These days kids are bouncing out of public schools with academic Web training. That means many of them know how to create Web pages, produce podcasts and manipulate photos. Many bloggers I have met are proficient on one thing, and that’s writing. They really have no interest in a lot of the other elements that [...]
Everyone’s dream of becoming famous may finally come true with the help of pYZam, a MySpace application that lets you find out exactly how famous you are on MySpace. When you install pYZam on your MySpace account, it will immediately calculate your fame rankings as well as compares you to your friends, people in [...]
You can learn how to design Web themes and templates with recently launched ThemesWiki.org. The wiki’s goal is to create a comprehensive destination that will make the design process easier with a repository of free guides.Regardless of the application utilized (Mambo, Joomla, Drupal, Plone, Modx, etc.), you will find tons of tutorials in a [...]
Even some of my most sophisticated connections don’t have the slightest idea on how to build a simple Website. Even though I have limited design/backend experience, I always seem to be the guy people contact to help them build up their Web presence.
I have an announcement: I am officially retired as a Web designer. But [...]
New, better design for RotorBlog is up and running.
Last time I redesigned this blog in 1st May last year when blog turned one year old. It was also important because I participated in 1st may reboot event and we, together with other Latvian bloggers, had pretty interesting and notable local event/party. After that I decided [...]
Looks like there is now trend on MySpace - Flash based layouts. Comparing to ‘old fashion‘ html/css layouts you can have profile page that really stands out - where everything is moving and shaking.
It seams like the number one player in the field right now is Love My Flash that offers high quality flash layouts [...]
I must admit that I admire social networkers who have the time to modify their profiles’ layouts with cool and punky backgrounds that may annoy us oldies, but then you got to give it to the young generation for having the patience and the ingenuity to liven up their social networking profiles. But thanks [...]
A new Firefox extension released by Mozilla allows users to seamlessly add themes to their browser - code free!
Known as Personas, Firefox is attempting to streamline the process of finding and installing themes. With the new addition graphic designers can stylize the browser experience without the need to know code.
The ability also exists [...]
A few weeks ago we profiled flauntR as a potential Photoshop killer.
Photoshop might be the photo manipulation leader, but with a high price tag and slow load times, what could be better than a free and fast alternative? FlauntR’s PhotoStylr offers thousands of free one-click effects, including fancy frames and funky filters.
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If you’re like me you are constantly frustrated when things don’t work the way they should. What if you could have the opportunity to take someones’ idea and make it better? RedesignMe is probably the closest you’ll ever get.
The bad thing is that the summer is over and that’s why I hate autumn but there are also some things that makes you a little but happy - the new snowboard season. I started to ride a board two years ago and I can tell you that it is one of the coolest things [...]
It is known that you can’t customize your Facebook layout beyond recognition like you do in MySpace for example. It have very much advantages because it makes it more solid and helps protect your eyes from artwork that was created by some monkey without taste. But of course anyone of us would like to separate [...]
