CSS Grain Background Tutorial
Recently I created a website to organize and plan my upcoming wedding. When doing so it quickly became apparent that a visual shortcoming was the background. Although I used a grain based background (which is very popular right now) it still seemed too plain. To make things more interesting I added a transparent radial gradient on top of the repeated grain background. You can see a demo of the finished product at the link below.
Adobe CS 5 for Web Design
Extremely under impressed with CS 4, I wasn’t keen on upgrading from version CS 3. Adobe announced their online conference to demo CS 5 a few months ago with flashy advertising to back up their words. Intrigued by how much money Adobe was dropping on their product, I felt it was worth checking things out. Watching the online conference last week invoked an array of emotions from happiness to tears. After viewing their new products I did some more research on how their efforts will be affecting web design and here is what I came up with.
New WordPress Theme for the Blog!
Sometimes things start to get old, other times you find out after using it for a long time that its broken. I’ve noticed for a while that there have been some usability issues with my blog. For instance, I’ve been missing search functionality, social networking features, and my articles were displayed as complete posts on my index page. Problem is I haven’t had the time to rework everything till this past week. Here I’ve documented some of my website’s changes and why I performed them. Hopefully this article will be helpful for upgrading your blog in the future.
CARDERIZER Business Cards Review
After a large number of Google searches for the perfect business card company I bumped into CARDERIZER. I’ve used Overnight Prints in the past to print all of my cards, but I’ve been looking for specialty printed business cards and they only offer basic printing or UV. I was immediately impressed with CARDERIZER’s large selection of specialty printing options. They offer embossing, UV spot, foil stamping, and several other unique services. Intrigued by their service, but scared by their lack of reviews, I decided to try my luck with ordering some cards.
10 Always Useful Plugins for WordPress
Why would you spend an extra 20 hours on developing a website? I would honestly rather be spending that development time with my fiancé or friends. When it comes to WordPress I inevitably reuse several different plugins to save development time. This is important because having a good toolbox of programs to choose from speeds up your development process, especially since its almost impossible to create everything needed for a WordPress build from scratch.
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