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Mobile, tablet and desktop are the three popular breakpoints. Ususally they are at 480,  768,  and 992 px. Breakpoints should not be fixed but should be custom depending on the type of site. For example, whether your site has a 3 column design or a 1 column design. More breakpoints means a more fluid  and smoother experience. But too many may make your site slower.… Read More »Responsive Web Design: Breakpoints.

Vampires have become somewhat of a joke, thanks to the exploit of a certain sparkling variety. What was once scary and terrifying is now considered a joke. Scott Snyder, however aims to change that. If the first half (till issue 30) was an indication,he probably already has. The series is primarily drawn by Rafael Albuquerque but does have quite some spin offs and issues drawn… Read More »Comics Review: Scott Snyder’s American Vampire.

User testing. This will be carried out to find out how the website is used. Give the users certain tasks like adding a product to their cart, checking out, navigating and searching the site, etc. Try and observe them in their natural environments. This is especially important for responsive web design as people use  tablets and cell phones in a variety of locations and situations.… Read More »Responsive Web Design: Testing.

The mobile device era is at full speed. The sales of PCs continue to decline while Tablet and Cell phone sales continue to increase. The mobile web is solely becoming the main web. You cannot afford to make the mistake of making websites that are not optimized for multiple resolutions. Neither do you have the resources to waste on mobile versions of your site or… Read More »2013: The year of Responsive Web Design

Co-op games on the PC are a rarity. And by co-op i mean local co-op, not over the interent which would be multiplayer, in my book. You would think that by now, every game could and should have local co-op for the PC. After all, most of the same games have local co-op in their console versions. But sadly, it is in much different times… Read More »PC Co-op Game Review: Family Guy Back to the Multiverse.

From day one, happiness is all that we chase. We give it various forms, shapes and names. Some call it money. But the reality is happiness isn’t something you need to get. Because you already have it. But somewhere down the line, you were told you didn’t have it. And further down the line, you actually believed that you didn’t have it. Hence you were… Read More »Only you can make you happy.

There is no excuse not to use version control. There are many free and cheap ways of implementing version control. Some ways are: GIT is the most popular and common method at the moment. You can easily set up your own GIT repository . Most of the companies that have web related projects usually have their own repository. Another way to go it is by… Read More »Version control using GIT, ZIP, RAR and Dropbox.

Photoshop mockups are static not dynamic. You cannot interact with it. You cannot click the links or enter text in the form. It does not behave they way your design will behave in the browser. Designing your websites in photoshop wastes time. First you design in photoshop, then you do it for the browser. Why not just do it for the browser at once? Add… Read More »Don’t design in photoshop, design in the browser.

Mobile first means designing with mobile devices in mind. This means keeping everything to a need only basis and no bloating. In this way, we design our site  to be viewed with smaller screen size and slower speed, forcing us to be more efficient. Many however mistake this to mean mobile only. That is not the case. Mobile first can easily be combined with responsive… Read More »Mobile first doesn’t mean mobile only.

Procrastination kills. It kills your creativity. It kills your time. Even worse, it slowly kills you. But wait, that’s not the worst thing about it. The worst thing is procrastination is completely preventable/avoidable/curable. And the cure is free too. The cure is to just get started. Do what ever it is that you needed/wanted to do but were prevented by procrastination. Nobody’s perfect on the… Read More »The tip to beating procrastination is to just start.