Blogs - Open Source Designers

Expressing Yourself at 56k

Ah, dial-up. Those were the days. Before DSL, Cable, and satellite internet connections, even the most elite internet user had to deal with modems screaming demonic verses in tongues fit only for poor ears in hell. Boy, those were the days. Clearly, I'm joking. Relative to the insanely fast, silent, digital protocols that today's modems speak, the decades stuck on dial-up are not missed. However,… Continue

Added by Brolin Wolcott on February 4, 2010 at 4:55pm — No Comments

Open Source and Cloud Computing

A client was asking if open source code could be distributed on a cloud hosting platform and not violate licensing? They are running some sort of open source call center software and want to distribute their workforce using satellite internet service providers… Continue

Added by pat griswold on January 21, 2010 at 5:00am — No Comments

Been busy!

Been real busy, working on lots of sites, of which the website for Salisbury accountants Clifford Fry & Co is the latest..... Christmas break couldnt come sooner. Continue

Added by Robert Jolliffe on December 22, 2009 at 3:04pm — No Comments

Design in the Open: the Symbian^3 Widget Carousel

What you see here is from a YouTube video featuring a Symbian code prototype of a new way to manage and enjoy widgets for Symbian^3. This is t

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Added by Scott Weiss on December 17, 2009 at 2:37pm — No Comments

Exibindo o wordpress online só para você

Muitas vezes precisamos testar um tema ou uma alteração em um site mas não gostaria que esta visão estivesse disponível para outros usuários, em alguns casos o site é novo mas para o cadastro é importante a conferência visual para ver se está tudo correndo bem. Neste exemplo vou ensinar como aplicar um redirecionamento ou, se preferir, uma tela de manutenção enquanto faz as atualizações ou cadastros necessários. Leia o artigo completo:… Continue

Added by Samuel Arendt on November 27, 2009 at 6:01pm — No Comments

Dominando o the_excerpt() do Wordpress – Final do texto

Continuando no assunto do the_excerpt(), agora vamos ver como é fácil alterar os pontinhos no final do resumo do post. Vou apresentar a versão atual e a que estará funcionando a partir da versão 2.9 do Wordpress (ahhh.. não vejo a hora de sair!), mas vamos ao que interessa. Veja o artigo completo: Dominando o the_excerpt() do Wordpress – Final do texto ... Continue

Added by Samuel Arendt on November 27, 2009 at 5:59pm — No Comments

Dominando o the_excerpt() do Wordpress – Número de palavras

Estava procurando uma solução para o número de palavras que aparecia no resumo do Wordpress e encontrei isso, claro, na fonte, o site do codex deles: http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/excerpt_length#Examples Na primeira tentativa aparecia um erro de PHP, fiquei intrigado, mas lendo o erro percebi que o problema era óbvio, estava repetindo a função dentro do loop, daí não dá né! Lei… Continue

Added by Samuel Arendt on November 27, 2009 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Ideas for Design

I work in the Indianapolis web design industry and I recently got contracted to start a web site and ning community for a company that handles dental insurance plans and short term health insurance… Continue

Added by Howard Strang on November 26, 2009 at 4:52am — No Comments

Tips To Choose The Web Application Security Testing Tool

With vital data being transmitted and stored in web applications, there is a dire need for explicit security testing. Apart from maintaining the privacy of important data, security testing also involves tackling authorization and authentication issues. As a tester, it is the most exciting form of testing. There are many interesting tools and techniques to reveal the vulnerabilities of a web application. But as fun as it may sound, it has a very serious side to it. With the use of the right… Continue

Added by Seo Specialist on November 15, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Software Testing Tools to Test Cloud Computing Applications

New Open Source Testing Tools are emerging that will deploy, manage and test the latest Cloud Computing Software applications. With its dynamic scalablity, flexibility and virtualized resources are provided as a service, Cloud Computing is seen as the dawn of a new era for application services and has received its fair share of plaudits. With Google Documents, Flickr, Buzzword and Zoho as examples of gen… Continue

