Tips for Choosing Fonts for Your Website

Web FontsThe content of your website is the key to its success. How your content actually looks is vital to creating a positive impression. In order that visitors to your site will absorb that content, you need to decide what feelings you want to evoke in your target audience and what kind of voice you want the text to have. This is where choosing the right font comes in.

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Top 10 Go-to Web Design Resources

These are my top 10 go-to web design resources – the tools, websites, blogs, magazines and articles I use all the time as I go about designing and developing websites.

1. Sitepoint Reference Guide

Sitepoint Reference GuideA truly invaluable resource, the Sitepoint HTML, CSS and Javascript guide is my go-to code reference. It provides comprehensive documentation on each specification, with useful examples and the chance for user contributions. What I particularly like are the browser compatibility notes – as well as giving an overview of browser support, they provide detailed explanations of how different properties and elements actually behave in troublesome browsers!
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