Scribus is an Open Source program that brings professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4/eComStation and Windows desktops with a combination of press-ready output and new approaches to page design.
Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as color separations, CMYK and Spot Color support, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation.
Link: Scribus
If you’ve ever wanted to convert an article to an ebook for later reading, it’s usually a two or three step process, but DotEPUB is a Chrome extension that handles the conversion in one simple click.
DotEPUB resides next to your URL bar as a green dot. If you find an article you want converted, all you need to do is click it once and it will download the article in an EPUB format. From there, you can load the file up on your ereader of choice. You don’t get much in the way of options, but you can choose to have DotEPUB remove all the links and images if you want a simplified reading experience. If you have a lot of articles stored up you want to bring along with you on a trip and you don’t have access to read-it-later services, this will work in a pinch.
Link: LifeHacker
’Tis the season to be jolly, and how much jollier could we make it than with a helpful Christmas wish list crafted for your family to ensure that you get maximum presentage this holiday? In this article, we will focus on creating a very simple system that allows you to add gift ideas to a Web page, and for your family (or whoever) to view the list.
Please notice that this article was written for beginners who already grasp HTML and CSS, know a bit of PHP and have seen phpMyAdmin before. I will not go into best practices, safety and all the rest of it; let’s just have fun with this one!
Link: Smashing Magazine
This site aims to make the subject more accessible, to bring the study of typography to the masses, if you will. It’s just about impossible to imagine a world without type, but at the same time type’s ubiquity has most of us taking it for granted. So take a closer look. Where do our letters originate? Why do they look the way they do? And what makes for good type and typography?
Link: I Love Typography