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With blogging comes great responsibilty. You define the content of your weblog and you carry the full responsibility for every word you’ve published online. More than that, you are responsible for comments in your posts. To make sure you fulfill your legal obligations, it’s important to know, what you, as blogger, may or should do; and you have to know, how to achieve this. After all, the ignorance of the law does not make one exempt from compliance thereof.

From the legal point of view, Copyright in Web is often considered as the grey area; as such it’s often misunderstood and violated - mostly simply because bloggers don’t know, what laws they have to abide and what issues they have to consider. In fact, copyright myths are common, as well as numerous copyright debates in the Web.

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Almost no one who makes websites works in their company or organization's web division—because almost no company or organization has a web division. That void on the org chart is one reason we have so many bloated, unusable websites. While many good people work in IT and marketing, neither area is ideally suited to craft usable websites or to encourage the blossoming of vital web communities. Business and non-profit decision makers, let there be web divisions.
[via Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report]

I have to admit, I’m a font junkie, and I’m eternally grateful for all of those hard working fontsmiths out there continuously blessing us with free fonts to feed on. I wanted to show you 7 free grungy script fonts that are worth downloading. I don’t use script font’s all that often as a main part of my design, but instead I like to use them as a background element, layering effect, and that little subtle, something-extra. Have a look at these font’s, you might want to lock them away in your vault for a future project or two.

[via bittbox]

Nick Stakenburg has written a nice simple tooltip built on Script.aculo.us called Effect.Tooltip.

It is as simple to setup as:

[via Ajaxian]

I scored my first design job when I was about 14 years old. A local T-shirt shop owner got tired of me hanging out at his place and taught me to cut color separations. Before long, I was handling layout for his customers and even doing design work on the side. I loved it. Little did I know then that I'd still be doing it, and still loving it nearly 30 years later.

I feel that I have a somewhat unique perspective on design, being that I learned good design and layout principles and techniques way before the age of desktop publishing. It used to take us weeks to do something that today takes a few hours. Still, some of the old camera tricks, color layering, overprinting and spot varnish techniques are still used in the work I do today, and it's always fun to get a "How in the hell did you do that…" from designers in the younger, post-digital-design camp. Yeah… That's old school, baby.

Here's a few tidbits that I'd like to pass along to those who may not remember Amberlith, Zip-A-Tone, Exacto knives, burnishers and airbrushes that actually clogged. Some technical, some practical, some just common sense.

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Recently I was asked to do a logo job for a new commercial website. I gladly accepted the job, because it is something I like doing. I asked for the details and started on the job. I've sent the client the first two drafts which he liked, but informed me that he found somebody else, who does the job pro bono for him, so I should back off. I only spent 3-4 hours on his project so far, so I wasn't pissed, but I didn't like such unprofessional treatment and asked to be payed a standard hourly fee for the time I spent on the project so far. I was denied it and was told that others do it for free, so I'm not eligible for anything.

This is just one story, but demonstrates a trend that most of us have contributed to at some time in our careers. Namely, doing free work. I used to do free jobs for friends, because I felt ashamed to ask for money for stuff that only takes my time. However I never felt it right to ask my friends to repair my car for free when taking it to their workshop or serve me for free when I visited their restaurant.

[via creativebits - Apple oriented design community]