Inspiration: Record covers and sleeves from an era where photoshop wasn’t around
July 11th, 2009 - Design, Inspiration - 4 Comments

About a week ago, a really interesting project landed. Someone who collects LPs and CDs asked me if i could design an e-shop for him so he can sell and connect with people who want to buy or exhange this kind of stuff. After about 2 days of research on the subject i was amazed from the quality of the designs for covers and sleeves that exist in an era were tools like photoshop and illustrator weren’t around. So here’s a small list of websites with this kind of art
ShopperPress – A shopping cart theme for wordpress
July 10th, 2009 - Backend, Wordpress - 7 Comments
ShopperPress is a fully featured shopping cart plugin for wordpress, suitable for selling any types of products, services, and digital downloads online.
Key features
- Utilises WordPress pages, or posts, to create products
- Custom Advertising Spaces (Google Adsence and normall banners)
- Products can have multiple options (weight / sizes / brands etc)
- Various methods available for listing products
- Full Google Adsence Integration for product clicks and selections
SlickMap CSS
July 9th, 2009 - CSS, Frontend - 1 Comments
“SlickMap CSS is a simple stylesheet for displaying finished sitemaps directly from HTML unordered list navigation. It’s suitable for most web sites – accommodating up to three levels of page navigation and additional utility links – and can easily be customized to meet your own individual needs, branding, or style preferences.”
Features and Benefits
- Eliminates the need for additional software
- Easily revised with clients on-the-fly
- Clickable anchors with visible URLs
- Design process results in working HTML code
MyCSS Grid System
July 8th, 2009 - CSS, Frontend - 2 Comments
There are many css frameworks out there. I personally don’t use any of those for various reasons. One of them should be the really weird naming conventions used. I just don’t like having divs with names like “lefthdr”. It doesn’t make sense to me. Another and most important reason is that most of the projects i put my hands on do not exceed 200 – 300 lines of css code so there’s no need for a framework.
Loon Design though released a really simple css framework (using weird names once more but it’s a really small file and you can edit them easily) with really small footprint (778 bytes).
PatternWall – Free Seamless Patterns
July 7th, 2009 - Design, Patterns - 2 Comments
I must admit i have an addiction to patterns. I don’t use them very often but there’s a directory in one of my hard disks with patterns collected in the last 6 – 7 years. Today i’ve found a new website which provides free seamless patterns. PatternWall.com and beside the beautiful patterns provided, a really nice website was built to support those patterns. Really good job.






