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Pick the right font for your logotype with Wordmark.it

. Typography

Pick the right font for your logotype with Wordmark.it

When comes to choosing the best fonts for the logo designs, it is always time consuming and sometimes frustrating. Perhaps you can look for the fonts on the online font stores like FontShop or free font websites like dafont.com, perhaps the most suitable font is already installed in your system. But there are hundreds of fonts and how are we going to pick one smartly? Enter Wordmark.it.

Wordmark.it is a online tool to help you to choose the best font out of many fonts installed in your system. Some useful functions in this service is you can enter your desired text, set the text size bigger or smaller, and even make it positive or negative space. And you can also select the fonts and view them under the “filter selected” tab.

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Go to the Top, Please

. jQuery, Web Design

Go to the Top, Please

In many websites with lengthy content, one very common features is by providing a “Go to top” button at the end section of an article for users to quick access to the top of the page, without using the scroll bar. This can be achieve easily by using a very simple anchor link that targets the top area of the web page. Cool and straight forward.

Well, actually I saw some really cool “Go To Top” approach which makes the experience a lot better. All you need to do is by adding some Javascript goodness into it. I will show you some real world examples and plugins to achieve the effect. Now, going to top has never been this good!

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Best of 2010

. Inspiration, Resources, Web Design

Best of 2010

Few more days to go which marks the end of the brilliant year of 2010. It’s been an exciting year for the world of Web Design and the social web, a lot of new ideas, great designs, resources and tutorials that we all can collect and learn. There are a lot of “best of” roundups from various blogs and here I put up all together in a post for easy reference.

I categorize the best of roundups into 8 big categories which consist of best free fonts, best jQuery plugins, best tutorials and more. Well continue reading to check them out!

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Have a Merry Little Christmas with JPOP

. J-Pop

Have a Merry Little Christmas with JPOP

Ho! Ho! Ho! Christmas is around the corner and here I wishes all readers a very Merry Christmas! Christmas is a very special moment for many people, same goes to the Japan music industry because many artists will release single to celebrate this wonderful day. And here I will continue the tradition by sharing Christmas JPOP songs with you all!

Well, there are a total of 13 Christmas songs in the playlist I created. And I also include Christmas songs from 宏実 (Hiromi) again that I featured last year, this is because I think Hiromi’s songs are really nice and worth a listen again! And many of the songs are love related, perhaps during Christmas season, many will want to celebrate with the their most loved. Songs like “Christmas Love” by Nishino Kana is really sweet and lovely, while “my Secret Santa” by moumoon is cute and perhaps YU-A‘s song best reflect my situation. Read on to access to the playlist!

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10 Websites to download FREE PSD and Graphic Resources

. Downloads, Resources

10 Websites to download FREE PSD and Graphic Resources

As a Web Designer, Adobe Photoshop is a superb tool for designing websites and many other designs as well, and it becomes one of the designer’s must know arsenal. In the current Web scene, there are many resources that being provided free of charge or labeled as open source. Well same goes to Photoshop and graphic resources. I found 10 websites that dedicated to provide quality free Photoshop (PSD) as well as graphic resources, and would like to share to the readers in this post.

These websites provides a wide range of resources, from UI elements to templates, and even textures and vectors. Everyone can download the files for free and use it wisely. I think it’s a great resources for learning Photoshop as well. Actually who doesn’t like free stuff? Read on to find out the 10 websites!

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Visiting Japan with Japan Photo Blogs

. Japan

Visiting Japan with Japan Photo Blogs

Japan is a wonderful country with richness and uniqueness in terms of culture, nature and life. Because of these, Japan has been a great spot for photography enthusiasts to fire up their camera shuttle. There are a lot of photographers in Japan share their views of Japan through photography and upload them to photo blogs.

I found a lot of photo blogs that dedicated to Japan. From these blogs, we are able to view and feel what’s happening in Japan and also discover great tourism spots which would like to go in the next trip to Japan. Without saying more, read on to find out these cool Japan photo blogs!

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Galleries With Specific Genre

. Inspiration, Web Design

Galleries With Specific Genre

Visiting galleries definitely are one of the ways to look for design inspirations. There are tonnes of galleries out there showcasing the best in designs, and some of them are focusing on specific genre or field of area, for example app designs, minimalist designs, typography and more. This is quite handy because I can focus on specific genre in straight forward manner.

Without further elaborating, below are some galleries with specific genre. Continue reading to proceed!

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Designers & Developers’ Front End Playground

. Inspiration, Web Design

Designers & Developers' Front End Playground

Playground is always the best place to have fun and explore new things. Kids loves to play with sand, bricks and toys. But this doesn’t mean that human stop playing when grown up. We are still playing but with different sets of tools and play zone. Web Designers and Developers too, love to play and experiment. Here in this post, I present you 8 designers and developers’ front end playground.

Besides doing full time job or client’s assignments, these adventurous designers and developers are not forgetting the desire of trying something new with latest web technologies like HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript. Some demonstrations are really cool and able to learn from them on what’s the possibilities in web design scene. Please check out their playgrounds after the break!

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Where to find latest Web Design news & articles?

. Web Design

Where to find latest Web Design news & articles

As a Web Designer, one thing that I really need to thank is the news resources and articles that provided by various Web Designer blogs from all of the world. From there, I am able to expose myself to the latest trends and practices to make a better websites. News and articles like essential CSS skills, awesome jQuery plugins or cutting edge Photoshop techniques, we can’t just get enough of that! But there’s an issue. How to keep up with all the news and articles?

One of the obvious practice is to subscribe to the blog’s RSS feed and load them into your reader like Google Reader and Netvibes, but sometimes it can get too much and it’s hard to filter out. Well here I will share with you all on how to find latest Web Design news and articles from various design blogs in a place. The links are normally generated by popularity or bookmarked by community. Well lets find out!

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