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Useful Plugins for WordPress - Part 1

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You may have noticed that this little experiment that our faithful leader has cobbled together is (a) built in the form of a blog and (b) managed through a little content management system called WordPress. The system itself highly useful for website DESIGN because of two factors: first, there is an abundance of ready-made templates that can be implemented as-is and second, there are an abundance of plugins that add weird and wonderful functionality to the core system and help you customize you efforts. I’m going to review some of those here, as I get the chance.

The Multi-Topic Icon | LINK

One of my favorites on my own blog, the Multi-Topic Icon is responsible for displaying nifty little topic icons along the top or side of each entry. The plug-in doesn’t supply the icons so you’ll need to create your own in a program like The Gimp or Photoshop. You can click on any of the icons to see other posts that have been made in the same category. It helps add some colour to your blog.

Survey Fly | LINK

A lot of people have found a need to get some user feedback in their blogs. While comments and quick polls are great, some of the more professional systems need a little more. Survey Fly comes to the rescue with a collection of tools that enable the creation of surveys right inside your WordPress template and admin system that allow you to collect a variety of data types for your questioning pleasure. It’s still in “beta development” but thus far it works great!

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Free Font Collections - Part 2

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Increase your DESIGN repetoire with a healthy collection of FREE fonts. When doing any sort of graphics work for web, print, media, or beyond, a large number of fonts (and even dings) can improve your chances of evoking the right feeling for an overlay, a word-mark, a trademark, a logo, a menu, a heading, a body text, or a print cover. Skip the pay-per-font collections, and dip right into the FREE sites that often contain one-off fonts with a preview graphic to show you what you’re getting:

1001Fonts.com
Link: www.1001fonts.com

“1001fonts.com is a FREE service and is made possible thanks to sponsored advertising, so please don’t be annoyed by the ads, one of them just might offer something that appeals to you.”

I’ve built a large part of my own functional collection from this site. The collection is sorted by topic style category and the fonts are available for multiple system types: Windows or Mac, Truetype or Postscript. Personally I enjoy the “Brandname” fonts for replicating for purposes of spoofing famous wordmark styles.

Abstract Fonts
Link: www.abstractfonts.com

“Since starting in 1998 we have grown to have over 10,000 FREE fonts and about 1 million unique DOWNLOADS every month. You can view the fonts in many ways: latest, categories, designers, recent popularity, popularity climbers and sliders, similarity, best and worst rated, etc…”

Personally, I find this site a little more difficult than most to navigate. However, they have a relatively large collection with some useful search features. Also, unlike many other sites, they have full previews of all the font characters in each set; a very useful feature to avoid downloading a whole file to see if it was what you expected.

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