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The Night Is Dark by ^pica-ae

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CSS/HTML Tricks: Article LayoutHello!
Another tutorial for news articles and journals on dA!This one is meant to help you add structure to your news articles (and personal journals) and thus enhance the reading experience for your audience.
I have already written a tutorial on the topic of HTML Literature, but only showcased what is possible there. It is almost the same as :faq104:
This tutorial will try to explain why you should use additional HTML in your articles and how it helps improve their quality.
Also it turned out to be quite long, so skip to your liking.
For further reading please refer to CSS Tricks: Limiting .text width, which explains the necessity of limiting your text width.
Why is structure important?
Nobody likes reading a wall of text. If you look at an article and all you see is a grey blur,CSS/HTML Tricks: Article Layout by ^pica-ae

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What I really like about this, is the color scheme you chose. Teal works very well with white/grey/black and makes it look rather sophi...

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I really like the layout and color scheme you choose for this piece. The focus of the piece is below the middle, giving more room for t...

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The first thing I noticed when looking at this photography is the intense atmosphere. It feels like a sultry summer evening on a beach....

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Designs and Interfaces Update

Fri Jun 14, 2013, 1:45 PM

With `princepal's term as Community Volunteer being over (go hug him and say thanks

) the position for Designs & Interfaces is currently open again, you can learn about how to apply here.
For the time being, I will also accept Daily Deviation suggestions from the Designs & Interfaces gallery.

So keep them coming!

This also means, that if you apply for the open position and become a Volunteer, we will work together on the gallery: support deviants and related groups, host contests and challenges, write featured articles and so on and on.

So, what are you waiting for? Send me some awesome Designs

Oh and you know what? You should totally go look for deviations while browsing the new Undiscovered (beta)!

I will still be taking DD suggestions for Text Art and Typography, both traditional and digital

And I will continue to do so

Please send suggestions for Game Development Art to ^PolyMune

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Anne
Artist | Professional | Design & Interfaces

Germany

Community Volunteer - Text Art & Typography

^{What else do I do:Typography and Vector Illustrations
randomly I take Photographs and do Traditional Watercolour Paintings
CSS for dA Journals
I have a Stock Account ~pica-stock
Webdesign in an Agency for a living}

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Make sure it is in the right gallery! I take suggestions for Digital Art > Typography & Traditional Art > Typography
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Add me as recipient and add the reason why it should be a DD in the message field.

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~LadyRouge 21 hours ago Student Digital Artist

Thank you so much for the DD!

^pica-ae 17 hours ago Professional Interface Designer

You are very welcome

~viickylo 6 days ago New member Student Digital Artist

woow thank you for the

and the watch!!

^pica-ae 4 days ago Professional Interface Designer

you're very welcome

~johnmisael Jun 7, 2013 New member

You are my first watcher

Thank you so much!

^pica-ae Jun 7, 2013 Professional Interface Designer

haha you are welcome, I like what you're doing

~6rhill Jun 4, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

pica-ae
Thank you very much for giving me this Daily Deviation !
It makes me very happy!

^pica-ae Jun 5, 2013 Professional Interface Designer

you are welcome, it's an awesome piece

`Milotic1406 Jun 3, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I mentioned your name here!

Just thought I'd let you know.

^pica-ae Jun 9, 2013 Professional Interface Designer

Oh cool, thank you

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~RushAndRuleIt May 21, 2013

I just noticed that Yellow American Cheese 3.99 is your 700th deviation! Here's a toast to 700 more fun deviations! (I can't find an actual emoticon performing a toast, but you get the idea.

)

^pica-ae May 26, 2013 Professional Interface Designer

Haha I would have not noticed

Thanks for the reminder and the congrats

^fediaFedia May 21, 2013 Student Interface Designer

Hey, wie geht's?

^pica-ae May 25, 2013 Professional Interface Designer

Danke, gut! Und selber? Wie ist es so als CV?

