40+ Websites with Awesome Backdrops 17 Flares Twitter 1 Facebook 0 Google+ 0 StumbleUpon 16 Pin It Share 0 17 Flares × Again, now it is time for some more inspiration. Inspiration is the mother of beautiful creation. Backgrounds do play an important role in giving attractive look to the website. When there is a good combination of right textures and amazing artworks, miraculous effects can be produced. These effects can straightforward be perceived by the visitors and hence it will help in your branding activity. Matt Blend Design Boompa 13 Creative Cottonseedoil Tour Cube Club Chemnitz Deborah Cavenaugh Design Disease Edge Point Church Edu tnvacation Eleven3 Euro Song Good Bytes Introzo Jazz Clubs Jetsetbr Kutz Town Legendary Aircraft Level Opacity Malenehald Narfstuff Ndesign Studio Not Your Average Joe Otramancha Outdoor Italia Pangaea Festival PixelCriminals Scouting For Girls Singularity Concepts Spring Time Straw Poll Now Studio7Designs Swiths Team Green Online Time For Cake Toucouleur Viget Extend Viget Inspire Webdesigner Wall Zinaz Daras Garden Bootb
10 Simple and Light Weight CMS Solutions Choosing the right content management system can be an overwhelming task for a web designer or developer. There are so many available, all with different features, it can be difficult to decide which is the best solution for a particular web project. For complex websites, a fully featured CMS is probably the best way to go. However, for simple sites, lots of bells and whistles can be overkill and actually be a bit confusing for the person maintaining the website. In this article, I’ve rounded up 10 simple and light weight cms solutions. Wolf CMS Wolf CMS simplifies content management by offering an elegant user interface, flexible templating per page, simple user management and permissions, as well as the tools necessary for file management. Get Simple GetSimple is an XML based lite Content Management System. Perch Perch is a really little content management system for when you (or your clients) need to edit content without the hassle of setting up a big CMS. sNews Zimplet CMS PageLime
5 Lists Every Website Owner Should Keep « Boagworld Digital Strategy: The estimated time to read this article is 5 minutes I know, a list of important lists. With a post like this I could just tear the fabric of space time. However stay with me, it might be more interesting than it sounds. To be honest with you I am obsessed by lists. What follows is my list of lists that could make or break your website. Reoccurring tasks Let’s start with the most obvious list first – a reoccurring task list. Participating in the forum dailyPosting blog posts regularly (see below)Sending a monthly email newsletterRecording my daily audiobooDealing with email enquiriesReviewing site statistics Your list will include other items. A reoccurring task list is important because it reminds you that a website needs constant attention. Blog subjects Whether you call it a blog or a news section, most websites have some area dedicated to regularly updated content. Its hard to think up blog posts on the spur of the moment. Blog ideas occur to me all the time. Fixes list
50 Useful Coding Techniques (CSS Layouts, Visual Effects and For Advertisement Although CSS is generally considered a simple and straightforward language, sometimes it requires creativity, skill and a bit of experimentation. The good news is that designers and developers worldwide often face similar problems and choose to share their insights and workarounds with the wider community. This is where we come in. You may want to look at similar CSS-related posts that we published last months: CSS Layouts: Techniques And Workarounds Facebook Style Footer Admin Panel4Learn how to re-create the Facebook footer admin panel with CSS and jQuery. Adaptable View: How Do They Do It? Easy Display Switch with CSS and jQuery9A quick and simple way to enable users to switch page layouts using CSS and jQuery. Quick Tip – Resizing Images Based On Browser Window Size11In fluid layouts, formatting text to adjust smoothly to window size is easy, but images are not as fluid-friendly. CSS3 Drop-Down Menu19A clean, simple a nice navigation menu, designed by Nick La.
Linux, open source driving smartphone revolution | Open Source | It's nice to see open source software driving a revolution in smartphones -- and small PCs. Google's Linux-based Android operating system powers the industry's latest must have, the Motorola Droid. Many more Android phones are making their debut, such as Motorola's Backflip, which will be sold by AT&T it was announced at the Mobile World Congress this week. Apple must be thrilled. I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge that Apple jumpstarted the excitement in the smartphone category with the launch of iPhone. In early 2009, Palm abandoned its proprietary Palm OS and Microsoft Windows Mobile bundling efforts and launched a new webOS platform based on Linux. Nokia's very recent and (some might say) long delayed decision to open source its leading Symbian OS, and also to merge its other Maemo mobile platform with Intel's Moblin to create a Linux-based MeeGo platform were no doubt precipitated by the success of Android. It shouldn't come as a surprise.
PleaseRobMe website reveals dangers of social network A website called PleaseRobMe claims to reveal the location of empty homes based on what people post online. The Dutch developers told BBC News the site was designed to prove a point about the dangers of sharing precise location information on the internet. The site scrutinises players of online game Foursquare, which is based on a person's location in the real world. PleaseRobMe extracts information from players who have chosen to post their whereabouts automatically onto Twitter. "It started with me and a friend looking at our Twitter feeds and seeing more and more Foursquare posts," said Boy Van Amstel, one of PleaseRobMe's developers. "People were checking in at their house, or their girlfriend's or friend's house, and sharing the address - I don't think they were aware of how much they were sharing." Simple search The website took just four hours to create. "It's basically a Twitter search - nothing new," said Mr Van Amstel. "The website is not a tool for burglary," he said.
Broad New Hacking Attack Detected Group Interview: Expert Advice For Students and Young Web Design Advertisement Our readers have requested that Smashing Magazine conduct an interview with industry leaders on issues that are relevant to students and those just starting off in their design career. With the help of our panel of 16 designers, we’ll dispense advice that should help new designers get their career off to a promising start. We’ve asked a few different questions to each of the designers; you’ll see all of their responses below. Henry Jones (Web Design Ledger)Wolfgang Bartelme (Bartelme.at)Chris Coyier (CSS-Tricks)Chris Spooner (SpoonGraphics, Line25)Soh TanakaJon Philips (Spyre Studios)Paul Boag (Boagworld, Headscape)David Leggett (Tutorial9, UX Booth)Jacob Gube (Six Revisions)Elliot Jay StocksBrian Hoff (The Design Cubicle)Darren HoytWalter Apai (Webdesigner Depot)Jacob Cass (Just Creative Design)Zach Dunn (One Mighty Roar and Build Internet)Paul Andrew (Speckyboy Design Magazine) You may be interested in the following related posts: 1. David Leggett Wolfgang Bartelme 2. 3. 4.
Saving Money, Space, and Energy With Blade Virtualization - wash In 1986, Attorney Nicholas Barrett founded Nicholas Barrett & Associates with just himself and an assistant running the business. But over the last 24 years, that small two-person office has grown into a bustling 45-person law firm specializing in litigation, real estate law, collections, and loan servicing. Like any busy law office, Nicholas Barrett & Associates is a document-driven business that depends on reliable e-mail and file servers to meet clients' deadlines. Further, the company's infrastructure had become prone to crashes due to single points of failure including switches, hard drives, and RAID controllers. A Simpler Solution Rather than waste the company's time and money overhauling each of the 12 aging servers individually, we opted for a simpler, more streamlined approach. Within the Blade server, we virtualized the 12 existing machines using Citrix XenServer. Disaster Recovery Images of the firm's virtual servers are now kept off-site in secure co-location facilities.