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:
Blog
Dec 29, 2011
Big and Wide Header Image
Oct 01, 2011
Icon Resource
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.
Sep 15, 2011
Unique Logo Treatment in Web Design
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?
Sep 06, 2011
Beautiful and Inspirational iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad App Website Design
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:
Sep 01, 2011
Essential (Supportive) Apps for Web Designer in Mac
Aug 31, 2011
Icons in Web Design Trend
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.
Aug 16, 2011
Google Apps Email Setup in cPanel
Apr 15, 2011
Skype Mac Chat Style Competition
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):
Apr 07, 2011
Coming Soon: GlassWorks WordPress Theme at Wordspop
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:
Mar 20, 2011
The Importance of Clear Communication in Remote Project
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
Mar 07, 2011
Running a Free Hosting Give Away at Jurus Grafis
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!