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Review: MainType 4.0 Font Viewer and Manager
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Website: www.high-logic.com/font-manager/maintype.html
I don’t perform as much web development these days as I do strategy, SEO and PPC, however, when I do develop websites, and more specifically a client’s logo, finding the best font to use can sometimes be a daunting, frustrating task…mostly because there are so many of them. Personally, I’m a font geek so I have over 3,300+ fonts on my computer.
MainType 4.0 font viewer helps take the frustration out of managing your fonts. It is packed with tons of intuitive features that make fonts simple to find, preview, organize, install, and print.
High-Logic Product Description
MainType font viewer is the only drag and drop font manager that offers a straightforward and easy-to-use interface to help you find, preview, organize, install and print your fonts.
It includes features for novice users who just want to view and install fonts as well as advanced features for graphic designers and typographers. In order to find the right fonts for your needs, the software includes views and quick search functionality. The software contains a font information panel that allows you to compare multiple fonts side-by-side and reveals important typographic data. The “groups” panel helps you quickly organize all your fonts. Nice touches are drag and drop capabilities and the ability to insert characters into background applications.
MainType works with TrueType, OpenType, TrueType Collections, and Postscript Type 1 fonts. To assist you in finding the fonts that best suit your needs, MainType has a fast and instant preview within the main font panel. You can browse your whole font library as well as define your own custom views.
MainType font viewer supports all seventeen planes defined in the Unicode character database and displays all characters grouped in Unicode blocks. MainType allows you to generate an HTML-based overview of any of your fonts, and print outstanding reports of your font library.
Features and Benefits:
- Load, install, and uninstall fonts
- Preview and browse fonts without installation
- Full Unicode support
- Character grid with Unicode block navigation
- Print and print preview your fonts
- Support all popular font formats and more: TrueType, OpenType, TrueType Collections, Postscript Type 1 fonts
- Insert characters into background applications
- Font export wizard generates a HTML-based overview of all your fonts
- Easy backup and restore your font library
- The software runs on Windows ONLY
Useful Links
Website: http://www.high-logic.com/font-manager/maintype.html
Manual: http://www.high-logic.com/maintype/manual/
Tutorial: http://www.high-logic.com/font-manager/maintype/tutorials.html
Forum: http://forum.high-logic.com/
Screenshots:
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Lastly, I thought I might write about how a person can install Fonts on their computer:
- Click on “My Computer” folder
- Click on “C” Drive folder
- Click on “Windows” folder
- Click on “Fonts” folder
- Copy and paste additional fonts into this folder
- That’s it!!!…How simple was that?
If anyone is interested in obtaining my entire list of fonts for free, just contact me and I’ll email you back.
R.E. Ferguson
BustAName.com Domain Search Tool Review
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Bust a Name is a tool to help you find domains and manage them. They have combined linguistic data with a unique interface to let you quickly search through thousands of domains and see which are available.
The project came about due to a clear need for a better way to find domains. Having launched many other web services, the hardest part was coming up with a domain name that wasn’t taken but could easily be memorized. They also realized that domain management was pretty difficult too. Bust a Name was created to try to fix both of these problems and help people manage website related things easier.
They are firm believers in using the right tool for the job. A good chunk of Bust a Name is written in front end JavaScript. The back-end is mostly rails, running with mysql and lighttpd for their web server.
Webmaster Tools
It is imperative that any Search Engine Marketer use the following webmaster tools provided by Google, Yahoo! and Bing.
Google Webmaster Tools- Great for all its features except for determining how many backlinks are coming into your site
Yahoo! Site Explorer- Great for all its features and the best tool for determining how many backlinks are coming into your site
Bing Webmaster Central- Great for seeing your position and relevance on Bing
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XML Sitemaps
To be as specific as possible, I’m listing Google’s explanation of what sitemaps are below. If you are looking for one of the best xml sitemap generators available, I suggest the following: http://www.auditmypc.com/xml-sitemap.asp (be sure to use this tool in Internet Explorer because Firefox will not export the sitemap files when the tool is finished).
Google’s “About Sitemaps”: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=40318
In general, there are two types of sitemaps. The first type of sitemap is a HTML page listing the pages of your site—often by section—and is meant to help users find the information they need.
XML Sitemaps—usually called Sitemaps, with a capital S—are a way for you to give Google information about your site. This is the type of Sitemap we’ll be discussing in this article.
In its simplest terms, a Sitemap is a list of the pages on your website. Creating and submitting a Sitemap helps make sure that Google knows about all the pages on your site, including URLs that may not be discoverable by Google’s normal crawling process.
Sitemaps are particularly helpful if:
* Your site has dynamic content.
* Your site has pages that aren’t easily discovered by Googlebot during the crawl process – for example, pages featuring rich AJAX or Flash.
* Your site is new and has few links to it. (Googlebot crawls the web by following links from one page to another, so if your site isn’t well linked, it may be hard for us to discover it.)
* Your site has a large archive of content pages that are not well linked to each other, or are not linked at all.
You can also use a Sitemap to provide Google with additional information about your pages, including:
* How often the pages on your site change. For example, you might update your product page daily, but update your About Me page only once every few months.
* The date each page was last modified.
* The relative importance of pages on your site. For example, your home page might have a relative importance of 1.0, category pages have an importance of 0.8, and individual blog entries or product pages have an importance of 0.5. This priority only indicates the importance of a particular URL relative to other URLs on your site, and doesn’t impact the ranking of your pages in search results.
Sitemaps provide additional information about your site to Google, complementing our normal methods of crawling the web. We expect they will help us crawl more of your site and in a more timely fashion, but we can’t guarantee that URLs from your Sitemap will be added to the Google index. Sites are never penalized for submitting Sitemaps.
Google adheres to Sitemap Protocol 0.9 as defined by sitemaps.org. The Sitemap Protocol is a dialect of XML for summarizing Sitemap information that is relevant to web crawlers. Sitemaps created for Google using Sitemap Protocol 0.9 are therefore compatible with other search engines that adopt the standards of sitemaps.org.
While a standard Sitemap works for most sites, you can also create and submit specialized Sitemaps for certain types of content. These Sitemap formats are specific to Google and are not used by other search engines. Sitemap formats include:
- Video Sitemaps
- Mobile Sitemaps
- News Sitemaps
- Code Search Sitemaps
- Geo Sitemaps
OK, so here’s the low-down, if you aren’t using an xml sitemap, you need to start doing so. Additionally, you need to make sure you sign-up for Google Webmaster Tools and submit your sitemap via this channel as well.
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