Stefano Mallozzi Professional web development

Estuve pensando en cuándo fue la última vez que entré a una web de citas, pero no la recuerdo. Es que, la verdad, creo que nunca he entrado a esos sitios, aunque no puedo negar que en algún momento habré sentido curiosidad por ingresar a ese mundo en el que, según testimonios de algunas personas, [...]

¿Qué ven los hombres y las mujeres en una web de citas? | Más tecnologia en Tecnología 21.

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Twitter contrata ex ejecutivo de Google con miras a conquistar Asia | Más tecnologia en Tecnología 21.

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Cisco: Nueva generación de routers inalámbricos y switches Linksys | Más tecnologia en Tecnología 21.

Cuando era niño solía jugar con un microscopio de juguete, de esos que vienen con varios otros artículos que nos hacen creer que somos científicos, al menos en nuestra inocencia. Lo que más me gustaba ver con mi microscopio eran los insectos que recogía del jardín, era muy entretenido para mí verlos desde tan cerca. [...]

SkyLight: Adaptador de cámaras de smartphones para microscopios | Más tecnologia en Tecnología 21.

quando il P2P è facile e veloce
Ares è un client Pear-to-Pear che supporta i file .torrent, semplice e flessibile, il suo punto di forza maggiore è la facilità di utilizzo e la possibilità di gestire agevolmente i file scaricati. Di contro, proprio per la sua semplicità di...

Autore: Emiliano Sammassimo
Tipo risorsa: software per Windows
Categoria software: Peer to Peer
Consigliato da HTML.it

Potente software gratuito di elaborazione grafica dotato di funzionalità avanzate, adatto sia all'utenza privata che professionale
GIMP è un ottimo programma open source per elaborare immagini digitali, il quale si pone in evidenza per funzionalità avanzate per certi versi paragonabili a prodotti commerciali sulla carta più quotati. Se Photoshop è considerabile uno standard in...

Autore: Marco Mattioli
Tipo risorsa: software per Windows
Categoria software: Fotoritocco

Visualizzare in tempo reale le email ricevute su account Gmail senza dover aprire il browser o il client di posta
Gmail Notifier Pro 3.6.2 del 06/02/2012 Gmail Notifier Pro è una feature gratuita, per sistemi Windows, che permette di visualizzare in tempo reale le email ricevute su account Gmail senza dover aprire il browser o il client di posta. Il...

Autore: Redazione HTML.it
Tipo risorsa: software per Windows
Categoria software: E-mail

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Joomla è uno dei CMS gratuiti più diffusi e seguiti sul mercato. Il team di sviluppo ha rilasciato la versione 2.5 definitiva ricca di interessanti novità, che finalmente iniziano a coniugarsi con una sufficiente stabilità. Spiccano fra queste,...

Autore: Redazione HTML.it
Tipo risorsa: software per Windows
Categoria software: CMS
Consigliato da HTML.it

Plugin Thunderbird per la gestione di calendari locali o in rete, forte di una grande semplicità d'uso
Mozilla Lightning è un componente aggiuntivo di Thunderbird gratuito, realizzato per rendere disponibile un calendario da utilizzare in ambiti locali o di rete. Si propone pertanto quale strumento affidabile e al tempo stesso intuitivo per...

Autore: Redazione HTML.it
Tipo risorsa: software per Windows
Categoria software: E-mail

The similarities between an artist and a designer are quite easy to see, in fact those unaware of the distinctive differences might even assume that they are the same occupation. However for those that understand the functions of both creative endeavors, they know that is far from the case. An artist is a creative who creates to satisfy their own aesthetic pleasure, unconcerned with the wants and needs of others. A designer is a creative who creates in hopes of satisfying the wants and needs of others with their art, casting aside their own individual creative desires.

With that understanding in mind, it is clear that both creative paths differ by one being a creative for the people and the other for oneself. As designers, there is always some level of artistic input that must be imputed into a design for it to be affective. The problem many designers have is trying to incorporate the desires of their inner artist into their work as a designer. There can’t be too much artistic perspective used because then it will lean away from the intended audience, however too little and the design will likely look very generic and uninspired. That is why we are going to go over how a designer can find that inner balance between artist and designer.

What is Your Favorite Style of Art?

Image Credit: jiruan

In the design world it is the popular choice to renounce ones own true favorite artistic style and to design according to whatever style is currently trendy. An current example of this would be the universal fascination over minimalism. This is a great artistic style, with a really engaging philosophy behind it. However it is still not a perfect mesh for everyone.

So with that in mind, let’s go over a couple of questions that can lead anyone to the art style that best represents them.

