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Tons Of Hi Quality and Affordable Web Templates

April 21st, 2008 No Comments

This is a paid review.
Today I’d like to introduce you the www.buytemplates.net, one of the best options around when it comes to templates. It offers both Flash and Joomla templates, and most of them contain five internal pages beyond the homepage – which is excellent, because you can get a complete site in one [...]

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Thinking Outside the Design Box

March 6th, 2008 4 Comments

Foto by Retinafunk

“Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?” –H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.

Think out of the box! It’s a buzzword we continuously hear, but not always meditate on its the practical meaning.
What does that really means?
Thinking inside the box means take for granted the status quo
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Five CSS-Coding Steps from a Professional

February 8th, 2008 9 Comments

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Last week I had the opportunity to interview Chris Coyier from css-tricks.com and he gave us his approach on css-coding. In that interview he describes how his coding process can be resumed in five steps which I wanted to review again for you in this post.
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2587+ Free MS Powerpoint Templates

January 18th, 2008 4 Comments

Your cousin asks for help on a presentation about wild life in Africa, but you have a deadline the same day with your client and he is already sending emails and trying to get you on the msn. Sounds familiar? Designers have to deal every day with “design favors”, asked by our beloved ones and [...]

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11 Images you might want to avoid in your designs.

December 13th, 2007 38 Comments

We have been talking about avoiding clichés lately, and also trying to reflect the unique personality of every business. That way our design will stand out among millions.
Sometimes the harder situations come when our client asks us to implement some not so unique elements and it seems almost impossible to convince him that it would [...]

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How Can Webdesigners On Linux Survive Without Adobe?

November 26th, 2007 24 Comments

Image Credit: Oliver Saraja

We all heard about Linux OS. There are a lot of myths about it, not very many people are using it (all Linux freaks won’t agree with me on this - but let’s face the truth - the Linux users are niche community). In this short article I would like to show [...]

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How To Destroy The Web 2.0 Look

November 20th, 2007 120 Comments

A trend always appears as the result of the opposition with another. The once full of detail Gothic art was replaced with pure straight lines from the Greek temples in the Renaissance. The tons of hair spray, glitter and multicolor spandex 80’s were demolished by the black & white minimalism from the 90’s.
The [...]

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10 Free Web 2.0 Fonts

November 17th, 2007 6 Comments

These are a selection of 10 fonts from the urban fonts top 100, that I considered fits with the web 2.0 font trend. Please click on the image of each font to go to the dowload page on urbanfont.com.

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Design Trend: Light Graffiti

November 9th, 2007 1 Comment

PS3 New interface for the firmware 2.0
Yesterday, PS3 got a new firmware update to 2.0. And also its interface, sporting a dark background with neon color shapes as if painted with light. So when I saw that nifty interface I joined the dots and identified a design trend I have been noticing [...]

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Why should your site have “personality”?

November 8th, 2007 10 Comments

The idea for this post came to me when I was redesigning our company site. I’ve made few different ideas - but they were all dull, and I’ve rejected them after some time.I wanted to figure out what was wrong with those designs - and finally I got it. The problem was that I wasn’t [...]

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