrake
It’s always difficult to find the right typeface for a logo or even a website. Here are some resources of free fonts but remember if your are using special fonts on your site less visitors will be able to see the site with the actual font and most see the site in a standard font. I recommend you to use rare fonts just for your logo but if you really want to use such a special font for your site be sure to declare alternative font styles in your stylesheet.
Free font resources:
- Dafont.com offers user created free fonts. 7500 typefaces have already been submitted to Dafont.
- Grsites.com has a big collection of about 6800 fonts, including a logo and button maker.
- 1001freefonts.com gives you 1001 fonts for nothing.
- There are 11202 nicely categorized fonts on Abstractfonts.com. It’s one of the biggest free anthologies out there.
September 12th, 2007
by Robin Tebrake
The market of free tracking services is full of good and bad tools. So I collected the best and most innovative tracking services that are available. They are useful for every webmaster to optimize/monetize his site and see what content is appealing to the masses.
Google Analytics is a great user tracking service because it shows you most of all important information you need about your visitors like where they from, what site referred them (and links, keywords etc…). Also it creates handy graphs to easily see how your site grows or not.
whos.amung.us does not offer a lot of statistics (just 3) but 2 very useful services. The first good one is a live-counter, which of course shows the number of current visitors and the page they are browsing on. The second tool is a “normal” graph that displays a few colored bars. The last but very cool one, is a map which allows you, in addition to see what page your visitors are browsing, to locate each user on a map.
September 4th, 2007
by Robin Tebrake
Zooomr has recently added a people search to it’s site. Now you can find other users and friends on Zooomr by searching for their names or email addresses. After starting your search you will be prompted to the normal photoresults-page. But you can click on a ‘People’-tab and it displays you all the people found in their databases.
All-in-all the people search is a useful update and leads Zooomr closer to social networking.
August 30th, 2007
by Robin Tebrake
The video-uploading services like YouTube are taking a big part in the history of the web 2.0. Many people became popular for just uploading a weird video on such a site. So I want to give you a short overview of some big video-sharing services. I compared 7 videoportals in the categories quality and community. I’ve chosen 5 well-known and 2 special-interests portals. I know there are a lot of other good videosites on the internet and maybe, I present them in another article.
YouTube
If someone talks about video-upload services, the first site everyone mentions is Youtube. It was the first big one and has the largest community. And to reach a wide audience, you should upload your video to this portal. Uploaded videos can have a maximum size of 100MB and a maximum length of 10minutes. The allowed formats are: .wmv, .avi, .mov, .mpg. The quality you can present a video is acceptable but there are better services for high quality videos on the WWW (e.g. Stage6).
August 26th, 2007
by Robin Tebrake
Hi and welcome to my first post! I want to give you a list of helpful FireFox add-ons. Each of this plugins will make some certain things easier and more comfortable for you, e. g. web developing, news reading or even downloading. I know there are a lot of other good plugins not mentioned in this post, but for the beginning of my ‘FireFox Add-on Series’ I think this is enough.
RSS and Social News:
- Wizz RSS News Reader is a complex RSS News Reader with a lot of good features.
- Brief is the same as Wizz RSS News Reader but with less features and therefore it isn’t as complicated as Wizz.
- A nice tool for all Twitterusers, Twittbin. This tool will add a Twittersidebar to your FireFox to keep you up-to-date and let you post new messages right from your browser.
