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Daniels Mekšs
I'm 16 year old teenager from Latvia making my allowance by blogging. In free time I like to attend gym, play poker and spend time with my friends. You can find me on Twitter.
By Daniels Mekšs on September 2, 2010
When building a website, there are so many things and aspects to keep in mind. It often happens that in that mess we forget about some basic things like favicon or maybe about dummy content removal from test site. It’s much easier to go trough all those things when you have all of them written down.
In this article you are [...]
Posted in Development | Tagged automate, checklists, Development, questionnaires, webdesign
By Daniels Mekšs on August 3, 2010
Building a CMS from scratch can be hard and exhausting work, plus you need to have a good design stitched to it if you’re creating it for client. Sometimes it’s better to spend little money for a great quality product, these highly customizable admin templates could be a great starting point into new project and [...]
Posted in Resources | Tagged admin, Resources, skin, template, webdesign, website
By Daniels Mekšs on July 31, 2010
Recently I wrote article about post thumbnail and you saw some great examples of image styling. As I wrote there, neat styled images can attract more visitors and you will be more pleasant with them yourself too.
You don’t have to always use Photoshop to style your images. Some cool effects can be achieved trough CSS, [...]
Posted in Design | Tagged coding, CSS, Design, image, jquery, programming, Tutorials
By Daniels Mekšs on July 29, 2010
Well done abstract and lighting effects can enhance your artworks exceedingly and this is very popular trend now in photo manipulations, backgrounds, website headers – definitely useful tutorials to be aware of .
You can add them to premade photos, or create whole new scenes from scratch. Photoshop gives you those abilities and allows you to express [...]
Posted in Tutorials | Tagged abstract, effects, lightning, photoshop, space, Tutorials
By Daniels Mekšs on July 28, 2010
WordPress is the most popular blogging platform today. It’s being used by thousands of people all around the world. But because of the popularity, it’s getting more attention by hackers and spammers too. WordPress is very secure by itself, but there’s never too much ascertainable.
For simple users,who don’t code a lot, plugins is the best [...]
Posted in Wordpress | Tagged plugins, programming, security, webdesign, Wordpress
By Daniels Mekšs on July 26, 2010
Drawn characters are usually cute and they can make us laugh. Nowadays, designers can turn their pencil sketches into beautiful digital art with lot of beautiful effects. You can use striking vector character as a mascot for your business or website.
This article contains 50 best Photoshop and Illustrator character designing tutorials. Most of these tutorials require [...]
Posted in Tutorials | Tagged character, drawing, illustration, photoshop, Tutorials
By Daniels Mekšs on July 20, 2010
If you need a great, working WordPress theme, but don’t have or necessary skills, then these commercial themes are just for you. They’re completely ready to use, easy customizable and you are getting support too. This post assembles 50 good-looking corporate & business themes, so if you want to start a commercial site, this is [...]
Posted in Wordpress | Tagged business, commercial, corporate, portfolio, premium, template, theme, Wordpress
By Daniels Mekšs on July 19, 2010
Picture can save a thousand words. That’s true and it works everywhere, even in blogs. Next thing visitors spot after the title is thumbnail. Well done post thumbnails will attract more visitors and they will explore your website with interest.
In this article I’m going to share some tips and advices about beautiful post thumbnails. You will see lot [...]
Posted in Tutorials | Tagged guide, showcase, thumbnails, tips, tricks, Tutorials
By Daniels Mekšs on July 17, 2010
HTML emails is a great marketing tool, and if built good, they work great. In 2009 HTML email ROI was $43.52 for every dollar spent on it. If you are a freelancer be aware that sooner or later your clients will start asking for you to build HTML emails.
You might think that it’s not a big [...]
Posted in Tutorials | Tagged emails, guide, html, tips, tricks, Tutorials
