Typekit Gets an API

by kashif on July 30th, 2010

Font set up Typekit introduced an API Thursday that lets web programmers generates kits from the Typekit records behind the scenes.

The company has earlier offered the choice of picking fonts and generating kits via the web-based tool on its site. But by releasing an API, it’s giving people the option of building Typekit into their own apps or basically extending the technique they utilize the service.

Writing on the Typekit blog, Paul Hammond says “The Typekit API gives you the skill to programmatically create, alter and publish kits. It also allows them to bring metadata about all the fonts in the Typekit library.”

Here are the documentation pages. As you can see, the Typekit API precedes data in a few different flavors (JSON, XML and YAML)

If you have not yet explored Typekit’s service for including visualize fonts in your site designs, you must. Especially practical is the Web Font Loader, an open source document of scripts that Typekit developed to help eradicate the “flash of unstyled text” that happens when a page loads. The Web Font Loader offers a number of JavaScript events which let developers more control over when and how their fonts are loaded onto the page.

40+ Web Design and Development Resources for Beginners

by kashif on July 28th, 2010

It’s no secret that web design is a rapid-growing industry. Almost every kind of business is in need of a value website. There are opportunities at the great agency level down to freelancers rising small-business websites from home.

So how do you break into this thrilling field? With little or no experience creating websites, getting yourself up to speed can be a daunting task. There are so many special avenues of design and progress to explore. Which way should you go first? Which ability sets suit you the best?

Web-Design

You can’t become a skilled web designer suddenly. It takes years to attain an skilled level in any aspect of the field. But everyone starts somewhere, and there’s no superior time than the present begin your web design education.

Popplet for iPad

by kashif on July 26th, 2010

Popplet is a quick mind-mapping, brainstorming, and idea-collection and display app. The $9 iPad app from conception makes it easy to collect your thoughts and gather many groups of ideas in individual popplets. It also enables you to e-mail popplets in PDF or JPEG format.

Each popplet you create consists of one or more sets of linked popples, which are rectangles of any size that can include drawings, photos, and text. These elements can be combined in a single popple. You can also choose from among seven border colors for each popple.

Creating new popples connected to existing ones is straightforward and perceptive you just haul a small circular bubble away from the current popple and up pop a new one. While links are automatically twisted, a single tap on a line brings up a circular that enables you to delete the line. Any popplet can include an infinite number of popples.

The icons for the tools are patent and easy to understand; you may never need to study the developers Help popplet. Zooming in and out and scrolling using familiar iPad gestures is flawless and smooth. Each popplet panel is apparently infinite; if there’s a size limit it’s not simple to reach. And to title any popplet, all you do is tap and type.

Find Your Own Category on iBooks

by kashif on July 23rd, 2010

One of the reasons the iPad has been hailed as the death of the e-reader, iBooks turns your iPad into an e-reader. And not just any e-reader either. I books can be tailored even down to the font, with the app giving the selection of six typefaces.

You can also pick your superior layout; reading one page at a time in portrait mode or two pages on screen at once in landscape. Buy books directly from the iBookstore and download them to your iPad, or transfer your own ePub format books to the tool through iTunes.

A word processor for the iPad, Pages is part of Apple’s iWork suite. It allows you to generate and share documents from the iPad, complete with formatting and sophisticated layout tools. It has a number of pre-set formats to choose from, including cards, flyers, letters and reports. It has a versatile facet that saves whenever you make a change.

You can even import Microsoft Word documents to work on or export your complete documents in Word format, ready to send by email, share with friends, or transfer back to your computer via iTunes Sharing.

Targeted Website Designs

by kashif on July 21st, 2010

LAs we have a look at the competitor’s website, we see more and more traffic than our site, the basis following this is that the website of competitor is more focused and targeted in nature. A besieged web design has day to day business connections with the clients, only the businessmen can understand the importance. They follow definite essential aspects while designing their website.

The main focus while designing a website should be the website tactic, the designer must know the principle and objective of the website. The best way to do this is to put yourself in the place of the customer, you will get to identify the requirements and how you can fulfill them to convince their needs. The content should be the main aspect of your website, it has to be tempting, rich in keyword and should have the power to maintain the customers and attract heavy traffic towards the website. The layout of the website design should be eye-catching and delicate. Use of applicable graphics makes the website look more skilled and instructive as a picture is worth a thousand words.

The website must be user friendly as well as search engine friendly. The openness and navigation of the website should be simple and consistent; it makes the visitors understand the nature and quality of the services provided by the company. It should be observable on the World Wide Web, and this is probable only when a website is optimized for the search engines. Vibe graphics include all these points in the websites we design for our clients.

Now, Download the New Rupee Sign For Free

by kashif on July 20th, 2010

Though the government says that it will be ahead of the Rupee symbol becomes commercially offered, for computer users downloading this brand new character is now just a few clicks away.

Mangalore based internet Business Company Foradian Technologies have come up with the font called Rupee Foradian available for download on its website for free.

The company formed a vector image of the new Rupee sign and mapped the grave accent symbol the key just above the strip button on the keyboard with it. This keystroke was chosen because most users and programmers don’t use it.

The Rupee font can be downloaded from Foradian blog- http://blog.foradian.com/.

We distinguish that font making is not a rocket science. Anyone with a good awareness in computers can do it. There are many free tools offered too. If a small party like Foradian can do like this, just think what the Indian Govt and Media functioning jointly can attain to get the rupee symbol into all PCs and Keyboards. It is likely and can be done in days, said Foradian in a statement.

The Union Cabinet on Thursday gave its consent to the sign which combines the Roman letter ‘R’ with the Devnagri ‘Ra’. The goal is to approve it nationally within the next six months.

How to use HTML5 on your website today

by kashif on July 16th, 2010

There’s been a lot written regarding the policy and course of the rising HTML5 design but what working Web developers mainly want to know is: What can I do with HTML5, and when can I start using it? The good news is that there’s a batch you can do with HTML5. The better news is that there’s a lot that you can do with HTML5 today.

But first, one main stipulation: You have to know your viewers, nevertheless, of course, this is true whether or not you feel like to start using HTML5. If the majority of your site’s visitors still use Internet Explorer 6, then you have no motive to rush. On the other hand, if your site is mainly for mobile browsers on iPhone and iPods, what are you waiting for? But if your site falls somewhere in the middle as most do at this point are some handy plans to ramping up to HTML5.

What HTML5 features you can use now

Although the HTML5 design is still a sketch being worked on by a typical team, major portions are already deployed in Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera and the forthcoming Microsoft IE9 is likely to accept much of the sketch HTML5 requirement as well.