There are several free online tools that quickly and easily can add design effects to your images. Here are a couple that are simple and straight forward to use.
Polaroid Spread
Dumpr offers several free image effect tools for your uploaded or linked image, in addition to some paid options. the Polaroid Spread tool makes your image appear like a collage of smaller polaroid images.
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Web design trends changes as new techniques are introduced and browser technology evolve, but there seem to be certain central themes that are somewhat consistent.
Minimalism and Functionalism
Minimalistic web design focuses on content and function, and tones down the use of graphics. The layout is often very structured and design elements like position, size, color, and typology is used to emphasis the content.
A great example of minimalist and functionalist web design is A List Apart which uses limited graphics and color, a simple grid layout, and a slight variation in typology for subtle emphasis.
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This award winning ad video manage to make something as mundane as a washing machine seem exotic and beautiful!
It is a couple of years old, but worth visiting again…
Makes you want to go scuba diving, doesn’t it? …or maybe do the laundry?
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I stumbled across these beautiful wallpaper calendars at Ton3.net today, and started playing with the idea of making some of my own.
Time will show if I get around to it…
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Today I have finished my very first Word Press theme. Well, I guess you can question whether its actually finished as I have a tendency to never be entirely satisfied with something I’ve been working on. There is always just a couple of things that need to be improved…
I learned quite a bit about Word Press, which was one of my goals, besides making my very own original Word Press theme for my brand new blog 
My inspiration for the design was the pretty colorful design at Web Developer Wall, and their post on how to make a web design based on a CSS Large Background.
Category: blogging, web design | Tags: CSS, web design, word press theme | Comments (2)
Organization and separation of distinctly different aspects of a web application or website is good code manners and dramatically eases maintenance and adding changes. In application development MVC frameworks separates models, views and controllers. And in web development you separate functionality from visuals by using Cascading Style Sheets.
In an article on Progressive Enhancement with CSS Aaron Gustafson at A List Apart discusses the separation and organization of stylesheets. Below is his suggested basic model which separates type, color, and layout from each other, and deals with the various types of media type layouts a website may be viewed in.
The article also discusses how to deal with oddball browsers like N4, IE6, and IE7.
Category: web design, web development | Tags: CSS, organization, technique | Comments (0)
Welcome to my new blog
I am planning to use this little corner of the Internet to muse about web design, design, art, and other eye candy. Any comments and suggestions are very welcome.
Let’s see how it turns out shall we?
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