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Nivaria Content Manager is a complete CMS solution built by Nivaria primarily to cover it’s needs of fast and cost-effective web site development…
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Estrada is CMS developed by Gandalf Development. It’s one of the first commercially available CMS. Estrada is primarily used by universities and federal agencies around the United States.
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Many a stumbling block is there on the way of a patient icon designer. Some you jump, some you push away but still once you stumble. The question “how to make a tiny nice picture — an icon — from a big nice picture?” is in the first lines on the top problem list. In other words, how do you make a raster icon out of a vector-based picture without the loss of clarity and sharpness of the image?
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It was with greatest surprise that I understood that the moment we’d been waiting for so long arrived a year ago. The first book dedicated to “computer pictogram design” was published in Russia.
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We at Turbomilk talk about the subtleties and nuances of visual interface design in a popular scientific style. In our blog we give you touching stories about icons, critique of other people’s designs — and praise of our own! — plus exciting links and news on the life of the company.
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articles10 Mistakes in Icon Design@glyfx: Thanks for the intelligent discussion Denis. This following bookmark is an invaluable resource and a must for any serious icon designer: A MONSTER LIST of Style Guides and UI Guidelines http://www.theuxbookmark.com/2010/08/interaction-design/a-monster-list-of-ui-guidelines-style-guides
articlesHow we came up with and drew origami logos for LondonClasseskoos.tall: They are such lovely logos, they're quite detailed but easy to look at. I do wonder how long it would have taken for you to create one of them?
articlesLooking for an alternative to Basecamp: review of PBworks Project Edition@admads: We kind of use DeskAway. It is economical and really easy to use. http://deskaway.com
articles10 Mistakes in Icon Design@JobCrowd: Great article. We just finished a related article at the Job Crowd Blog entitled "Avatar creation guide: Selling yourself and your services online". Check it out at http://blog.jobcrowd.com/avatar-creation-guide-selling-yourself-and-your-services-online/. Hope you enjoy.
articles10 Mistakes in Icon Design@liquidizer: Thanks for this. I'd like to use this list in my upcoming (self published) book "Liquid Information". I see you allow use with attribution, which is what I will do, unless you prefer me not to use this in which case I will sadly not do it. You can reach me at frode@hegland.com