March 2011

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Alongside the great conversations and connections Twitter allows us to build, I feel that it gradually turned into more than that. It moved to a place where latest news are broke, sophisticated stories are shared and discussed and a place where you build trust and an engaged community.

In order to make the most of this powerful network we all learnt to love, I have started to use a new, super simple app which will allow you to tweet consistently day in day out. Let me share the functionality of this nifty app. It’s Buffer.

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Tools to Check for Cross-browser Compatibility

by Dustin Betonio on March 30, 2011

In this article I have listed useful online tools for cross-browser compatibility testing.

Cross-browser refers to the ability for a website, web application, HTML construct or client-side script to render equally across different web browser products and versions. The goal of doing cross-browser testing is to ensure that a website or web application is accessible to the largest possible audience without any loss in usability and performance.  The term cross-browser have been around since the web development era started. Back in the early days of the Internet browsers where really working against each other and it was a real pain for developers to get it right typically associated with high cost and low maintainability. Today the large players Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer have been aligned quite well, but as soon as you want to use new features in e.g. HTML5 you will find that there are still plenty of reasons to get headache. In this article I have listed useful online tools for cross-browser compatibility testing.

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35 Examples of Beautiful and Attractive Government Websites

March 29, 2011

Government refers to the particular group of people, the administrative bureaucracy, who control a nation/state at a given time, and the manner in which their governing organizations are structured. That is, governments are the means through which state power is employed. States are served by a continuous succession of different governments. The governments are probably [...]

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Auto Blogging Software – WPTurbo Income On Autopilot?

March 27, 2011

Auto Blogging Software – WPTurbo Review Do you think auto blogging just died with Google updating their algorithms lately? If you ask the people behind the brand new auto blogging software “WPTurbo” or Mike from “Auto Blog Blueprint 3.0” the answer is of cause NO! They will tell you that auto blogging profit is still [...]

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35 Awesome and Beautiful Examples of Horizontal scrolling websites

March 27, 2011

Horizontal scrolling web sites were once considered bad practice, but I believe most will agree that for some purposes e.g. for showcasing a portfolio it can be a quite useful and attention generating approach. While researching for this is post I found that in most cases the horizontal scrolling have been put to use in [...]

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Awesome Examples of Using the Color Red in Graphic Design

March 26, 2011

Using the color red for your design can be a great move. If you choose the right shade of red in the perfect spot, it has the power to grab attention. Red is known to be associated with passion, energy, and sensuality, but remember, it must be used with care. In the wrong shade or [...]

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20+ Mobile Apps Inspiration and Design Pattern Galleries

March 24, 2011

As a mobile apps designer I’m sure you are often looking for inspiration to ensure that you can deliver constant innovation and high quality to your clients. A really efficient way to get serious inspiration for specific parts of your mobile apps project is looking for web sites showcasing the best apps created be other [...]

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15 Password Management Solutions To Keep You Safe

March 24, 2011

Password managers can be really essential tools that you can seriously benefit from if you do a lot of sensitive transactions over the Internet. We live at a time when it is possible, and actually commonplace, to do our shopping, banking, communications, and file exchange online. The fact that online transactions have become commonplace has [...]

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Photoshop Tutorial Turning An Image Into A Cartoon in 2 minutes

March 23, 2011

There are tons of tools available online that can turn an image into a cartoon drawing. Some are good and some are bad and you may play around with them to see if one of them can create the right effect. However it is also possible to do it in Photoshop and it is very [...]

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How Sticky Is Your Website?

March 23, 2011

You probably think your company, your product or service and your website are as fascinating to everyone else as they are to you. I’m sorry to disillusion you, but the vast majority of your current and prospective website visitors out there don’t care about you and your website; they’re only interested in themselves (and the [...]

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