Fonts Etc

We're always on the lookout for unique fonts for use in website design. Here's a few of our latest acquisitions:

All free, of course. Just do a web search by font name, and you'll find them!

More Buttons

New promo buttons and logos:

More Logos & Buttons >

70s Fonts

We recently had the opportunity to create a book cover (and related web site design) for a traditional gothic fiction novel entitled Glinhaven. While the book is not scheduled for release until summertime, we’d like to share some of the bold and attractive fonts we picked over that were common during the 1970s.

In plain English, the pictured fonts include American Purpose, Avant Garde, Cooper Black, Futura, Kompakt, KTF Roadstar, Souvenir and Spicy Rice.

 

Click here to view the "Glinhaven Gallery" at Pinterest.

 

Newsers & Buttons

Our latest newsletter design to highlight the release of Arabic Cookery from Food Fare:

Topic-specific newsletters are often easier to put together because they focus on one particular subject.

We also created a button for Middle Eastern recipes based on the Arab League logo:

 

 

For more logos and buttons from Webs Divine, click here.

Browser Hijackers

Last month, one of our clients was complaining about links on a newsletter design we had just uploaded for her preview. Her message went something like this:

I'm seeing some weird links in the newsletter that shouldn't be there. Certain words - like "email" and "best healthcare" - are linked, and they lead to strange places. The words should be text only. Wonder why this is happening?

According to Bot Crawl, random links appearing on web pages are caused by adware or malware which is also known as "Text Enhance." It is a form of bundled flash adware (categorized as a "browser hijacker") that attaches to internet browsers without user consent. In other words, computers are infected with an adware virus that prompts certain text on web pages to show as links when they aren't meant to be linked. The web sites themselves are not infected, but the computer or browser is.

More from Bot Crawl:

Victims of the virus usually notice they have been attacked by Text Enhance when web pages have links or hover links with spam advertisements and information in a pop up window. These are called "in-text advertisements." The owners behind Text Enhance generate income by providing advertisement services (adware platform) to cyber criminals and unethical third parties, as well as compromising and possibly selling personal information. Note: Text Enhance does not infect web sites, Text Enhance infects individual users. If you see text advertisements on a web site then you are infected, not the web site.

Click here for steps to get rid of the virus (look near the bottom of the page), or use the following instructions for Internet Explorer via Bot Crawl:

How To Remove Text Enhance (And Third-Party Malware)

Microsoft Internet Explorer:

Step 1: Clear browser cache load and cookies.

Step 2: Click the "Tools" button and then click "Manage add-ons."

Step 3: Under SHOW, click "All add-ons" or "Toolbars & Extensions" (depending on which version of IE you use).

Step 4: Select the Text Enhance plug-in from the list of software, and click disable. Possible Extension Names: Bandicam, BCool, Better Links, Bflix1.0, Browser Enhancements 1.0, Click 2 Save, Codec-V, CodecC, CodecC 1.0, CodecM, Codecv 1.0, Coupon Companion, Crossrider Web Apps, Deal Spy, Dealply, Deals Plugin, Downloadnsave, Facebook Dislike Button (extension, not actual button or link), Facetheme, Fantapper, Fast save, Flashblock, Freemind, Game Play Labs, Greasemonkey, Ilivid, I Want That, I Want This, Iminent, Installed Class, With Java plug-ins, Jlmp3, Media Plugin, Notepad, OneTab, Pando Media Enhancer, Premiumplay Codec, Privacy SafeGuard, Privacy SafeGuard 1.1, Protector by IB2.0.0.412, Rewardsarcade, RewardsArcadeSuite, SearchEnhance, Shockwave, SiteAdvisor, Splashtop Inc, SportHunter TV App, Startnow Toolbar, TheBflix, TheBflix5.0, TheBflix Class, Toad, Vid-Saver, Video File Download, Vuze, VMWare Player, Widgi Toolbar Platform, wxDfast, Xtendmedia, Yontoo, YouTube Plus and ZoomEx.

How to block the Text Enhance cookie: From the "Tools" menu of Internet Explorer, select Internet Options; select the PRIVACY tab and then click SITES. The "Per site privacy actions" window will be displayed. In the Per site privacy actions window, enter Text-Enhance.com in the address of web site field. Click BLOCK.

Restricted site option: Access: Tools(Alt-x) > Internet Options; select the SECURITY tab and click RESTRICTED sites. Click the "Sites" button and individually enter: Text-Enhance.com and Textsrv.com.

For more browser options, go to Bot Crawl.

 

Online advertisements are bad enough, but when you have malware forcing you to unwanted sites it is more than infuriating. It's especially frustrating when you spend a great deal of time designing and putting together an ad-free web page only to have adware hi-jinks forcing viewers to places they don't want to go. It also makes users and clients question the designer as if they are adding the links on purpose. Thankfully, our client fully understood what was happening once we explained it to her and did not hold us responsible.

Book Covers

Our latest e-book cover design:

Basque Flavors was a re-do of the original cover. We like the new one better, naturally!

The new book cover for Basque Flavors was designed around the "Bayonne: Arrivee des Marchandes de Sardines" woodblock print painted by Edouard Pingret (1788-1875). The original is currently on display at the Fonds Ancely, City Library of Toulouse (Bibliotheque Municipale de Toulouse). A photograph of the print was edited by Webs Divine to create the book cover template. The original artwork is in the public domain as it was published before January 1, 1923 and because the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less. The work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

Visit our Book Cover Design page for more.

Logo Button Frenzy

Lots of new logos designed in the last few months… all for Food Fare's recipe pages.

• Basque
• Bread & Cookies
• English
• German
• Greek
• Madagascar
• Mexican
• Polish
• Scottish
• Welsh

Visit our Logos & Buttons page for more.