Design of the day 10/09/2007



Recently I came across some French blog. Of course I didn’t understand a thing that is written there only word Feed which is international. But now I do understand one thing, the design thing. It’s black & white, unique and beautiful. Check it out at DaWeed.info. It is two column design with Web 2.0 footer. Header has his own nice pattern. Good work.

DaWeed


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Posted by Jan

Design of the day 09/09/2007



Today is a green day. Greenish. Ultra greenish and nature powered. Systima Technology’s design is kind of that. They gave freshness to the design with green leaves. They also have a good position of text and pictures what they do, that is important for potential clients.

Systima Technology’s


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Posted by Jan

Design of the day 08/09/2007



Flowers. Connection with nature. Today’s design of the day it’s from SiblingDesigns and is a pure simplicity and art. Two main colors beautifully one by another. It’s a standard two column design but with good details. I would probably do rounded top menu buttons, but that’s designer’s decision.

SiblingDesigns


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Posted by Jan

Design of the day 07/09/2007



Design of the website Giraffe - Love, Eat, live it’s colorful, build with energy and passion. This design it’s very suitable for kids with its colors and funny content. Although Giraffe it’s a shop, they made a very nice website to represent their brand.

Giraffe - Love, Eat, live


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Posted by Jan

Design of the day 06/09/2007



Simple and nice. That should be slogan of every web page. Worldways Social Marketing has this slogan. Nice logo, simple colors, good content position. And here are also good reasons to visit this site. Why? To help other people of course.

Worldways Social Marketing


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Posted by Jan

Design of the day 05/09/2007



Today’s Design of the day it’s Slovenian news portal and search engine Slowwwenia. They have nice simple logo, with Web 2.0 top menu, good content position. There are also nice colors, not too intense and right tones. The only thing that I dislike it’s too much adds.

slowwwenia


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Posted by Jan

Design of the day 04/09/2007



There must be something going on, because almost all designers are redesigning their blogs. Although WPDesigner redesigned his blog a little bit earlier than others. His new design is definitely more clearer than previous. Top menu it’s cool and sidebar is also not bad. I really love top right function of changing header colors.

WPDesigner


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Posted by Jan

Redesigning: For club and culture



Designers redesigning their own sites continuously is definitely not a new thing, whilst any other redesign for any other blog / website is always a great thing to freshen things up a bit. Two big bloggers, Problogger and John Chow, recently grabbed the attention of the blogosphere with their respective new designs.

Redesigning a blog has got to be a well-thought through process with some strategic goals that the blogger / designer wants to be achieve with the redesign. Designers with blogs seems to be the most guilty of not planning a redesign properly and most of them just seems to redesign for the sake of redesigning. As you’ll see from the screenshot below, I too launched a redesigned version of my own blog (titled Polaroid Redesign V2) on Saturday (1 September), since I felt it was time for change. To however explain what I mean with planning a redesign, have a look at my redesign post-op

Design of the day 03/09/2007

Redesigning a blog means that you’re joining a very particular club that features some top notch redesigns - like Problogger and John Chow - and the club will most definitely judge your redesign in comparison to the other newly launched designs. This means that your redesign needs to be well-planned to make the impact that you’re hoping for!

Except for joining the “redesign club”, redesigning is also about the associated culture.  One of the major reasons for my redesign was the traditional September first reboot culture (although this seems to have died out). Redesigning a blog is a massive challenge, due to the very popular culture thereof…

So don’t be willy-nilly and ignorant about your next redesign - think about it and launch a special new design!


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Firefox Banner (anti IE) plugin for Wordpress



I hate IE. Why? Because I always have to adjust new design for IE6 and IE7. That usually means few hours of extra work. Internet could be such a nice if everybody would use Firefox instead of IE. So I asked sverde1 to introduce his nice anti IE plugin and offered it to everybody.

Around three weeks ago Jan asked me if I can make him a Wordpress plugin that will show GetFirefox banner in IE just like on my homepage. I said why not and started to work on the plugin that was finished in few hours.

Screenshot of FFBanner plugin for Wordpress

So this is the result. I’ve also added few options in admin panel where you can set:

  • URL where user will be taken if he clicks on the banner
  • URL of the banner itself
  • how long the banner will be shown
  • position of the banner (currently there are available only 4 positions, I’ll add more if there will be interest)
  • margins from the border

Download

Installation:

  1. Extract the FFBanner/ folder from ZIP file
  2. Upload FFBanner/ folder into your Wordpress plugin folder
  3. Open your Wordpress administration, click on Plugins tab and activate the plugin
  4. Check FFBaner in IE6 or IE7
  5. Enjoy :P

By sverde1

Thank you sverde1!!!


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Posted by Jan

Design of the day 03/09/2007



On the same day that we started Adii redesigned his blog. I must say I love it. Colorful background is just unique and filled with energy. Content is very well positioned and much more “easily scanned” than previous, although I like previous too. He really proved him self in icons for every detail.

Design of the day 03/09/2007


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Posted by Jan