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IT seams like on of the trends in Web Designs currently is using Bokeh Effects for Background designs. I have to admit that I like it a lot if it is used right. So what is Bokeh? In photography, bokeh is the blur in out-of-focus areas of an image. Bokeh occurs for parts of the scene that lie outside the depth of field. In web design it is not any type of bokeh that is being used but in particular the kind of Bokeh you will get from drops of water reflecting light while not being in focus.  Some would also claim that Bokeh of this kind could look like blood cells under extreme magnification. What over it is being photographed or if the bokeh is simply synthetic and created in Photoshop it makes website backgrounds look really dynamic and appealing. This post showcase excellent examples of Bokeh inspired web design and then provide a large list of Bokeh textures that you can use yourself. Share your site or just one you know if it’s missing in this article.

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Wall decoration is an interesting subject and there are many possibilities. Lately wall stickers have invaded walls in private homes and in official buildings and they really help creating unique rooms and Individual impressions. I want to share some really great walls from the DGI City in Copenhagen some time ago. Decorated with paint and wall stickers, that shows scenes from the city of Copenhagen. I also have found other great wall decorations from the archives that may interest you.

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OK I have to admit that I started tripwire magazine on the Joomla CMS platform. I did so because I had experience with Joomla and really found it to be an excellent and very flexible free tool for publishing content online. I did realize though at that time that Wordpress simply had better themes for starting a magazine style blog. Also Wordpress is much simpler and efficient for creating posts fast and have better support for tags and categories. So I decided to move from Joomla to Wordpress quite early and I still think it was the right choice. Joomla should not be underestimated though and must be on the list of candidate tools if you plan to build a new website. One of the premium theme developers that I remember well from working with Joomla is RocketTheme. The quality of the Joomla themes created by RocketTheme is amazing and I just realized the same is true for their Wordpress themes. This post gives an overview of RocketThemes latest development for Wordpress.

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This post is a collection of latest community news submitted on tripwire magazine by readers and other blog owners.  Most new posts in the web design and development community is included making this regular post a really fast and easy consumable overview of what is going on just now.  You can find more community news here

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Call to action is a term used for elements in a web page that basically request an action from the user. Typically a press on a web page button indicates that a user is making a decision of some kind and buttons are one of the most important building blocks we have to implement call to action. Buttons are for that reason very important elements and they need to be well integrated with the overall design, easy to spot and use. Styling of buttons is typically achieved using CSS and graphic elements but there are a few other techniques available as well. Generally styling html form elements is difficult and is one of the areas where cross browser compatibility may still be an issues when trying to create a design that looks the same no matter what browser is used. This article first cover the basics of using submit buttons on web pages and then dig into more advanced techniques for applying enhancements to buttons to increase how well they "call-to-action" for your visitor.

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This post is a collection of latest community news submitted on tripwire magazine by readers and other blog owners.  Most new posts in the web design and development community is included making this regular post a really fast and easy consumable overview of what is going on just now.  You can find more community news here

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Most blogs start out with a cheap shared hosting plan promising unlimited bandwidth, unlimited domains, unlimited disk space, unlimited databases, etc. As long as you have no or minimal traffic this is probably the best solution for you blog. Cheap Shared hosting on the other hand is NOT geared for blogs where traffic starts to go up and become serious. There are aspects of the “unlimited plans” that in fact are very limited and prevents you from ever making use of whatever may be advertised as unlimited. This is what you would expect as high quality individual service, dedicated server capacity etc. cost money and really can’t be given away for a few dollars monthly fee. The concept works because tons of websites sit on these hosting plans receiving only a few hits a day. Once you start utilizing server resources you don’t fit into the business model any more and will hit the limitations on CPU consumption, database query time etc. and then your blog is in trouble! Learn what we did at tripwire magazine and how we are doing after 6 month on a Hybrid VPS from WiredTree.

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If you’re a designer like me guest writing may brings with it many advantages and should be considered as a great way to promote ourselves. Besides self promotions we will find that there are other great benefits. First of all guest writing can improve our writing skills significantly and be the starting point for our own blog or portfolio. Also connecting socially as designers is something we should all strive to be a part of, one of the first step in this is working to write on other sites as well as your own. The benefits don’t simply apply to the present but also towards your future growth as a designer and your website/ blog. In this article I share my thoughts on what benefits a designer may get from writing guest posts. Read on and promise that you drop a comment to share your 2 cents on this topic as well.

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The Internet truly is the land of opportunities of our time.  The amount of online sales transactions are increasing at an incredible rate and while opportunities seams nearly endless competition is harder than ever.  Being able reach anyone with a connection to the Internet certainly is amazing and the only problem is that the number of competitors have gone up at the same rate.  If you don’t manage to surface and get online presence the millions of potential buyers will surf by you store without noticing it.  Customers today can pick and choose, compare, analyze etc. your products and services against others making it essential to know your competitors well and more important to get a sale whenever you have the opportunity! This is where Landing Page Design becomes important and rally can make a great difference. This article provides essential tips and examples on creating Landing Pages that work.

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This post is a collection of latest community news submitted on tripwire magazine by readers and other blog owners.  Most new posts in the web design and development community is included making this regular post a really fast and easy consumable overview of what is going on just now.  You can find more community news here

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