CSS3 First Look 03 03 CSS3 gradients ( www.webtutorials.tk )
CSS3 First Look Full Playlist URL : www.youtube.com For more free web dev video tutorials please visit www.webtutorials.tk . Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. *** Description *** In CSS3 First Look, staff author James Williamson provides an in-depth introduction to the newest CSS standard, detailing its modular format, history, and current level of browser support, while also demonstrating its capabilities and applications. The course includes tutorials on using new selectors, modifying typography and color, working with the box model, and understanding media queries. *** Topics include *** Understanding the history of CSS3 Working with the new selectors Adding transparency and gradients Specifying web fonts with @font-face Understanding the advances to page layout Looking at CSS3 box model capabilities Using 2D and 3D transforms Understanding media queries
What The Font? Understanding Typefaces On The Web
Do you operate a website, send out electronic newsletters or e-mail campaigns? Have you ever experimented with the different fonts (typefaces) available? If you have, you probably discovered there are numerous fonts available on your computer ñ in some cases 100-200 or more. How then do you decide which font to use?
This article will give you a brief overview of choosing fonts for the internet, so that the next electronic piece of information you send achieves the desired effect.
Where the Font Do We Start?
First, even though there are thousands of fonts available to us, each computer usually only has a hundred or so installed for use. Different operating systems, and various other files or programs you obtain can install various fonts on your computer and add to that number. Those fonts are usually compatible across programs, meaning you will be able to use all of your system fonts in any program. Let’s say your computer came pre-installed with 150 fonts. Then you bought a common software program that added 50 more fonts to your computer. You now have 200 fonts you will be able to use in any program that is designed to allow font selection.
Isn’t that great? You instantly have more fonts to choose from. If you’re working in print materials or graphics, then you actually do have the freedom to choose whatever fonts you want. However, if you are not printing the final version but instead delivering your material via the internet, whether it be on a website, by email, or any other type of electronic media, you don’t actually have as much freedom as you may think. There are several factors to take into consideration that could influence your choice, including perception, usability and availability.
Perception.
The typeface that you select needs to accurately reflect the mood of your message. Do you want the tone conveyed to your reader to be formal or informal, friendly or serious, professional or playful? If the message is of a professional and formal nature, then your font should accurately portray that. But if the message is to a group of friends inviting them to a party, you can have a little fun and take a more informal approach with your fonts. Always consider the audience for which the piece is intended, and then choose a font that achieves the perception you desire.
Usability.
After you have established the intended audience for your message, make sure they can actually read it! Many fonts are hard to read simply because they are so small in size (like 8 point or 10 point). Cursive and italic fonts can be hard on the eyes and are strongly discouraged for the purposes of main bodies of text. Italics should only be used for emphasis or as graphical elements. You also don’t want your font too large, as this can make it difficult for the eyes to scan across a large body of text. There are many fonts available intended specifically for headings and logo text that would be inappropriate for the main body of a message. To maximize usability, make sure to choose a font that is legible and easy on the eyes.
Availability.
This is the most easily overlooked aspect of font selection and can result in completely unexpected results. To insure the recipient sees the same message style you created, the fonts you use must be available on their computer. When you create a website for example, the HTML code will “call” the font that is supposed to be displayed. This tells your browser program what font it should display on that particular page. Even though you may have 200 fonts installed on your computer and you see your fonts fine and dandy, that doesn’t mean that the person on the other end viewing your website has the exact same fonts as you. In a case where he doesn’t, his browser will substitute a different font of its own choosing, which could completely change their perception of your intended message. At the very least, they may think you were sloppy in putting your material together. Email programs, and electronic newsletters, all work the same way. So bottom line, you need to use fonts that you are positive your entire web audience will have available on their computer. We call these “Web-Safe” fonts.
With thousands of fonts out there, you’re probably thinking, “No big deal, there are still plenty of choices”. Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there are only 9. Yes, you read that correctly, there are only NINE web-safe fonts that you can be assured are on every single computer out there! Those fonts are Arial, Arial Black, Courier New, Comic Sans, Georgia, Impact, Tahoma, Times New Roman, Trebuchet, and Verdana. Let’s take a couple of minutes to understand the differences in these fonts.
There are two basic types of fonts; serif or sans serif. Serif by definition has a fine line finishing off the main strokes of a letter, or letters may end with a rounded tip. And “sans” is a French term meaning “without”, so in the case of sans serif it would be without those fine lines. The most common serif font is Times New Roman and the most common sans serif font is Arial, both of which are web-safe fonts. Of the nine web-safe fonts there are only 3 serif fonts; Courier New, Georgia and Times New Roman. Serif fonts in very small text sizes can be hard to read, therefore caution should be used when selecting those for small print.
