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Each time I visit my hometown I seek for signs of my childhood. I don’t do this on purpose. It just comes.
Now the place has been changed. My neighbourhood has been changed, the buildings have been changed, the faces have been changed. Only the names of the roads remain the same: Love str. Hope str. Chrysanthemum str.
The other day I was talking with a friend over some drinks and we wondered where all these people have gone. What they have done with their lives. Why we can’t see them on the street. Once upon a time our lives crossed each other. We used to walk at the same roads, we used to sit at the same grass or ride the same bikes. We used to share the same innocence and grow up.
If I could, I would like to sneak at their routine and see if they ever come back too. I remember me those Sundays wandering and leaving my smell at the corners like dogs do. Sundays which smell homemade food and were filled with a continuously changing sky. A bunch of little vagrants, we, used to play and laugh without caring for what was to come.
Now life seems too complicated and people preoccupied with other things. We can’t turn back the clock, I don’t know if I even want to. Now I seek for warmth in other places and I wish my parents and my friends remain healthy. But those old times reside at a place I don’t hide. For a moment I ‘d like to live it again. I may grow old.
So, here ‘s to old times. Let’s go on. Happy 2007 to everyone.
During this year this blog was born and MindBlog also. Keeping them up it was a full time job. Making them better is much more difficult yet challenging.
2006 was full of contradictory situations: I came closer to beloved ones but other people disappeared without knowing why. I was professionally evolved but I also learned what is to work with crooks. I spent times of professional and moral victories and I ‘ve had the most dead ends in my entire life.
This year I worked more than ever before, I ate delicious food (and I got thinner!) and I learned how to support my ideas against all odds. During this year I became even tougher, I saw the most nightmares of my life and I got more angered.
During 2006 I revamped my hopes and I remained healthy. The best is yet to come.
the art and technique of setting written subject matter in type using a combination of typefaces, point size, line length, leading (line spacing) and letter spacing.
I think this definition puts the subject very accurately. Typography is more than applying some attributes to text. It is art and technique as well. It is actually a design element because as it said above it requires certain design decisions.
Typography lives and evolves through time. It is a Greek word and you can find out more about its etymology at the link above. Instead of talking abstractly about typography I will try to provide you some simple examples which will point out the title of this article.
The following examples show you how you could create a logo for your site by using simple typography elements.
Step #1
Ingedients:
Font: Verdana
Size: 16px
Color: #000
Style: none
Comments:
Nothing special but simple text which says nothing. Let’s go on.
Step #2
Ingedients:
Font: Georgia (for “porcupine colors”), Verdana (for “| Web Design and spare parts”)
Size: 16px
Color: #000
Style: none
Comments:
Here I decide to change the type for the title. I use a serif type to emphasize it. However the title now looks too small.
Step #3
Ingedients:
Font: Georgia (for “porcupine colors”), Verdana (for “| Web Design and spare parts”)
Size: 18px (for “porcupine colors”), 12px (for “| Web Design and spare parts”)
Color: #000
Style: none
Comments:
Things look better in this step. The title is fairly bigger than the subtitle.
Step #4
Ingedients:
Font: Georgia (for “porcupine colors”), Verdana (for “| Web Design and spare parts”)
Size: 18px (for “porcupine colors”), 12px (for “| Web Design and spare parts”)
Comments:
By using different colors I make things clearer. I keep the black for the title, I make the subtitle lighter and the vertical separator even lighter because I want everyone to understand that this place is named “porcupine colors” and then that it has to do with Web Design among other things.
Step #5 - Final result
Ingedients:
Font: Georgia (for “porcupine colors”), Verdana (for “| Web Design and spare parts”)
Size: 18px (for “porcupine colors”), 16px (for “| Web Design and spare parts”)
Style: Italic (for “porcupine colors”), none for the rest
Comments:
The final step includes emphasizing the title. Italic Georgia creates a flow which easily leads your eye to the subtitle which explains what this page is about. Look how beautiful Georgia looks.
During this procedure I selected to use standard fonts and grayscale because I think that good typography is ruled by simple principles. However meditating those principles needs time, experience and of course work.
The sweet smell of a great sorrow lies over the land
Plumes of smoke rise and merge into the leaden sky:
A man lies and dreams of green fields and rivers,
But awakes to a morning with no reason for waking
Firebug is an outstanding extension which makes a web designer’s life more interesting. Among the many things it can do, Firebug not only reads the HTML, CSS and JavaScript of a page but it also gives you the possibility to change the code and see the results on the same page! Of course any changes do not really affect the page, but it shows you how it would be like.
It can also monitor the performance of a website and give you crucial information why your page is slow. It debugs and finds coding errors, it explores the DOM and it gives you excellent reports concerning JavaScript. And of course it handles the HTML and CSS coding a marvelous way.
Once upon a time there was a homeless man. He wasn’t called even man. He was just a creature, a being. Among his priorities was to find a place to stay. A safe corner which would kept him out of harm’s way. He didn’t care about his culture because this concept hadn’t been invented yet.
Time passed and we reached modern times where the same man tends to believe that a home is given. He seeks for new places to exist and expand. He creates the Web. In a strange way he starts from the very beginning. He looks for a new home, his web space. An open field which permits him develop both a virtual and a real way. It‘s a place where he acts, works and communicates.
How would you build this home? I would like it to be as safe as possible. I would have it reachable for all strangers that would pass by to say “hello”. I would keep it clean and tidy, decorated according my taste and my personality. Above all I would try to welcome people and make them feel comfortable.
Let’s not talk about security, accessibility, usability or design. Let’s talk about content. It doesn’t matter if you are a blogger, a community or a company. What it does matter is what you say to the passengers they stop by. If you are a two-faced person, they will get it sooner or later. If your words don’t carry some credibility, people will leave you soon. There are so many other places to go!
So take a good care to what you say. A great design will be admired but soon it will make no difference. What keeps people engaged to a website is mainly its content. Establish a bond of trust between you and the people who visit you. Be comprehensible and precise. Respect your audience the same way you want to be respected. Be honest (this doesn’t mean that you confess everything to the people who read you!). If you provide services, have your services clearly defined and reliable.
To achieve all these, spot yourself on the Web map. Decide what your website is about and inform people about it. It is not as easy as it sounds because signifying yourself is an internal procedure which concerns your character or the character of your services. So spend some time to realize who you are and some more time to explain it to the kind people who visit you. Ah – don’t forget to offer them a sweet as they pass the front door.
