[Updated] We all knew that there are a lot of websites showcasing the great usage of fonts and type treatment on various mediums like web or on the print, but sometimes you just want to know what font they are using. Well you can use font identification service to check the similar fonts, but is there any resources that tells you the font name?

Well there are, I found 3+ websites that not only showcase good examples of typography but also the fonts behind the design. Continue read on to check them out.

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It’s Flickr gallery showcase again! Welcome to the fifth edition of this series. As usual, five awesome photo galleries will be showcased in this post. Continue read on to check out the inspirational galleries! If you want to check out the previous series, here are the link to first, second, third and fourth version of this series.

Cliccath

Cliccath has many outstanding captures of macro photography of insects and flowers. Link to Cliccath’s photo slideshow.

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As we all knew it, page loading speed is one of the crucial subject to measure the success of a website. As a user, we all love fast loading websites and if a website takes its sweet time loading, most of the people will lose patient and leaving the site. According to John Jersin, Product Manager of Google, he said that 1 second delay in loading time resulting in 7% loss in conversions.

These shows that how important to optimize your website and maintaining the loading speed to a satisfactory level. Here I am going to show you some useful tools to test your page speed. Read on to find out!

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UPrinting an online printing company is partnering with us with a business card printing giveaway! View some ideas for your custom business cards and join the contest.

Giveaway Detail

• Prize: 250pcs Die Cut Business Card Printing for one winner
• Card measurement: 2 x 3.5″ Rounded Corners, 2×2″ Rounded Corners, 1.75×3.5″ Rounded Corners, 2×3.5″ Leaf, 2×3.5 Rounded one corner, 2×3.5″ Half Circle Side, 2×3.5″ Oval, 2.5″ Circle.
• Paper: 14pt Cardstock Gloss / Matte / High Gloss (UV), or 13pt Cardstock Uncoated
• Delivery: 6 Business Days Turnaround *Free shipping
• Sample: see ideas for your custom business cards
• Restriction: Limited to *US residents 18 years old and above only.

How to Participate

Simply leave a comment with a valid e-mail address below before 15 September 2011, and one lucky winner will be randomly chosen among valid participants (US residents only). Winner’s e-mail then will be sent to UPrinting for prize claiming.

Good luck everyone!

Update

The contest period has over. And the winner is Leslie! Leslie will be contacted soon for prize collection.

Disclaimer:
This custom business cards giveaway is sponsored by UPrinting, no monetary compensation was given for hosting. For more information about online printing please visit UPrinting.com.

Because currently I worked in a newspaper company, I have the opportunities to redesign the online version of their newspaper. I have not done any newspaper website design before and this is a great challenge for me. I always think that it is hard to create designs that has large amount of content and the flexibility of the layout, as well as how to make it usable to readers.

From my research, online version of Newspaper or magazine must have a layout that allow people to quick scan the latest news and quickly know the news that matters the most of the particular day. To support this, we can use white space, typography, colors etc to achieve this result. Besides that, also have to think of how to make space for advertising without taking too much attention away from the main content. Below are the examples of newspaper and magazine websites with good and usable front page design.

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Google+ is the most red hot topic on the Internet right now. I was lucky to get invited by my friend and get a chance to test out this latest social networking service from Google. At the first time of logging in, I immediately fall in love with the clean, user friendly UI as well as the features. I would say that G+ is a really nice product that somehow combine the sweetness of Facebook and Twitter.

In fact that I really like G+ and thought that as a Web Designers or Developers, we can benefit from using it. In this post I will point out the simple things that you can do to make your G+ account a one-stop Web Design resources hub.

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When comes to presentation, normally we will rely on softwares like PowerPoint or Keynote. These are really useful tools, but for people who doesn’t have the softwares, we still can use free online tools like Google Doc’s Presentation. But now there is another new way of doing presentation slides which is by using web-based HTML entirely.

The benefit of HTML presentation slides is compatibility. People can view your slides by using their favorite browser. Here, I found 8 plugins and resources that you can actually use to create your HTML presentation. Kudos to the innovative creator for making those useful plugins. Check them out after the jump.

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Information graphics or in short, infographics, are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge. With visual aids, complex data can be presented in graphical way and is easier to remember and more enjoyable when reading it. Currently, there are a lot of educational articles are presented in infographic on the Internet, and I found 8 useful websites that showcase the inspirational infographics.

While majority of the infographics are designed and presented in a form of image, but there are also animated one, as well as interactive. I personally really like infographics because it is entertaining and creative. Without further elaborating, below are some websites that you should visit for infographic inspiration.

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Lets rewind back the time to 2006, exactly five years ago when I just graduated in college and started my career as Web Designer. That time, I was fresh, ready for challenges but inexperience. Back in my school, the course didn’t teach much but just the basics of the Web Design skills, and I’m the only designer in the company that I joined after graduation.

With no senior that I can refer to for Web Design skills, and the school taught me the old style web development skill like building a website using Table and lacking CSS skills, I decided to look for learning materials online. Soon, I found out some really useful websites and great designers that influenced me during my early career as Web Designer. Without their help, perhaps today I still cannot build a Table-less website! Read on to find out the websites and designers that influence me when started out as Web Designer.

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Responsive Web Design has become really popular nowadays. As in the world today with the desktop screen getting much wider, while on the other hand the rising of mobile devices with smaller screen and resolutions. Now it is very essential to create a website that can be viewed with various screen resolutions. With the help of CSS3′s Media Queries, designers are able to design websites that are responsive and adaptive to what screen resolutions that the users have.

Media Queries has been existed quite some time already and there are quite a number of websites that use Media Queries. Recently I found a web gallery called Media Queries, which showcase the good examples of responsive web designs.

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