State of the Web – Survey results

January 8th, 2009 - Design, News - No Comments

Webdirections.org conducted a web design survey a while ago and now the results are online. Some interesting stuff can be found in these results.

For example 1.22% of people working in the industry, are using IE6 as their primary browser. Plain HTML is still around with approx 20% still using it instead of XHTML. There’s also an improvement to the number of people who validate their pages (36%) and Microformats are still not a common place for web workers. We still do have unknown words such as RDFA. Some other interesting facts is that flash content is still heavily around for content like video. Also jQuery seems to be an industry standard in terms of Javascript usage.

In the programming part of this survey Linux, Apache, mySQL, PHP seem to be the kings around.

The Gift of Knowledge GIVEaway: Donate your mind

December 11th, 2008 - Design, News - No Comments

Tutorial9.net is holding a really nice contest with a twist. If you can write a a Photoshop tutorial, a roundup featuring your favorite books, create a Photoshop brush set or “ANYTHING that teaches, offers new resources for our readers to work with, or shares experiences that will help others is more than likely an acceptable entry”.

For every entry accepted, $100 is donated to Save the Children and and you’re qualified to win some incredible prizes. Have a look and do consider participating.

Back by popular demand: my 2 photoshop tutorials

December 7th, 2008 - Design, News - No Comments

I just couldn’t see any other 404s. And i couldn’t believe they could be so popular. So here they are. The Color chrome text effect and the Dark but Vivid text effect. Enjoy (once more)!

XHTMLME.com PSD to XHTML Contest: the winner

November 30th, 2008 - Design, News - 1 Comments

And the winner of our xhtmlme.com PSD to XHTML conversion is: Vlad Georgescu. Congratulations man! The winner was picked by running a random “select” query on the announcement post and Vlad was the lucky one. Thank you every one for participating and keep an eye on these pages as a new contest will be held soon with some great prizes!

Blog Contest: PSD to XHTML from XHTMLME.com

November 20th, 2008 - Design, News - 17 Comments

Today we are happy to announce the opening of xhtmlme.com. A new site that offers professional PSD to XHTML / CSS coding service. We thought it would be a good idea to share with our loyal readers a small prize. And that prize would be off course a free PSD to XHTML / CSS conversion for one lucky reader. There aren’t any guidelines you need to follow. All you have to do is leave a comment in this post by Friday, 28th November. Enjoy and good luck! :)