I’ve recently been working on a design concept for a Wordpress theme as part of a personal project. In this walkthrough we’ll go through the process of converting the design concept from PSD document right through to completed HTML and CSS mockup, complete with clean and valid code, a few touches of CSS3 and some [...]

Gradients are a great way to add interest, color, and even depth to a web design. You can use the same color in many shades, many shades of many colors or several other combinations you may think of. You can go linear or radial. The point is that gradients are beautiful and can give your [...]

Most people know that good feedback is essential to designing and developing quality websites.
But what constitutes “feedback” can be ambiguous: for some, it is little more than a hasty spell-check; for others, it is akin to submitting and defending a PhD dissertation.
While there is no one-size-fits-all solution for those seeking feedback [...]

The last year I wrote quite a few posts on the business models around SaaS and cloud computing including SaaS 2.0, disruptive early stage cloud computing start-ups, and branding on the cloud. This year people have started asking me – well, we have seen PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS but what do you think are some [...]

When you set out to create a 2.3×2.5 meter image, you usually do it in a good image editor/drawing program. But a 15-year old YouTube user named scorpiongold did it in MS Paint, and it will blow your mind.
The picture is named “My MS Paint World”, and it supposedly took 4 years to complete (the [...]

The layout is clean and uncluttered; the daily image is rotated to provide an attractive background and landing page. Bing is aesthetically successful, but is it anywhere near perfect semantic search engine?
The competition in this area is fierce especially after the Microsoft-Yahoo partnership has been approved. Regardless, Google is still the dominant player in the [...]

Facebook has announced a new service for the friends and family of dead people.
“When someone leaves us, they don’t leave our memories or our social network,” Facebook says. “To reflect that reality, we created the idea of ‘memorialized’ profiles as a place where people can save and share their memories of those who’ve passed.”
When [...]

Google continues to deliver spectacular web services that dominate the web. Businesses are relying on Google in all aspects of online communication and productivity. Then Google comes up with Google Wave, a real-time communication platform that will probably redefine Email and Web Communication; it combines mail, web chat, IM, and project management software.
Google Wave features [...]

Facebook is constantly evolving, adding features to its 300 million users worldwide on a regular basis. Wall, Status, Pokes and Photos were the main features of the site. Later a News Feed was announced just to be followed by the instant messaging application called Chat. Overtime Facebook significantly changed its user interface to create a [...]