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There are a lot of developers

The truth is clients are very visually attuned

start with something white and clean or beige and clean
pick one or two strong fonts

that's all there is to web design, that's

I'm trying to make a blog, there's not much to this layout

all i did was sit down, and choose a certain font

Chepperol Pro
Corbell

Scott Mursey, taking down the

get a litany of shops for free.

http://FontShop.com
http://Veer.com
http://MyFonts.com

Basic rules about mixing fonts?

Serif, Sans Serif. Slab serif [seems to be serifs that only curve into the serifs] - clunky may be

Monospaced

I'll click best-sellers or staff picks.

Say you're building your agency site, and you need a font, you can put in the name of your agency.

My personal favorite is Veer.com

There's a term called kerning. And for the most part people leave it alone, and i didn't know you could at first.

Here is how the font looks unmanipulated, and it's just a little bit too far apart
tightened it up

You would do this in Drupal, in the CSS file, with the

Kerning on a pair-by-pair basis in CSS? You'd have to create a span and CSS class for those two letters directly.

But i would hope at that point you could use a graphic.

Ivan Boothe: Or you could use lettering.js

Scott M: Do you use layers in photoshop?

I am surprised you ask. I always use a billion layers.

I see this style in modern web development, they will get a serif font and italicize it.

Module called font your face, it renders the font to display on your Drupal web site. Also Cufon, Sifr.

Kuler.com by Adobe
pallets put together by people neurotic about colors

You don't have to do anything, someoe has already chose

Color palettes

I'm a nut, i've memorized hex codes of colors.

You're on colorschemedesigner.com and you put in the particular shade of blue your client demands, and it generates the mathematically compatible colors.

You can get free graphic resources too.

It means i wake up and i dream of color harmonies. And won't go into a café— they have amazing bill

As a designer, if i'm going to be visually assaulted every time i

[Romy is hilarious, great stage presence, in the discussion at the end.]

Q: Do you just make the photoshop files?

My skills are stronger at putting things together, not translating them to CSS.

If you are trying to harness Drupal to put things together, have a developer and a designer.

N: I'm one of the people who hate the logo, and it doesn't look so bad in the Ristorante Amore di Drupal.