Archive for March, 2009

26/03/2009 - Lina
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Internet Explorer 8

On March 19th “General Manager Dean Hachamovitch during his keynote (…) in Las Vegas announced the availability of the final release of Internet Explorer 8 to download and install on their PCs.”(quote from“Brandon LeBlanc”).

I still haven’t try it, but in my opinion these are great news for all of us, as web users. I’ve been reading some articules about Internet Explorer 8 that many people has published in different websites. Most of them says that it’s a great advance and an excellent tool that all of us should have it right now. I’m not a fan of downloading or purchasing programs from the first day that they are available, it’s been a week since Internet Explorer 8 its available so I would like to receive different opinions from all of you about it.
If you still don’t have it but want to prove it, click here and let me know your personal comments and opinions about it. I’m sure this topic is really helpful for all of us.
Hope to hear from all of you soon!

19/03/2009 - Lina

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Web Typography

It’s important to be aware of the way we decide to write our articules or any publication in our website. People always cares that the spelling or the principal idea of the product that they want to share is good, but sometimes we forget that the most important thing is to bring all kind of people, people from everywhere to our website to share our ideas.

A basic aspect to attract them besides of having a good graphic design, is the form that we use the typography. Spelling is important but we need that they fall in love with our work in all different ways, so if you don’t want to get them bored of your info; Here are Five(5) basic but very useful points that might help you to develop your web typography in a good way:

1. Hierarchy
2. Contrast
3. Line Height
4. Letter Spacing
5. Line Length

If you want more information, please go to smashinmagazine.com and read this complete articule about this issue. “10 Principles For Readable Web Typography”

Hope this information helps you with your website development.

12/03/2009 - Lina
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ICONS: When an image talks.

Aside of being a 100% necessary  in software apps; icons are really useful in the content of a web design.

Nowdays, when we are interested in communicate and offer a product or an idea,  a web page is the main tool that we use in XXI century.  If you are a designer you must now that the design is the most important way to attract customers and that’s why  diferent companies  come to us, they are always waiting the best image for their Project, but as web designers, do we always think of the importance of an icon?, I mean not thinking in a general image, or design, I am talking about particularly of icons.  My first experience with icon meanings was with iconkshock. I’ve never thought  how significant is an icon style in a software and in a web design development.

There are  thousands of styles, more than you’ve never known, than can make your website or any digital application so much more fascinated. The greatest fact is that an icon is never going to be only a decorative image, a good icon always can talk. A good icon acts like the best summary ever.

I would like to know, ¿what do you think about this issue?, It’d be really good to have comments from designers about what they think  when a customer asks them to create a web design and also I would like to have comments from these customers, to know what they hope when they need web design.  Is the word “Icon” always present in any web design that someone asks you for?

It’s an icon just a decorative image, a complement for the text or for you a good icon, a real one is the principal language of your website?

04/03/2009 - Lina

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PICASA: The Greatest Image Viewer!

Picasa is a google application, which allows you to see most of bitmap formats, among them you can see the most populars: .png – .jpg – .gif – .ico – etc…

Picasa Viewer

Besides being the greatest image viewer, is the easiest way to share, search, organize and edit your images, photos, graphics and also you can convert them in movie clips, collages, and it gives you the opportunity to filter your files. You can choose if you want to see only portrait pictures, movies or images you’ve cataloged as the most specials and a lot more.

Picasa Viewer

This application Works in Mac, Windows XP/Vista or Linux and you can use it as the principal application to open any kind of new images that you import in your computer.
Picasa finds your documents and organize them from albums, files and any other material that is related with an image.

You really should try it: http://www.picasaweb.google.com