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Mar
25
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Fonts on the web and a list of web safe fonts

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Many of you have been asking, “What fonts are safe for me to use on the web?” and “Is there a list of web safe fonts for reference?” Well I am here to help. Web safe fonts are ever important but a lot of web designers I have seen lately are forgoing this important step in their design creation. Some are taking the steps to use a font similar to a web safe font but because it is not in fact web safe they inevitably have to default back to a font that isn’t quite the same. Their web design loses a little of itself and at this point they typically struggle to find a font that is close and web safe. There are plenty of web safe fonts available it just takes some creativity in using them to your advantage. I have a list of web safe fonts available in the article to help everyone out.

Some of you that may have heard of the term web safe before and not quite known it’s meaning, others don’t fully know the reasoning behind it. I am here to clear all of these things up. First off, web safe fonts are those that are nearly universally available on any computer. So that when the end user, regardless of their machine preferences, goes to the web site they get the same experience as anyone else going to the web site. This is what web standards are all about and ensuring that you are using web safe fonts throughout your website is just as important as including a DOCTYPE and HTML tag in the beginning. read more

Mar
16
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50 Best Websites 2009

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This is not a new story.. but is still valuable if you havent seen this before.

Clear out your bookmarks. You’re going to need the space for 50 offerings that are indispensable to navigating, enjoying yourself, shopping or just killing time on the Web. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1918031,00.html#ixzz0iKMybdx6

Full List

Sites to Visit

  1. Flickr
  2. California Coastline
  3. Delicious
  4. Metafilter
  5. popurls

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Jan
15
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视频分享网站viddler.com

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对于那些我们想要置入个人博客中的视频播放器，除了免费不限量，我个人是希望它能界面足够简洁、足够单纯，不要广告、不要出现其它乱七八糟的视频。之前一直在用Jaycut的播放器，它基本能满足这些要求，但欠缺的是视频上传后的画面质量被缩减不少，一旦有较多动感画面，看起来就很不清楚。

今天在浏览其它网站的时候，无意中发现了www.viddler.com这个视频网站，试用之后，觉得很不错！也很好的保持了原始视频的质量。如果你还没有找到满意的视频网站作为博客的视频内容链接，不妨可以试一试Viddler的。国外的Youtube、国内的土豆，虽然火爆，可是在界面设计上真不能恭维，放在博客页面上怎么看都不顺眼。

和大多数视频网站一样，Viddler也是提供有免费和升级付费两种服务。

以下是Viddler对自己所提供服务的定义：

  • Upload as many videos as you want—you get nearly unlimited space with Viddler
  • Record videos directly to the site using your webcam!
  • Post comments and tags at specific points in the video
  • Share your videos with RSS and iTunes
  • Keep your money! We are 100% free!

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    Jan
    13
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    Web Spider

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    在查看WP后台的时候，总是能看到机器人访问。好奇机器人是什么，就在网上搜了一下，看到这篇关于搜索引擎机器人的文章，写得很详尽。那段广度优先、深度优先的解释，一下就把我拉回到大学时学习数据结构的课堂——那真是段伤脑筋的日子。

    搜索引擎机器人也称网络蜘蛛（Web Spider），这是一个很形象的名字。把互联网比喻成一个蜘蛛网，那么Spider 就是在网上爬来爬去的蜘蛛。网络蜘蛛通过网页的链接地址来寻找网页，从网站某一个页面（通常是首页）开始，读取网页的内容，找到在网页中的其它链接地址，然后通过这些链接地址寻找下一个网页，这样一直循环下去，直到把这个网站所有的网页都抓取完为止。如果把整个互联网当成一个网站，那么网络蜘蛛就可以用这个原理把互联网上所有的网页都抓取下来。

    在抓取网页的时候，网络蜘蛛一般有两种策略：广度优先和深度优先（如下图）。


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