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InDesign Best Practices for EPUB Exports

September 15, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Tweet embedded content Email Sharebar Tweet embedded content Email When faced with ridiculous deadlines and last-minute, messy copy from editors, designers may resort to bad InDesign habits. Here are some basic InDesign best practices that are especially important to follow when the file will be exported to epub. While there are ways to clean up the problems caused by not following these guidelines, it pays to follow them from the start. And if youâ€™re just too damn busy designing, you can hire a professional typesetter (hi!) to handle all of this quickly and cleanly. Your clients will thank you for providing squeaky-clean files. Styles Paragraph and Character Styles are usually translated to CSS for epub, so you should use them to format ALL …

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Font of the day: Lodgecode

September 15, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Font of the day: Lodgecode | Typography | Creative Bloq TypographyShowcase Sep 15, 2014 12:09 pm Share this article Every day we showcase the best fonts on the web. Today it’s Lodgecode by Jeff Warrington. Here at Creative Bloq, we’re big fans of typography and we’re constantly on the hunt for new and exciting typefaces â€“ especially free fonts. So, if you’re in need of a font for your latest design or just like to keep a collection so you’re prepared, we may be able to help out. Every day, we’re running ‘Font of the day’, where we’ll be posting the best best free and paid-for fonts the web has to offer. Lodgecode by Jeff Warrington Today’s font of choice, Lodgecode, was created by designer Jeff Warrington of The …

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What Makes Readers Click Buy? The Secrets to Great Sales Emails

September 15, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

What’s your purpose for running an email marketing campaign? Ultimately, you’re in email marketing to help your business thrive and grow. That means you’re getting into email marketing to sell more stuff. Not sure that’s you? Then look at it this way: Businesses want to sell more products. Freelancers and contractors want to sell their services. Nonprofits want to “sell” supporters on their good cause. Bloggers and writers aim to “sell” their content or their books. Political groups want to “sell” their message. And so on… We’re all peddling something. So far in our Tuts+ series on email marketing, we’ve looked at how emails are primarily about building a relationship with your subscribers. Through this relationship, your subscribers come to know and trust your company. When they’re …

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What Makes Readers Click Buy? The Secrets to Great Sales Emails

The FBI Just Finished Its Insane New Facial Recognition System

September 15, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

After six years and over one billion dollars in development, the FBI has just announced that its new biometric facial recognition software system is finally complete. Meaning that, starting soon, photos of tens of millions of U.S. citizen’s faces will be captured by the national system on a daily basis. The Next Generation Identification (NGI) program will logs all of those faces, and will reference them against its growing database in the event of a crime. It’s not just faces, though. Thanks to the shared database dubbed the Interstate Photo System (IPS), everything from tattoos to scars to a person’s irises could be enough to secure an ID. What’s more, the FBI is estimating that NGI will include as many as 52 million individual faces by next…

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The FBI Just Finished Its Insane New Facial Recognition System

An Introduction to Icon Fonts with Font Awesome and IcoMoon

September 15, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Icon fonts are all the rage nowadays, with more and more developers taking advantage of them in their designs. If you havenâ€™t yet looked into icon fonts, this article can get you started.Iâ€™ll demonstrate the great things we can achieve using icon fonts but first Iâ€™ll take a look at what icon fonts are and what are their pros and cons. Then, weâ€™ll examine two popular icon fonts and weâ€™ll see different examples showing how we can use them in our projects. What are Icon Fonts? Icon fonts are just fonts. However, instead of containing letters or numbers, they contain symbols and glyphs. You can style them with CSS in the same way you style regular text which has made them …

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An Introduction to Icon Fonts with Font Awesome and IcoMoon