Watermark, watermark everywhere and not an image to copy!
Mar 1st 2010 by
Digital media has certainly made taking and copying your artwork easier and faster. If you decide to upload your digital media onto a personal website, or a blog, for instance, and all an individual has to do is save these pictures and images onto their own computers. Without knowing who is downloading your images, it is difficult to ensure the security and safety of your digital media in terms of usage. With the thousands of hackers and infiltrators all over the web, who knows just how some of them would use your pictures? Therefore, the question is: Is there a way to protect your images from other people using them? Well, I would like to suggest the use of watermarks. Aside from setting the access to your websites to a safe minimum, you should also learn how to add watermark to images to make your images even more secure. Furthermore, in this way, you can take protection your images at an increased level.
6Admix Web Mix of the Month: February 2010
Feb 28th 2010 by
This month of February 2010 has been historic for us because not only did we finish and post our new design for Admix Web, but we welcomed our new neice Natalia Marie into the world, we have had the opportunity to meet some new amazing designers and developers, and we launched our new interview series, where I will interview one designer or developer each week. As always, in the Mix of the month, we repost our three most popular articles of the month, as well as the three best articles submitted in our Community News section, and the three best articles we discovered this month. And, in the next few months when we launch our CSS gallery, we will post the best three sites submitted in our CSS gallery as well! However, remember that we are still accepting sites for the gallery, and we just will not post them until the new gallery has been finished. And, as always remember to use our search, tag, and catergory features to look through our archives for great articles written over the past year!
015+ Free Abobe Air Applications for Designers and Developers
Feb 26th 2010 by
Adobe AIR, which stands for Adobe Integrated Runtime, is a cross-functioning system runtime engine that allows web designers and web developers to create rich internet applications, and Adobe AIR is compatible with Windows, Macs and Linux. Adobe AIR is a very functional and useful system for web designers and web developers because it permits Flash, Flex, JavaScript, HTML and AJAX code to look like traditional desktop applications by running without the Web browser. Adobe has created an official Adobe AIR Marketplace which essesntially trys to show all of the Adobe AIR applications that exist. These applications range from tools useful for designers to developers to bloggers to the average person using the web. These are great tools and applications because they can make our lives as designer and developers easier, and best of all they are free. I have compliled a list of 15+ great Adobe AIR applications for you all to use. Remember, this list is not a best of or all inclusive, just ones that I have found to be helpful! Click on the images for links to the application. Enjoy!
12Do You Have What it Takes to be a Freelance Web Designer or Developer?
Feb 22nd 2010 by
For the past year, I have been doing freelance web programming and some web design for various clients, and I must say that the job is more difficult then I even could have imagined. I worked for in-house companies for seven years, before becoming a freelancer, and I must say that I wish I had known what freelancing entailed before I got myself into it. Now, I am not trying to be a pessimist, because the truth is that being a freelance web designer or developer is one of the most rewarding careers or opportunities you could have, but it is also packed with challenges that need to be considered before you step into the world of a freelancer. When I first decided to become a freelancer, I thought it would involved me being able to work in my boxers, watch TV, and take vacations whenever I wanted, but the truth is freelance work is challenging work; so are you up to the challenge. Do you have what it takes to be a freelance web designer or developer? Check out these 15 things to consider, and you decide!
21We are Calling all Web Designers and Developers: We Want to Know the REAL You
Feb 17th 2010 by
This post is the foundation for a personal interview series we will start next week, where we will interview various web designers and developers that have been suggested to us by our readers! We want to delve into their creative minds, and get to know what really makes them tick! Inspired by Brian K. McDaniel, a fellow web designer and blogger’s idea of the, “Behind the Avatar” series, we want to get to know more about the people we follow on Twitter, the designers and developers we chat with, the people our readers follow on Twitter, and the designers and developers behind the blogs. The first thing I do when someone adds me on Twitter, is visit their blog to read the “about us” page, but usually that just leaves me wanting to know more; I want to know the person behind the blog.
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