Websites & SEO

Hot Font #13: Muli

Since this blog has been a bit quiet lately, here's another Hot Font. This one is called Muli. Muli is a display font, yet works well on many different things. Muli comes as regular (Normal 400) and light (Book 300). It's clear, simple and lightweight sans-serif. Created by Vernon Adams as many other Hot Fonts, Muli is published under SIL Open Font License (OFL) and it's of course free. Muli on Font Squirrel and Google Web Fonts.

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Hot Font #12: Neucha

How about this Hot Font? It's name is Neucha, it was created by a person in love and it's name means something funny. Neucha is a subtly decorative, handmade styled font. It's fun and would fit for all sorts of graphic design work. Created by Jovanny Lemonad Neucha free and licensed under SIL Open Font License (OFL). Neucha on Google Web Fonts.

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Commenting on other blogs isn't about SEO

Recently I read on a newsletter about how you should stop commenting on other blogs for SEO. That's because the search engines aren't that much paying attention on comment links and half of the time they have rel="nofollow" added to them. That nofollow-thing tells the search bots to ignore and not to follow the link. Besides it's lots of work to comment on other blogs. And half the time the comments are more or less ignored by the blog owners. That's actually correct. All of it. The links on comments on other blogs aren't helping much with your SEO. Commenting on popular blogs is also fu...

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Hot Font #11: Buda

Let's take a look on a pretty Hot Font. It's called Buda, named after and inspired by the city of Budapest. Buda is an attractive and fragile typeface. It can be used for longer blocks of texts as well as headers and such. Very suitable for digital as well as print use. Created by Adèle Antignac Buda is (as the Hot Fonts are) free and licensed under SIL Open Font License (OFL). Buda on Google Web Fonts.

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Find missing emails from your (Gmail) spam box

Have you noticed how sometimes the emails just don't arrive? You wait for one and it never comes. In my work I've stumbled to situations where the email form on a website doesn't appear to work. The emails don't come through. And the panic ensues. It's spam, it's spam! The problem usually is that the recipient's email client pushes the emails they receive, especially through web forms, straight to the spam box. It's not a place where all realize to check the missing stuff. Especially I've noticed that Gmail has been pretty crazy with marking content as spam lately. I've got work emails...

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Hot Font #10: Andika Basic

Time for another Hot Font! This one is an easy reading font called Andika Basic. Andika Basic is a simple sans-serif font. It works nicely if you need clearly readable texts. It's also well done and attractive, so your designs will look good. Created by Annie Olsen Andika Basic is free and licensed under SIL Open Font License (OFL). Andika Basic on Font Squirrel and Google Web Fonts.

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Hot Font #9: Amatic SC

It's been a while since the last Hot Font, so here's another one. Currently (Dec 2012) you can see this font on the titles and such of this blog. It's called Amatic SC. Amatic SC is a handwritten, small caps font, designed especially for web use. The font's style is simple and rather naïve. Works great for titling and "lifting" texts. There's a regular and bold version available. Created by Vernon Adams Amatic is free and licensed under SIL Open Font License (OFL). Amatic SC on Font Squirrel and Google Web Fonts.

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