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TN3Gallery Giveaway Winners Announcement!
Posted on 20. Feb, 2012 by Rean John Uehara.
It’s been a week since we started the giveaway and now we’re ready to announce the lucky winners of 5 TN3Gallery Pro Licenses Giveaway! Five of our loyal readers have won an amazing jQuery Image Gallery with Slideshow from TN3Gallery. A lot of our readers commented to get the chance of getting their hands on this [...]
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Why Your Business Must Go Social [Infographic]
Posted on 17. Feb, 2012 by Rean John Uehara.
Your grandma is probably on Facebook by now. So why on earth isn’t your business? It’s time to get real, and come to terms with the fact that social media networks are not just for teenagers anymore. Even setting up something as simple as a customized Facebook fan page can enhance your brand online. Studies show that [...]
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TN3Gallery Giveaway: 5 Pro Licenses of jQuery Image Gallery with Slideshow!
Posted on 13. Feb, 2012 by Rean John Uehara.
The success of your website depends partly on its presentation. People in the field of designing have little problem, to none at all, dealing with this since most of their works are visual. One way of presenting photographs, illustrations, image manipulations, and other visuals in a very cool way is through an image gallery. But [...]
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Eenox: Design HTML5 Websites for Desktop and Mobile without Coding
Posted on 07. Feb, 2012 by Rean John Uehara.
The death of Adobe Flash for mobile was not shocking news for the majority of its proponents, we all saw it coming. With that, HTML5 will definitely gain control of both mobile and desktop websites in a few years. Right now there are a lot of HTML5 template generators, making it easy for designers and [...]
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Ultimate Guide on How to Host Your Own Blog – For The Non-Technical
Posted on 04. Feb, 2012 by Rean John Uehara.
Lately there have been a lot of people trying to hire us to create a website for them, others even ask for quotes and present a short plan that they have made. The problem is we’re not a company that will design and develop websites for clients, we’re an internet publisher focused on writing guides, inspirational articles, [...]
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Divine Elemente Review and Contest: A PSD to WordPress Theme Software
Posted on 01. Feb, 2012 by Rean John Uehara.
It appears that the world has just gone better with the introduction of Content Management Systems like WordPress and their customizable themes, but in order to create a fully functioning WordPress theme you’ll need to be both learned in programming and designing. It is a problem that many has, and that includes yours truly. There [...]
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2011 – What A Great Year It Was!
Posted on 01. Jan, 2012 by Rean John Uehara.
2011 has been a very eventful year for 1stwebdesigner. Several people have shared their expertise with us and wrote amazing articles for our loyal audience to read. We have surely grown tremendously because of people like you. Now is the perfect time to look back at the highlights of the past year, and a brief summary [...]
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8 World-Changing Innovators That Molded Today’s Technology
Posted on 26. Nov, 2011 by Rean John Uehara.
The talk about great innovators and visionaries has been hot these past few weeks, with images and articles about Steve Jobs appearing in every corner of the internet world. The focus was on Steve Jobs, and his passing, but should that stop us from honoring earlier innovators, who not only innovated things during their time, [...]
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Brace Yourselves, Programming Jokes Are Coming
Posted on 31. Oct, 2011 by Rean John Uehara.
Programming is a very tough job, I’ve done it and even though it’s a very challenging thing to do, you can’t just stay calm and composed every day. It is a highly stressful job, partly because of the client/boss requirements, and most of it is because of simple things we tend to forget…like a semicolon. [...]
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20 Premium WordPress eCommerce Themes And 6 Shopping Cart Scripts
Posted on 23. Oct, 2011 by Rean John Uehara.
One of the coolest things that ever happened on the internet is the ability to sell things online. Not everyone has the capability to create websites that are built to sell products, it’s a good thing we have WordPress and WordPress developers to thank for their themes and scripts. In this article I will present [...]
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5 Ways to Make Readers Give You Their Sweet Comments
Posted on 18. Oct, 2011 by Rean John Uehara.
Websites like Cracked and Listverse get more reaction from their audience than any other website on the internet. And why is that? Let’s face it, we all enjoy reading interesting and weird stuff about anything. While websites focused on designing and development, as compared to the most commented websites, are a little dry when it comes [...]
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40 Breathtaking Examples of Infrared Photography
Posted on 25. Sep, 2011 by Rean John Uehara.
There are many types of art photography out there that show a new way of viewing things like infrared photography, micro and macro photography, lomography, light photography, and many others. In this article we will talk about infrared photography, a type of photography that captures the unseen beauty of nature made possible by technology. What [...]
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How to Fight Plagiarism – Tips and Tools
Posted on 15. Sep, 2011 by Rean John Uehara.
Plagiarism is not hard to fight now that there are advanced tools and services that people can use for protection. In this article we will talk about how to fight people who have copied your designs, bandwidth, articles, music, and everything that can be stolen. Preventing people from plagiarizing your works is another matter because [...]
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Beauty vs. Function: On Redesigning
Posted on 03. Sep, 2011 by Rean John Uehara.
The thought of producing the best possible design, either from scratch or redesigning something, gives jitters to the heart of many designers. Even professionals in the field can’t quite balance beauty and function. A few days ago I saw a comment here on 1stwebdesigner that says most of today’s web designing is just like recycling old designs. That [...]
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Undo: The Best Feature for Everything
Posted on 31. Aug, 2011 by Rean John Uehara.
Let’s take a step back and for now relax and indulge ourselves with a feature that may or may not be possible: an undo button for everything. Yes, it’s the undo button. Everything needs an undo button. From social media websites, email clients, overwriting files, submitting forms, and almost everything. Don’t you just get that [...]
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Things Web Designers Do That People Love
Posted on 10. Aug, 2011 by Rean John Uehara.
Web designers and web developers often wonder what kind of things they should do so that their audience will love them. Today we will talk about those little things that create a big impact on people throughout the internet. As an avid internet user myself, I usually remember a website (even if it has a [...]
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Ancient Web Design Practices that Beginners Should Avoid Part 2
Posted on 06. Aug, 2011 by Rean John Uehara.
Here comes part two of bad design practices that web designers should avoid. Part one mostly talked about the errors designers and developers make, here in part two we will also talk about the problem with what “webmasters” or website owners do to sully their names. To all website owners out there who are wondering what’s wrong [...]
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Ancient Website Design Practices That Beginners Should Avoid Part 1
Posted on 02. Aug, 2011 by Rean John Uehara.
This article is intended for beginners in the field of web designing and web development. It talks about old design practices that have died off several years ago, but up to now some are still being used. The goal is to discuss why these practices are bad and to instill in the minds of budding [...]
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Vertical Navigation vs. Horizontal Navigation: Your Take?
Posted on 27. Jul, 2011 by Rean John Uehara.
For people out there who have designed websites, I’m pretty sure that once upon a time you’ve spent some time thinking where to place the main navigation. This is a very minor thing that has a great implication on the overall performance of the website. Keep in mind that a finely placed element can make [...]
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Social Networking Sites and their Sidekicks
Posted on 23. Jul, 2011 by Rean John Uehara.
Recently there has been a race between major social networks to acquire just about every widely used services such as Skype, Fridge, Tweetdeck, and Imeem. Be it the users they are after or the service itself, ordinary people like me are often taken by surprise by their decision. We’re talking about millions to billions of [...]