12 posts tagged “web design”

Ubuntu Studio is aimed at the GNU/Linux audio, video and graphic enthusiast as well as professional.

Ubuntu Studio provides a suite of the best open-source applications available for multimedia creation. Completely free to use, modify and redistribute. Your only limitation is your imagination !

Are you a web designer or graphic designer and do people keep bugging you to build their websites or design logos ?
Do you have to keep appologising you don't have the time to help them ?

Well now you can help them by sending them to GoDaddy :

• https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/hosting/custom_website.asp
• https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/logo/landing.asp

and if you are currently charging more than $500 you might have to expect a lot of competition or even have to review your pricing !

The Oregon State University Open Source Lab have some interesting clients if you are looking for clip art or fonts:

• Open Clip Art Library
• Open Font Library
  

Apple Safari Web Browser

Experience the web, Apple style, with Safari: the fastest, easiest-to-use web browser in the world. With its simple, elegant interface, Safari gets out of your way and lets you enjoy the web

Safari 3.1 is now available for download

Now theres a web service than can create favorite icons (favicon.ico) (those little pictures that appear next to websites in your web browser bookmark list) from any image for your website !

http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/

Why trash IE6 hacks?

I know this is difficult because about 37% (according to w3schools.com) of internet users are still using IE6. But, together we can make a different. Stop using IE hacks on your sites and let them see the ugly side of IE6. Eventually, they will find a better browser (ie. Firefox) or at least upgrade to newer version of IE.

VOTE HERE !

http://www.webdesignerwall.com/general/trash-all-ie-hacks/

Last weeks Web Standards Group (organised by http://muffinresearch.co.uk/) featured a talk on Web Accessibility and Screen Readers.

I learnt a lot and in my subsequent research I discovered the following sites :

• GNOME Orca Screen Reader http://www.gnome.org/projects/orca/
  
• VisuGate http://www.visugate.biz/fresources.htm
• National Library for the Blind http://atp.nlb-online.org/Lessons/p_00.php
  

The Open Design Community (TODC) is a group of Open Source Website Designers providing free-of-charge web design templates helping to make the global internet a prettier place.

Apparently there is a Hobo demo showing how TODC templates can be used ! Hobo is currently in early beta - version 0.5.3. Although Hobo is in active use in production applications, please be aware that if you choose to deploy a Hobo/Rails application on the Internet you do so at your own risk

http://hobocentral.net/screencasts.php

https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=17954

NASDAQ
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Web Pages
http://www.labsmedia.com/clickheat/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/clickheat/

http://jtreemap.sourceforge.net/