^fediaFedia May 25, 2013 Student Interface Designer

Ach, ein bisschen schwer, hab' keine Ehrfahrung in solche Dinge

^pica-ae May 27, 2013 Professional Interface Designer

Das wird schon

Hauptsache es macht Spaß

Bei Fragen kannst du mich immer gern auf skype poken

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~nymphont May 14, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

Hello Anne,
<3
Thank you so much!

<3
Lauren

^pica-ae May 28, 2013 Professional Interface Designer

You are very very welcome

I love your work

*MartinSilvertant Apr 20, 2013 Professional General Artist

Hey Anne, something just occurred to me. I was browsing the fonts category and while looking at the huge amount of fonts not designed by the uploaders, I was wondering if it isn't relatively simple to implement a new function:
When you upload something new and you have to choose the category, when you choose "fonts" it would ask you if you made it or someone else. If you select "someone else" you can't submit the work. So if you didn't design the font yourself, the only way to upload it is to lie and select that you designed it, in which case you're in violation of copyright. This seems to be a really simple solution to clean the whole section up, because right now the fonts category is more akin to dafont.com than a dA gallery. What do you think? Should I suggest it at the next website update/feedback post?

^pica-ae May 19, 2013 Professional Interface Designer

That is a possible solution

You can suggest it at one of those blogs posted by #hq or make it a written/visual suggestion in the dA related gallery (and link to it)

~nymphont May 14, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

I agree Martin, I suggested this exact concept to dA a while back when reporting a violation.

I would not compare it to dafont, however, despite some not-very-original works, dafont does not infringe on the product of another person,--that belief is a myth.

Dafont could not get away with that, just because it's free does not make it "illegit". Dafont is only a threat to the revenue of some individuals because, whether those individuals like it or not, free fonts do exist. And they have for a long time. Dafont is just the most popular font website in existence. By far. There is a reason for that.

(I have come to understand now why my works had been slighted on other forums -- it's because they were free. And that is the only reason.)

But I digress. My point was, I too think that something as simple as a radio button would abate the problems within the font category on dA.

I do not understand how a "font pack" consisting of fonts which one has not created nor does one own any rights or permissions in redistributing constitutes a work of art.

*MartinSilvertant May 14, 2013 Professional General Artist

I actually referred to dafont simply because I generally find the navigation as well as the typefaces mediocre at best. I was just comparing the mess of dA to the mess of dafonts. I didn't mean to imply the typefaces on dafonts are not legit. It has nothing to do with the typefaces being free, either. Rather, amateur type designers are more likely to offer their typefaces for free, and so dafont is absolutely packed with amateur typefaces. I respect that, but I personally rarely ever go to dafont.com. I just don't consider the quality reliable. My the way, are you sure dafont.com is the most popular? I always thought it's myfonts.com. I guess dafont, MyFonts and FontFont are the biggest. FontFont has high quality typefaces, but the navigation is just awful to me, so I never visit that website either.

dafont does not infringe on the product of another person,--that belief is a myth.
What do you mean with this exactly? Because there are plenty of copyright infringed fonts on dafonts. The problem is that there is not enough verification of whether the fonts are legit, nor does dafont seem to be able to guarantee a certain quality, both in the design, spacing and programming. It should be said that there are plenty of good typefaces on dafonts, but the general quality is just too low for me. Besides, I can get virtually any typeface, so whether typefaces are free or not is not a big concern to me.

(I have come to understand now why my works had been slighted on other forums -- it's because they were free. And that is the only reason.)
That's strange though. There are plenty of professional type designers who offer either one font or a complete typeface for free. exljbris Font Foundry became popular exactly because some fonts were being offered for free.

I do not understand how a "font pack" consisting of fonts which one has not created nor does one own any rights or permissions in redistributing constitutes a work of art.
I don't get it either, and yet there don't seem to be any plans to fix this prominent issue.

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