Design-Notes

Nice Fitness Center Website Showcase

alexandra — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:03:44 +0000

If you like going to Gym, you would like the showcases in this post. My personal favorite is Bally and Crunch fitness center’s design. Enjoy and tell us which ones you like in your comments.

Planet fitness

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Great CSS3 Drop Down Menu Tricks

alexandra — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:29:53 +0000

Here is one of my newly discovered CSS3 tricks.

Features:

A dropdown menu withour javascript
fade in
border radius
drop shadow
gradient fill

Browser compatibility:

Safari and Chrome will have all the styles, Firefox will have the border radii and drop shadows, Opera and IE8 will just have the plain boxes with gaps between the sub menus and finally IE6 and IE7 will have a plain dropdown/flyout menu.

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12 Excellent FREE WordPress Themes

alexandra — Mon, 24 May 2010 19:33:43 +0000

It’s been a while since my last post on WordPress themes. Here we have 13 recently developed stylish free themes. Hope you enjoy theme!

iTheme Blog

Koi Theme

Notepad

Bueno

DesignPile

Indezigner

SimpleFolio

SimpleCart

SimpleCart(js) is a simple, attractive, and flexible WordPress theme that taps into the power of both Thematic and WP E-commerce.

Aperio

Berita Business Front

Vero

Eos

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JavaScript Image effect: ImageFLow

alexandra — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:03:49 +0000

Don’t we always want a image flow effect without Flash?

Image Flow is a comprehensive script that does not require any other library.

XHTML compliant
Keyboard and Mouse scroll wheel navigation supported
Free to use on any site
No dependencies
small in size (Only 11 KB uncompressed)

It also gives you control over reflection, scroll and image proportion.

Demo and Download

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10 Beautiful Designer’s Portfolios

alexandra — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 23:38:34 +0000

Having inspiration crisis? Here I’ve got some beautiful portfolios from experienced designers. One page design is still popular and great for individual designers who doesn’t have too much content. Visual impact is a great way to attract clients, however, to be a great designer, you also have to be good at other phases of the design process.

Hope you like them, Enjoy !

The Pixel

jessewillmon

mopstudio

diegolatorre

piipe

qilayout

basil gloo

seymourpowell

rzmota

ed peixoto

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7 Most Valuable Skills in Web Industry

alexandra — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:20:43 +0000

Job hunting – The most annoying part of life. The “hunting” part is time consuming, the “waiting” part is frustrating. The worst of all is when the employer says: ”Sorry , change of plan, we put on the wrong AD.” This is a waste of time and energy, messing around with people ’s lives and irresponsible!

Anyway, as long as we process the most desirable skills, they will have to learn to respect us even in a employers market, like now!

ASP.NET

ASP.NET is a web application framework developed and marketed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic web sites, web applications and web services.

Microsoft is still the GIANT and ASP.NET is friendly to use and very easy to learn too.

RoR

Ruby on Rails is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language. It is intended to be used with an Agile development methodology that is used by web developers for rapid development.

WordPress Theme and Plugin Development

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

Javascript

JavaScript is an object-oriented scripting language used to enable programmatic access to objects within both the client application and other applications.

PHP

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor is a widely used, general-purpose scripting language that was originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages.

Mobile web site design

As mobile devices are getting extremely popular, mobile web site design skills are becoming very desirable too.

Last but not least:

CSS+ State of the Art Design Sense

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10 Great Design Firm Websites

alexandra — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:22:21 +0000

Ever thinking of stop freelancing and start doing some serious work? Like join a design firm? Um… Anyway, there are som nice looking design firm websites I stumbled upon this week. Hope you enjoy them !

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8 Excellent edu Style Web Designs

alexandra — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:53:53 +0000

University’s web sites are getting more interesting this days. My favorite one is MIT’s. Of course, MIT has the most brilliant minds in the world, but we can always learn from them.