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20 Fresh Free Fonts for Designers: Summer 2013
The year is only half-way over, but 2013 has already brought us a multitude of amazing new fonts! Here is a hand-picked list of Monkee-Boy's favorite free fonts so far. From elaborate display lettering to dynamic san-serif typefaces, these freshly designed fonts will help bring a new look to your designs this year. Enjoy!
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Freebie Friday: Flat Icons
Happy Friday! This week were bringing you a flat icon set of 9 web icons. Flat icons are all the rage right now in the design community, and we wanted to experiment with the style a bit on our own. All shapes are smart objects and scalable. These are 100% free for personal and commercial use (just please don't redistribute them as-is without a link!), and we hope that if you enjoy our freebies you will reblog, pin, and share with your friends!
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"The Fold" in the New Mobile Web
There have been a plethora of blog articles for and against "the fold," as well as just as many debating if the fold even exists. Here at Monkee-Boy, we hear both sides of the argument regularly from our clients and peers in the design community alike. We'd like to discuss what it is, whether or not we should worry about it, and what that practical application means in web today.
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Monkee-Boy Launches New Mopac Improvement Project Website
Monkee-Boy along with the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority (CTRMA) have launched the new Mopac Improvement Project website detailing the construction process of reducing congestion on Mopac by adding Express toll lanes designed to keep traffic moving even when adjacent lanes are congested.
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Freebie Friday Roundup: Part 3
Every other Friday, we bring you something brand new and this week is no exception. It's time for another Freebie Friday roundup, where we give away all our latest freebies in one convenient package. Bundled exclusively with this package is a beautiful app login screen that we'd love to share with you.
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A Five-Step Plan To Align Your Blog Strategy With Your Business Goals
If you own or manage a business and you have a web site, you should be blogging. How do I know? Because that's what everyone says. When I typed benefits of blogging into Google, I got 30 million results. So, while its not everyone, it's a lot of people.
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Freebie Friday: Tablet-Friendly Almost Flat UI Kit
Hello all and happy Friday! This week we're bringing you another UI kit - this one is specifically made to be tablet friendly with large touch points, drag-friendly sliders, and even more - most of this can be recreated in CSS for quick loading of your responsive designs. We're still finding our own adaptation of the flat trend, and we think this is a happy medium that looks modern but also works from a usability standpoint.
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5 Web Designers Who Lead Through Social Sharing
In light of preparing for our summer internship program, our design team is researching and gathering the best content to aid in web design mentorship. During this process, we are thinking about those in the industry who, through their social media activity, have directed or inspired our team.
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