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The microwave of web publishing

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 05:56:16 -0400

The microwave of web publishing

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Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:12:40 -0400

RIP Steve Jobs. You will be missed.

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Folyo: "How much does a website cost?" and other pricing questions

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:19:01 -0400

Folyo: "How much does a website cost?" and other pricing questions:

folyo:

If there’s one thing nobody seems to want to talk about, it’s pricing. Most designers don’t publish their rates, and good luck getting a company to tell you how much they paid for their site.

The results of this situation is that it can be pretty hard to know how much to spent on design. Spend…

Do websites need to look exactly the same in ever browser?

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 06:24:00 -0400

Do websites need to look exactly the same in ever browser?

2fooo website now responsive

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:14:00 -0400

The control which designers know in the print medium, and often desire in the web medium, is simply a function of the limitation of the printed page. We should embrace the fact that the web doesn’t have the same constraints, and design for this flexibility. But first, we must “accept the ebb and flow of things.”

John Allsopp, A Dao of Web Design

Computers are not the only devices through which we browse. We experience the internet through various devices such as smartphones and tablets - that have different screen sizes. To face this state of the art and please the users, our website is now responsive.

To see the interface in action, just slowly make your browser window thinner and wider. The layout will magically adjust itself to fit the new width of the browser, even if you try with the resolution of a mobile phone. Here are some screenshots:

As you can see, even images are responsive and fluid. We hope browsing our web site will be more pleasant and simple.

Adding a favicon to a Wordpress web site

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 08:52:00 -0400

Creating the favicon

The favicon is a tiny (16x16 px) but precious icon that identifies your web site among the others. To create you can use free we resources as

Photoshop lets you save an image in .ico format if you install the proper plugin.

It’s better to use plain images, with few colors and effects: keep it simple.

To work in Wordpress, your favicon must be named “favicon.ico”.

Adding the favicon in Wordpress

With an ftp software upload your file “favicon.ico” in the directory of your template. Modify “header.php” file, adding in the HEAD section the following lines of code:

  <link rel="shortcut icon" href="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/favicon.ico" />

Save and you’ll see your new, tiny-shiny favicon.