Simple jQuery Dropdowns
February 25th, 2009
7 Interface Design Techniques to Simplify and De-clutter Your Interfaces
February 24th, 2009
What is simplicity? Simplicity is the quality of being natural, plain and easy to understand. It is not surprising then that simplicity is often thrived for in user interface design. Most people naturally dislike complexity in devices and software. Yes, some people find joy in figuring out how something works, but for most of us, being unable to operate a device leads to wasted time and frustration, and that’s not a good thing.
If you can take a complex device or a piece of software and somehow rearrange, reorganize and redesign the interface to make it easy to use and understand, then you’re well on the way to delivering a better user experience.
In this article I’m going to talk about 7 practical techniques that you can utilize in web design to make your websites or web applications simpler and less cluttered. Read the rest of this entry »
20 Sites with Beautiful Character Illustrations
February 24th, 2009
Its time for more inspiration. We see a lot of illustrative sites popping up with some pretty cool stuff. Here is a list of 20 sites with beautiful illustrative characters.
1. Silverback
Linux Cheat Sheets
February 24th, 2009Although most of web hosting companies use Hosting Control Panels to manage their clients, They must have a basic linux knowledge. So we’re sharing here 4 linux cheat sheets with you that will help you a lot to manage your files, databases, permissions, etc. through shell (bash) command line.
FOSSwire.com Unix/Linux Command Reference
Linux commands, a practical reference by pixelbeat.org
linux security quick reference guide by LinuxSecurity.com
Common Sense SEO Checklist
February 23rd, 2009DISCLAIMER: I don’t “really” know anything about SEO. What I do know is the folks at Google and other big search engines are just human beings like us who have created and constantly tweak the search algorithms. Their goal is to give us what we want when searching, the best possible websites relevant to what we are searching for. Read the rest of this entry »