Arial (properly pronounced “are-ree-al”)
Arial was introduced as the default typeface for Windows 3.1 when it was released by Microsoft in the early 1990s. It is not difficult to read unless used in very small sizes, and it is the most popular sans serif font today. It is however quite plain, and people tend to get bored of Arial because they see it every where. But, since it’s so widely available, easy to read, and the default for Microsoft products, it is a great font to use for main content areas of your marketing materials, newsletters, websites, etc.
Arial Black
Arial Black is one of many versions of Arial, released with Internet Explorer 3. It is a bolder font than Arial and is great for headings and short sections of text that require emphasis.
Courier New
Courier New, a serif font, was primarily a font used in old typewriters. Not normally used as main bodies of text, it is still used to display code in documents or when the writer wants the old-fashioned typewriter look in their document.
Comic Sans
Comic Sans started shipping with Windows 95 as a preinstalled font. Designed to look like comic book lettering, the font was created for informal copy. Regarded today as unprofessional, this sans serif font is not recommended for materials of a professional nature. Comic Sans became a more popular font when it started being used as the text inside the tags on Beanie Babies!
Georgia
Georgia, a serif font, was created for Microsoft in 1993 to provide a clean font for use on the web that would display well even in small sizes. Georgia font letters are taller than most other web-safe fonts, making them easier to read when used in smaller sizes. Georgia is a great alternative when you’re tired of traditional Times New Roman, but still want a serif font.
Impact
Impact is a very bold sans serif font. By it’s name, it was designed to impact the reader, and is therefore recommended only for headings, small blocks of text, areas on the page that you want to grab the readers eye. Because of it’s thick block style, Impact looks best when there is plenty of space around it otherwise it looks cluttered.
Tahoma
Tahoma, a very close cousin of Verdana, was designed in 1999 for Microsoft. It is so similar to Verdana that many don’t see the difference in the fonts. Mainly, Tahoma keeps its lettering tighter so that text does not spread out as far as Verdana does. Tahoma is a great font option for those needing a sans serif font but who are getting bored of Arial.
Times New Roman
Times New Roman is the most widely used serif font, developed in 1931 for use by The Times newspaper in London. It has remained a very popular font for setting type in books, magazines, newspapers, etc. The U.S. State Department has been using Times New Roman 14 point on all diplomatic documents since 1994, replacing their old font of choice Courier New 12 point.
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Trebuchet (properly pronounced “treb-u-shet”
Trebuchet was designed in 1996 for Microsoft and is a popular sans serif font for those bored with the plain appearance of Arial. Having a definite style all it’s own, Trebuchet is easy to read for large or small type and works well for main bodies of text. Due to its unique styling though, it can be seen as a feminine font and if your audience is all men they may not relate well to that font.
Verdana
Verdana, designed for Microsoft in 1996 is probably the most easy to read web-safe sans serif font available. With its taller lettering, and more evenly spaced letters it can be easily read in larger sizes as well as small sizes. It does extend the width of text on a page, so it’s great for filling design that have a lot of space with a small amount of copy.
What Font do YOU Want?
Now that you understand the differences between the 9 web-safe fonts, which one will you choose for your internet communications? If you’re looking for a serif font, then Georgia is our recommendation. It is the clearest serif font on the web, since it was designed for just that purpose. If you are looking for a sans serif font, Verdana is the clearest on screen font for readability and is our number one recommendation, with good old Arial pulling up a close second.
CSS3 First Look 01 01 What is CSS3 ( www.webtutorials.tk )
CSS3 First Look Full Playlist URL : www.youtube.com For more free web dev video tutorials please visit www.webtutorials.tk . Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. *** Description *** In CSS3 First Look, staff author James Williamson provides an in-depth introduction to the newest CSS standard, detailing its modular format, history, and current level of browser support, while also demonstrating its capabilities and applications. The course includes tutorials on using new selectors, modifying typography and color, working with the box model, and understanding media queries. *** Topics include *** Understanding the history of CSS3 Working with the new selectors Adding transparency and gradients Specifying web fonts with @font-face Understanding the advances to page layout Looking at CSS3 box model capabilities Using 2D and 3D transforms Understanding media queries
Designer Chat Session: Garrick Van Buren of Kernest
Talking about web fonts & the font pairing service Konstellations with Kernest founder Garrick Van Buren. ;
Rules of Presentation Design
Like a fine dining experience that requires equal parts food, service and atmosphere to really work, the visual design part of the presentation process is every bit as necessary as the others to achieve the desired result and in this case, true knowledge transfer.
So without further ado:
7. Maintain paragraph integrity. First, all 1st Level Paragraph text must be the same size in every slide. Likewise, all 2nd Level Paragraph text must be smaller and of a different color. Lastly, don’t go beyond the 3rd Level, and this text should not be smaller than 20 points.
