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

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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.