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12 Things I Have Learned After 7 Years of Freelancing
Posted on 15. Feb, 2012 by Rochester Oliveira.
At the age of 15 I started with this web design stuff. Here I am, almost 7 years later and I wish I knew a lot more about this field rather than learning just by my own mistakes. But you don’t have to pass through all of this, dear Padawan. There are a few particularities in [...]
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Put Your Website on a Diet with Minifiers
Posted on 01. Feb, 2012 by Rochester Oliveira.
Did you know that every second delay on page loading results in a 7% reduction of conversion rate? Actually you lose 7% (maybe even more!) of sales without even noticing… Sounds bad, huh? I mean, you work carefully to put things in the right place, good call-to-actions, nice design, spend a few bucks with ads.. [...]
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1stWebDesigner’s Life #4 – This Big & Developer Client
Posted on 31. Jan, 2012 by Rochester Oliveira.
And here we are again, trying to bring you a couple of laughs. Our superhero Webster continues his pursuit for the best client, and we all know that he’s quite far from it yet, right? :) We have two more short stories of Webster’s life (which is kind of similar to ours, huh?) brought to [...]
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jQuery Mobile – What You Need to Know
Posted on 30. Jan, 2012 by Rochester Oliveira.
jQuery Mobile version 1.0 finally launched this past November. Don’t know if you heard about it, but if you are planning to do any mobile app or website development, it’s better to get started with it right now. I’m sure you’ve heard about jQuery. So, its mobile version is pretty close to what you already [...]
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5 Must-Know Tips for Better WordPress User Management
Posted on 26. Jan, 2012 by Rochester Oliveira.
WordPress is a great tool to use for managing content. It’s really simple for developers, for managers and for users to use, especially when using a great theme. But if there is one thing that I think that needs to improve yet is its user management settings. I mean, even basic functions need to be coded, [...]
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1stWebDesigner’s Life #3 – Mind Reading & Doing The Whole Site
Posted on 15. Jan, 2012 by Rochester Oliveira.
It’s time to get back to our funny project, 1stWebdesigner’s Life. We’ve received such great feedback from our #1 and #2 that we’ve decided to make it a really cool bi-monthly series to brighten your Sundays. We’re back with Webster (our superhero!) brought live by Jamie Sale! Today we’ll talk about clients that think we can [...]
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How To Create An Effective FAQ For Your Website
Posted on 03. Jan, 2012 by Rochester Oliveira.
Frequently Asked Questions is a good section to have in your website. They give users a chance to figure out things by themselves instead of wasting resources (both yours and theirs) with a 1-to-1 conversation (chat, Skype, messenger and so on). But FAQ’s are a different type of content. Just like search and sitemap, it has [...]
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7 New Year’s Resolutions To Help Improve Your Personal And Work Life
Posted on 31. Dec, 2011 by Rochester Oliveira.
So are you ready for doing awesome things (remember, this year can be the last one)? And which things do you want to do? When are you doing them? How will you know by the end of 2012 that you’ve done all that you wanted to? There is a simple tool to help you keeping [...]
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Creative Christmas Gift For Geek Lovers – Web & Mobile App
Posted on 21. Dec, 2011 by Rochester Oliveira.
Oh, Christmas. The magic time when you spend all the money you’ve been saving the whole year. Oh, and we have all that Christmas Spirit, of course. Now, you probably want to spend a lot on your soul mate’s gift, to show her how deep is your love. Yeah, money can buy cool things, but [...]
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Customize WordPress With Four Easy-To-Add Scripts
Posted on 19. Dec, 2011 by Rochester Oliveira.
Probably at some point you wanted to customize things in WordPress instead of using the “default” for every page. Like a pretty image gallery in a few posts, a syntax highlighter for your tutorial category or a demo page for your tutorials. Well all those things break the standard, so people will see it as “impossible” [...]
