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Most stupid, bad and controversial ads and commercials are handpicked for this review. Most of them either produced a lot of buzz and went viral or were banned. Lack of creativity, bad implementation or just awful idea, there’s tens of reasons why these ads and commercials have appeared. While there’s tons of post for people looking for inspiration, I decided to do completely opposite. Sometimes the best way to learn is to see how NOT to do something. If I missed your favorite stupid or bad ad, please add it in the comments. Enjoy! (more…)

Topaz Adjust is a Photoshop plugin that lets you make gorgeous looking HDR photos just from one image. Besides HDR look Topaz Adjust lets you create high contrast, ultra sharp looking images similar to Dave Hill look photo effect. In general, Topaz Adjust provides powerful control over image exposure, detail (or better say microcontrast), and color which you can use either in creative way (create from original image something completely different looking) or use it slightly to correct your photo and make it pop. (more…)

MODx Web Development book from Packt Publishing provides great documentation for MODx CMS users (if you’re not familiar with this flexible and powerful CMS, check out How to make website with MODx CMS in 10 minutes. MODx Web Development book starts from how MODx fits into family of content management systems and goes to step by step explanation on how to setup, customize and manage site on MODx. The book also contains a lot of code examples and illustrative screenshots. (more…)

Firefox start up speed and operating speed is usually much faster after clean install rather than month of usage. As it turns out the time at Firefox start up is used to load .sqlite bases from your profile which are used to store the history, bookmarks, anti-phishing, etc. With intensive Firefox usage all these databases are growing in size, getting a lot of empty space and become fragmented. There’s special command which solves this problem. VACUUM command recreates all the .sqlite databases but without fragmentation and empty spaces. (more…)

Wireframes can be created in many ways with several tools depending upon one’s communication needs and budget. Most simply, pen and paper are key tools for creating web wireframes. In addition some designers and developers are using Illustrator, Fireworks or PowerPoint to create wireframes. There are also interactive wireframe tools available for use by designers, programmers, and project managers, which allow collaboration with clients prior to the website programming stage. Wireframe tools included in this list allows you to make wireframes from low to high fidelity, work in collaboration with your team and clients, get feedback from stakeholders. (more…)

What is wireframe? Why wireframes are essential in web development? How to use them to speed up web development? Those are questions we will talk about in this post. There are also basic tips on how to make a wireframe and which tool can be used to create wireframes. Using wireframes you can get people thinking and generate requirements. Getting sign off on a set of detailed wireframes can save a lot of time and money. Forcing clients to think about the site’s functionality at a page level will avoid endless changes and tweaks. (more…)

Mobile WordPress plugins provide you access to mobile version of WordPress admin area, optimize your content and design to be easier accessible on mobile devices making your mobile site version load faster and be easier to read and navigate. There’s also number of plugins which helps to integrate 3rd party mobile site service providers with WordPress.

Considering growing army of mobile devices users, it would be smart to provide mobile version of your site to iPhone, Blackberry, Android as well as users of Windows Mobile and Nokia smartphones since no one likes to wait minutes until site is loaded and then be confused with navigation looking odd on small screen. (more…)