Aug 31, 2011

Icons in Web Design Trend

By Felix Widjaja

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The current state of web design trend are fancy fonts and icons. Icons (or in this case: glyph) are usually enlarged, and colored by less than 3 tones. Usual suspects are: social media icons and company services. I can’t imagine a web design without icons, because to me they really add spices, and visual impact to the design. Let’s see some examples: There are numerous free resources for this. But as you see, they mostly come in small size. For serious web designers like us, we need premium icons in vector format. Here’s some list that I know: Helveticons PICAS Icons Skewed Icons Symbolicons Vector Mill Geomicons

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Aug 16, 2011

Google Apps Email Setup in cPanel

By Felix Widjaja

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The guide for setting up email for Google Apps in cPanel is surprisingly minimum. To set up, it’s very simple, just log on to your cPanel hosting account, and go to Mail > MX Entry. Once there, select your domain from the drop down menu, and Add New Record with this following rules: Priority: 0 Destination: aspmx.l.google.com Done.

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Apr 15, 2011

Skype Mac Chat Style Competition

By Felix Widjaja

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I just submitted a theme for the Skype Mac Chat Style competition. It’s called Fish and Chips. The name came from one of my favorite food (yummy!) To demo the skin, look for this button in the above link: Please cast your vote and support us by clicking the blue Vote button in here (you have to register first – you can not login using Skype ID). And help retweet this post Tweet Several screenshots to convince you (click to enlarge):

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Apr 07, 2011

Coming Soon: GlassWorks WordPress Theme at Wordspop

By Felix Widjaja

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We submitted a WordPress theme named GlassWorks intended for web designer, photographer, graphic designer, and related fields to Wordspop. Wordspop has been known for their flagship & delicious theme: Fotofolio (version 1 and 2). Currently GlassWorks is in slicing progress and I’m still designing the mobile version. Here’s the preview:

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Mar 20, 2011

The Importance of Clear Communication in Remote Project

By Lany Listijo

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Here in Stucel, we use email and instant message extensively to communicate with clients and colleagues. By working virtually i.e not face to face, clear communication is the most important thing to get it right. We all know, it’s a different thing to explain something through written if compared to live meet up. For on site meeting, body language, face expression, and voice tone will help. If sloppy, we could have been write something “offensive” to certain people in email. Especially with people who cash us to work on their project. For example if we are in the middle of the project, I used to send project progress (less than half done) to client, although it may look very raw. But the purpose is to make sure everything is on track, no surprises. But for some people it may look like

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Mar 07, 2011

Running a Free Hosting Give Away at Jurus Grafis

By Felix Widjaja

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Today at Jurus Grafis (Indonesian designer’s blog) we are running a give away for two lucky winners. The winner will get a free shiny Silver package + free domain for 1 year. So far, the responses are good, and we are thankful for that. Maybe we should add more winners and prizes, not just for two!

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