Dec 30, 2011

Looking Back at 2011

By Felix Widjaja

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Hey it’s almost 2012 and it’s time to remember what we’ve done in 2011. Well, it has been a roller coaster year, and here’s something worth remembering: Roughly 400 – 500 Adobe Photoshop documents were drilled in 2011. Surprisingly there is a 1 year old project since 2010 that is still under development. The farthest signed project is from Angola, in Africa. We begin accepting Hosting service for public in February, with 39 happy clients. We still haven’t manage to discover the right person for senior designer / senior developer position. I totally forgot to write a Merry Christmas blog. We wish you a prosperous 2012 and luck to you, your business and your family.

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Dec 29, 2011

Big and Wide Header Image

By Felix Widjaja

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Website with big header (or stage) image is getting more and more popular. I love them, because it usually help the user to experience the design/branding by pulling down the atmosphere. Impact, vibrant and rich are the keywords. But there’s a big sacrifice: slower loading time. They usually dominating the header, go 100% full width in browser, hugging the content. And, combined with slider effect. Here’s some sample:

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Oct 01, 2011

Icon Resource

By Felix Widjaja

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Often, when designing website, I need to use specific icon fast, because they are important (explained in this post). The usual suspects are social media icons (Facebook, Twitter LinkedIn), email icon, login icon, country flag, phone icon, document icon). There’s no way to use the same resource in my personal folder collection for over and over again, for every single project. My favorit resource to find them are from: What I really like about them is the ability to search “free for commercial use” license icons.

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Sep 15, 2011

Unique Logo Treatment in Web Design

By Felix Widjaja

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Awesome website designer has to make every project unique. One of the way to achieve that, is by unique logo treatment. The traditional, safe, and familiar place to put logo is of course on the left side of the screen. But, why not putting it on center, or maybe on the right, or maybe still on left but spice it a bit? We all know it’s not that easy to get client approval for those unorthodox treatment, even though it’s looking great. Let’s see some samples shall we?

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Sep 06, 2011

Beautiful and Inspirational iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad App Website Design

By Felix Widjaja

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iOS applications are hot and beautifully executed and eye pleasing. They really follow the Apple’s way to do things perfect in its iOS and hardware. But these thousands of apps are competing each other in blood bath, dying to get us notice. So how they get stand out? The answer is cool website design for showcasing their apps. To get their customer hit the “Available now on the App Store” button, they usually show: big and cool application icon, one page format, price, video or animated screenshots that shows how the application are used, awesome illustration. Below are my favorite list:

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Sep 01, 2011

Essential (Supportive) Apps for Web Designer in Mac

By Felix Widjaja

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Adobe Photoshop can’t live alone, she needs companions. During work, I can’t rely to her only, I’m using these must-have applications to accompany her: LittleSnapper I need LittleSnapper ($39.99) to snap / take screenshot all my favorite or unique websites that is very useful during rainy days. Before using this app, I used to manually screenshot them and put the files in a folder (lucky I didn’t print them all). In LittleSnapper, I can organize all my 1749 screenshots i.e add tags, give rates, get the original URL, or maybe put the best in smart folder. Just like Finder, it is possible to quick change the thumbnail size. Very convenient and time saver. PS. LittleSnapper has some limitation when snapping Adobe Flash element. It will be left blank, while the other non Flash element will be included in the shot.

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