16 Sep
1

The Most Powerful Colors in the World

By COLOURlover // 15 September, 2010 When we released our report on the colors of the social web, based on data analyzed by our Twitter theme tool, we were surprised that blue was such a dominant color in people””s profile designs. Was Twitter””s default color influencing their design decisions? Or is blue really THE most [...]


15 Sep
11

How to Calibrate Color for the Web

When is orange more like red? Web designers, even picky ones, sometimes ignore color shift across monitors. How is a web designer to manage color when the screens of their users could be any size or color or could be viewed under any lighting conditions? Unlike fixing HTML errors, which affect browsers as the page [...]


10 Sep
0

Rollovers and tooltips with jQuery

This tutorial assumes that you have a basic knowledge of html, css and jquery. The markup This is pretty straight, just an unordered list with three items and each item has a link. <ul id=”iconbar”> <li><a href=”#”> <img src=”key.gif” alt=”" /> <span>Change your password</span> </a></li> <li><a href=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/ilovecolors” target=”_blank”> <img src=”rss.gif” alt=”" /> <span>Suscribe to our [...]


8 Sep
1

Editing Opacity with Layer Masks

On screen, the colors of pixels are a mix of red, green and blue values. A fourth value, opacity, controls how pixels blend with pixels laid over them. In image-editing programs such as Photoshop, changing the opacity of a layer is easy but not always precise. Setting a layer to 50% opacity  makes all of [...]


2 Sep
0

8 Features to look for when choosing a CMS

This article is a very detailed contribution by Drew McLellan, that  focuses on the features you should look for when choosing a content management system… Clean URL Design One of the key features to look for when evaluating a CMS is its ability to publish content with clean URLs. Not only because you want to [...]


1 Sep
1

Social Media Terms Glossary

In spite of the outsanding and increasing popularity of  Social Media, there many groups of people who are still wondering what is it for, what is the big deal with it,  how it works, and more importantly, what does every single word used in social media means? So, here I leave you with a very [...]