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Friday, May 9th, 2008
John Maeda shares his evolving thoughts about simplicity in technology, design, business and life on his journey to understand simplicity and establish framework for this topic. Maeda starts his book by saying: ‘Technology has made our lives more full, yet at the same time we’ve become uncomfortably “full.”’ He also provides many examples from […]
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
I’ve recently tried a couple of e-commerce solutions integrated with WordPress. Here are my thoughts of the two experiences:
WP e-Commerce by Instinct
I’ve used WP e-Commerce with WordPress 2.1 and it is also available for WordPress 2.5.
Instinct offers a free limited version of the plugin as well as a gold upgrade. The shopping cart main […]
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Dan Cederholm explores multiple solutions to creating beautiful web pages with semantic and lightweight markup. Each chapter in this book answers a specific question presenting different methods to achieve the same results and with practical examples. Most chapters have an additional section in the end of each chapter that delves into more advanced CSS […]
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
The Elements of User Experience was written by Jesse James Garrett to expand on his diagram of the five planes of user experience in web development and the relationships between them. The five planes of the diagram are:
Strategy plane – business strategy and business goals
Scope plane – various features and functions and requirements to […]
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
I’ve recently discovered a new software from Adobe called Lightroom available from Adobe Labs. Lightroom is the professional photographer’s essential toolbox and is still in beta version, which is why I thought I post what I like about Lightroom and what I wish Adobe would add to its interface.
What I love about Lightroom is that […]
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