I’ve been freelancing as a Graphic Designer and Web Developer for about four years or so now, and while I won’t claim to be a leading name in the field, I do consider myself a skilled professional. Freelancing isn’t my “day job” so to speak, and it isn’t something that I do actively, but when [...]
By Nicholas Cristo on February 22nd, 2010
For the past several years I’ve been perfecting my knowledge of HTML and CSS while learning more about dynamic coding languages such as PHP and Javascript, and lately I’ve been developing a further interest in augmenting my knowledge of CSS with jQuery. Modern web design has been making some major leaps and bounds lately, especially [...]
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Tags: CSS, jQuery, Toolbox, Web Design
By Nicholas Cristo on February 22nd, 2010
Here is a pretty nice collection of links with Photoshop tutorials for web design. There are some great guidelines with some pretty good looking outcomes. I’m fairly partial to the Magic Night design, mainly because it reminds me of Disneyland, and since moving away from California I’ve been having some pretty bad Magic Kingdom withdrawals. [...]
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Tags: Inspiration, Links, Tutorials, Web Design
By Nicholas Cristo on January 31st, 2010
Back in November I updated my site theme with the Bomberfish update, but a couple of weeks ago I started making some new updates and some rather significant changes, which compose the latest build of the theme, Blasterfish.
The Bomberfish build was focused more on reintegrating the blog aspect back into the site, which had shifted [...]
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Tags: Worklog
By Nicholas Cristo on January 29th, 2010
Many thanks to Abduzeedo and their Friday Fresh Free Fonts feature, in which this week they feature a handful of great fonts, particularly my favorites Lane and New Athena Unicode. I am personally a fan of great typography, and as a designer I am always looking for fresh new fonts to use in my projects, [...]
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Tags: Fonts, Typography
By Nicholas Cristo on November 14th, 2009
Prep Time: 20 min
Cook Time: 20 min
Level: Easy
Serves: 20 meatballs, 4 to 5 servings
Recipe courtesy Alton brown, 2005.
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Tags: Recipes
By Nicholas Cristo on November 9th, 2009
I’ve worked up some changes to the site recently, which I’ve implemented this morning, which include a new blog column, with recent post links and additional categories, as well as a larger listing of work samples on the front page. I’ve been using this same ‘dark wood’ theme that I created from scratch for about [...]
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Tags: Worklog
By Nicholas Cristo on November 2nd, 2008
There are so many things in our daily lives that we take for granted that used to be luxuries; things that are integral to our tech-oriented society. There was a time when cell phones were not only strictly available to the wealthy, but were half the size of a shoebox. Today cell phones are as [...]
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Tags: Gadgets, Technology
By Nicholas Cristo on October 9th, 2008
If you’re like most people, you spend all day either in your room or in a cubicle with the same old crap plugged into your USB drives: wire mouse, keyboard, printer cable, flash drive, data transfer cable, etc. Well, now here’s a list of USB powered devices to help you get out of your box.
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Tags: Gadgets, USB
By Nicholas Cristo on October 8th, 2008
In today’s tech age, the modern blogosphere is becoming a much more populous region of the world wide web. Bloggers from all over the world are creating, managing, and maintaining their own websites, most often using freeware templates or creating their own from scratch.
As a designer, I recognize how difficult it can be to compose [...]
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Tags: CSS, Toolbox, Web Design
By Nicholas Cristo on October 4th, 2008
Anyone that knows what’s what about web design knows what CSS is, and how invaluable it can be to styling the navigation of a website.
The thing about CSS is that it is capable of much more than just stylistic design. It has a degree of utile functionality as well, and I’m going to point out [...]
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Tags: CSS, Toolbox, Tutorials, Web Design
By Nicholas Cristo on September 27th, 2008
Web 2.0 is a term coined in recent years that describes the changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aim to enhance creativity, information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such [...]
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Tags: Web 2.0
By Nicholas Cristo on January 29th, 2010
I’d like to spotlight the website of Nottingham, UK designer Simon Collison, Colly.com. It is his personal website, with a full journal, biography, and writings on various design-related topics, and it is all executed in a very unique way. In his article, Redesigning the undesigned, Simon (or Colly, as he is known) talks about the [...]