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Why I Stick to Pen and Paper for Goals and Tasks Technology is great?but I sure do like pen and paper ? as I mentioned to one of our readers who asked me what I use to keep track of things. For one thing, I remember things better when I write them down [...]
Best Techniques to Photograph Flowers
The best time to start photographing flowers is when the seasons change. Begin with spring because nature comes to life and it is the perfect time to shoot superb flowers and magnificent colors palettes. For some people skill and commitment are the answer, while for others professional training is a must. Either way, have a closer [...]
30 Impressive Surrealist Website Designs
In this article we’ll be looking at another awesome and very popular trend in web-design: that of creating an entire graphic world that one should explore! Entering the site is like visiting a strange planet or an unknown house - you never know what to expect, what will cross your way or what will pop [...]
House Galore
House Galore is a Blogger template that is designed for houses, homes, property, etc related blogs. This template can also be used for personal blogs. It features a simple layout with RSS icon and search box too. DownloadView DemoEssential Tips
Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Aug 22-Aug 28, 2010
Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here?s a quick and useful compilation of the [...]
CSS Design: Sunday Publishing
An interesting site design with crazy animated backgrounds and a very simple floating overlay.
The typography is what stands out here. The solid mixture of serif and sans-serif typefaces looks really classy.
This design was featured on the 29th August 2010 . It falls under the category of Design, and has a layout style of Other.
If you'd like, you can visit this site, or view all our other featured designs.
The Winner of 1 x Custom Logo Design By LogoBee
Thank you for all of the participants of Giveaway 1 x Custom Logo Design By LogoBee. We are happy to announce the following winner. Congratulations. You will receive an email about how to claim your prize. Cody Lambrecht WebAppers will continue giving away some really nice web development tools and resources to our readers. Please feel free [...]
Splenus
Splenus is a Blogger template with very nice dark color, rounded corners and good graphics. This template is suitable for most blogs. DownloadView DemoEssential Tips
Best Paying Cities for Graphic Designers
Should you relocate to make more money as a graphic designer? Or even look for graphic design colleges in specific cities to improve your employment prospects? Certain cities do pay significantly more than others.
CSS is to HTML as a CMS is to? HTML
From the desk of important beginner concepts:
You have a website with 100 pages on it. All 100 pages use the same style.css file. You’d like to change the background color of every single page. You make one adjustment in the CSS file, and that background color adjustment will be reflected across all 100 pages. You don’t need to edit each of those pages individually. That’s the core benefit behind CSS: abstracting the design away from the markup.
Now…
Ten Years
I?m about to head out on a little vacation, but I realized this Wednesday marks ten years of archives here at SimpleBits. Actually, there were a few other domains that came before simplebits.com (robotcom.com and cederholm.org). I?d actually been publishing short, frequent updates for a few years prior to 2000, either by updating a .html file by hand or using a hobbled together home-grown CMS built with PHP and Perl. Those old posts are long gone, but there?s about to be 10 years of archives still preserved here and that?s rather dumbfounding when I stop and think about it.
It?s likely dumbfounding because the last 10 years also happen to have been the most eventful I?ve ever had. They?ve been both terrifying and wonderful; educational and exciting; important and enlightening. I?m doubtful a majority of that shows up in the archives here. I was busy learning about the web, and that was mostly what was talked about in hypertext. Over the last decade, getting married, having kids, buying a house and other big life events mingled with starting a business or three, writing some books and traveling to parts of the world I never imagined visiting to talk about web design. I have an enormous amount to be thankful for.
Looking ahead, I wonder if I?ll look back at the next 10 years as being this dynamic. I hope so, but it?ll undoubtedly be different. Either way, I thank you very much for reading this tiny little corner of the web, and encouraging the (now) infrequent ramblings and bits.
links for 2010-08-28
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Academica: Free WordPress 3.0+ Theme For Educational Websites
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In this post we release a yet another freebie: Academica WordPress Theme, a free WordPress theme designed specifically for educational websites such as universities, schools etc. It's a flexible and versatile free theme that can be easily customized and branded for any university, academy or non-profit organization. The theme is designed by ProudThemes and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. As usual, the theme is free to use in private and commerical projects.
The theme was developed for WordPress 3.0+, allows enabling/disabling of a jQuery-based content slider on the homepage for showing your photos, has 9 sidebar widget areas and 3 custom widgets, 3 custom page templates and 2 custom post templates and provides dynamic image resizing (TimThumb script). The theme is released under GPL. You can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. Please link to this article if you want to spread the word. You may modify the theme as you wish.
Create a Twitter AJAX Button With MooTools, jQuery, or Dojo
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Internet Killed Blockbuster. Who?s Next?
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Trifecta
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More on CSS Selector Performance
This is a direct link to a PowerPoint file by Steve Souders (in April 2009). Of particular interest is pages 19-33 with all the information on CSS selectors. Evidence points to yes, there are efficiency differences in how you write selectors. But efficient CSS can sometimes come at the cost of larger CSS (bad) and that a “real world” levels even “costly” selectors aren’t that big of a deal.
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PSD/HTML Conversion: Elegant and Simple CSS3 Web Layout
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Business Writing for the Web: 27 Ways to Write Better
All business writing has one goal and that?s to persuade someone to do something. Whether you?re writing a blog post or sales copy, you want your audience to act. Persuasive writing can often be the most difficult type of writing, especially when the average person is barraged daily by a never-ending flow of information.
Business Writing for the Web: 27 Ways to Write Better
All business writing has one goal and that?s to persuade someone to do something. Whether you?re writing a blog post or sales copy, you want your audience to act. Persuasive writing can often be the most difficult type of writing, especially when the average person is barraged daily by a never-ending flow of information.
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Web Design Software Pick of the Week: deviantART Web Interface Designs
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CSS Design: Idea Arts
This site uses a large jQuery slider and lots of icons to create a strong visual message.
The pops of color around the page really help draw your eyes to the important elements.
This design was featured on the 29th August 2010 . It falls under the category of Portfolio, and has a layout style of Three Column.
If you'd like, you can visit this site, or view all our other featured designs.