Websites are now no longer viewed primarily on large-screened devices like desktop and laptop computers. In a world that has gone crazy for smartphones like the iPhone and Android devices, they are now increasingly viewed on screens that measure only 4″ diagonally. This presents some unique challenges – and opportunities – for blog owners, but they must first optimize their blogs for these new devices. Tip 1: Optimize Touch Displays Image Source It’s true that a mobile phone will drastically [...]

This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think.

Discussion Forums are a great way of ensuring active participation from your website’s visitors. Of late, many established blogs and websites have been running forums wherein their users can interact and discuss matters of relevance (and irrelevance, depends on the mood). When it comes to running a forum, the options are plenty – both free, and commercial. For WordPress users, arguably, the weapon of choice should be bbPress – as it offers seamless integration with WordPress (to the extent that [...]

There’s something about cult films that begs for interpretation. Whether it’s their odd themes or quirky actors, cult movies are great fodder for artists’ imaginations. I think it’s because B movies, horror slapsticks and fantastical tales just get better over time – as we watch these films over and over, we pick up more imagery as we memorize the dialogue. A seemingly unimportant scene all of a sudden stands out on the 11th viewing. California’s Gallery 1988 is well aware [...]

I’ve mentioned elsewhere that I’m starting up a new studio called Dos Entre Dos. Last week was business card time, and to honest, almost my favourite part! We got our design together and planned out the specifics of the printing. We were going with a matt black finish, spot UV for the logo, and rounded corners. We decided to use an online printing company that I had used several times, with great results. Ten days later we got the cards [...]

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Resize Images in a Post with jQuery, and turn it into a plugin If you own a blog, chances are you post pictures in your posts once in a while. Likewise, you have probably encountered the problem of resizing the pictures so that they fit in the post. Today’s tutorial will be in two steps: We will write a jquery function to handle the image resizing We will convert the resulting code into a plugin We will use two images, [...]