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Brian.teeman.net. How To Build Your Own Single Page Portfolio Website. This post was originally published in 2009 The tips and techniques explained may be outdated.

How To Build Your Own Single Page Portfolio Website

A great looking portfolio site is crucial for any designer to instantly present their work to potential clients or employers. A simple, single page site can do this effectively by displaying three key features of large header with short introduction, examples of your work and methods of contact all in one, extremely browsable page. Let’s take a look at producing a single page portfolio concept in Photoshop, constructing the page in XHTML/CSS and adding some fancy functionality with jQuery. Last month, I had the pleasure of writing an article for internationally renown NET Magazine, also known as Practical Web Design in the US.

The article titled Create Your Own Single Page Portfolio Site with XHTML/CSS and jQuery appeared in issue 188. Your online portfolio is your place to introduce yourself to the world and showcase your work and skillset. Prepare The Document Add Some Texture Introduce Yourself. The 10 Best Blogging Platforms in 2011. Online merchants are competing for customer attention and loyalty in an Internet landscape where people create their autobiographies across social networks and businesses have to discover a reason to be relevant in that narrative. Blogging, which some suggest is a waning art for individuals, can be a publishing platform for savvy online stores that create content to better engage potential shoppers and build a relationship with them. Ecommerce-related blogs can focus on product information, how-to demonstrations, or even social topics. Examples of good ecommerce blogs include REI and Toms.

For businesses that want to blog there are at least two challenges — what to write and how to present the content that is written. This article focuses on the latter. WordPress WordPress is a free, open-source blogging platform that has grown into a full-fledged content management system. Blogger Google owns Blogger and has it integrated with Google Accounts. Tumblr Movable Type Expression Engine Squarespace.

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¿De qué va este blog? Mi misión es ayudarte a generar más ingresos en el canal internet, para disfrutar más de la vida. Fuera del canasto, semana 52. Wwwhat's new? - Aplicaciones web gratuitas. The Death Of The Blog Post - Smashing Magazine. Obviously this style isn’t suitable for every website.

The Death Of The Blog Post - Smashing Magazine

It wouldn’t be practical for blogs that pump out three or four articles a day, but certain types of websites could benefit from it especially. Portfolios We have a habit of following trends very easily, especially in our portfolios. Instead of following the tired old practice of positioning screenshots of your work in a nice grid one after the other, why not use the blogazine technique and design a fresh page for each project according to the subject, client and color scheme? Online Shops Many online shops suffer from a certain blandness, following the pattern of: thumbnail grid, name, short description and then pagination. This layout may be good for usability, but there is a middle ground between scannability and visual appeal.

The design changes do not have to be dramatic. But perhaps even subtle changes to design elements could give your online shop the distinction that makes it more noticeable? CSS Galleries Merely for consistency? Blogs Visual Directory. El Gachupas. El Blog de Javier Megias Terol - Innovación estratégica y Modelos de negocio.

Muad'Dib blog. En los convulsos albores del siglo XX fue mucha la gente que desempeñó un papel crucial en el devenir de la historia mediante el activismo político y filosófico.

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Y en contra de lo que algunos piensas, las mujeres jugaron un importante papel, especialmente en los sectores sociales más libertarios. Aquí en España hubo unos casos ejemplares, como el de la anarquista y ministra de la II República Federica Montseny, la abogada Victoria Kent o la más conocida Dolores Ibárruri. Pero en este post quiero plasmar brevemente la trayectoria vital de dos mujeres especialmente interesantes, de enorme valentía y enorme coherencia política: Rosa Luxemburgo y Emma Goldman. Rosa Luxemburgo (1871-1919) fue una teóloga marxista de origen judío y cofundadora en 1916 del movimiento político revolucionario Liga Espartaquista, que daría lugar al Partido Comunista Alemán. Emma Goldman (1869-1940) fue una anarquista pionera de la lucha por la emancipación de la mujer. Etiquetas: gente, historia, política. TcLab.