What Does Your Personality Say About You?

Art is nothing more than an outward manifestation of the current mental state, and personal qualities, of the artist creating the work.. This makes artwork personal, and the need for a personal connection from a viewer of the work and the artist must be able to be formed from the art. Understanding this about art puts better perspective onto how and why some artwork appeals more so to some than it would to others.

So before anyone can go around looking at artwork to find what suits their creative palettes, there must be an understanding of oneself. That way when passing by and viewing artwork, the true connection with the work and yourself can be established.

Can You See Yourself  in the Artwork?

As already mentioned, art is very personal and allows for the inner workings of an artist to come out onto their canvas. It is important to be able to sense a connection with the artist  through looking at their work alone, however it is more so important when aiming for inner balance between artist and designer to be able to see oneself in the work.

This isn’t so much literally seeing yourself of course. It’s about looking at something and being able to see the inner workings of your mind, person, past, future, and/or soul in the work you are looking at.

How to Incorporate Your Taste into Your Work

Image Credit: Fifth World Art 

As designers, it is our predetermined thought that our craft has no real room for personal creative interpretation, surrendering our individual tastes for that of the masses at large. It is quite easy to see how this thought process came to be when considering how community driven we are. From creation to final product, our main goal is to create something that is liked by a vast amount of people. If that happens to lead to something that we like, then that is just a little extra bonus in the project.

Now with that ideology thriving in anything designers create, it is quite hard to see ways in which any true personal artistic preference can be placed. Here are a few tips on how to awaken your inner artist in your designs.

Look for that “One Thing” when Finding Inspiration

Everyone takes that walk, or surfs the internet, trip, etc., to find inspiration for what they are working on. However, often the case is that instead of looking for that one thing in particular that stands out, the object of attention is the environment at large. That is of course fine for any other instance, but specifying your hunt for inspiration will lead to better results. This result should then lead you to an ample amount of creative thoughts that will easily lend themselves to your design project.

Ignore Best Practices…to an Extent

There is no such thing as a proven theory for success in the art world, so there shouldn’t be any perceived one anywhere near your mind when trying to bring out the artist in yourself. With so many proven success methods, guides, tutorials, and things of that nature, it’s hard for anyone to actually want to be adventurous. We design for financial gain after all, so this really isn’t such a bad thing. It’s just from the artistic standpoint, the only thing you’re doing by blindly adhering to these is suffocating your artistic expression. Understand the ones that make sense for what YOU are trying to do, and just leave the rest alone.

Lessen the Community Input

It is quite tempting to want to post what you’re working on to a social network full of creatives eager to see what everyone is doing, but it is not necessarily the best move. The vision for what you are to create can’t be translated to anyone perfectly, no matter how hard anyone tries. So of course there is no way that anyone elses input can actually lead to a better way of bringing out your inner artistic vision. Just leave this aspect for down the line when the project is close to completion, and needs that designer touch.

Don’t be Afraid

We all are afraid of creating something that is not well received, or easily understood by anyone else. This is so because art is not mean to be understood, only to express the thoughts of the artist. Don’t worry about the fear of rejection and just create, you could end up with something that the rest of us will be personally interpreting for years.

In Conclusion

Image Credit: fiveforefun

The work of an artist and designer is nothing alike, only the means they go about in creating their work. A designer can learn many things from art and artist like personal expression, relieving oneself of the fear of rejection, and the drive to fulfill one’s creative vision among other things. Just make sure as a designer you don’t let your inner artist consume your work too much, your job description still says that you create for the community at large.

Como casi la mayoría de las compañías de seguridad tecnológica nos han venido comentado en los últimos meses, Android se está volviendo en el blanco predilecto de los creadores de malware. Tanto así, que muchos se atreven a decir que Android tiene todas las posibilidades de convertirse en la plataforma más infestada en todos los [...]

Symantec: Malware para Android que muta con cada descarga | Más tecnologia en Tecnología 21.

Sospecho que hablar de la atracción de las mujeres por los gadgets, desde mi masculinidad, me hará lucir un tanto machista cuando diga que siguen siendo los hombres quienes están a la cabeza en este aspecto. Pero esa no es mi intención, por si acaso, queridas lectoras. Más bien, si les cuento esto, es porque [...]

Las mujeres cada vez más atraídas por los gadgets | Más tecnologia en Tecnología 21.

La reconocida compañía Kaspersky Lab, especialista en seguridad informática, ha descubierto que los cibercriminales peruanos han estado lanzando ataques de ingeniería social a sus vecinos de Colombia. Sí, tal y como lo acabas de leer, los ciberdelincuentes de Perú han estado infectando a los ciudadanos de Colombia para robar información (PINes y contraseñas) y así [...]

