Extra fonts for when you are creating your websites from Google.

Feeling a little boring, not sure what is going on in the world around you?

Read Russell Davies article on how to be interesting.

Typekit (recently acquired by Adobe) offers a whole range of fonts that you can use to make your website beautiful and accessible. Hurray!

“Be inspired by it, not copy it”

Everything is a Remix is produced by Kirby Ferguson, a New York-based filmmaker. The site is a companion piece to the four-part video series.

Kirby Ferguson

The magCulture blog bangs the drum for editorial design. We love all types of magazines and newspapers, whether in print or digital form. What matters is the innovation, creativity and thought behind them. The blog is is written by Jeremy Leslie, creative director at magCulture, but relies on suggestions and submissions from many others around the industry and the world.

Go to Behance’s 99% website to make your ideas happen, read and learn about how other people are approaching the same challenges as yourselves.

“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration” — Thomas Edison

At 99%, Behance‘s think tank, we focus on what happens after inspiration — researching the forces that truly push ideas to fruition. Our profiles of proven idea makers, action-oriented tips, best-practices sessions, and annual conference are all designed to help you transform ideas from vision to reality.

This is a great source of information to keep up with all things copyright.

“In 1709 the Statute of Anne created the first purpose-built copyright law. This blog, founded just 300 short and unextended years later, is dedicated to all things copyright, warts and all”.

An easy to use very popular portfolio tool for visually led students and professionals alike.

This solution enables you to choose from templates and upload content with ease. It grows with you; with the free solution offering you the ability to upload some work, choose a template and if you wish start to edit the CSS of your page, and a paid version (currently $66 per year). The paid version gives you the option to have your own domain name (URL), more space, along with advanced editing for CSS and HTML.

Behance is a platform to showcase and discover creative work. Creative professionals, from across industries, use Behance to create multi-media portfolios that showcase their work within the Network, as well as dozens of other partner sites and industry-specific, curated online galleries.

This set up is easy to use and easy to add work to. It does not cost, the downside of this is that you have to put up with advertising on your pages. However you can send ad-free links to potential employers (they are just not the most user friendly on the memory).

Hosting required for this online portfolio. But no real techy skills required. The site uses a simple system to enable you to add work to your website. The template is customisable, but will require some technical skills.

Have a look at the link below for a set of web hosts.

Web hosting

Subfolio is being used as a private client studio or internal file sharing system by many companies including:

Aol, Upian, Dream On, Studio Hari, Made by Fudge, Rainbow Media, Sundance Channel and AREA 17.

Many folks use Subfolio as a public website, portfolio or online dumping ground. Here are some examples…

Subfolio Example - http://www.eleneusdin.com/

Subfolio Example - http://juliabernard.net/

Subfolio example - http://400asa.net/