Archive for September, 2008

22/09/2008 - susana
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Interface: Is less more?

With the recent arrival to the market of Google Chrome a new concept when it comes to web browser design arrived. Minimalism is one of the principal characteristics proposed by this new browser, trying to give more space to the web content.

I definitely agree that simplicity is one of the key elements to a good design ,although it doesn’t mean that all simple designs are good or that not so simple designs aren’t, it just means that it’s harder to go wrong if you stick to a good design. However several pages aren’t correctly shown in Chrome, which totally ruins the concept of having a minimalistic interface in order to give importance to the wepage you’re visiting.

Have you tried Chrome? What to do you think about it’s interface design and concept? Is it really that different from others?

08/09/2008 - susana

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Firebug: A plug-in for web development

A good website design requires a lot of work. A well designed code is often the key to a website, not only to achieve an outstanding user interface but also to make your site load faster, have a good SEO practice and make it robust. Firebug is a plug-in for Firefox that helps you do that. You can download it and install it. A little bug will appear on the right side of the status bar on Firefox and when you double click it you can see the HTML code, Javascript and CSS of the website you’re in. You can manipulate it, select it, and the changes and selections will appear on the website you’re browsing.

Additionally, you can check how much each element of your webpage takes to load. This will help you detect which elements are slowing it down and you’ll know what needs to be changed.

There are several uses for this tool, they will certainly help you improve your design!

Link: Firebug

03/09/2008 - susana
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Visit our New Community Site

The new releases for free stock icons in our community have been paused for a while. If you were wandering what happened, I invite you to log into your community account (or create one if you haven’t visited it yet) and discover the new portal implemented. We’re hoping the interaction between all of us increases using this tool :) and once everything is working fine, the new sets will keep coming!

You can swap icons with other users, or exchanging your points, so, while the new sets are released go and get as much points as you can to be the first one to get them :)