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Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

20 Aug, 2008

Taste That Linux Flavour

Posted by: Shaun In: Design| General| Technology

One of the main reasons for using an operating system such as Linux, is the ability to customise almost everything.
With this in mind, I’m glad that users have the ability to alter the theme on Ubuntu Linux as the default is not exactly revolutionary or exceptionally pretty.
However, the community can play a huge role in [...]

Firefox 3 has been launched in a grand event a few days ago… but is it that great? It seems like there are problems

20 Jun, 2008

Mario Meets Markup Mushrooms

Posted by: Sk In: Design| Gaming| General

What happens when JavaScript becomes too big and starts to spit fire? Well, if you manage not to fall in the lava, then you’re on to the next stage!

15 Jun, 2008

Myspace Aims For Redesign

Posted by: Shaun In: Design| General

According to Ars Technica, Myspace will be peeling off their website’s old wallpaper and giving everything a lick of paint.
Myspace appears to be trailing behind Facebook when it comes to social networking, but maybe a redesign is just what it needs. Not just aesthetically, but improving the functionality will be important when they launch their [...]

30 May, 2008

Google Gets a New Favicon

Posted by: Shaun In: Design| General

Remember Google’s recognizable favicon? It was a capital ‘G’ in blue within a white box with Google’s colours used as border colours.
Well, today I noticed that google have changed their favicon.ico to a lower-case ‘g’ and appears to have some sort of shadow.
It’s good to see Google developing but does this favicon really shout ‘Google’? [...]

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27 May, 2008

Tweaking Your GUI to Mimic OS X and Leopard

Posted by: Shaun In: Design

Designers love to use Apple Macs, I’ve pondered over the reasoning behind this and it’s not complicated. Apple’s hardware is sleek, shiny and sophisticated. Their operating system is free from viruses, almost. But these aren’t the only things that attract users in the design field to Apple Macs. I think that the GUI itself is [...]

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When I’m designing websites, I have to constantly check up on the output on many browsers. Internet Explorer 6 seems to be a browser that I often have trouble with. Unfortunately I am using the updated Internet Explorer 7 and downloading older versions from the Microsoft download centre will not let you proceed with a [...]

If you’re a Wordpress developer or someone who regularly designs themes for blogging platforms, you’ll be familiar with RSS and the icon is a very popular part of any blog or website. I decided to dump a few of my bookmarks here in order to help those who are looking to add some RSS love [...]

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