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Create Elegant Tags With Sliding Post Count For WordPress
Posted on 12. Dec, 2011 by Rochester Oliveira.
Tired of the boring category style being always same, like a mini menu? Tired of items arranged horizontally or vertically, styled always the same way? Yes, I’m tired of it too. So let’s make things more interesting now. Our starting point will be a cool sliding tags design made by Thomas Bosée. Then we’ll learn [...]
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Using HTML5 Video The Easy Way
Posted on 02. Dec, 2011 by Rochester Oliveira.
If you haven’t had a good reason to learn HTML5 video, let me give you one: Flash mobile is dead. Mobile is the new black, many people say that by 2014 more people will be browsing with their mobile device than using a desktop. You know, if we get through 2012 of course. So more then [...]
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Definitive Mobile Guide – 40+ Tools, Frameworks And Tutorials
Posted on 29. Nov, 2011 by Rochester Oliveira.
The mobile market is getting bigger and bigger. A lot of people are spending much more time mobile browsing than desktop. Sometimes I feel like developers aren’t paying proper attention to mobile interfaces. Maybe because we don’t have enough tools to do it, right? No, actually it isn’t. Despite cool things like Safari Mobile that [...]
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7 Things Clients Should Know About A Web Designer’s Job
Posted on 24. Oct, 2011 by Rochester Oliveira.
Clients always have a lot of questions, don’t they? They ask a lot of questions because they just don’t know how things work on this “Internet thing”. They just want their pretty site online and with Comics Sans, please. So, guess who will have to tell them the bad news, and teach them the basics? [...]
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1stWebDesigner’s Life #2 – High Exposure Job & Darker Than Dark
Posted on 03. Oct, 2011 by Rochester Oliveira.
I hope you liked our very first strip about flash banners and introducing our characters. We’ve got a lot of cool names suggestions, and one that our team really enjoyed is “Webster”, by Laurel G. We have some other cool variations (like Coddy Webber) but we’re still open to more suggestions if you have a [...]
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Web Design Using Grids: Tools and Inspiration
Posted on 30. Sep, 2011 by Rochester Oliveira.
When I started this web designing thing all my work just didn’t look “professional”. It was pretty, nice colors, nice fonts, nice bevel/emboss effects…but something was annoying and I didn’t know what. Then I found out. Grids are one of the smallest differences between good and great design. It is quite easy to find a [...]
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Create Your Own Premium Membership WordPress Blog – Part 1/3
Posted on 12. Sep, 2011 by Rochester Oliveira.
Who doesn’t want to earn money from blogging? I mean, sometimes you have shortages, sometimes comments let you down, payment is not THAT good. But you know, it’s still better than real work, right? (Troll’s comments in 3..2..1..) So instead of spending a few bucks in order to get a premium membership system, why not [...]
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1stWebDesigner’s Life – Your New Must-Read Webcomic. What do you think?
Posted on 29. Aug, 2011 by Rochester Oliveira.
After enjoying a good weekend it’s good to start your week reading some funny things, right? That’s why we bring to you our brand new webcomic: 1stwebdesigner’s life. The comic will not just be about common situations every web designer encounters, but we also want to give you some ideas about how to deal with [...]
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Simon’s Google Doodle – HTML5 + JS jQuery Game
Posted on 24. Aug, 2011 by Rochester Oliveira.
Dude, you’ve heard a lot about Google doodles haven’t you? What about that Pacman one? It is just addictive. Company owners know how a funny game and unlimited search powers could be dangerous for productivity. And how it can be a marketing boost. The most amazing thing is that we can create our own addictive [...]
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Save Time Using Photoshop Smart Objects
Posted on 07. Aug, 2011 by Rochester Oliveira.
Those who are familiar with CSS and PHP know how good it is to only change one line and see all changes propagate through the elements you’ve changed. Well, today we’ll see how to do something similar to this with Photoshop, so when your client asks you to change your background from 90% black to [...]