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It's safe to say that nearly every website that's up-to-date these days is using some form of content management system (CMS). While there are a ton of great free options that provide us with a CMS to power a website (WordPress, Drupal, etc.), it doesn't hurt to peek under the hood and get a feel for how these systems work. This class is intended to give you a feel for how PHP and MySQL interact together, and to show the basics of a CMS. I'll be skipping explanations of some of the very basic programming stuff, so if at any point you feel lost, head on over to w3schools.com and give yourself a crash-course in PHP. I'll try not to lose anyone, though, I promise.
PHP for Beginners: Building Your First Simple CMS | CSS-Tricks
When you have done all of the preliminary things for your site you need to think about advertising. After all, what good is an auction site that has no customers? There are many low cost advertising options for you to use. One of these is to put the link to your site in your signature on forums.
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Web Design Ideas
In this article we present a few web design ideas and concepts that we hope would help you to build a better website, or increase your understanding about web design. If you are a beginner-to-intermediate level designer we suggest that you read our articles on Design Concept (for building effective websites) and Website Designing (web design guidelines and myths busted) first. Without hindering a website's usability (simple and quick access to information, services or products), a web designer's ultimate aim for a website's design is to reach the optimal balance between its attractiveness (targeted look-and-feel with necessary design effects), load time considerations (optimizing design elements for reasonable web page size) and user friendliness (easy-to-use navigation and user interactions plus well laid-out easily readable content) - without entirely compromising on either of them.Going Beyond Arial – Web Fonts Choices Just Got Awesome! « Web Design Ideas
Wow, it’s about time! I mean don’t get me wrong, I really like the Arial font, it is very readable and can be used in both, professional and fancy projects but sometimes having to create a graphic for a fancy header is pretty inconvenient. Now, finally, we don’t have to do that, thanks to who else? Google of course! They’ve released a font bank that you can CSS link to and use a font that is not installed on the user’s computers.
2008 Design Trends
About a year ago, I compiled a huge list of artistic sites . It seems like the trend has carried on in 2008 and is growing stronger (thank God the glossy style is gone). So what's hot now? Pencil sketches, handwritten notes, card stocks, watercolor effects, collage art, script fonts, grungy and splatter ink backgrounds (glossy gradients are not "in" this year). Another trend to be on the lookout for are the vintage and retro styles which I've posted earlier this year.
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#1: Be Narrow Focus on the smallest possible problem you could solve that would potentially be useful. Most companies start out trying to do too many things, which makes life difficult and turns you into a me-too. Focusing on a small niche has so many advantages: With much less work, you can be the best at what you do.
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Every seasoned developer has one and every young and upcoming developer should be thinking of building one – a good and concise collection of UI controls, components and plugins that you can always rely on in times of need. Of course, there are plenty of great UI frameworks, kits and libraries that you could use, but none will offer you every component and none of them will be tailored to your own personal preferences and needs. Up until a few months ago my controls had been collected and sourced from various frameworks (Prototype, MooTools, jQuery…), upon review it seemed a little out-dated, some components unnecessary and some controls desperately needed updated. It seemed logical to give the collection a fresh outlook and a uniformity under one framework – I chose jQuery. (I have held on to a few controls that have not been built with jQuery, but for the sake of this post I have omitted them).
50 Fundamental jQuery Controls, Components and Plugins | Speckyboy Design Magazine
There are a few things that a designer can not have enough of in his or her design arsenal, and one of them is textures . So to continue our “Best of 2009″ series, we’ve selected the best free textures from this past year. Since there were so many textures released in 2009 by so many generous people, it is difficult to choose the best. However, we feel the ones here stand out in quality and usefulness, and will be valuable additions to your texture library.
The Best Free Texture Packs of 2009 | Freebies
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Ivana Jurčić – Lilit » Blog Archive » A Collection of Printable Sketch Templates and Sketch Books for Wireframing
At the beginning of a web (or application) development project I always create the sketches first. While sketching can be done on a blank paper, it’s much better to use a sketch template. For me that is the best and most productive way to work on and improve my ideas before application development begins (and things get more complicated :-)). This way I won’t pay too much attention to some details that should be taken care of later, but stay focused on general layout and functionality. Below you will find more than 20 resources that you can use in sketching phase of application development.
Mega Collection Of Cheatsheets for Designers And Developers | SpyreStudios
Cheatsheets and various quick reference guides are available for almost any type of software and language these days. Unfortunately they’re not always easy to find when you actually need them. This is why I decided to take some time to gather up as many as possible and share them with you here! Hopefully this can be a timesaver for you, along with teaching you a new trick or two.Backgrounds
With the help of these free web-based online applications you can make your work even easier than before. Web based applications are good alternatives to costly software for sure. Instead of buying costly software , you can make use of these online tools to do your design and development work. Nothing can be more useful than handy tools you can use in your design process. Whether you’d like diagramming application, photo editing, format or optimize CSS code, generate patterns- you can use dozens of tools to make your life easier. These Useful web based applications for every designers can to help you accomplish tasks such as color palette selection, creating unique fonts, editing images, and testing typography.
30 Useful Web-Based Applications for Designers | Most Inspired: Design Inspiration Blog
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I was recently working on a personal project where I wanted to implement some cool “checkmark” icons like you see at left to spice up my unordered lists. I could’ve done it quite easily with the list-style-image property, but I was trying to keep my images and http requests to a minimum, so I wanted to figure out another way to do it (plus, the challenge sounded kind of fun). I had just seen Nicolas Gallagher’s awesome pure css social media icons , though, and I thought, “If he can do that, than I could certainly create a simple check icon with just css3″.HTML
Whether you design and code websites all by yourself or run a small business with a pool of talent, you will always face the challenge of how much to work on a design and UI before passing the mock-ups on to the developer? Moreover, how much visual work needs to be done in order to effectively present a website to a client? In this article, we’ll talk about best practices for clear communication , which tools to use and how to manage resources on both small and large projects. Determining Factors In Number Of Mock-Ups To Deliver As the owner of a small business , I have watched our company grow from a part-time, basement-dwelling, under-the-radar operation to a small business with an office, chairs, desks, and staplers (aren’t staplers an indication of legitimacy?). During this process of breaking out of our egg shell, we have birthed a company culture and a set of best practices, and we have gained valuable experience in the field of Web design and development.
The Designer Who Delivers - Smashing Magazine
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On March 30th, Facebook launched the new Timeline for Pages and no business was immune to the changes. The new platform is a stark difference from the previous, and learning the ropes may require a little effort. Below is a comprehensive summary that highlights the major changes and how you need to adjust your marketing to run a successful Facebook campaign: Email marketing is the most popular trend of today’s business world. It is one of the simplest, yet most successful, ways to market your business. The core aim of email marketing is to reach out to the maximum number of customers and market your business.
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