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The best sites to download free fonts

January 11, 2010 By Simon @ Chocolate Lime Filed in: Useful Stuff

Here is a list with the best websites to download an infinite number of sources to make completely free.

Abstract Fonts
This is a site currently makes available 12,168 sources completely free, you can download without even taking the trouble of records to the web.
The sources are divided into categories such as: Italica, LCD, typewriter, calligraphy, etc.. You can also search by the name of its designer or alphabetically. If you’re registered you can add a source that would like to share with others.

Action Fonts
It is an extensive library of fonts organized alphabetically by name. Nor is it necessary to be registered for easy download.

Better Fonts
The best of this site is that in addition to its large bank of sources, we preview the fonts, and select which text we want to test them.

Broble
Here you can share and download free sources, original Windows and Mac

Crearmundo
Like Better Fonts is the perfect place to try out different fonts with the text we like before downloading.

Da Font
It’s a very neat website with a collection of 8675 fonts. The fonts are sorted alphabetically and by categories such as: Gothic, Elegant, Look abroad, etc..

EKNP
Makes available a vast amount of fonts and allows us to download the entire collection at once. Moreover, we recommend some typographical resources can be quite useful as Font Seek or What The Font?!

Fawnt
It is a resource for designers, developers and those who enjoy high-quality fonts. With a sleek design and ordered us to download more than 10,000 sources.

Font Finder
A site that has neither more nor less than an incredible 64,173 typefaces from the most varied types for us to download free.

Font Squirrel
Sources 100% free for designers, all licensed for commercial use.

Font Stock
This site, like EKNP offers download the entire collection of fonts at once. Very useful for those just starting out.

Font.in
Else clean, uncluttered and elegant. As a catalog, you can preview fonts approximately 12,000.

Fontco
We can download all sources with free license and commercial shared.

Fontica
It has a collection of 8,000 sources. You must be registered to access the download.

Neat Fonts
Only licensed sources free or demo version. A clean and well organized site.

Urban Fonts
The collection of fonts are sorted alphabetically and by categories. The best site is the top 100 with better fonts voted by users. You can also download all sources together at the same time.

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Resources for Stock Photos

January 3, 2010 By Simon @ Chocolate Lime Filed in: Web Design

I’m often asked the question by my clients – “Where can I find stock photos?”. There are a number of sites across the web offering stock photos. There are two main types of stock photo – Royality Free (unlicensed) and Rights Managed (licensed).

Below is a number of websites were you can find a number of categories of stock photos:

1. stock.xchng
2. Freerange Stock
3. Morguefile
4. Pixel Perfect Digital
5. Free Media Goo
6. openphoto.net
7. Flickr
8. Stockvault
9. NASA
10. deviantARTs Stock Images section
11. Everystockphoto
12. Creative Commons Search
13. Dreamstimes Free Section
14. Fotolias Free Section
15. iStockphotos Free Images

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Top 10 Tips for a Charity Website

December 31, 2009 By Simon @ Chocolate Lime Filed in: Web Design

1. Know Your Website Purpose

This is probably the most important step. Everything else leads back to your website’s purpose and goals. Your website goals could include anything from converting visitors to members, informing existing members of latest news, building your email newsletter, building awareness, and collecting donations.

2. Make it Easy to Use

Everyone appreciates a website that is easy to use. The layout design should be consistent throughout the site, the menu should be easy to use, the text easy to read, and links easy to identify.

3. How to Get Involved

Let visitors know how they can become involved. Donating money is one way, but you should also suggest other ways they can get involved.

4. Accept Donations / Subscriptions

You should have a donation or subscriptions button that is obvious and easy to find. Accepting online credit card donations is easier than you may think. Including a funding goal is also a good idea.  This let’s members and visitors feel part of achieving a common goal.

5. Keep in Touch

Allow your visitors to easily stay in touch with what you are doing. Provide an email newsletter sign up box, and have links to your Twitter and Facebook pages.

6. Use Video

Video is the way of the future. It doesn’t need to be fancy, most digital cameras can now take video. As well as using the video clip on your own website, upload it to YouTube and other video sharing sites to gain leverage.

7. Contact Information

Make it easy for visitors to find your contact details. Don’t just have a contact page, but also include your contact details in a side-block or in your site’s footer.

