You can jailbreak your iPhone but beware of the troubles you bring with it. A weekend experiment to finally check out what jailbreaking means turns into a rather sad experience. This is what you should know before you jailbreak your iPhone. Continue reading
Computer Woes and the final plunge to Mac
The trustee Dell Studio has served me well for over a year. The slick stylish laptop came with Windows Vista and I have to say that I was rather happy with it. That was until the problems started popping up. Continue reading
Zero Nine
Whew! Another year comes to an end and what a year this has been. Perhaps the most eventful, colourful and wonderful year of my life so far. There has been so many ups and downs — more downs than ups but at the end it has been a difficult but wonderful year.
This is a very personal post — not the techie type post that this site has seen before. I am blogging after such a long time and so much has happened since my last post that I feel like sharing a few bits a pieces. Not writing for anyone in particular — maybe just for myself. Continue reading
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The Art of Crafting Beautiful Stylesheets
Crafting beautiful stylesheets is not a dark art. Yes, it takes discipline, commitment and persistence but with a few tricks up your sleeve, you too can be a CSS ninja.
Let me show you a few techniques I use to craft readable, maintainable and easy to debug stylesheets. Continue reading
Introducing Harbour: A Premium Theme for WordPress
Harbour is my first submission to Envato’s theme marketplace, ThemeForest. It is a WordPress theme designed for personal and business blogs.
Harbour is the product of a month of sleepless nights and endless hours of work. I am very happy with the result and I was very excited when it was approved for sale. Continue reading
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4 Awesome Portfolio Design Trends
Being a huge design affectionado, I like to bookmark all design portfolios I come across. I noticed that a few trends have emerged over the last 12 months while going through my bookmarks. Most designers have started using innovative design patterns that have emerged in the recent years. The use of lightbox, for instance, has become universal.
Let’s have a look the latest and the hottest techniques designers use for their own online portfolio. Continue reading
Designing Post Footers: Examples and Best Practices
One of the most oft-overlooked elements in a blog is the footer beneath the posts. I think it is a vital part of any blog design because most readers are likely to go down to that spot below your post.
If the reader has scanned though the page all the way to the end of the post, he/she must have enjoyed reading the post. So why not take this opportunity to promote a few things? Let me show you what you can do with it and how you can optimise it for best results. Continue reading
How to separate Comments and Trackbacks in WordPress
Comments, Trackback and Pingbacks are mixed up and shown together by default in WordPress. For presentational purposes, you want to separate them and list them separately. Here’s a simple trick that shows how to.
Why you might want to separate comments and trackbacks:
- Makes the comment list look a lot more neat
- Trackbacks interrupt on the flow of conversation in the comments
- Trackbacks are basically link-juice for both sides, which you may want to show below the comments Continue reading
5 Harsh Truths about Web Design firms
Having worked for several Web Design firms in the past few years, I have come to realize why the state of the web is so poor when it comes to design, compliance to web standards and accessibility. There are very few good looking websites (as showcased by sites such as cssbeauty, cssmania etc) and even fewer truely standards-compliant and accessible sites.
Here are a few things that I have experienced myself and why I think most websites are, for lack of a better word, crap.
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Bulletproof CSS Sliding Doors
I have had to build a few sliding doors navigation menus in the last few weeks. I did a quick research and browsed though a few different implementations. To be perfectly honest, I found none of them satisfactory for various reasons. So I decided to crack the nut myself. Continue reading