‘Making Websites Win’ by Dr. Karl Blanks and Ben Jesson
A surprisingly delightful guide to creating effective, data-driven websites that will convert more of your visitors into subscribers and customers.
Exchange — The New Typeface by Frere-Jones Type
Earnest and forceful, compact but not crowded.
Responsive Web Design, Second Edition
Ethan Marcotte's popular book, Responsive Web Design, has been updated with new tips and tricks, code samples, and more.
Searchpath
Searchpath, developed by Manton Reece, is a neat little search box you can easily embed on your website or blog. All you have to do is add a little Javascript snippet to your site (in the footer or wherever else you might want a search bar) and Searchpath will index everything so that it can be searched by visitors later. The results…
Barley — Inline Content Editor for WordPress
Barley is a WordPress plugin that allows you to edit your content – such as blog posts and images – directly from your site's front-end rather than from the back-end admin panel. This means that while viewing your site, you can simply click the text area you'd like to edit and begin typing. Our editor Shawn Blanc wrote a mini-review of it,…
Cloud.typography
Yesterday, the guys at Typography.com introduced a webfont project they're calling Cloud.typography, and it looks fantastic. This appears to be their answer to services like Typekit, and includes the entire H&FJ typeface collection. You know how the default fonts in Check the Weather and Vesper are Idlewild and Ideal Sans, respectively? Yeah, they're both included with this service, along with a lot…
The Sketchnote Typeface
Longtime readers may remember Mike Rohde's The Sketchnote Handbook, a guide to taking better notes by sketching rather than writing. If you liked the book, you're gonna love The Sketchnote Typeface. Mike created this typeface by scanning actual ink-spread on paper to make it more authentic. Of course, he did it to save himself a lot of work while writing the book…