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20 Awesome and Free Fonts for Web Designers (Serif Family)

Vel — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:37:13 +0000

If you are looking some awesome and exciting new fonts then you search ends here. In this post I’m sharing a bunch of some new and exciting fonts for web designers and desktop publishers (for printing).

The following list covers most of Serif and Sans Serif family fonts like Serifan, Serifab, Serifat, Vaground, Bitstream Vera Serif, Stonsans, Bastardus Sans, Museo Sans, Ambrosia Demo etc.

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Design Trends: The Single Purpose Homepage

Vel — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:28:19 +0000

This post focuses on a design style that’s both retro (it’s been around a long time) and emerging (the popularity, at least to me, feels like it’s on the rise) – the single-purpose homepage.

Is It Good for SEO?

It depends… If you have the type of site that’s very product focused and single-purpose in nature, this can be an ideal page type. Even if you run a blog, promote articles, or have other types of secondary content, you can always embed links to them in smaller, more background-style fonts and retain crawlability and good information architecture.

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25 Inspiring Examples of Sign-Up Pages

Vel — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:33:21 +0000

A well developed and organized sign-up page has to relay a large quantity of data in a small area and must be quick and easy to read and understand.

Overly creative plan names are more likely to hurt your sign-up process instead of help, as they’ll take longer to understand.

It’s better to save your creativity for the other pages which will be redirecting the user to the sign-up page.

Start a trial and error phase to test out what your audience might specifically be attracted to as this will vary from site to site.

Here are 25 creative examples of sign-up pages which you can use as a starting point for inspiration when designing your own.

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