I just stumbled upon this today and I wish I’ve read this before: 10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines. Smashing Magazine has compiled what I think are some of the most important guidelines in creating your web design more effective. I have yet to implement these on my next projects, but for those of you who are curious, here are the main points discussed in the article: Continue Reading »

If you need a quick javascript form validation script, you can use this one from Javascript-coder.com. Its pretty easy to implement and I’ve used it in some of my projects already. Its gonna save you some time coding from scratch! Continue Reading »

Undeniably, WordPress has been a premiere choice by web designers and internet publishers as their main blogging platform. One of the considerations of their choice is the flexibility of WordPress and easy customization of templates. Also, a lot of resources are available online on how to make the popular platform even more. Here are 20+ WordPress Codes that you can use on your next WordPress project.  Continue Reading »

For web designers, its always a constant struggle to get those flash, youtube, or vimeo videos tuck under divs where you need them. They somehow always behave like their z-index is close to infinity.

By default Flash content in a web page will appear on top of other elements on the page, including floating menus, inline popups etc. This can be pretty annoying if you have a flyout menu on your page and it goes behind the Flash video and this post shows how simple it is to fix. This works in all browsers inclding IE6+ Continue Reading »

Web designers rely heavily on the use of CSS or Cascading Style Sheets to set the design specifications of each element on a website. CSS has made web designing a lot easier and more flexible. Here are 21 CSS Tricks that you can use in your future web design projects:

1. Cross Browser CSS SlideShow

Amazing demonstration of how to create a cross browser image gallery  using just CSS

2. CSS Based Image Maps

This tutorial demonstrates a crazy way to create an image map using just CSS.

3. No JavaScript LightBox Using CSS

Create a lighbox using just CSS with no JavaScript required.

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I just wanted to share some of the logos I’ve done for my clients. I’m still learning everyday about the tricks of my trade so don’t expect too much fancy stuff with my logo works. Continue Reading »

Before and After pics of my blog

After weeks and weeks of painstaking tweaking with the design of this site, I finished the work today with the revamped look of the site. Although the graphics are quite big in size and takes some time to load on the browser, I am happy with the results. I have been planning on this design for a long time, and I wanted to get it done today. I think it reflects more of myself now; funkier, colorful, sexier, jazzed up, and complicated (lol)!

Some things I added were Project Wonderful ads at the bottom, and also trimmed out some fat from the sidebar. Also, got back my Nuffnang ad at the right (hopefully some ads would start popping!). I also removed “Continue reading This Post Title…” links on the homepage to speed up some loading time.

I was inspired to finish the redesign today because of Nuffnang’s recent contest for Goldilocks. If I wanted to join then I’d need to fix my blog first. Do check it out!