The use of safe Font-Face is one of the most important things to have in mind when you have a PSD to HTML conversion; that is why we want to give you the most use of them in order to prevent HTML coders to update the design and end up making it look totally different from what you wanted in the first place.

We already know common fonts that are safer to use for web design:

• Arial / Helvetica- they are a good choice for short text, perhaps a paragraph or two in length.
• Times New Roman / Times- designed for use as newspaper column text. It has a small size, compared to most other fonts.
• Courier New / Courier- the traditional monospace font.

But there are other Common sans-serif fonts for you to play with web design, such as:

• Verdana- Its lowercase letters are very large, compared to the overall size of the font, which makes text easy to read on the web.
• Tahoma- Tahoma is another of Microsoft’s web fonts.
• Arial Black- designed for headlines.
• Comic Sans MS- is a sans-serif font with a soft, rounded style.
• Impact- designed for headlines.
• Georgia- It is a nicely readable screen font, but has the same problems that Verdana does of looking bad when printed,
• Palatino- Originally designed as a display font.
• Century Schoolbook- You cannot rely on its being present on Windows computers.

And then we have the Google Web Fonts API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and are served by Google servers, some of them are:

• Terminal Dosis Light
• Michroma
• Cabin Sketch
• Irish Grover
• Oswald
• EB Garamond
• Six Caps
• Nova
• Amaranth
• Pacifico

As you see there are a lot of them, so there are no excuses from your web designer to not use any of them, be careful of that.

Mo’ Bulletpoofer is the only syntax that works across browsers including Android and Internet Explorer. Both of them have buggy implementations and this format works around both of them. Unlike Internet Explorer, Android doesn’t “look back” and take the font specified in the initial URL reference. IE9 downloads both the EOT file and the WOFF file using Mo’ Bulletproofer.

If you prefer a single declaration solution and your pages don’t trigger one of the Internet Explorer 9 Compatibility Modes, barring any more unforeseen changes between it RC1 and IE9 RTM, the Fontspring syntax seems alive.

Now if you follow this Font- Face list there is no need for your HTML coders to update it and destroy the original design, when you hire a web designer, make sure they design your website with this list in mind, help us make life easier.

In today’s world, having your own site is just like having your own public business card on display 24/7 that says: “This is me, and here is how to contact me”. It doesn’t get any better than that.

Now, the whole point of having your site is for people to find you and know what is it that you do. So let’s start from there. You could have a site that says a lot about who you are, what your interests are and the kind of music you are into, but if you want customers you might want to try a different approach.

Let’s say that you are a consultant so if someone wants to hire you, they need to know what kind of consulting you do, or the services you provide. In other words, that has to be on your site. Also, do you have any special skills? Speak more than one language? That to goes on your web page. You like Karaoke nights at the local pub? You should keep this out.

In other words, define what is it that you want your web page to say about you or your company, then we can move on to the next part the “looks”. You know what that saying “There is no second chance to make a first impression”, well that applies to the Internet as well. Think about it, how many times have you come back to a poorly designed/”ugly” looking website? Exactly!

If you have the right ideas, and know what you want your site to say about you, then there is no point in screwing it all up with the looks so take a look around and see what the competition is doing, and with that we don’t mean, go copy everyone else, but there is a lot you can learn from what other businesses are doing well and what they are not.

Finally, look for someone to give you a hand with the project, it could start with bouncing ideas of a friend, even hiring someone or a company (*cough* such as CodeMyConcept cough) to help you build the website you want and need to succeed in your niche.