Computers and Technology
Posts tagged Design
RainyMood.com – A design breakdown
Feb 9th
Rainy Mood is a great, and relaxing website. What does it do? It plays a fifteen minute loop of rain OVER and OVER again. That’s it! How simple.
Why am I even bringing this page up? DESIGN!
kuler – Adobe’s version of Color Scheme Designer
Feb 7th
Kuler is a great tool for all designers. It’s really similar to the Color Scheme Designer in the aspect that it composes several colors for you to use in your design.
It has several other features that make it even BETTER than CSD but there are tons of features missing too. Let’s start with the good stuff
Mobile Websites (tips)
Jan 11th
I’ve recently started working on some mobile websites. You’ll notice that davepcguy.com has its own mobile alternative as do some other sites. Mobile devices are growing in number and gone are those days when internet was viewed only on the computer screen. WAP is not even used either so that old school coding is gone too.
These days, almost everyone has an iPhone or a BlackBerry, or a Palm device. Some of us even have other devices like PSPs, tablets, and others that require quite a bit different formatting. Here’s how to go about making your mobile website.
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CSS3 Lesson 3: Background Information is Essential
Dec 16th
Let’s have a look at backgrounds. In the previous two tutorials, I’ve covered borders and opacity. In this tutorial, we’ll cover some of the basic CSS3 additions to the background properties. If you have no idea how to deal with backgrounds in CSS, read my tutorial on backgrounds pre-CSS3. CSS3 is gaining momentum in the Web development world and many properties are already supported by most browsers (Firefox, Konqueror, Safari, and Chrome) as well as some minor browser (Opera). If you want to stay on top of the game, you have to learn the new stuff and employ the new techniques you’re presented with.
In this tutorial, I’m going to cover:
- background sizes
- multiple backgrounds
- background origin/clip
CSS Lesson 6: Intro to Divs
Oct 25th
Alright, alright. So I skipped all that fuss with horizontal navbars but that stuff is easy so I’ll create a short article on it later.
Let’s start with the <div> tag. It’s what I’ll be covering. Making use of div’s with CSS. You’ll need to know the following before we start the lesson:
- CSS Lesson 2
- CSS Lesson 3
- as well as basic HTML knowledge
If you don’t how to add CSS to your website, check out my CSS Intro tutorial and CSS Lesson 1.
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Coupon design
Oct 10th
Remember a couple weeks ago I mentioned I would be making a website for a chiropractor? Well, here it is. I finally got my client to approve the hosting and the domain. I’m using JustHost for the hosting and I installed a preliminary wordpress template. It’s the easiest way to start up a website. I used a free template I found online.
My client does not wish to have a blog, of course, so I’ll be creating a static website soon enough. Anyways, one of the things my client wants me to do is make coupons, so let’s do that!
My plan is to hopefully create a nice vector coupon design in illustrator, make a PHP script that will send it to a recipient’s e-mail with THEIR name on it. I’m not sure how I’ll be able to do that cross-browser and all that but we’ll make it together!
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What you can do in Illustrator with basic skills
Oct 4th
I’ve been trying to come up with a great DavePCguy logo for a while. I’m not entirely sure on what to do. It will definitely have to feature the title of our website “DavePCguy: Computers and Technology” or maybe I’ll have to come up with a new title. Something to point out we’re online, and that we focus on both consumer and producer ends.
Anyways, I thought I’d prepare a short article on Logos and Logo-types. I started creating logos when I picked up on Illustrator CS3. One of my class mates in my Digital Arts class told me that Illustrator is a great tool for creating art and brushes for Photoshop. I’m a Photoshop fanatic so this peaked my interest. She showed me some of her works that featured custom made logos, and vector art. It definitely set me on a new path especially since I like to learn new things all the time.
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