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The colour of devotion on Photography Served
Khandoba is a regional Hindu deity, a form of Shiva. He is the most popular family deity in Maharashtra. The foremost centre of Khandoba worship is Jejuri, near Pune. Somvati Amavasya , which is a new-moon day that falls on a Monday, is auspicious and celebrated in Jejuri.A palakhi (palanquin) procession of Khandoba and Mhalsa's images is carried from the Gad-kot temple to the Karha river amidst thick yellow clouds of halad (turmeric powder) called bhandar .Turmeric powder, a sign of purity, health & prosperity, is showered by devotees all along the procession and even inside the temple; bhandar is the traditional way of worshipping Khandoba .
Looking beyond class and ID selectors, Emily explores how and when we can use attribute, child and sibling selectors in the real world through a reader-submitted portfolio, klvn.org.
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HOWTO: Configure Tor + SASL + irc to connect to Freenode | random neuron misfires
I fought this problem on the train into the city today, because my MiFi ‘s hostname was not correctly reversing to it’s given IP (verified by dig) and Freenode was denying the connection; it looked like this: Mar 22 06:51:41 * Looking up irc.freenode.net Mar 22 06:51:41 * Connecting to chat.freenode.net (86.65.39.15) port 6667... Mar 22 06:51:42 * Connected. Now logging in... Mar 22 06:51:42 * *** Looking up your hostname... Mar 22 06:51:42 * *** Checking Ident Mar 22 06:51:42 * *** Your forward and reverse DNS do not match, ignoring hostname Mar 22 06:51:55 * *** No Ident response Mar 22 06:51:55 * *** Notice -- You need to identify via SASL to use this server Mar 22 06:51:55 * Closing Link: 166.199.4.113 (SASL access only) Mar 22 06:51:55 * Disconnected (Remote host closed socket).
As Old TVs are Switched Off, a Glimmer of 'Tron'-esque Graphics - DesignTAXI.com
If you still own a tube television set, switch it off and you'll notice an all-too-brief collapse of the image into abstract, geometrical light-shapes, not unlike the visual design of Tron . They only flicker for a split-second, but that's enough for Berlin-based Stephan Tillmans to snap photographs of them for his series Luminant Point Arrays . The artist explained on his website: “The pictures refuse external reference and broach the issue of the difference between abstraction and concretion in photography. This news message is supported by The Creative Finder, an online platform for photographers, illustrators, designers, and art directors to promote their portfolios towards new clients and collaborators.
Creating great typeface combinations is an art, not a science. Indeed, the beauty of typography has no borders. While there are no absolute rules to follow, it is crucial that you understand and apply some best practices when combining fonts in a design.
Best Practices of Combining Typefaces - Smashing Magazine
Landing Page Tutorials and Software | Copyblogger
A landing page is any page on a website where traffic is sent specifically to prompt a certain action or result. Think of a golf course… a landing page is the putting green that you drive the ball (prospect) to. Once on the green, the goal is to get the ball into the hole. Likewise, the goal of the copy and design of a landing page is to get the prospect to take your desired action. Here are a few examples of ways that landing pages are used with various traffic sources: Traffic is sent from a pay per click (PPC) search marketing campaign (such as Google AdWords) to multiple landing pages optimized to correspond with the keywords the searcher used.Here is another presentation I gave at a company training session recently – this time on CSS Line-height (which is far more complex than it first appears). A simple, step-by-step presentation on CSS line-height covering how to apply various line-height values, as well as line-height and the inline box model. Hope you find it useful!
CSS line-height – a simple step-by-step presentation | Max Design
Explorations in Typography / Typeface combinations
FF Good Black, FF Elementa Regular FF Meta Normal, FF Meta Serif Bold Italic ITC Mendoza Roman Book, FF Scala Sans Regular PMN Caecilia 56 Italic, Jeunesse Sans Regular ITC Officina Sans, Chaparral ItalicSeth Godin advocates using cookies to distinguish between new and returning visitors to your site: "One opportunity that’s underused is the idea of using cookies to treat returning visitors differently than newbies. It’s more work at first, but it can offer two experiences to two different sorts of people." (Source: In the Middle, Starting )
What Would Seth Godin Do « WordPress Plugins
Boost Your Sales by 80% with a 'Call to Action'
Now ask yourself: Does your site tell your visitors exactly how to do these things? Your visitors need to know what you want them TO DO. If you don’t tell them to purchase your product or subscribe to your free newsletter, how can you be sure they’re going to take that action? Just in case it's been a while since you brushed up on your marketing lingo, a call to action is a strongly worded suggestion that clearly states what action you want your visitors to take.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Typography
"D. A. Sanborn, a young surveyor from Somerville, Massachusetts, was engaged in 1866 by the Aetna Insurance Company to prepare insurance maps for several cities in Tennessee. [..] Before working for Aetna, Sanborn conducted surveys and compiled an atlas of the city of Boston titled 'Insurance Map of Boston, Volume 1, 1867'. [..] The atlas includes twenty-nine large plates showing sections of Boston at the scale of 50 feet to an inch. It is believed to include the earliest insurance maps published by Sanborn.Back in June, Iyov posted an excellent photo essay titled "Bible paper bleedthrough," using photos from my review of Cambridge's Pitt Minion NKJV to illustrate just how bad the problem of thin, translucent Bible paper really is. In my review, I described the paper as "relatively opaque," saying the ghosted print image from the reverse of the page was "faint, and not pronounced enough to be distracting." Iyov then used the photos illustrating the review to argue that my assessment shows just how far we've sunk: "...we have become so accustomed to bleedthrough that four layers of text can quality as 'relatively opaque.'"
Bible Design and Binding: Bleeding Through: The Sorry State of Bible Paper
[ Note that this blog entry contains a good bit of markup, including script and SVG, and will probably not syndicate very well. ] A bunch of Web platform features involve blurring. For example, the CSS text-shadow property lets a shadow be both positioned and blurred. Each shadow is given with three numbers: the first two give the position and the third gives the blur radius.