Tag: design
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Douglas Bowman's Farewell Post
I like reading Douglas Bowman’s farewell post. He left Google after three years. Here’s a paragraph: Yes, it’s true that a team at Google couldn’t decide between two blues, so they’re testing 41 shades between each blue to see which one performs better. I had a recent debate over whether a border should be 3,…
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Web Browsers' Homepage Designs
I only visit web browsers’ sites when I want to download — sometime, I don’t even have to go to their sites to get updates — or, only when someone/something refers me to an address in those sites. Those are some possibilities. Their websites have beautiful designs, and sometime can be a great inspiration. :)…
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The Periodic Table of Typefaces
The Table of Typefaces groups by families and classes of typefaces: sans-serif, serif, script, blackletter, glyphic, display, grotesque, realist, didone, garalde, geometric, humanist, slab-serif and mixed. Each cell of the table lists the typeface and a one or two character “symbol” (made up by me simply based on logic), the designer, year designed and a…
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Best designs on Flickr
flickrdesign.com — a site collecting best designs on Flickr photo-sharing service.
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Yahoo! Rolls Out Its New Design?
I just logged out from my Yahoo! email address, and I see Yahoo!’s new homepage design. Last year, some people had noticed this. The address is http://m.www.yahoo.com/ I tried using Mozilla Firefox. When I typed www.yahoo.com, my browser redirected me to that address. I switched to another browser (Opera), it did not redirect me like…
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WordPress Automatic Upgrade and Default Theme
Last few weeks, I worked on a WordPress theme design. But, it was the first time I used “default” as its theme folder. If you use WordPress, you might know how WordPress will deal with default theme folder. It will be used if something goes wrong with the theme.
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WordPress will be much better with your help
As WordPress users, we can contribute to its development in many ways. But, if you do not involve actively in the development, you can get involved by participating in a survey. This survey will help WordPress developers to determine which features should be on the top priority for WordPress 2.8 (and/or 2.9 and beyond) .…
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Ecofont
Ecofont is a font type that encourages ink-saving print. This font is developed by SPRANQ. Using Ecofont, some parts of the letter is omitted — so you should see some white dots there. It is said that this font works great for OpenOffice, AppleWorks and MS Office 2007. Ecofont is available for free and supports both…
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New design for this blog
I have been very busy in the last few weeks, many things to do. I needed to recharge my energy. And this is the result: a new design for my blog. I created this theme for fun, at least to keep my mood in balance, to bring my mood back to the other design work.…
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WordPress 2.7, Upgrade, Plugins and Some Other Notes
I just upgrade my blog to WordPres 2.7 stable release, code name “Coltrane”. Since I have been using WordPress 2.7 branch — I only upgraded from WordPress 2.7-RC2 released yesterday. And, the built-in core updater is VERY useful. I took only less than 10 seconds to upgrade. Nice! So, if you’re using WordPress for your…
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The Grid System
The Grid System is an ultimate resource in grid system. If you are a grid lover, like me. You should visit this page.
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WordPress 2.7 Admin Color Scheme
WordPress 2.5 already provide two types of color schemes for dashboard. They are “Classic” and “Fresh“. By default, you will have the “Fresh” color scheme. It’s light shades of blue. If you like the darker blue, you can switch to it by choosing the “Classic” style. If you haven’t touch this area, this setting can…
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Phoload
If you need free mobile softwares, here is an alternative: Phoload. Phoload is a new community website based on the idea that it should be simple, easy, and fun to discover and download free mobile phone games and applications. Users of the website can rate, review and recommend the software they download. We also aim…