Effective
Web Design

In contrast to “Web buttons, graphical mistakes” by ‘popular’ demand I have compiled a short article on choosing the best fonts for web design and staying away from those less appropriate ones. But before we even get into choosing fonts there are a couple things which should be understood with fonts in web design.

Make your font accessible.

Make sure that you use a font that was installed with your operating system by default. This will increase the chances that other people will have the font that is used on the web design as it was automatically installed on their computer as well.

In the beginning of the Web, the only typographic constant was Times New Roman under Windows and Times on the Mac. But even that wasn’t sure because the user was in complete control of the fonts they saw. This is pretty hard for us to imagine as there are so many fonts these days, everywhere from a blog to Poker DE has something different. There is such a huge variety.

I learned this the hard way; I was showing my client his new site, only to have an ugly font replace my nice font because his computer did not have the font I used.

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Here’s another good template.. My objective for this design was to create a template that was light and shiny which brought out the contrast of the content (photography and images).

As always using photoshop it’s easy to edit and improve the template just download the .psd file.

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Again, another template with a smooth Web 2.0 layout. I think this is probably the best so far, but it’s not as modern. (make sure you download the psd, it looks a lot better then the preview image below!)

As with all my other layouts everything should be pretty easy to change without having to redo the whole layout

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