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Bucharest at night

Family Guy - Bullfrog

I found this picture in someone’s photostream on flickr; observe the superb shadows.

Sometimes I complicate things myself, but not like this guy…

See more webcomics like this one at xkcd.com

In my last post I was talking about choosing colors for a website; it is well known that when you say colors and web, you say RGB; that means in my other post I talked only about RGB colors and so I decided in this post to write about CMYK colors.

General notes

RGB is an additive color model in which red, green, and blue light are added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors. The name of the model comes from the initials of the three additive primary colors, red, green, and blue.

CMYK is a subtractive color model, used in color printing, also used to describe the printing process itself. Though it varies by print house, press operator, press manufacturer and press run, ink is typically applied in the order of the abbreviation. Like the RGB, the CMYK name comes from the initials of the subtractive colors: cyan, magenta, yellow and key (black). Read the rest of this entry »

Choosing wrong colors can be a disaster for your website.

Choosing the right colors is an important step in achieving not only a nice design for your website, but also they play a major role in it’s usability.

In my first post about building a website, Building a web site - browser compatibility, I was saying that you should answer yourself a few questions before starting to design your website and one of them was “who will be viewing your site?” The answer of this question is also important in choosing the colors for your website because color communicates far more than most people realize. Everyone has favorite colors, but how those colors are interpreted may vary from culture to culture (for more information check the color symbolism chart by culture), from one user to another (this tool can help you out with color selection).

Use colors only where you have to

It is very important for the usability of your website to use color to draw attention to where it’s really needed. Read the rest of this entry »

Europeana is a project built on a Linux Debian open-source operating system, the programming language is Java and it uses Apache Tomcat web applications software. This project was initiated by the European Commission and is designed to pool all of Europe’s most treasured cultural icons. The web site tried unsuccessfully to launch last week, on 20 November, but has been immediately taken offline due to server overload; about this problem the Commission’s protocol department said : “It didn’t crash; it froze up so that searches took minutes instead of seconds to complete. We decided to take the site down“. Read the rest of this entry »

Google has released the seventh version of Google SketchUp, a 3D Modelling tool that also comes in a free of cost version for both Windows and Mac users.

This is a part of the announcement made on the official google blog:

“SketchUp is software you can use to build 3D models of anything: your house, killer robots, furniture, trees, abstract art — anything. Architects and engineers use it to design buildings and other structures. Woodworkers use it to plan their projects. And lots of people use it to figure out where to put their furniture. SketchUp is easy to learn, it comes in free and Pro versions, and it’s more fun than a houseful of clowns. Oh, and you can use it to build models for Google Earth, too.”

Read the entire article about sketchUP 7

An article found at sitepronews.com

“Ever wondered how to get more from your on page SEO factors? Well then here is a quick tip. Off page SEO such as external links and their respected reputation (their age, authority and flow) can only get you so far, ultimately, what you do with your on page factors are where the ranking battles are won.

On page SEO and content account for well over 60% of the equation when considering competitive rankings. Low hanging fruit, such as keywords with less than 300,000 competing pages can all be acquired with bully techniques such as links and off page factors, but once you target more aggressive keywords, you will need to use finesse and refinement to hit the top 10 results.

Here is one tactic you can employ to take the pages you have and get more from each. Going back to edit / refine on page link distribution can shed extra pounds to make a website lean, focused and buoyant in the SERPs. Read the rest of this entry »