Showing posts with label Web Design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Web Design. Show all posts

Monday, April 11, 2011

35 Entertaining 404 Error Pages

“404 Not Found.” These three little words can make any Internet explorer an unhappy camper. After all, who hopes to click on a broken link or stumble upon a moved or deleted page while cruising around the web?

Luckily, some web designers have chosen to end the misery of encountering a 404 error page. Instead of letting their site readers bump heads with a nasty dead-end error message, they’ve managed to squeeze a little entertainment out of it.
Below you’ll find some of the most entertaining 404 error pages on the web. We’ve listed them alphabetically to avoid playing favorites, but they’re all worth a look. Share your favorite 404 error page designs in the comments below!

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Top 5 Web Design Mistakes Small Businesses Make

If you’re a small business owner, your website is the central hub of your company, and it’s a pivotal part of your marketing and branding.

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.
Potential customers visit your site specifically for its content, meaning its appearance and usability are critical to its success and how those users view your company. However, getting your web design wrong can have a negative impact on your business.
Here are 5 common web design mistakes you must avoid to create a great user experience and grow your bottom line.

Friday, April 1, 2011

PHP cURL functions tutorial Listed under PHP cURL

cURL is a library which allows you to connect and communicate to many different types of servers with many different types of protocols. Using cURL you can:
  • Implement payment gateways’ payment notification scripts.
  • Download and upload files from remote servers.
  • Login to other websites and access members only sections.

PHP, CURL, and YOU! Getting data without risking death

Intro

If you've watched any TV in the U.S. lately, you've probably seen a commercial where nice, friendly folks are saying things like "I want my computer to be infected by viruses.", "I want all of my family photos to disappear without a trace." or "I want my laptop to sound like a Yeti."
Naturally, none of these folks honestly want that sort of pain, but by not taking steps to protect themselves, they're letting in bad guys. Understand, that like your home, car, or personal savings account, you can't just leave it wide open and trust in the kindness of strangers. Sadly, most strangers aren't really as nice as you'd hope. In fact, this probably explains why banks switched off keeping their money in a big bag out in the middle of an empty field after the first few days.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

4 Company Blog mistake


Some companies now begin to look to blogs to pour a variety of information and to be closer to their stakeholders. But beware, there are 4 common mistakes company blog.

1. Starting Without Strategy
Do not start a blog of your company without a clear purpose. For, this purpose will further influence the content of the blog. Do not also underestimate this blog only because because the penggunjungnya just a little. Because it can be, from a handful of people that just who will become a client or business partner of your company.

it's The Reasons Why Google Chrome Change the Logo

Chrome Logo

Google announced Google Chrome browser logo changes. The new logo looks more 'refined' than the previous logo.

Google seems not to change the color scheme. Blend of red, yellow and green with a blue circle in it remain a key element.

Top 20 Most Valuable Websites

Web Service

Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service created by Johann C. Rocholl. You can submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser.

9 Best Freelance Business Management Tools

When starting out as a freelancer, it can be difficult to manage all the bills, work schedule, project organization, invoicing and more, in addition to doing your work. When you worked for someone else, they took care of the business side of things. Now, everything is on your head. Thankfully, there are a number of online programs you can use to automate and get all the little business tasks under control so you can focus on doing what you love.

10 Cross-Browser Compatibility Tools For Designers


Whether you are an experienced Web programmer or just starting out, you know that there are many browsers currently in use and have probably had experience with the cross-compatibility issues.  The frustration of building a beautifully functioning website using Firefox, then discovering it doesn’t render properly in IE6 is a definite learning experience.  Testing your creations in as many browsers as possible is crucial to turning out a professional product.

10 Photoshop tips for a quicker workflow

If you are using Photoshop regularly, you should always be looking to make your workflow faster. For that, mastering shortcuts and optimizing your Photoshop setting are both important things to do, but doing that only is not enough. There are litterally hundreds of little hidden functions in Photoshop that make you life easier and your work faster, following are ten of those.

Monday, January 31, 2011

33 Powerful jQuery Slideshow (Sliders) Plugins and Tutorials


jQuery has overpowered Flash in a lot of web uses becoming a very powerful tool for web designers. One of these uses that I’m referring to is the image slider. Implementing this feature in your site will definitely count as a big plus so don’t waste your time and download the available jQuery plugins in this 30 Powerful jQuery Slideshow (Sliders) Plugins and Tutorials.

10 Innovative jQuery Plugins You Need to Know

Some of these jQuery plugins you probably might not know and even think it can't be done with javascript. I have been collecting a few and would like to share it with you all.
Among all the plugins, I think I will use Custom content scroller and lettering.js. What about you? If you have something that are cooler than these, drop me a comment :)

13 Amazing Examples of HTML5 and CSS3

Another post that demonstrate the power of HTML5 and CSS3. New experimental demonstrates are being released so often, so I must make another post for it! Make sure you have the latest version of browser, preferably latest built of Safari or Chrome. Personally, I like GoogleBox and The Tribute to the Beatles, I think they both are really creative!
In case you missed my previous post regarding CSS and HTML5, you can read it afterward. If you have got more examples to share, please let me know by dropping me a comment!

Create a Thumbnail with Fading Caption Using jQuery

Introduction

Hi all, today we are going to learn to create another thumbnail effect with fading and transparent caption. It's simple and obviously I have running out of ideas in jQuery tutorial because this is similar to jQuery Thumbnail with Zooming Image and Fading caption. If you have any suggestion about tutorial, please contact me
Before we begin, I have already made different effect for thumbnail, you can check it out:

Create Background Scrolling Effect with jQuery

Introduction

Greeting, today we are going to make a scrolling background effect. This script will move the background of any html tag, either vertically or horizontally. I used this script in one of my project which has a blue sky with clouds and it makes the whole website came alive. I think that's pretty impressive.

10 Awesome USB Thumb Drives

Lately I have seen several awesome USB thumb drives designs emerge on the internet. Here I picked 10 USB thumb drives geeks would love, I know I do.
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Sunday, January 30, 2011

External Tip – 14 Breathtaking Photoshop Tutorials You Should See

n this category we want to give you an advice to other great sites, where you can get a lot of very useful information, inspirations and materials. I collected 14 fantastic Photoshop tutorials, which can help you to expand your skills.

External Tip – 11 Great Photoshop Tutorials You Should See

In this category we want to give you an advice to other great sites, where you can get a lot of very useful information, inspirations and materials. I collected 11 fantastic Photoshop tutorials, which can help you to expand your skills.

External Tip – 12 Tutorials and Instructions For After Effects

n this category we want to give you an advice to other great sites, where you can get a lot of very useful information, inspirations and materials. Here I collected 12 great tips and tutorials for After Effects, which can help you to expand your skills.

65 Inspiring Examples Of Single-Letter Logo Designs

Logos are either purely graphical or are composed of the name of the organization.We created inspirational logo posts a few times but you know logo inspiration never ends.Everyday wonderful logos are created by really talented artists so we have to follow logo galleries.Today’s logo post is a specific one.Single Letter logo designs.Single letter logo designs are as you understand is created with only one letter and below logos are the brilliant examples of single letter logo designs.hope you lke the collection.

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