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- September 23, 2011
What a Web Designer Should Learn from Practicing Sport
People passionate about and/or working with computers usually have weight problems; it’s happening because many of us don’t have enough time and willingness to practice sport, it’s enough to walk a few minutes per day and a lot of problems are avoided. The problem is well-known by 99% of the web designers, but a very small percentage really does something against getting obese or other diseases. Practicing any kind of sport is beneficial for our health but it also has some influences on our style and manner of work.
- September 21, 2011
Resources for Useful CSS3 Tutorials
Every developer knows the importance of learning CSS as well as using it effectively. CSS3 is such a large expansion of the existing coding language, that I’ve compiled a list of the most useful tutorials that a developer would need to use the language successfully.
- September 18, 2011
Illustration On the Web – Brilliant Examples to Inspire You
An illustration is a displayed visualization form presented as a drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that is created to elucidate or dictate sensual information (such as a story, poem or newspaper article) by providing a visual representation graphically. Illustrations can increasingly be found in the number of websites.
I want to showcase websites that have caught my eye with brilliant use of illustration to enhance the user experience.
- September 14, 2011
Vintage Nike Print Ads
Nike is the world’s leading supplier of athletic shoes and apparel and a major manufacturer of sports equipment. The company was founded on January 25, 1964 as Blue Ribbon Sports and officially became Nike, Inc. on May 30, 1978. The company takes its name from Nike the Greek goddess of victory.
Here’s a collection of some vintage Nike print ads.
- September 13, 2011
Attention Grabbing Blog Posts
It’s an unfortunate truth that bloggers must capture their reader’s attention in order to market their blogs effectively. If your blog’s content doesn’t attract a reader’s attention, there’s no way you can hope to compete with the millions of bloggers competing for exposure. If you’re at all suffering from a stagnating readership on your blog—receiving little to no feedback from your readers — I would recommend that you take an honest look at your work. Consider the advice below and determine if you could implement them to improve your blog.
- September 11, 2011
Fun with CSS3 Text Shadow Property
Typography is everyone’s favorite toy in web design. The CSS3 text-shadow property is commonly used to recreate Photoshop’s Drop Shadow type shading to add subtle shadows which help add depth, dimension and to lift an element from the page. But this isn’t all the text-shadow property is capable of. With a little ingenuity and creativity text-shadow can create some remarkable effects.
Today we’re going to run through several CSS3 text-shadow examples that you can copy and paste for your own work.
