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Weblog Design Inspiration To Start 2011

January 6, 2011 By Hyde

With a new year it is time to give my personal weblog an update. First I just wanted to re-align my current design, but once I opened Photoshop I decided to start from scratch. I bought Pictos font a while ago and I downloaded a free font from The League of Movable Type. If you follow my postings you know I’m a fan of minimalism.

I decided to check out current weblog designs to get some ideas on what to design. I almost never visit the websites, I read their entries in my feed reader. But once in a while I will check out all the weblogs just for the design.

I appreciate simple designs and intricate ones. Personally I prefer a simple and clean look for websites I have to look at everyday. I think if Facebook was heavy on graphics I would get a headache, no matter how well designed. In any case, people don’t visit the actual weblog everyday, only when there is new content, so going all out with the design isn’t an issue.

From the mass of weblogs I chose nine, four minimalist and five with graphics. You’ll see Mr. Boulton’s website, which is very minimalist but makes good use of typography, which is what he is known for. I have always been a fan of Garret Murray’s minimalist designs for his weblog and he also makes killer iPhone apps.

If you know beautiful designed weblogs that aren’t mainstream, especially minimalist ones, do share with us!

Minimalist

Mark Boulton

Web Designs

Garrett Murray

Web Designs

Oscar Alexander

Web Designs

Dan Cederholm

Web Designs

Graphic Galore

Lukes Beard

Web Designs

Nishant Kothary

Web Designs

Meagan Fisher

Web Designs

Kelli Anderson

Web Designs

Jake Przespo

Web Designs

11 Festive Christmas Photoshop Tutorials

December 9, 2010 By Hyde

Sixteen days until Christmas, time to get those digital Christmas cards designed and e-mailed. It’s equally personal to design your own card from yourself or your company to mail to others as it is sending a regular card signed by you. Personally I tend to do both, digital and regular card.

The holiday season is a perfect excuse to spend hours(more then you already do) in Photoshop designing and trying out new things. You’ll do extra your best knowing you’ll be sending the results to friends, family and clients.

With some seasonal colors, a nice Christmas saying besides the usual, “Merry Christmas” and with a great Photoshop tutorial you can create wonderfully funny ecards. Instead of e-mailing the card, you can post it on Twitter, Facebook and your website.

I selected some easy and great tutorials to help you along in creating your own personal Christmas card.

Merry Christmas Tree Design

Christmas Photoshop Tutorial

Creative Christmas Card

Christmas Photoshop Tutorial

We wish you a Merry Christmas

Christmas Photoshop Tutorial

How to Create an Enchanted Holiday Ornament Design

Christmas Photoshop Tutorial

Design an Awesome Christmas Tree

Christmas Photoshop Tutorial

Create a Beautiful Christmas Card

Christmas Photoshop Tutorial

3D Snow Globe

Christmas Photoshop Tutorial

How to Create Candy Cane Typography with Photoshop and Illustrator

Christmas Photoshop Tutorial

How to Create That Last-Minute Holiday e-Card in Photoshop

Christmas Photoshop Tutorial

How to Create a Simple Snowman GIF Animation

Christmas Photoshop Tutorial

Snow on Text

Christmas Photoshop Tutorial

Taking some tips and tricks from a couple of tutorials to create this simple greeting card. Snow on text is a classic and favorite of mine.

10 Old and New Useful WordPress Comment Plug-ins

December 2, 2010 By Hyde

It’s always good to revise what plug-ins are out there that might been forgotten or new ones that are not very popular. The popularity of Twitter has had some impact on comments on weblogs. A lot of people rather make their comment on Twitter then on the actual weblog or website.

The challenge is to bring back discussion to your weblog without denying the new. I listed a few plug-ins that aim to have users comment made on Twitter posted on your weblog or to Tweet the comments made. Also a few oldies that are still working well but are being used less, especially the comment preview. If a weblog has a preview option I always use it.

Akismet is not listed as it comes default with WordPress. Using Akismet is a must, thanks to Akismet the spam that get through is minimal. If you have a low comment traffic I would advice that you use comment moderation. It’s what I do, a couple minutes of work a day keeps spammers away.

CommentLuv

WordPress Comment Plug-in

This plug-in will visit the site of the comment author while they type their comment and retrieve a selection of their last blog posts, tweets or Digg submissions which they can choose one from to include at the bottom of their comment when they click submit.

Comment Rating

Allows visitors to rate comments in Like vs. Dislike fashion with click-able images. Poorly-rated & highly-rated comments are displayed differently

Facebook Comments for WordPress

Allows your visitors to comment on posts using their Facebook profile. Makes use of Facebook’s new Social Graph plugins.

Greg’s Threaded Comment Numbering

WordPress Comment Plug-in

Numbers comments sequentially and hierarchically; handles comments which are threaded, paged and/or reversed. Coders can call the function directly.

Quote Comments

WordPress Comment Plug-in

Creates a little quote icon in comment boxes which, when clicked, copies that comment to the comment box wrapped in block-quotes.