8. Ongoing Maintenance

Use a Content Management System (CMS), so you can edit your website yourself. This will allow you to keep your website up-to-date and relevant.  One such CMS framework is Joomla.  This framework is extremely powerful and can be easily extended to grow as your website does.

9. Write for Search

Search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing only read text. They read all the text on your website, so give some thought to write the words that people are searching for.  And, were you are using images, ensure you have included alternative text tags (Alt Tags) to allow the search engines to understand your content better.

10. Measure the Results

Use Google Analytics to track how visitors find your website, and what they are looking at. Otherwise it’s difficult to measure how well your website is achieving its goals.

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5 Easy Ways To Build Your Links

December 16, 2009 By Simon @ Chocolate Lime Filed in: Link Building

Website owners have for a number years been asking me for tips to get more visitors, higher search engine rankings and more sales / business.  Link building is one of the most important activities you need to undertake to help develop a stronger online presence on the web as well as building a steady flow of traffic to your website. Additionally, the more quality links you can build back to your website, there’ll be a boost in your rankings within the search engines.

In order for a website owner to help themselves and their business  they need to promote their product or idea as well as develop a strong web presence. Link building is one the most effective ways that they will be able to achieve this. There are several different ways to achieve this with the more common ones listed below.

1. Directory Submissions

When you are just starting out with building links this should be your very first stop. In today’s internet world they will not do much in the way of generating traffic to your site but it will still get your name out there which will help build your web presence. These are also one of the easiest as well as cheapest links you will be able to acquire online.

2. Press release syndications

These are great ways for a business owner to promote their product or service online. They also have the added effect of ranking at the top of search engines for a short while which will help increase your web presence.

3. Social Network Profile

Social networks are one of the greatest ways for a business owner to create a potential client base. When you create a profile here, it gives you the opportunity to attract new clients and drive them to your site.

4. Article Submission

This is a great method to build your links as well as your web presence. The better your article is the more web presence it will generate. This in turn will create valuable links and increase your chances of showing up in the search page results.

5. RSS syndication

This is the newest method available on the internet today. It is one of the most effective ways to develop links as well as your web presence. Creating and submitting a great RSS will help establish your reputation, drive traffic, and also building links.

These are the top five link building techniques. There are others out there but these will get you the best leads in the online business world.

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Writing Influential Website Content – Secrets Revealed

December 16, 2009 By Simon @ Chocolate Lime Filed in: SEO

Imagine a big picture on your wall describing the population of Europe; the picture has millions of different and alike faces, both old and young. Your website is just the same being one of those faces in the wide tangled world of cyberspace. You can get slipped in to anonymity too easily. If you want to prevent such a thing then you must emphasise on your website content. Now website is like a portal where the audience or visitors gets connected to the organisation for their queries and concerns. The popularity of your website depends upon the number of visitors you attract and the most persuasive way of attracting visitors towards your website or sales is by writing influential website content.

In this piece of writing I am going to reveal some secrets about writing website content and how you can make your content more influential and persuasive for the visitors.

First and the foremost thing which you must keep in your mind is that you cannot be the one like Ernest Hemingway when it comes to writing website content, so your website content should be crisp avoiding the long and boring sentences. This will keep your visitors attracted towards your content as they won’t be going through long sentences and unending paragraphs.

After this, your website content should not be heavy. Do not make a sentence too complicated that it can’t be understood by the visitor. Keep your content as much understandable and readable as you can. This will help visitors in memorising what they have understood from your writing or content. Moving on, for effectively writing website content you need to keep your content relevant. Suppose if your website is telling about airplanes then it should not talk about ships in any sense; keep it short and to the point.

Keyword rich content is another vital secret when it comes to writing influential website content. Make sure that the presence of proper keyword optimisation is there in order to prevent your website being counted as Spam or not get the attention that it should get. Lastly you need to put up something which is demanding. If your website content regards to something that could be found everywhere then the chances of your website of attracting huge numbers of people will be diminished or very minimum. Come up with something unique but keep in mind that it relates to the requirements of general people one way or the other.

Above mentioned were some secrets which I thought to reveal in front of you so that you must understand that how to write effectual and influential website content.

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