Have your clients ever asked what Lorem ipsum means, in what language it’s written, why it has been used instead of some real and readable text? Lorem ipsum is more than common in graphic and web design. It used as a placeholder text to demonstrate the graphic elements of a document or visual presentation, such as font, typography, and layout and direct the focus to overall presentation instead of focusing on the textual content. Lorem ipsum is not intended to have meaning. Continue Reading →
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Top 10 free website uptime monitoring services
It’s crucial for a website to experience minimal downtime (and for site owner to monitor uptime), otherwise visitors or customers won’t return again if the site is always offline and inaccessible. Sometimes it happens that websites are going down even if you have a very reliable hosting with 99% of uptime. The reasons could vary: problems with data center, network outages, server outages, server overload, DNS configuration, or SSL certificate problems. In this case the problem has to be solved as soon as possible. Continue Reading →
How to make website with MODx CMS in 10 minutes
In this MODx CMS tutorial, I will show you how to install MODx, find and install MODx template, add or modify your content. On the way you will explore the backend interface and a number of the standard MODx features. In the end you should get a MODx driven website with your own content. It’s just the beginner MODx guide, so don’t expect I’ll go too much into the details: the purpose is to quickstart your first MODx site as soon and as easy as possible. In the next MODx tutorials I’ll go deeper into building websites with this powerful CMS, so stay tuned. Continue Reading →
How to get best quality video playback with madVR and MPC Home Cinema
madVR is a new high quality GPU assisted video renderer. I’d say game changing video renderer if it will be developed actively. When I started to use madVR, I was amazed that video playback quality produced by madVR was different from other renderers (Haali, Enhanced Video Renderer, VMR-9) as night and day. Now I don’t need to adjust any contrast, saturation, sharpen or resize options because any video looks perfect right out the box. In addition to madVR, Media Player Classic Home Cinema is the only thing I need to play perfectly all my video files. I’m happy to forget about all these codec packs and mess with updating them. Continue Reading →
Top 50 Professional looking free WordPress themes
If you’re looking for professional looking free WordPress themes then this post is for you. High-quality WordPress themes always come in handy. Whether you are looking for design inspiration or professional WordPress themes to customize them easily – you can learn a lot and you can build customized designs without reinventing the wheel. Continue Reading →
Logo Design Evolution (video)
You’ve seen these famous logos everywhere, but have you ever wondered how they came to be? I took some famous logos and made a morphing video. So you could have a look how Apple, Adidas, Google, Mazda, Walmart, Adobe, Microsoft, Nokia logos changed since their first logo appeared.
Have you ever wonder how’s the first Apple logo was looking 30 years ago? Did you know that Apple’s original logo was Isaac Newton under an apple tree? Or that Nokia’s original logo was a fish? Continue Reading →
How to design perfect Twitter background Ultimate Guide
My main advice: never use default blue Twitter background. If you’re not that into designing your Twitter background at least choose another Twitter template from 12 stock backgrounds available. Every non default Twitter background will stand out when the majority of Twitter profiles have the same look. If you like to get more followers and use Twitter as business card or promotion brochure for your service, you definitely need custom Twitter background. Besides great first impression, a professional looking Twitter background would let you stand out from the crowd and pick up followers. Continue Reading →