Cibercriminales de Perú atacan a Colombia | Más tecnologia en Tecnología 21.

¿Les gusta el Nokia Lumia 800? Es un smartphone atractivo, de eso no hay dudas, creo. Al menos a mí me parece que tiene un diseño muy bien cuidado, aunque claramente lo prefiero en color negro, antes que en magenta o cyan. Pero ahora que ha sido presentado el Nokia Lumia 800 de color blanco, [...]

Nokia Lumia 800 color blanco para finales de febrero | Más tecnologia en Tecnología 21.

Los navegadores más utilizados en el mundo son Internet Explorer, Firefox y Chrome, y seguro que ustedes tienen su favorito. De ahí que empiecen a recomendarlo a sus amigos, como es lo usual. ¿Pero acaso alguno de ustedes ha escuchado que las autoridades de su país les han recomendado utilizar algún navegador en particular? Creo [...]

Google Chrome es recomendado por el gobierno de Alemania | Más tecnologia en Tecnología 21.

Una de las características más llamativas del iPhone 4S es su asistente de voz, Siri. Le haces preguntas y te responde, es bastante interesante, pero no todos cuentan con un iPhone 4S, algunos tienen un iPhone 4 o anteriores y ellos también quieren contar con un asistente de voz como Siri. Probablemente te has preguntado [...]

Apple: ¿Por qué Siri sólo funciona con el iPhone 4S? | Más tecnologia en Tecnología 21.

MakeCAB. Questo script permette di generare, sul proprio server, un file compresso CAM in cui includere file o cartelle. Tale utility è molto utile quando si devono gestire grosse quantità di dati oppure se si vuole creare uno script di gestione file.

Tipo risorsa: script PHP
Categoria script: Script vari

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Mimicking the interactions offline is always popular in the world of computers.

Page-flips are one of the most popular ones of them in web design. They are implemented very successfully in Flash, many websites, documents, magazines are being created/published each day.

With the capabilities of new web technologies, we can also expect them to be accomplished using only HTML, CSS and JavaScript (remember "20 Things I Learned"? It is also open source).

There are several easy-to-use jQuery plugins that offer a good page-flip experience and help creating book-like interfaces. Here they are:

Turn.js

A jQuery plugin that has lovely and smooth page flip transitions.

The first page acts as the cover and the rest can be browsed by simply turning the pages from any desired corner.

Turn.js is only 15kb, works on mobile & tablet browsers as well and makes use hardware acceleration.

jPageFlip

jPageFlip is a highly customizable jQuery plugin for book-like interfaces.

It can -optionally- flip pages on mouse clicks and has support for transparent + semi-transparent image files.

P.S. The plugin performs better on WebKit browsers.

Booklet

Booklet is probably the plugin with most options in this list as it allows configuring each variable.

The JavaScript turning page effect is not that strong as it keeps things within corners (no overflows from the book itself) but works solid.

Pages can be turned manually, via keyboard, prev-next links or automatically (autoplay). Each page also has a unique URL (using hashtags).

It has support chapters, ca show page numbers and callbacks exist for further interaction.

imBookFlip

imBookFlip plugin can display the book-like content in an iframe or directly on the page.

Its pages can be set to turn when manually clicked or as an auto play, sadly, no support for dragging a page.

Also, its API allows directly pointing to a desired page.

FlipPage

This plugin also keeps the page flip effect inside/over the images displayed (that ends up in a 2D-like experience).

It makes use of HTML5-CSS3 + hardware acceleration and works also in mobile browsers.

Other Solutions

The list above includes the latest and more frequently updates ones. However, there are few more options like:

• jFlip
• CSS Page Flip (works better in WebKit)

Any better JavaScript alternatives with (or without) jQuery? Please feel free to share them.

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Mp3 player è un plugin per WordPress per inserire nei post del proprio blog un lettore mp3. Per inserirlo con successo bisogna caricare i file mp3 e un'immagine (per esempio quella di una copertina di un cd), che sarà visualizzata all'interno del lettore, e inserire dentro il post il tag [mp3].

Tipo risorsa: script CMS
Categoria script: Wordpress

Creare form che appaiano allo stesso modo su tutti i browser non è mai stato così facile
Formalize è un framework CSS che ci aiuta ad uniformare l'aspetto dei form, che differisce da browser a browser e talvolta anche tra diverse versioni dello stesso browser. Inoltre con l'HTML5 sono state introdotte nuove funzionalità che...

Autore: Marco Pontili
Tipo risorsa: articolo
Categoria: CSS