Simple Twitter Connect

Simple Twitter Connect is a series of plug-ins that let you add any sort of Twitter functionality you like to a WordPress blog. This lets you have an integrated site without a lot of coding, and still letting you customize it exactly the way you’d like.

Twitter Mentions as Comments

Twitter Mentions as Comments does exactly what it promises to do – scours Twitter for people talking about your blog posts and silently inserts their Tweets alongside your existing comments. The plug in leverages the power of WordPress’s built-in commenting system – notification, comment moderation, author white/black listing – making Twitter an extension of your blog.

AJAX Comment Preview

WordPress Comment Plug-in

Visitors to your site can preview their comments with a click of a button.

Live Comment Preview

WordPress Comment Plug-in

Live Comment Preview is the simplest way to get live comment previews on your site.

Commentwitter

Gives commenter the option of Tweeting their comment with a link to your post.

The Best WordPress Slideshow and Gallery Plug-ins

November 11, 2010 By Hyde

Even though WordPress has its own build in gallery function it isn’t very fancy. Unless you have good coding skills to modify the gallery your best option is a gallery or slideshow plug-in. The nicest plug-ins are build with jQuery making them very slick and dynamic.

A couple of the galleries even support more formats than just photos, like flash files, video’s and audio. I listed ten of the best galleries in my opinion. Most of the plug-ins are full of features and some with basic features that still provide more then WordPress own build in gallery.

Lightview

WordPress Gallery Slideshow

Lightview was built to change the way you overlay content on a website.

Clean: Designed to compliment your content.
Fast: Smart image preloading.
Easy: Customizable without having to know CSS.
Rounded: Adjustable rounded corners, no PNG images required.
Smart: Content resizes to always fit on your screen.
Slideshow: One button slideshow.
Works on all modern browsers.

Shadowbox

WordPress Gallery Slideshow

Shadowbox is an online media viewing application that supports all of the web’s most popular media publishing formats. Shadowbox is written entirely in JavaScript and CSS and is highly customizable. Using Shadowbox, website authors can display a wide assortment of media in all major browsers without navigating users away from the linking page.

Fancybox

WordPress Gallery Slideshow

FancyBox is a tool for displaying images, html content and multi-media in a Mac-style “lightbox” that floats overtop of web page.

Featured Content Gallery

WordPress Gallery Slideshow

Featured Content Gallery is a WordPress plugin by iePlexus that creates an automated rotating image gallery of your posts or pages for use anywhere within your theme.

Sponsors Slideshow Widget

WordPress Gallery Slideshow

This plug-in is designed to be used as sponsors slide show widget. It can display a certain link category as slide show in the sidebar.

Flickr + Highslide

WordPress Gallery Slideshow

Features

13 unique ways of displaying your photos
8 different gallery styles
Displays photos from a photo-set
Displays all of a user’s photos
Displays photos in latest or random order
Ability to change the size of images and thumbnails
Ability to separate photos into pages
Displays photo titles

Flash Photo Gallery

WordPress Gallery Slideshow

A WordPress plug-in which creates a Flash Photo Gallery like one provided in Adobe Photoshop CS2 Flash Web Photo Gallery templates.

Fotobook

WordPress Gallery Slideshow

Fotobook is a WordPress plugin that will link to your Facebook account and import all of your photo albums into a page on your WordPress installation. It makes use of Facebook’s API so importing your photos is a breeze.

Photo Galleria

WordPress Gallery Slideshow

Photo Galleria is a simple, yet elegant, plug-in for photographers and designers who want to beautify and simplify their WordPress photo galleries. The Photo Galleria plug-in filters the default WordPress gallery shortcode and replaces it with an elegant jQuery-powered gallery.

Dynamic Content Gallery

WordPress Gallery Slideshow

This plug-in creates a dynamic gallery of images for latest and/or featured content using either the JonDesign SmoothGallery script for mootools, or a custom jQuery script.

Friday Focus 10/15/10: Book Sites

October 15, 2010 By Sophia Lucero

Check out how these designs brought printed books to life online on this week’s Friday Focus.

Designs of the Week

Love the chair illustration on the book appearing in the header. It’s also a good idea to include faces of the people giving testimonials and to make sure they look great in those pictures.

The Order Now button is a little too light to be the focal point of this page, even if the red arrow should draw your eye to it. I do like the subtlety of the gradients though. Also, the book could be a little higher; it looks like the logo is missing in the top left area.

The background effect feels a little dated (Mac OS X wallpaper) although I think the vivid colors work well.

It’s interesting to find the logo at the top right instead of the usual left, or even center. The teasers at the bottom is a great idea although I would have preferred them to appear higher on the page.

The design feels a little generic considering the subject of the book. I like the big bold text and intro though, as well as the bright Buy Now button.

You don’t have to put a literal image of the book on the website, you can integrate the book cover design like this, even add a touch of animation.

All I have to say is: CSS animations and SVG for the win!

Social Media Weekly

Accessibility – The accesskey attribute – do we still need it?
“The accesskey’s uptake within web development has been almost non-existent for three main reasons; differing shortcut values, browser and screenreader conflicts and discoverability.”

HTML5 – Facebook: Using HTML5 Today
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