10 Things They Don’t Teach You In Design School

I had a great time in design school, I was constantly learning and surrounded by lots of like minded people. However, after five years of freelancing as a graphic designer, I’ve learned many new things. The following list is the top ten things that I had to learn the hard way.
1. Your diploma doesn’t help [...]

DrupalCon is coming to Paris in September 2009

Great news! On Thursday evening, the Drupal Association board chose Paris to host the next European Drupalcon.
First of all we want to congratulate the teams from the other two candidate cities, Maastricht and Cologne. We know they worked hard, spent a lot of energy and did a great job. We’re looking forward to working with [...]

Ten Characteristics of a Good Client

Do you know the key characteristics of a good client? Can you distinguish the good clients from the bad before you start working for them?
Or, when the tables are turned, do you have what it takes to become a good client when your business expands and you’re ready to hire other freelancers?
Here are ten characteristics [...]

SenCSs: Sensible Standards CSS Framework

SenCSs is a Sensible Standards CSS Framework (Pronounce it as “sense”). The current version is 0.5 and supplies sensible styling for all repetitive parts of your CSS.
What features that you can get from SenCSs? Here comes the list:
* Vertical rhythm for all elements
* Common typographic standard across browsers
* Browsers based styling
* Specified fonts for windows, [...]

7 Useful Apps For OSX Web Designers

Because of various requests I received lately and the irrefutable fact, that there are plenty of useful yet sometimes rather unknown applications available for OSX, I’d like to share some of my most vital pieces of software with you ordered by function below.
Image Editing – Photoshop CS3 / CS4
Even though there are some really promising [...]

Happy Birthday Drupal, you are eight

Eight years ago today Drupal 1.0.0 was released. It’s been a big year for Drupal, another big release with Drupal 6, a lot of awards, and a lot of recognition. The project has had some notable departures, promotions, and the addition of many great contributors and users. Happy Birthday to the Drupal project and its [...]

Flash Tutorial on keyboard listeners

So, here is your Flash CS3 Tutorial on how to make an object move using the Arrow Keys. All code is in ActionScript 3.0.

When working in Flash the key board is just as important as the mouse. However, many web sites over look keyboard intractability. If you want your site to stand out, use keyboard controls. If [...]

A Collection of 60+ Free Textures from Stock.xchng

You can get great results and save considerable amounts of time by taking advantage of textures that are freely available. One excellent resources of textures (and other types of stock images) is Stock.xchng. Designm.ag  has shared us “60+ Free Textures from SXC.hu“, you’ll find more than 60 textures from Stock.xchng. Each image links to the page [...]

How to optimize WP 2.1 for WP 2.0.x

Here are several technical recommendations for you considering how to use our WordPress themes for earlier versions of WordPress. The thing is that our themes are designed for WordPress 2.1 and if you want to use them for the older WordPress 2.0.x version here are several suggestions for you:
get_links_list() function has been changed to wp_list_bookmarks()
wp_list_bookmarks() [...]

Displaying Time in Flash using Actionscript

The Date class in Actionscript along with its various methods helps us to retrieve date and time values (Local / GMT).
Create three Dynamic Textboxes for displaying the hours, minutes, seconds and name their variables as ch, cm, cs respectively.
Write the following Actionscript code in the Actions window (F9) as given below:
var dt, timeint;
dt = new [...]