New ideas for website design, graphics, tips and techniques

Spring 1998
finding new fonts

W H E R E T O F I N D N E W F O N T S
a hunters guide

After a while your font collection might look a little less appealing, and you'll want to find new and nifty fonts to spice up your web pages. You're in luck, the web is full of fantastic font designers, all you need to do is find them, and better yet, find their free font offerings. Here are some links to get you going:

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P L E N T Y P I C T U R E S
stock photography
Images and photos, where do you find them? Of course you could "borrow" images from other websites, but really what you want to do is find new, copyright free material. Better yet, if you can find free sources, your ahead of the game. But not everything is free, and here are some excellent image banks to feed your websites with:

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T H E N E W B R E E D O F G R A P H I C S T O O L S
getting closer to the designer's dream

If you haven't checked out the latest offerings from both Macromedia and Adobe, hurry on over and pick up the free evaluation packages. Both Macromedia's "Fireworks" and Adobe's "Image Ready" have superior image compression for both .JPG and .GIF, vector/bitmap capability (no more need to retype text every time you make a change!), and a whole host of other image treatment tools. Both packages know that you usually use two or three pieces of software to prepare you web images and offer you one that should do it all. They're free for the moment, so try them out.