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Despite the money issues, freelancing is great! It allowed me to learn so much on my proficiency as a designer and as a developer. One of the most important skills I’ve mastered is web standards. Designing on top of standards is the ultimate technique for everything else, from presentation with CSS to user experience with Javascript and AJAX.
Even though Drupal is the best CMS in the world – which I subscribe with pride -, there’s one thing I’ve been noticing: it has a load of attributes within elements, particularly classes and id’s (not to mention sometimes it seems there are loads of div’s that look rather unnecessary until certain point). This is good and bad for some reasons, and I’ll explain why the Drupal team proceeds that way.
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November 10th, 2008 —
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Yesterday I was at the mall trying to have lunch and I stood before two restaurants, both 30 feet away from me. I wanted to see the price tags for each restaurant and the result was the following. The shots were taken with a lousy Nokia XpressMusic but they totally say my point:
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November 1st, 2008 —
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This is something that intrigues me pretty much: design companies / people who claim themselves the trophy for great products and yet they suck. I tag these guys as corrupt kings or napoleons of the web because they think they are the best at what they do and yet they don’t and no one tells them so!
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October 20th, 2008 —
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Many times I wonder why there are such brilliant websites and the people behind them are such great masterminds. I’m already assuming there needs to have a bit of genius, not just creativity. I’m talking about the core of every website: content.
Imagine you care about content already, but in what way? Do you design for the content or the other way around? Do you create a layout based on the information/content you have or do you try and generate content based on the lovely yet empty work of art you’ve created with Photoshop?
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October 10th, 2008 —
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I’ve been sniping Pixelmator for a time ago. Truly simple, fast, sleek and result-driven tool. Oh, you don’t know what Pixelmator is? It’s a photography utility program that allows you to edit photos in a pinch! And since it’s based on Mac so nicely, you can access your iPhoto library seamlessly. As master Jobs would say: pretty cool, huh?
Oh and forgot to mention, it’s open source based! This means low expense and good results as usual in the FOSS group. Will be posting some results with my experience on it, now that I’m almost to embrace photography more seriously. If you don’t have the money nor the mad genius to get Photoshop, this is a real good way to start!
October 9th, 2008 —
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