Websites & SEO
Free InDesign alternative: Scribus
As everyone is creating pdf-e-books now I'm sure many of you are looking for a good layout program. Today you can get InDesign, the Creative Cloud version, for about 20 USD a month. The monthly subscription may fit your budget, but if it doesn't, there's a free alternative. Scribus is a free Open Source program for creating professional looking layouts. It works on your Mac or Windows PC, as well as Linux and many other operating systems you've never heard about. With Scribus you can create complex layouts from scratch or use one of the templates as a base. Scribus allows you to add ima...
Hot Font #14: New Cicle
It's been a while since the last Hot Font. Hence I'd like to introduce you to New Cicle. New Cicle is a simply attractive sans-serif, very clear and light. It comes in different styles, Fina, Semi and Gordita and italic versions of them all. Created by La Tipomatika, New Cicle is published under Freeware License and is free. New Cicle on Font Squirrel.
Create sweet dummy text with Cupcake Ipsum
Sometimes when you design something before all the content is created, there's need for dummy text to fill the text space. Writing bla bla bla doesn't really do it and often you need longer chunks of text for it. Everyone who has ever been involved with any sort of design work is painfully familiar with Lorem Ipsum. The text is nonsensical Latin. In case you happen to need another paragraph of dummy text and want to sweeten your day and design, check out the oldie but goodie, Cupcake Ipsum generator. It's been created by Applicake and generates something like this: "Carrot cake c...
Web tip: Give image files useful names
Are you posting images online? To your blog and different services all over the place. Some of them are your profile photos. The silliest thing you can do is not to name your image files. What I mean by this is just to post a photo, straight from camera, without giving the file an actual name instead of that series of numbers and letters. You know, 2013-05-21 16.29.24.png or P1000030.JPG or DSCF0387.JPG or maybe IMG_3261.JPG. How descriptive is that, to start with? Image file names give your blog or other site/page some SEO boost. If the name is relevant to the content. Your profile ph...
Stylebook.fi
A few months back I was contacted by Nina Pitkänen and Viola Riste about a website project. They wanted to create a site for listing, searching and finding Finnish beauty professionals. The idea had born one summer day as the ladies had started to think how much they get questions about finding hairdressers, make-up artists and other beauty makers. They realized there's no one collective website to find them, only scattered blogs, sites and Facebook pages. I was asked to join the team to create a simple to use site for the beauty professionals to easily list themselves and for the consumer...
Why cookies alerts are redundant
Cookies are small pieces of data sent from a website and stored to your browser while you browse a website. They can store information such as when you logged in to a site or the things you wrote on a form. For instance when you comment a blog post on this site your name, website url and email address are stored to a cookie so you won't have to fill them in every time you write a new comment. Cookies cannot carry viruses or install malware to your computer so using them is in that way quite safe. You can also turn the usage of cookies off of your browser, though this will make using many web...
4 things your blog and small business website can't go without
Are you serious about your blogging or do you want your business site to be effective? Do you want new customers or people to come back to your blog again and again? While I have been browsing around blogs and business sites I've noticed that sometimes a couple of very simple things have been forgotten. These things are very essential for making sure your blog readers or potential customers can connect with you. 1. Easy contact This may seem obvious, but I keep seeing lots of blogs and small business sites that lack of an easy way to contact the author/owner. Very often the contact is hi...
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