See Your Favorite Website in a Different Font
05 jul 2011
Meet an online app that lets you change the default font (typeface) of any website to a different font-family with a click. You can also preview web pages in Google Web Fonts.
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Test the Performance of your Website Online
21 sep 2010
Google Page Speed and Yahoo! YSlow are available as Firefox add-ons that require Firebug but you can run these test online as well.
Turn Your Sketches into CSS Based Websites
23 dec 2009
Are you looking for an online WYWIWYG edit that will help you create pure CSS-based websites without having to write any code? Here’s help.
What is the Ideal Width of a Search Box
25 oct 2009
If you are planning to include a search box in your website or blog, read this:
The Ideal Search Box Is 27-Characters Wide
Jakob Nielsen performed a usability study on the length of search queries in website search boxes.
Microsoft Offers Web Designers Free Tools to Build and Host New Websites
08 oct 2009
This article describes a Microsoft program for web professionals and web design companies that will help them receive free software licenses for Express Studio, Windows Web Server and SQL Server Web Edition to design and host new websites.
Google e-book Offers Tips on How to Improve Your Website
22 sep 2009
Google UK has released a PDF booklet with some very useful tips on how to make your website work. The guide is written primarily for online businesses and marketers but the tips and findings are relevant for small websites as well.
Simple Ways to Speed Up your Website
14 sep 2009
The Rackspace blog has some tips on how you can improve the loading time of your web page by reducing clutter from the site:
Host close to your market. Because Web pages load quicker over shorter distances, choose a hosting location close to your target market.
How to Ignore Internal Links on Web Pages Very Quickly
07 sep 2009
This article describes how you can highlight external links on web pages and hide internal links (links pointing to previous articles) with a simple bookmarklet.
Test Your Website in Different Screen Resolutions
20 aug 2009
Test your web pages under different screen resolutions online for free with viewlike.us – you can check layout under most common display resolution and even for the iPhone and Wii browser.
Google Adsense Now Allows You to Change Fonts
20 feb 2009
You can now choose to customize the appearance of your Google Adsense ad unit by choosing between “Arial”, “Verdana” or “Times” font-faces on all English (Latin-based) web pages.
To quickly change the font settings for every ad unit generated from your account, visit the Ad Display Preference section of your Account Settings page to select a new account-wide font face.
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