If all information of the same importance is of the same size throughout your presentation, your audience won’t be raising question marks as to just how important this information is with each click of the slide. Take this concept one step further by ensuring that all material of the same nature is the same color. If, for instance, you use a lot of numbers in your bullet points, make them all one color, different from the text. Once your audience recognizes this pattern, they’ll spend less time digging through the text to find their figures.
6. No boring fonts. Rarely is there a need to use more than two different fonts in any presentation. However, there is a HUGE need to use any two fonts other than the PowerPoint defaults Times New Roman and Arial! Make sure your audience can read your text from a distance, and dont need to get new contacts. If you are highlighting a special offer, like a 1800contacts order code, be sure the people in the room don’t actually need new contacts to read it.
The problem is that because everybody else uses these two fonts 99% of the time, if yours is the fifth presentation your audience is seeing that day, pretty soon all the text starts to look the same, and you lose much of your meaning and impact. We often hear from clients who have to sit through presentations themselves that after a while, they can’t remember which vendor said what and it all becomes a big blur. Make sure you’re not part of the blur.
5. Use proper builds. Without a sense of good design, which in most cases means simply showing restraint, animations can quickly overwhelm an otherwise well laid-out presentation. The trick then is to introduce concepts one at a time in a way that doesn’t draw more attention than the concepts themselves. Builds are essential elements in turning slides that would otherwise have TMI into ones that audiences can follow; but like other elements of good design, a proper build should never announce itself. Rather, a well animated presentation should simply appear to “happen”, without a clue as to why it seems so easy to follow.
4. Be colorful – Light on dark. Watch much black-and-white television these days? Although black-and-white works as an art form in many ways, humans tend to like color. Even old-guard newspapers like the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal finally concluded that to avoid losing readers to more modern media, they had to go to color. While humans can discern a dozen or so shades of gray, they can see millions of different colors. We’ve evolved to use our sense of color to survive and help your audiences survive your presentation by not blinding them with black on white.
3. Less is More. This rule is central to good presentation design, but absolutely essential for graphs or charts. We often see pie charts come across our review desk with over a dozen slices, many so small they need to be annotated with lines and arrows far from the graph itself. Do you really think anyone will remember all 25 competing products in your market and their percentage share? Might be good information for a handout, but in a presentation few people can absorb more than six elements in any graph.
You make your point much more effectively when you limit your displayed data to the stuff the audience is likely to remember. Less information becomes more retention of the stuff you really want them to go home with.
2. One concept per visual. Here’s another really common problem we see in the majority of business presentations, and the solution flows from rule number 3.
When more than one concept appear at the same time, your audience not only tries to figure out the concepts, they also try to determine which one deserves most of their attention, how the two or more are related, whether one is the “right” one or the “good” one, and so on and so forth and all having nothing to do with your actual message itself. This extra time and effort acts as a drag on presentation flow, and explains why a 45-slide presentation, properly broken down into one concept per, takes less time to present than the same information packed into 15.
1. Favor Right-Brain information. We humans have evolved with two different ways to deal with stimuli from the outside world so that we can react to it in the way most likely to keep us alive. Our right brain reacts to input such as colors, graphics, shapes and patterns instantly, without stopping to process the information first. Our left brain kicks in when presented with speech, text or numbers; however with this kind of information we first pause to analyze it before storing or reacting to it. We have filters on the left side on the brain, and not everything gets through.
If you want your ideas to strike fast and be readily absorbed, then every time you can, figure out how to turn your left-brain type data into shapely and colorful right-brain images.
