Thursday, December 20, 2012

Mobile Design Trends | Web Design Blog

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Today’s mobile designs have become so complicated that users expect features that go way beyond a phone’s primary and most important functions. So to keep up with the times, here are some points to look at on mobile design trends that will take further notice in the future which were emphasized by web and tech design enthusiast Rob Toledo.

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Photon CSS 3D Lighting Engine | Web Design Blog

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If you’re looking for a way to add some lighting effects to your DOM elements in 3D space then Tom Giannatassio’s JavaScript library might just be the tool you’re looking for: Photon CSS 3D Lighting Engine. This powerful lighting engine allows you to set light sources for a scene and see how the objects behave according to those light sources quite impressively.

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9-year-old Rapper Dedicates Song to Sandy Hook Victims | Online Radio Stations

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9-year-old Brooklyn rapper Amor Lilman wrote his latest song Stop Da Violence and created a music video in honor of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

OneRepublic Releases New Single And Raises Funds For Newtown Victims | Online Radio Stations

OneRepublic Releases New Single And Raises Funds For Newtown Victims | Online Radio Stations:

OneRepublic is back with another single from their upcoming third album Native. Entitled If I Lose Myself, it is the second single following their recent hit Feel Again and has a fine mix of dance, pop and rock beats to it.

iPodder Blog » Celebrities Caused Instagram To Backpedal On Usage Policy

iPodder Blog » Celebrities Caused Instagram To Backpedal On Usage Policy: According to CNET, the new policy, which will take effect in a month, simply stated that “it has the perpetual right to sell users’ photographs without payment or notification.” This of course, had upset a lot of users, which led to the public outcry on social sites.

A lot of the tweets consist of “threats” of closing their Instagram accounts. Below are some of the tweets we have managed to gather from the web.

Logout Idle/Inactive Users Using PHP

Today’s tutorial comes in the form of a PHP snippet that will automatically sign out  idle or inactive  users on your site.


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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

WordPress Twitter Bootstrap CSS

One of the latest trends in web development noawadays is the use of Bootstrap. It’s a CSS and .js framework that allows your site to have a faster funcionality.

Here’s a plugin that’s created by dlgoodchild and paultgoodchild, called , which links the latest Bootstrap CSS and .js to all pages in all WP themes.

Its functions include:
1. Customizability with built-in LESS Compiler.
2. No programming needed.
3. Works well with any WP themes without editing its theme files.
4. Options to add javascript to

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Photoshop Secrets: Latest in CS6 Updates

Here’s a very helpful site that I just found that offers up-to-date tips from Photoshop. You’ll learn different techniques used by designers and will aid you in improving your Photoshop skills.



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How to Create Your Own Dynamic Particle Explosion

Here’s another featured tutorial which I’m pretty sure will boost your designing prowess. It’s from graphic designer Nathan Brown who shows you how you can create your own dynamic particle explosion by using Wegraphics’ brush set freebies.

So to do this design, first you have to download their free Dust Particles brush set which is available via this site. Photoshop is also used in creating this with Brown using its CS5 version.

You will definitely get awed at how surprising and impressive the resulting effect would be, so try out this step-by-step tutorial now. Enjoy!

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Ratchet: A Nice Tool For Prototyping iOS Apps

If you’re currently working on developing an app for the iPhone then you might want to give our featured web development tool for today a whirl. Ratchet is a UI framework powered primarily by CSS and a little bit of JavaScript implemented through simple HTML. It is a nice prototype tool that allows you to easily create iPhone app layouts using the three aforementioned programming languages.



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Saturday, December 15, 2012

DocHub Instant Documentation Search

DocHub is a handy documentation service for web developers that originally started off as just a CSS reference tool created by Rafael Garcia known as InstaCSS. Due to the positive response it received from its users, he decided to take it a step further by expanding the coverage from not only CSS but also JavaScript, HTML, DOM, PHP and jQuery as well (also includes Python albeit in Beta as of this writing).



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Viewport Resizer: Responsive Design Tester

One might think that the tasks and responsibilities of a web designer have now been made much easier because of responsive web design (RWD), but that is not quite true. Before RWD, it was just simply a matter of creating two versions of a website: mobile and desktop. But now that we have RWD coupled with the wide variety of screen sizes brought on by the different brands of mobile devices, web designers now have to deal with testing a website’s responsiveness based on all of the screen resolutions made available by all of these brands.

Fortunately, there are tools like the Viewport Resizer, developed by Malte Wassermann. This web design application is a browser-based tool that lets you see how a website will look like in a particular screen resolution.



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Easiest Way to Create a Vintage Photo Effect

I love the old classic feel to photos, design, and anything else in the creative field so I’m going to share with you a tutorial by Stacy Summers of Web Design Library on how you can create a beautiful vintage photo effect – the easiest way!



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Easy Customizations in WordPress Admin


WordPress has a lot of ways to customize its functionality in the admin area, most of which are a little complicated for the average user. Here’s a helpful read from WordPress Channel Aurelien Denis, who shares easy customization tips to make your WordPress site act like a white label CMS. Customizing your site helps build your brand, boost your productivity, and increase user-friendly features.

