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10 Best Serif Fonts You'll Absolutely Love

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 Typography plays a powerful role when it comes to web design. Before anybody reads the first sentence on a website, the font used already emotes a specific feeling whether that's playfulness, professionalism or elegance. Among all the styles today,serif fonts is still the most timeless choices. Their classic appearance and legibility make it a great choice for everything from websites to blogs to editorial design. While serif fonts can be used be used in books, newspapers and magazines because they are easily legible, making it easy for readers to peruse through the texts, display serif fonts have a bold personality, hence designed to grab attention when use in headlines and titles. When sans-serif fonts are paired beautifully with display serif fonts, visual hierarchy is established. This is where Google fonts come into play, it is an invaluable resource when it comes to obtaining free, well-designed and web-friendly fonts. Today we will be deep-diving into some of the serif font...
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10 Best Font Pairings & Combinations For Web Design

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 Web designers tend to have a lot of big decisions to make when building a website. These decisions tend to range from the best color palettes to use, what font style will suit the brand best to the navigation layout. One of these decisions tend to be choosing a font combination that will fit the style of the brand. It is easier to choose the right font pairing when you understand the tone you want to convey in the website and the style of the brand, whether it is playful, professional or feminine. The two fonts chosen should harmoniously convey the message. Font combinations can either compliment each other or balance each other out. You can also use contrast in font pairings to allow certain elements in your typography to stand out. It is important that websites use font pairings to not only hold the attention of website visitors but to also pass a subconscious message about the brand style and aproach. Tips for pairing fonts 1.Readability The font you use for your header should ...
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12 Free Best Google Fonts For Your Website

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Choosing the right font is a fundamental concept when it comes to website design. Typography not only shapes perception but also has the power to influence a person's emotions and decide whether they stay on the website or leave within a matter of minutes if not seconds. The brains of the website's visitors subconsciously process the visual cues the minute they land on the website. Using a certain font may communicate proffesionalism while another may signal playfulness. Choosing fonts thoughtfully can elevate your website's aesthetics without spending a single dollar. Fonts communicate tone before your words do.  These are some of the reasons why choosing the right fonts is important: Readability - the right font should not just be beautiful but readable too. It does not matter how great the font looks if the website visitor's are struggling to draw a distinction between "I" and "l". It ruins a reader's experience and makes it more likely for t...
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5 Simple Ways to Quickly Improve Your CSS Skills

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It may seem at first that CSS is an easy skill to acquire, however, the depth and complexities will probably be brought to light once you start to build websites. Changing colors, adjusting fonts or centering a div may be a breeze but your brain may start to glitch when it is time to build responsive layouts and clean designs. If this is your current predicament then you don't have to be stuck for long. Improving your CSS skills doesn't have to take a lot of time, especially if you do it the right way. Building strong CSS skills is mandatory for building beautiful, interactive and responsive designs. Clients expect a clean design and CSS is the backbone for that. In this article you will find practical tips you can apply immediately to improve your CSS skills helping you write cleaner code and build layouts that bahave the way you expect.  1.Write clean code One of the most effective ways to improve your CSS skills is to write clean, well-structured code. Clean code isn;t just ...
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5 Tips and Tricks for Writing Clean Code

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 Writing code is one thing, while writing clean code that is both readable and scalable is another. Anybody who has been writing code for a while knows what it feels like to write code, revisit it a few months later and struggle to understand your own logic. You look at a variable name and wonder what you were thinking coming up with it. Clean code is not about aesthetics but clarity. Clean code should be easy to read, easy to understand and easy to modify. This applies to whether you are working on a small project or collaborating with a team on a bigger more complex project. It makes your job far more stressful and drastically reduces the number of bugs you'd work on therefore saving you a lot of time. It is also important to note that most programmers don't work in isolation making it important for you to write something someone else can look at and read. Your teammates would thank you for that. It definitely builds productivity within development teams. If you are reading t...
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Here are 7 Mistakes to Avoid as a Beginner Programmer

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 As exciting as it can be to learn to code, it can also be quite overwhelming especially at the beginning. The world of tech is big and that can make your learning process extremely hard if you don't know what to focus on. One of the main reasons why a lot of beginners tend to struggle is not because they are not intelligent enough or because they lack grit but because they unknowingly make mistakes that cost them. These mistakes can lead to frustration, burn-out and a false sense of belief that coding isn't for you. This blog is designed to help you avoid these mistakes. By the time you are done reading this article you will gain clarity on what is important, what isn't important and how to build a strong foundation for your long term learning to stand on.  1.Skipping the basics A lot of beginners come into programming with a lot of enthusiasm - wanting to build the next big social media app. The problem with this level of enthusiasm is that it tends to push them into the ...
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Struggling with Tutorial Hell? Here are 5 Tips to Get Out of Tutorial Hell

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 Have you ever spent hours watching tutorials only to realize you still can't code anything on your own without a tutorila guiding you? That isn't because you are terrible at coding, it has a name - tutorial hell. It is our situation where you watch coding tutorials and understand everything in that moment but whenever someone gives you a laptop to start coding, your brain goes blank. This problem is more common than you may think. A lot of beginners tend to get stuck in this stage for an extremely long period of time. Tutorials are a great way of learning to code but overdependence can stunt a person's growth. The real learning usually takes place when you struggle with a certain problem on your own for a while before seeking help, experiment with something new and fail numerous times before eventually succeeding. Getting out of tutorial hell isn't just about watching less tutorials but also practically applying what you already learnt so as to retain information effec...
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5 Tips and Tricks for Writing Clean Code

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7 Crucial Things to Know Before Learning to Code

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 Learning to code has become one of the most valuable skills for anybody to acquire in today's world where almost everything is run by technology. It is important to know certain things before you start to spare you disappointment and put your expectation in check. It is easy to be overwhelmed when you don't know anything about coding. Questions like where you should start and wondering whether you are on the right path will overwhelm you. You may even feel like giving up at some point in your journey. Many beginners start with enthusiasm but give up halfway through not because coding is impossible to learn but because they weren’t prepared for the realities of learning it. Knowing what to expect beforehand can save you frustration, keep you motivated, and make the journey much smoother.  In this post, I will be covering 8 things to know before learning to code along with some practical things you can do to make your journey less frustrating. 1.Set a realistic goal The world o...
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6 Free Websites to Learn Coding (Even If You’re a Beginner!)

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 Coding has quickly gone from being one of the most niche skill industries to be in, to one of the most rewarding abilities you can learn in today’s tech-savvy world. Whether you aspire to be a data scientist, web developer or even a software engineer, mastering the ability to code will open up endless opportunities for you. Many people who have chosen this route in their career journey are however faced with a lot of questions on where to begin. The fact that there are a lot of coding bootcamps out there charging thousands of dollars or an expensive college program for which one cannot pay for can kill anybody's motivation for learning to code. Here's the good news, you don't need to dig deep in your pockets to learn how to code. There are plenty of platforms that offer free resources on how to code. The challenge, however, goes beyond finding these programs, the challenge is in finding one that is worth your time and suitable for what you are looking to learn based on the...
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