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How we came up with the name for Iconza and later made its logo
We decided upon making a web application that would serve a collection of customizable icons. Any project needs a cool name and a logo. We started off with naming.
All you wanted to know about Turbomilk but were too shy to ask
Our zealous readers must remember how we hosted our dear guests from Dominion this July. And prior to that we had paid a visit to that wonderful studio ourselves where we were treated with some tea and a Q&A session. So, what kind of questions can site builders have to interface designers? Luckily we got all the moves on paper and nothing will prevent us from sharing it.
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articlesThese could be the new LiveJournal’s icons Czerny: I think a lot website owners would prefer the icons with button because your icons look great but they need .png alpha transparency... And with the button it needs only 4 x 1px transparency on each of the rounded corners which can be made within .gif-files. Most big websites needs full IE6 support and it is too complicated to handle .png-files in some reasons. Damn IE6!!
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