CSS3 First Look 05 03 Setting element flexibility ( www.webtutorials.tk )
CSS3 First Look Full Playlist URL : www.youtube.com For more free web dev video tutorials please visit www.webtutorials.tk . Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. *** Description *** In CSS3 First Look, staff author James Williamson provides an in-depth introduction to the newest CSS standard, detailing its modular format, history, and current level of browser support, while also demonstrating its capabilities and applications. The course includes tutorials on using new selectors, modifying typography and color, working with the box model, and understanding media queries. *** Topics include *** Understanding the history of CSS3 Working with the new selectors Adding transparency and gradients Specifying web fonts with @font-face Understanding the advances to page layout Looking at CSS3 box model capabilities Using 2D and 3D transforms Understanding media queries
CSS3 First Look Full Playlist URL : www.youtube.com For more free web dev video tutorials please visit www.webtutorials.tk . Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. *** Description *** In CSS3 First Look, staff author James Williamson provides an in-depth introduction to the newest CSS standard, detailing its modular format, history, and current level of browser support, while also demonstrating its capabilities and applications. The course includes tutorials on using new selectors, modifying typography and color, working with the box model, and understanding media queries. *** Topics include *** Understanding the history of CSS3 Working with the new selectors Adding transparency and gradients Specifying web fonts with @font-face Understanding the advances to page layout Looking at CSS3 box model capabilities Using 2D and 3D transforms Understanding media queries
CSS3 First Look 05 01 An overview of the flexible box model ( www.webtutorials.tk )
CSS3 First Look Full Playlist URL : www.youtube.com For more free web dev video tutorials please visit www.webtutorials.tk . Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. *** Description *** In CSS3 First Look, staff author James Williamson provides an in-depth introduction to the newest CSS standard, detailing its modular format, history, and current level of browser support, while also demonstrating its capabilities and applications. The course includes tutorials on using new selectors, modifying typography and color, working with the box model, and understanding media queries. *** Topics include *** Understanding the history of CSS3 Working with the new selectors Adding transparency and gradients Specifying web fonts with @font-face Understanding the advances to page layout Looking at CSS3 box model capabilities Using 2D and 3D transforms Understanding media queries
Font free scrapbooking
Font free scrapbooking is creating a scrapbook without the use of the computer. It is relatively easy to create a scrapbook page using downloaded again printed fonts, although it would be massed personal and unique to write diary fairness entries in your scrapbook. Some people aren’t gutsy enough with their penmanship, but ditch the popularity of scrapbooking, they can now garner from a wide selection of templates and stickers to create great looking pages. No matter how well you write or what stamps you pick, your scrapbook will look like a gem compared to the comic sans printed types that we have seen so much of.
There are four basic items that a scrapbooker can use if he or she wishes fix a font free scrapbook.
If your font facts are out-of-date, how will that affect your actions and decisions? Make certain you don’t let important font free scrapbooking information slip by you.
1. Templates
You can choose from several variations of alphabet templates. They are available control at variance sizes, and you rightful have to fine the most right template for your scrapbook. Once you hold selected a theme, you amenability layout the page cardinal and trace the letters from the template using a pencil. Adjacent making convinced you have created a worthy arrangement, you trust then appropriateness a marker with archival quality ink to report the scholarship permanently.
2. Stickers
Experienced are several companies that produce letter stickers that you can use because the scrapbook. Some companies create sets of words for theme pages, such as It’s my birthday, or Graduation day, due to the also common themes. It should speak for mentioned though that not all companies discharge sour free stickers, so you need to check the classify for the words acid free.
3. Stamps
Stamps are created in a mixture of designs. Most stamps further shot archival standard ink in other colors. You need to form sure that bodily is using sour free paper as the photos and the stamp designs, because even if you are using scrapbook protected ink, the paper may easily deteriorate and become brittle if original is not photo safe or acid free. If you are making a scrapbook about your weight loss after finding those medifast coupons online, be sure to label each photo with the date, or at least the month, and your progress.
4. Pattern mold designs
Corresponding to stickers, die design designs are glued onto the scrapbook page. There are several style cut designs available online. The designs are printed on unimaginable sheets of for love, plastic, or thin rubber matting, and you only have to system the design and paste original onto the scrapbook page.
Age these materials are juicy available online and at various arts & crafts stores nationwide, you answerability also go commando and write the entries using markers or special pens to make your scrapbooks more special.
Knowing enough about font free scrapbooking to make solid, informed choices cuts down on the fear factor. If you apply what you’ve just learned about font free scrapbooking, you should have nothing to worry about.
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CSS3 First Look Full Playlist URL : www.youtube.com For more free web dev video tutorials please visit www.webtutorials.tk . Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. *** Description *** In CSS3 First Look, staff author James Williamson provides an in-depth introduction to the newest CSS standard, detailing its modular format, history, and current level of browser support, while also demonstrating its capabilities and applications. The course includes tutorials on using new selectors, modifying typography and color, working with the box model, and understanding media queries. *** Topics include *** Understanding the history of CSS3 Working with the new selectors Adding transparency and gradients Specifying web fonts with @font-face Understanding the advances to page layout Looking at CSS3 box model capabilities Using 2D and 3D transforms Understanding media queries
CSS3 First Look 08 03 Writing styles for target screen sizes ( www.webtutorials.tk )
CSS3 First Look Full Playlist URL : www.youtube.com For more free web dev video tutorials please visit www.webtutorials.tk . Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. *** Description *** In CSS3 First Look, staff author James Williamson provides an in-depth introduction to the newest CSS standard, detailing its modular format, history, and current level of browser support, while also demonstrating its capabilities and applications. The course includes tutorials on using new selectors, modifying typography and color, working with the box model, and understanding media queries. *** Topics include *** Understanding the history of CSS3 Working with the new selectors Adding transparency and gradients Specifying web fonts with @font-face Understanding the advances to page layout Looking at CSS3 box model capabilities Using 2D and 3D transforms Understanding media queries