These tips include customizing the login page with your own logo, adding new widgets, and adding custom content to admin footer, and can be implemented by beginners.
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Your Christmas Design Toolbox Sets

Everytime December hits, you get to receive lots of Christmas-themed designs, from wallpapers to different types of graphic illustrations. Since it’s the 12th month of the year again and the spirit of Christmas is definitely felt among us as early as this week, for a change, why not  indulge  in creating your very own holiday-themed designs?

Here’s what I’ve stumbled over at Speckyboy which would be very useful for your Christmas design creations: it’s a designer’s Christmas Toolbox! Yes, my dear friends, and it consists of different cool vectors, brushes, textures and patterns that come in complete set. And you know what’s great about it? They’re free!

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Friday, December 14, 2012

Spruce Up Your Windows 8 Tiles and Icons With Oblytile

Today’s featured software  is something that is sure to make users of the new Windows 8 a reason to appreciate their new OS even more. It’s a Windows tool that lets users spruce up Windows 8’s default program icons and tiles, and it’s called Oblytile.

Once you’ve started pinning your programs onto the new Start screen, you’ll notice that their icons don’t really look quite as spiffy as their live-tiling Metro counterparts; they’re pretty much just the same old icons placed inside an oversize square box.



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Thursday, December 13, 2012

Free Christmas Greeting Card Vector Background

It’s now December and Christmas is just a few days away so I’m sharing a vector design background which I discovered at Webby Arts.

From 1000vectors.com, Webby Arts bring you a free Christmas greeting card and vector background, perfect for your design projects this time of season. This free design comes with glossy red color with very nice illustration of gifts and Advent wreath.
It is a scalable vector illustration as well so you can easily resize it without losing its resolution. The downloadable image file is .eps or.ai file.

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10 Ruby Capabilities You Might Not Know About

Today’s programming tips and tricks come in the form of a slideshow presentation created by James Edward Gray II for his role as a speaker in the Aloha Ruby Conference held in Honolulu on October 2012. His talk featured a collection of various Ruby
capabilities that programmers either tend to overlook or are completely unaware of, hence the title of his talk, 10 Things You Didn’t Know Ruby Could Do.



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Facebook Now Features Auto-Generated Documentation

Developers using Facebook’s API have something to cheer about as the social networking giant has improved its reference documentation by automatically updating and generating the docs straight from the source code. So any changes made to APIs and methods will be instantly reflected in the documentation, which means Facebook engineers can now spend less time trying to apply fixes and making changes with the docs and more time building out the platform.



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Mippin: App for Everything and Everyone

Mippin is an award-winning app building platform so if you want your WordPress blog to have well-designed custom apps, then this is the answer. With this, you can change your desktop website into a mobile app within a short time without sweating it out.

Mippin enables any site owner to create cross-platform apps just within minutes. It has 50,000

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Creating a Beautiful CSS3 Image Gallery with Dynamic Fading Caption Text

There are many tutorials on how to create image galleries and one of these that I found easy to follow is by Jake of Vandelay Design. His creation of making a standard-compliant HTML/CSS3 image gallery with dynamic fading caption text is a great addition to your design projects.

In his tutorial, the CSS3 part is easy enough for beginners, and for its HTML5, figure/figcaption syntax is used.

The animation effects are done with CSS3.

Hope you enjoy this beautiful tutorial!

What’s awesome with Jake’s creation is that much of the code can be copied/pasted to your documents and still works great. It’s also customizable so if you have any ideas to apply on this layout, you can add it up.

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Limit Download Speed Using PHP

Today’s featured PHP snippet is from Jonas John and it’s a simple and helpful solution for controlling a file’s download rate. This is very beneficial for those who have limited bandwidth.

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Optimize Your Images with TinyPNG

TinyPNG is an online image optimizing tool which has a simple drag-and-drop feature. It also allows you to drag the images you don’t want to be compressed. Using a smart lossy compression technique, you can easily reduce the file size of your PNG files.

This is a very useful tool especially for web designers and developers who want to compress their images first before uploading them online. This reduction makes for faster image loading time in your website. All you have to do is upload your PNG files into the website’s dropbox and that’s it!

TinyPNG  is supported by all major browsers and even mobile devices.

Check how this awesome tool works by clicking here.
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Viewport Resizer: Responsive Design Tester

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One might think that the tasks and responsibilities of a web designer have now been made much easier because of responsive web design (RWD), but that is not quite true. Before RWD, it was just simply a matter of creating two versions of a website: mobile and desktop. But now that we have RWD coupled with the wide variety of screen sizes brought on by the different brands of mobile devices, web designers now have to deal with testing a website’s responsiveness based on all of the screen resolutions made available by all of these brands.

Fortunately, there are tools like the Viewport Resizer, developed by Malte Wassermann. This web design application is a browser-based tool that lets you see how a website will look like in a particular screen resolution.

Your Christmas Design Toolbox Sets

Everytime December hits, you get to receive lots of Christmas-themed designs, from wallpapers to different types of graphic illustrations. Since it’s the 12th month of the year again and the spirit of Christmas is definitely felt among us as early as this week, for a change, why not  indulge  in creating your very own holiday-themed designs?

Here’s what I’ve stumbled over at Speckyboy which would be very useful for your Christmas design creations: it’s a designer’s Christmas Toolbox! Yes, my dear friends, and it consists of different cool vectors, brushes, textures and patterns that come in complete set. And you know what’s great about it? They’re free!

Download these awesome freebies NOW!

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