Logo Design Colorful Inspiration: Purple
March 8th, 2010 in Inspiration, LogosThe Color Purple
Purple is a powerful color with a bunch of connotations including royalty and riches. In logo design purple is often a color not thought of much by designers and because of this it’s quite original to see a purple logo. This gives you a chance to make your logo stand out, especially with a powerful color like purple. Of course, first of all you’re going to need some inspiration, and below I shall provide you with a bunch of powerful, colorful purple logos for your inspirational needs.
Apple Design: A History
March 6th, 2010 in Articles, Usability and Design
When you think of apple, probably one of the first things you think of is their wonderful product design. The iPhone, Macbook Pro and iPod are all beautiful products to say the least. Heck, even their website is pretty beautiful, but has Apple always been a connoisseur in the field of Product Design?
How We’ll be Building Websites in 5 years: HTML5 and CSS3 layout
February 27th, 2010 in CSS and XHTML, Tutorials
HTML5 is the next big thing in the land of web developers, so I figured the best way to show you how it’s all gonna come together is by giving you a lesson on how to make your own HTML5 and CSS3 layout. Although this isn’t a practical solution to building websites today, in a couple of years it’s going to make our lives so much easier.
Starting a Blog: Making a Good Shot at it
February 23rd, 2010 in Articles, Blogging
I’ve been blogging for a good amount of time now, and I’ve learned a good bit of information from others and how they operate, in order to improve the way that I blog. The fact is when I came into this business I had no knowledge of blogging, and I was pretty new to the whole concept.
Now I’m not saying I have all the answers to make your blog super successful and I honestly don’t think anyone does, but hopefully with these tips you won’t have to start from scratch like I did, and you’ll be able to learn how to make your new blog even better.
Logo Design Colorful Inspiration: Blue
February 21st, 2010 in Inspiration, LogosThe Color Blue
The color blue invokes calmness in a person. It’s like looking at the sky on a summer’s day, or swimming in the sea. On a usability level, blue is less straining on the eyes than the other primary colors (Red and Yellow). Blue is also a cold color, on the opposite side of the spectrum from red. This means it’s a common connotation for things like winter and now.
Future of CSS: The Flexible Box Model
February 16th, 2010 in CSS and XHTML, Tutorials
The Flexible Box Model is part of the CSS3 Specification that doesn’t really get a lot of attention. While everyone’s off checking out how to use selectors, the flexible box model is crying in the corner asking why no one pays him any attention, and rightfully so! The flexible box model has the potential to change the way we design our websites.
Cleanr: A Free Wordpress Theme from Webtint
February 13th, 2010 in Resources, Wordpress
After much work I present to you Cleanr. A free wordpress theme from Webtint for you and all your friends to use. It’s clean, minimalistic, cross browser compatible, and loads of other stuff. You should definitely download it (at the bottom of this post)
Wonderful Wallpapers #4: Valentine’s Day
February 9th, 2010 in Resources, Wallpapers
Valentine’s Day is here once again. Love is in the air and how better to celebrate this wonderful (loving) day than with a bunch of beautiful wallpapers to paint your desktop with pretty pictures for showing your love? These wallpapers are good enough to be used all year round, not just on Valentine’s Day. You can also check out more Valentine’s Day Wallpapers here.
Is HTML 5 really going to replace Adobe Flash?
February 5th, 2010 in Articles, Developer, Web Technologies
Recently, while following the hype that the iPad produced, Steve Jobs made a comment which stood out for me over the iPad and the fact that it didn’t support Adobe Flash. He said that Adobe were “lazy” and lack of Flash wouldn’t be a problem for the iPad since everyone will be moving onto HTML5, but is HTML5 really going to replace Flash?
Everything you need to know about shorthand CSS
February 3rd, 2010 in CSS and XHTML, Tutorials
Shorthand CSS When you’re designing a website, you’ll often find yourself adding class after class to your CSS Stylesheet. Eventually your CSS file becomes incredibly bloated and loading it takes forever and a day. Shortening down your CSS file, quite obviously, is the perfect way to make your web pages load faster, and the best way to go about making your CSS file smaller is to use shorthand CSS. Shorthand CSS is simply a way of writing CSS in a must more palatable form; a way to make your CSS tidier.