Added by Seo Specialist on November 7, 2009 at 5:09am — No Comments

Using jQuery to filter a custom view in Drupal 6

Recent Drupal 6 site - Using jQuery to filter a custom page view. Looking for speed beyond what exposed filters can provide? - try jQuery Quicksearch. http://www.bakewellpools.co.uk/models-and-prices If there's enough interest in this technique I will blog the details on how I've set it up. Continue

Added by Paul Evans on October 28, 2009 at 9:51pm — No Comments

New Joomla website launched

Check out http://www.crispystock.com/ - a new Joomla website for a Hampshire music festival. My own little mini freelance project aimed to blend Joomla functionality with a beautifully designed website. Continue

Added by Robert Jolliffe on September 3, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Logo Design Creation Process From Concept To Completion

Do you want to know the secret of how top-quality graphic designers design logos? This article will disclose exactly how top-notch logo designers of today’s contemporary age design their logos. It will show the design route that these designers undergo to get to their final logo design. Logo Designers Design Route: 1. Logo Design Brief 2. Background & Competitive Research 3. Drawing The Sk… Continue

Added by Kathy Maxwelll on August 22, 2009 at 6:33am — No Comments

Creating Breadcrumb Design for Silverlight 3 in Expression Blend

Designing the patterns for your user interface is crucial as far as the user experience is concerned. The need for implementing the Breadcrumb design pattern arises when you need to place an option for the users of the application to know where they really are; for example, in a hierarchical structure where users need to go forward and backward. It’s especially useful when you want to create navigational functionality which will allow users to move several steps forward and backward. There are i… Continue

Added by FaisalHossainKhan on August 9, 2009 at 11:35pm — No Comments

Distributed User Testing of Archive Behavior in Ubuntu

We’d like everyone to help us discover the optimum solution to the way archives should behave on Ubuntu. We have a simple task to ask test participants that will help us address concerns about the way archives currently behave. This is the first time the Canonical design team has tried user testing as a broad community activity. Please bear with us if the process is not perfect and let us know your thoughts and feedback on how the process can be adjusted or improved.… Continue

Added by Alejandra Obregon on August 4, 2009 at 6:04pm — No Comments

Flirt, Date, Commit: Injecting Design into an Open Source Project

Lightning talk on injecting design into an OS project: http://www.slideshare.net/jsonin/flirt-date-commit-injecting-design-into-an-open-source-project-presentation Continue

Added by Juhan Sonin on August 3, 2009 at 11:44pm — No Comments

"Many users are simply lazy, stupid, or lazy and stupid"

From the The Daily WTF: "Not too long ago, the CTO at Dudley H.'s company had a startling revelation: there should never, ever be a need for technical support. If a client has an issue using one of their products, then the problem is most certainly in the product. Maybe the UI is a little confusing. Maybe it's not documented enough. Maybe the documentation isn't clear enough. Whatever the case,… Continue

Added by Mike on July 23, 2009 at 12:52am — 1 Comment

Come Design Itsme with us

Hi everyone. I am Nikhil working on a very exciting project called itsme and I wanted to share the project with you all, and invite you to join us in the design process. Itsme is an open-source Operating system embodying the "stories and venues" metaphor in its front end. It represents a turning point in the personal computing concept because its metaphor changes in order to help its users to manage the complexity of their social environme… Continue

Added by Nikhil Paul on July 20, 2009 at 5:40pm — No Comments

Is loving Joomla.

As above, i am currently in love with Joomla - the cms that we use for most of our projects @ bluefrontier. We have just added a new Joomla section to our site @ http://www.bluefrontier.co.uk/joomla-specialists/we-are-joomla-specialists which features all our joomla web design & development services. Continue

Added by Robert Jolliffe on July 13, 2009 at 3:03pm — No Comments

We want your artwork in Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala"

(Original post) Ken Wimer, a member of the Canonical Design team, is running a contest to collect a set of beautiful desktop backgrounds to ship with Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" in October.

In our next release, the Karmic Koala (Ubuntu 9.10), we would like to include a set of high quality desktop backgrounds. In order to accomplish this we call on anyone and everyone to