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Website Design

65 NASA Textures for Photoshop and other designs

January 10, 2010
65 NASA Photoshop textures to use for graphic design

I was searching yesterday for a good texture as a background for a Wordpress Thesis theme I’m working on.  I happened to stumble across dozens of NASA textures I thought would be great for many ideas (some more so than others).  I thought I’d share those with you.  Regardless of your expertise, a little dabbling [...]

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How to lose data in CakePHP

February 20, 2009

I finally sat down to figure out why scripts for my hurricane website were acting up.  All I knew is for some reason certain yearly archives were not displaying via the pages or by direct linking.  My initial thought was that, for some reason, the for loop in my view was skipping iterations.  After crossing [...]

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KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid – The 960 Grid

February 14, 2009

The 960 Grid System is a CSS framework that allows for easy implementation of most any type of layout using only a few classes. The basic usage behind 960 requires a fixed layout of 960 pixels. There are two grid systems that can be used: a 12-column grid layout or a 16-column grid [...]

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KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid – Slicing the Layout

February 13, 2009

We designed a simple, sleek template in Photoshop that we named KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid). This template was created with several factors involved. First, we wanted most of our important content to appear “above the fold”. Second,we wanted an off-balance look to add uniqueness to our website. Third, we wanted [...]

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KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid – Designing the Layout

February 1, 2009

I recently created a very-simplistic, yet highly effective and attractive website layout I called “KISS” or “Keep It Simple”.  Though the layout focused on a literal “kiss” theme, in this article you should be able to find colors that best suite your goals and images that compliment those colors and goals.  My first goal, of [...]

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Creating a Space drawing in Photoshop

January 30, 2009

I, like many, have always been fascinated with Space.  I’ve been even more fascinated with the ideas of imagining what it would be like to live on antoher planet.  Images such as those seen in the movie Contact (at the end) and other artistic renderings stir the imagination with vivid colors and lighting that are [...]

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