Design Timur Blog

Another free font resource

2010-12-20T10:34:00.000-08:00

This is just my opinion but based off of my experience and research most web designers 99% of the time don't pay for fonts. Online font databases like http://dafont.com are free and available to the public.

I recently came across another online free font resource while trying to snag another hard-to-find font, http://www.fonttrader.com. Now don't be alarmed, but Yes you do have to register as a member with the site in order to access the thousands of fonts offered.

Here is a list of free font resources i use:
http://www.fonttrader.com
http://dafont.com
http://www.abstractfonts.com
http://fontso.com
http://www.400fonts.com
http://www.urbanfonts.com
http://www.ffonts.net

Embedding web fonts with a large file size (3mb or more)

2010-12-18T09:05:00.000-08:00

Using embedded fonts to help maintain the uniqueness of a designers website is tricky. Font Squirrel was the web 2.0 solutions for mosts designers today. With Font Squirrel you can download a prepackaged font-face kit with a demo.html file included that gives you step by step instructions on how to embed a web font in your website using the css @font-face attribute and also generates code helpful HTML.

Unfortunately i needed to use the generator to embed a custom font to my website. When i began to upload the font the generator gave me a notice in a red pop up window with a fancy red "x" informing me that my font .oft file was to large (3.6 mb) to process. So i began looking for other FREE web font converter/sgenerators that were'nt so file size sensitive and came across Free Font Converter.com and http://onlinefontconverter.com.

Free Font Converter and Online Font Converter are easy as 1-2-3, just find the font file, select the format you want to convert to and presto! Check your downloads folder or location and your newly converted font should be there. The only difference between Font Squirrel and Free Font Converter is that Free Font Converter is manual and doesn't auto generate @font-face css and html code or host fonts.

Here are some free online font converter sites i came across (File size sensitive!!)

http://typeface.neocracy.org/fonts.html ( Javascript generator with code/implementation)
http://www.fontconverter.org/

Google: Meta Tag Keywords NO LONGER COUNT!

2010-03-19T11:50:00.000-07:00

Trying to increase the traffic to your site can be nerve racking especially if you don't know the right way to go about it. Search engine optimization methods such as keyword meta tags are outdated. Google (who basically powers all internet search engines) no longer uses keywords and sees keywords as ineffective and pointless.

Here are a few Q/A from google regarding meta tags and keywords:

Q: Does Google ever use the "keywords" meta tag in its web search ranking?

A: In a word, no. Google does sell a Google Search Appliance, and that product has the ability to match meta tags, which could include the keywords meta tag. But that's an enterprise search appliance that is completely separate from our main web search. Our web search (the well-known search at Google.com that hundreds of millions of people use each day) disregards keyword metatags completely. They simply don't have any effect in our search ranking at present.

Q: Why doesn't Google use the keywords meta tag?

A: About a decade ago, search engines judged pages only on the content of web pages, not any so-called "off-page" factors such as the links pointing to a web page. In those days, keyword meta tags quickly became an area where someone could stuff often-irrelevant keywords without typical visitors ever seeing those keywords. Because the keywords meta tag was so often abused, many years ago Google began disregarding the keywords meta tag.

For more info visit Google Webmaster Blog at http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html.

Search engine ranking

2010-03-12T16:50:00.000-08:00

When its comes to website search engine ranking many people believe that your website is automatically placed at the top of search engines just because you launch your website. Search engine ranking is based off of a crawl feature. Search engines (like Google) crawl the text on a website for the occurrence of content relative to a website to determine how that website ranks in search engines. This also includes your web address. If the web address www.xyz.com appears 50 million times across the internet then its search engine ranking will increase. This also includes keywords relative to the web address.

Paying for ranking space
You do have the other option of paying to have your website ranking increased. Google allows individual and businesses the option to purchase ad space in search engines to increase search engine visibility. If your going to pay for ad or ranking space do so with caution. Paying for ad/ranking space can get pretty expensive.

Increase your search engine ranking
The goal is to get your website address and name on as many website as possible. Register with forums, directories, blogs and social networking relative to your website. Create profiles and post information about your website. This is a great way to get your website heard throughout search engines like Google. The more your website appears on the internet the higher you will appear in the search engines.

Lead web and data programmer coming to the team

2010-03-12T10:34:00.000-08:00

Design Timur has been growing and will be adding to its team. A lead web & data programmer will be coming to the team adding dynamic and high end scripting and coding. With coding skills in e-commerce shopping cart, java script, ajax, php, mysql, and much more keeping your website optimized, fresh, and up to date.

A Caring Sitter Service - Sitting for your baby and pet needs

2010-03-12T09:56:00.000-08:00

Need a reliable baby sitting service? Have a pet and need someone to care after your pet as well?

http://acaringsitterservice.com

La Co'coa Zora Natural Hair Care

2010-03-12T09:44:00.000-08:00

Looking for a natural way to style your hair? Check out La Co'coa Zora http://lacocoazora.com and get professional tips and new techniques on how to naturalfy your hair!