25 Free Fonts that Truly ARE Good
So you have a bundle of fonts that came with your shiny new computer. Oh, it’s more fonts from Microsoft Office and Adobe CS4. But should you use them? Well, why not? They are fonts, are they not?
But sometimes, you need more than just the standard pack that everyone has been using since forever, but you want this without having to shell out money. Well, 16.3 can help. Here’s some fonts that really are good. I have many of these installed on my own computer. That’s how good 
Enjoy!
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Thuphap (urbanfonts.com)
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6 Ways to Drive Traffic Away from Your Website
Traffic? Why would you want traffic to your website? Ridiculous viewers and people looking at your website, screwing around with the comments, criticizing you on that post you spent five minutes. Forget them! But how? It’s like whatever you do, users still come to your website.
Never to fear, 16.3 understands your pain. We’re here today to provide ten ways to drive traffic away without seeming like it. For those of you who still want traffic, well, I’ve also included a “but seriously” area below each tip. But why would you want that?
Without further ado, let’s get started. I’m sure you are very eager.
21 High-Res Textures to Use In Your Next Project
Textures are great for any project around, let it be Photoshopping, web design, graphic design, or just messing around, and here at 16.3 we want to give you the best stuff for doing this stuff. I spent a few days looking through DeviantART, finding the best textures for work.
These are some really nice textures that I’ve handpicked and viewed. This took me quite a while to compile but I think it’s worth it. I tried to have only the best, but if you need more, you can always go to DeviantART and look around. We’re against stealing, so you can find usage limitations by each picture description.
Most of these images can be used with either a simple notification to the author or an attribution in the work. Some of these are non-commercial only, and most of these are Creative Commons-licensed. We hope you enjoy this collection!
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Texture – Water Drops by Eriq (usage: notification to author)
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5 Tips to Help Create a Website Design
Many web designers out there are thinking about how to create a killer web design, one that will knock everyone else over and cause each and every visitor to bow their heads in awe of your awesomeness. Of course, most of the time, that isn’t exactly quite the case.
Maybe this isn’t a Photoshop tutorial that will detail each and every step. Maybe I’m not Jakob Nielsen (the king of usability), but I can help give you a few tips that will help you make a design that is sure to please. It all starts with a layout and a desire to create.
Without further ado, here are five tips to help make your design better.
StSi 1.2.5 Coming Soon, Affinity 1.0 Coming Soon
Updates on Stunning Silence: Stunning Silence 1.2.5 is coming soon and will be released as soon as possible. Fixes in this version include support for centering images as well as general fixes. There are no security fixes, and you are not required to upgrade (but you are recommended).
Stunning Silence 1.3 will come sometime in the future and will include support for more color schemes, multiple sidebar support, as well as other fixes and features.
Updates on Affinity: Affinity is a brand-new WordPress theme to be released soon after I finish working on a client’s work, release Stunning Silence 1.2.5. It’s super-elegant and has a layout sure to be tasty and pleasing.
Once again, I’m being bogged down by work, and I have way too many things to take care of. If you want updates on any work, please subscribe to my feed. Thanks!
HTML5 for the good?
HTML5 is a huge step forward in terms of web usability, of web coding, and web design. It makes things incredibly easy to do, clean, and makes websites suddenly have a no-frills attitude. How easy is it to type in a simple code line <video src=”blah.avi”> on your website? That wasn’t hard, right?
So I suppose you’re happy, right? And in a way, you should be happy. Because instead of hours of work, bam, that took three seconds, right? You didn’t need to convert it to .flv to watch, heck, you didn’t even need a video player to come with it. Just pow, one line of code.
But is this too easy? Continue reading this »
Firefox 3.5 Color Profiles Not That Great
I know, I know, color profiles are great for photographers, but here’s a quick rant: although colors are richer and prettier, when users mess around with the default controls in their browser and they enable color profiles, backgrounds and images that designers have color-matched to fit in are suddenly mismatched.
It’s easy to tell where a background image picks up and starts off suddenly. This is a huge problem, because a lot of people are going to want to mess around with their settings and enable color profiles. Designers will now need to save to PNGs and forfeit IE6 support (which wasn’t that important to begin with, but still).
Instead of enabling it for everything, each photograph should have a specific setting saying “yes” or “no”, and browsers should obey it. It makes sense that the developers for Firefox have turned it off on default.
Stunning Silence v1.2.3 [WordPress theme]
Update: v1.2.3 has been released, thanks to some requests by Blair. Links across the template are now highlighted on hover, and the RSS feed icon has been moved to the left. The text “RSS Feed” displays on hover.
Update: v1.2.4 has been released, thanks to suggestions. A fluer-de-lis now displays default to the left of the title; users can modify this logo to change it to their own.
Stunning Silence has had amazing reception with the WordPress community so far. Thank you so much, guys! I loved every single bit of feedback and all the compliments.
This new release of Stunning Silence adds some more features and options to the Stunning Silence WordPress theme including new color schemes (detailed in the picture) and other effects.
Stunning Silence v.1.1.2 [WordPress theme]
Note: this version has been deprecated.
Stunning Silence: a WordPress theme with alluding beauty and a beauty all around, from the backend to the front-end. This is a theme you will want on your blog. Featuring a huge options page for hard-core customizing and a simple modern look on the outside, it is great for your blog.
The Battle Of Fonts, and the Future of Typography
For what has seemed to be the longest time, I had no care for fonts. Words were words, and nobody cared about how they were spaced or whether there were orphans or not.
Then I came across two magazines: one with incredible text, and one with the most ugliest layout I had ever seen. And by the layout, I mean the typography: ligatures weren’t used, line height was horrible… from that point on, I realized the importance of typography.
[Portfolio] Brandon Wang, version 5.1
(click above for larger version) It’s version five point one of my portfolio home page: my presence on the Internet. In more ways than one, a home page is like a first glance at you, when someone sees this page, they will review you on your work.
Are you a good designer? They’ll look at your home page to find out. Do you know what you’re talking about? They’ll look for qualifications. I made this page with these questions in mind.
[Portfolio] Brandon Wang, version 5.0
Yet another redesign of my personal portfolio: the highlights that made it such a great design (at least in my opinion), and why I unfortunately discontinued the design.
This web page made use of intensive colors, dark backgrounds, and visually stunning effects. It really pushed out the fact that, this person here is a designer.