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Custom Web Fonts

When designing a website its sometimes hard to keep it looking unique and fresh especially when your stuck using the standard Verdana and Arial fonts that we are now so very accustomed to. Well, this is now a thing of the past, at least for modern web browsers.

CSS3 has brought in a great new feature which allows you to embed the font and allows the use of any font you can think of! Now its not entirely a new feature. It was proposed for CSS2 however it was never implemented. Even Internet Explorer has support for @font-face since IE5, however its wasn't used in any other browsers which made it pretty much useless.

But now with CSS3 and the fact that IE has its own way of supporting fonts we can now use the @font-face to apply any font to websites without relying on images or changing to a web based font. What great news for web designers and developers.

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May 21st 2010 @ 10:36

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6 Awesome Free Fonts

Everyone loves freebies so here is a list of 6 very cool free fonts.

Celtic Garamond the 2nd

Resident Evil

Dirt2 SoulStalker

Karate

Japanese Brush

Brush Tip Terrence

Frosty

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March 26th 2010 @ 17:04

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Free Hosting and Free Domain names

I've spent quite a bit of time looking into free hosting and domain name options over the years. Having not that much money to be able to afford hosting or a domain name I wondered whether it was possible to setup a website without actually having to purchase
anything. From constant research and testing of different hosting/domain sites I can say it is quite possible to setup a website for free.

Now before you get too excited there are going to be a few drawbacks for getting things for free. Firstly, don't be expecting to have a super fast website. Most free hosting options are pretty slow due so be aware that this will have an impact on your website and attracting an audience. Also a free hosting package may not have all the necessary features that a paid hosting account would have.

Free websites are probably better suited to people who want to setup a website to see how it goes then maybe switch to a paid hosting service once you have setup the basics of your website. Definately not designed for people who are expecting a large amount of traffic to their website.

FREE HOSTING
I recommend everyone should check out FREE WEBHOSTS They list a comprehensive guide to all the free web hosts out there and what they offer in terms of services, whether they are banner free and whether you would just be setting up with a trial version or not. I like to organise my search results in terms of features rating. This gives you the best webhosts based on a variety of features that are rated.

ByetHost (http://www.byethost.com/) is one of the free hosting services that I have used and I am resonably happy service. You get 5.5GB worth of space, ftp upload, 200GB bandwidth and they have no ads. I've only been using this one for about a month so I'm unable to give you a long term review on the hosting but many other people have also rated this free hosting highly.

FREE DOMAINS
Free domains are a bit harder to get a hold of than free hosting. There are a few good options here such as .tk domains or .co.cc domains. I've used both of these and haven't had any trouble with them.If your looking for a free .com domain there is one place that I have found and I'm sure there are a few more out there. Now I haven't tested this one out so I would love people's input into whether this is actually do able or not. The site is Free Domain Site which offer people free domains. Basically you have to complete some surveys in order to gain domain points. Once you have aquired enough domain points you would be able to get your free domain. They claim that you will not have to use your credit card either. If you want to test it out click on more and then Register.

So, that is a list of a few good free domain and hosting websites that you can check out if you want to get a website up and running for free.

Do you know of any good free web hosting/domain name sites?

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March 21st 2010 @ 01:56

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New Writer

Sleepy coder has now taken over the domain www.codefound.com Sorry for all those lovers of the previous blog about sql tips and tricks. Old posts will still be shown but this blog will be taking a slightly new direction.

Now I don't have much experience in SQL. I'm more of a HTML/CSS person so I will mainly be focusing on that area. I also love wordpress so you can expect quite a few blogs about that as well

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March 19th 2010 @ 10:10

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12 Free Wordpress Themes

I'm pretty big fan of wordpress these days. Its easy to update and maintain and great when you want to expand your website by adding more features. There are also lots of great free wordpress themes already out there. Now if you can design one yourself I would recommend you try as your website and image can look so much better with a unique and personalised design.

For those of you who don't know how to design your own wordpress theme fear not, there are plently of great FREE options out there for you. Here I have compiled a list of my top favourite free wordpress themes. Enjoy

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March 18th 2010 @ 12:15

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Internet Explorer 9

Not long after the release of IE8 it looks like microsoft are already starting on IE9. Its no suprise that they needed a newer version of IE so soon with IE8's release not even supporting css3. It looks like IE9 may even come close to the standards of Firefox. Saying that I usually get disappointed with any new releases of Internet Explorer as I was with the release of IE8.

So, what does IE9 have to offer you say? Well, you can expect increased css3 support for starters. Along with an increase in Web standards. Microsoft also boasts a better javascript engine which will increase the performance of web applications as well as HTML5 support. Now some people believe this means we will be moving up in the world of web developement in allowing developers to code with css3 and html5 but I say that is still a long time coming. As developers we will still need to provide support for the dreaded ie7 and in some cases ie6. This means less chances to improve our code with css3 and html5 but at least internet explorer is heading in the right direction for once

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March 17th 2010 @ 14:02

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Top 10 Wordpress sites that don't look like Wordpress sites

We've all seen it. You come across a website and automatically your know your looking at yet another wordpress site. There are tons of them out there, most of them looking the same. What I love the most is coming across a wordpress site that looks nothing like wordpress. Its the unqiue and individual designs that capture my attention and leave me wanting to know more.

Here I have compiled a list of my top 10 unique Wordpress websites

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March 16th 2010 @ 13:17

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Web Developers shouldn’t support Internet Explorer 6

Surprisingly even with the release of Internet Explorer 8 back in 2009 there is still a wide audience of people who insist on keeping their very outdated version of IE6. Yet my theory is that to finally rid us web developers of the dreaded IE6 we should be cutting support for it.

Of course there are many reasons why people don’t upgrade their browsers. Some people don’t know how to upgrade, others simply don’t want to upgrade. Whatever the reason it’s becoming an increasing hassle for web developers. Not only do web developers have to keep up to date with all the latest browsers, such as the recent release of IE8, but they also have to keep fixing their outdated counterparts. So, what does that mean for web developer? More work, that’s what it means

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March 16th 2010 @ 08:56

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