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The Mashable post I wrote recently reviews seven of the best free font editors out there. Some tools included in the post are FontStruct, FontForge and BitfontMaker. If you’d like to create your own custom fonts, one of the free font editors included in the post should fit your needs.

Here’s a short excerpt from the post:

Though there are plenty of fonts out there for you to choose from (and many are even free), you may have the desire to create your very own custom font. Perhaps you want to design your own unique font for your company’s logo, or you may have a specific font design in mind and, after looking at hundreds of fonts, you’ve concluded that you’d have to make your own lettering to get exactly what you want.

Here’s the link to the Mashable post:

7 Free Tools for Creating Your Own Fonts

You may also want to see more of my articles on Mashable. Also, please do follow the Six Revisions profile on Mashable.

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Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and also a book author. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

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Here is another one of my articles that was recently published on Mashable. It’s a collection of JavaScript resources for working with web typography, including JS libraries such as Kerning.js and Lettering.js.

Here’s a short excerpt from the post:

When you think of web typography, CSS instantly comes to mind. And that’s great, because CSS is the primary option when dealing with the style/visual layer of your website. However, when you hit a roadblock with CSS, take it up a level by using JavaScript (JS).

Please check out my other writings on Mashable and also follow the Six Revisions Mashable profile.

Below is the link to my article on Mashable:

7 Essential JavaScript Typography Resources

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About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and also a book author. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

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I wrote an article for Mashable that discusses critical factors you should test when conducting website usability evaluations. The factors discussed are: user task analysis, readability, site navigability, accessibility, website speed and user experience. Each factor includes tips and strategies for testing, as well as some suggestions of affordable tools you can use to conduct usability analysis.

Here’s a short except from the post:

Testing usability is an art and a science. There are many times when usability testers rely on qualitative measurements, intuition, opinions and feedback from users and experience. However, there are also factors you can test quantitatively to ensure that a site is usable. In this post, we’ll discuss six crucial factors that affect usability. For each, you’ll be provided with some tips, tools and ideas on how you can measure these usability factors.

If you enjoyed the post, please consider showing your support and appreciation by sharing it on your social networks (Twitter, Facebook, etc.). Thank you!

Also, you may want to check out my other writings on Mashable and also follow the Six Revisions Mashable profile.

I sincerely hope the post helps you in your usability testing process, whether you’re just starting out in user testing or if you already have an existing methodology that was improved by reading the article.

Below is the link to my article on Mashable:

22 Essential Tools for Testing Your Website’s Usability

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About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and also a book author. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

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Just thought you’d like to know of an article I wrote for Mashable on how to improve the usability and readability of web content. The article covers seven practical, easy-to-implement tips based on studies done by Jakob Nielsen, Gerry McGovern, academic researchers and others.

Here’s a short except from the post:

Writing content for web users has its challenges. Chief among them is the ease with which your content is read and understood by your visitors (i.e. its readability).

When your content is highly readable, your audience is able to quickly digest the information you share with them — a worthy goal to have for your website, whether you run a blog, an e-store or your company’s domain.

Check out my other posts on Mashable and I do encourage you to share the post to your friends and social networks! Thank you!

Below is the link to the article on Mashable:

7 Best Practices for Improving Your Website’s Usability

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About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and also a book author. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

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On behalf of Mashable, I recently wrote an article published on American Express OPEN Forum, a web community for business owners. The article is a roundup of web design galleries focused on e-commerce website design.

Here’s a short except from the post:

Have you ever contemplated the expansion of your small business through the launch of an online store? The first phase of any new venture, big or small, is to generate initial ideas and scope out what’s already out there. Having a good vision of your soon-to-be e-store at hand will help you communicate better with your designer. Knowing what’s possible will also allow you to determine your desired outcomes.

Just in case you were wondering: I’m a contributing author on Mashable, helping them cover development- and design-related subjects on their Dev & Design channel.

Below is the link to the article on the American Express OPEN Forum:

Design Inspiration: 7 Galleries Of Excellent E-Commerce Sites

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About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and also a book author. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

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As some of you may know, I regularly write for the wonderful folks at Smashing Magazine.

Today, I thought I’d share my most recent Smashing Magazine article about breadcrumb trail best practices and uses; it’s an article that took me a good chunk of time to write, so I thought that you, Six Revisions readers, would be interested in reading it.

The article is called: Breadcrumbs In Web Design: Examples And Best Practices.

In case you missed it and want to get caught up on my work over at Smashing Magazine, here are the other articles I’ve written for them:

• 40 Beautiful Grunge Photoshop Tutorials
• The Ultimate Collection Of Useful Photoshop Actions
• 35 Beautiful Vintage and Retro Photoshop Tutorials
• 50 Useful JavaScript Tools
• 50 Excellent Digital Photography Photoshop Tutorials
• 50 Beautiful And Creative Portfolio Designs
• Showcase Of Clean And Minimalist Designs
• 50 Extremely Useful PHP Tools
• 15 Helpful In-Browser Web Development Tools

I hope you enjoy these and I would like to thank you for your continual support of Six Revisions.

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Besides Six Revisions, I also write for other design, development, and technology related publications. It just occurred to me that it’d be useful to notify the readers of Six Revisions about articles I write for other sites in case you wanted to subject yourself to the torture of reading (even more) of my articles.

Starting today, I’ll be publishing Elsewhere on the Web, which will be short posts about articles I wrote somewhere else.

Today, Webdesigner Depot, a site focused on exploring various web and graphic design techniques, examples, and best practices for web designers, published “20 Excellent Free Rich-Text Editors“.

The article is a collection of some of the best rich-text editors (also known as online rich-text editors or online WYSIWYG editors). Rich-text editors can be used in various ways, such as adding a user option for inputting formatted text in an HTML textarea or editing certain parts of a web page.

I hope you enjoy the article!