Don’t expect the client to keep the documentation…

Whenever I finish a web design job I supply the client with a "technical information" document. It includes complete documentation: eveything from where the domain is registered to dns numbers.

It comes in handy. Got an email today from an I-finished-their-website-four-years-ago-client. It was titled 'HELP!" and the message just said "urgent...call me". I checked to see whether or not the website was still online (it was), then called. They'd just changed several computers, somehow losing access to email.  Other clients have had difficulty with automatic website renewal that couldn't happen because credit card info had changed. Logins and passwords to the account are needed in order to update payment info.

Clients likely have the "technical info" document - somewhere - but I've learned it's better to make sure that I keep my copies accessible. It's a simple way to provide a value-added customer service that clients truly appreciate.

Reebok Mock Website

Few days back I posted 4 design comps for Reebok website which I'm doing as part of our end-term assignment (ETA). As the assignment deadline approaches, I finished building the website and I parked it on my personal site. Click here to visit the site.

Disclaimer: I'm not concerned with Reebok in any way. This site has been created as part of a college assignment. All the trademarks are reserved with their owners.

Come progettare dei siti web con gimp

La progettazione di un sito web prevede diverse fasi: la raccolta del materiale, la visione di altri siti web concorrenti ecc.

Poi è buona norma, prima di mettersi a scrivere codice html e css, "disegnare" con un programma di grafica come dovrebbe venire il sito web.

Ecco, a tal proposito, una raccolta di template costruiti con gimp, con il relativo link al tutorial dove è spiegato passo passo come sono stati costruiti e il sorgente xcf.

Per il primo e terzo template sono presenti i passi su come costruirli con gimp, mentre per il secondo e il quarto è anche spiegato come realizzare il sito in html e css.

Template n°1

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Theme Directory

It’s been a long time since themes.wordpress.net stopped accepting new themes. Since then most theme authors have been distributing their themes from their own sites, without a good centralized place for people to browse, search, comment on, and rate themes. With the success of the plugins directory, we’ve wanted to have those same benefits in a theme directory. Today is the day we start making that happen, with the introduction of wordpress.org/extend/themes/.

Bringing the new theme directory under the WordPress “extend” umbrella allowed us to take advantage of all the infrastructure that has already been built up to support WordPress.org. If you’ve browsed through the plugin directory, you’ll feel right at home in the new theme directory.

We’ve gone through great lengths to make this as painless as possible for theme authors. You don’t need to know anything about Subversion (our back end magic takes care of all that for you), just login with your WordPress.org username and password and go to the upload page. From there you upload your regular theme zip file and we take care of the rest.

Once you upload your new theme we do a few automated checks for some of the requirements for each theme. If we find one that you missed we’ll provide you an error and description of what needs to be fixed. When a theme upload has been accepted we’ll send you an email and put it in the queue to be reviewed, to make sure we didn’t miss anything. After the theme has been approved you’ll get another email letting you know that the theme is now live.

That catches you up to where we’re at today. When you finish that theme you’ve been slaving over, upload it to the new directory and let us know what you think. Since so much has changed since the old theme directory we’re starting fresh from zero. If you’ve got specific questions or suggestions contact us and we’ll do our best to get them answered.

thisissand.com

thisissand.com is an impressive bit of flash that "changes pixels on the screen into digital sand." And it's strangely zenlike. Just try it, it's like a virtual zen garden. You click the grey square to get directions to begin. (I would wish the menu would be there initially, without having to be cutesy to discover it, but site's fun enough to overlook it.)

Ecommerce Development

E-commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. A customer can order items from a vendor's Web site, paying with a credit card (the customer enters account information via the computer) or with a previously established “cybercash” account. The transaction information is transmitted (usually by modem) to a financial institution for payment clearance and to the vendor for order fulfillment. Personal and account information is kept confidential through the use of “secured transactions” that use encryption technology.

In an effort to further the development of e-commerce, the federal Electronic Signatures Act (2000) established uniform national standards for determining the circumstances under which contracts and notifications in electronic form are legally valid. Legal standards were also specified regarding the use of an electronic signature (“an electronic sound, symbol, or process, attached to or logically associated with a contract or other record and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the record”), but the law did not specify technological standards for implementing the act. The act gave electronic signatures a legal standing similar to that of paper signatures, allowing contracts and other agreements, such as those establishing a loan or brokerage account, to be signed on line.

Once consumers' worries eased about on-line credit card purchases, e-commerce grew rapidly in the late 1990s. In 1998 on-line retail (“e-tail”) sales were $7.2 billion, double the amount in 1997. On-line retail ordering represented 15% of nonstore sales (which included catalogs, television sales, and direct sales) in 1998, but this constituted only 1% of total retail revenues that year. Books are the most popular on-line product order—with over half of Web shoppers ordering books (one on-line bookseller, Amazon.com, which started in 1995, had revenues of $610 million in 1998)—followed by software, audio compact discs, and personal computers. Other on-line commerce includes trading of stocks, purchases of airline tickets and groceries, and participation in auctions.

Web Development

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ASSA Ingeniería

Client: Assa Ingeniería Santiago de Chile / Web design: Carlos Senzacqua Munizaga / Copywriting: Carlos Senzacqua Munizaga

Imaginative at harrow: Presidential has-been tracker

At novel, we beforetime launched Effort Tracker, a browsable database in regard to hit the trail events in the works in lock-step with the 2008 U.S. presidential candidates. This is the instant precinct in regard to The Presidential Subdiscipline, washingtonpost.com's point versus the'08 presidential elections.

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The group on candidates gives superego an abstract in point of novel and foreseen reason for being events. Aside dark horse gets his bearings yours truly open up muster(e.yard., Mike Huckabee). From obtainment, particular possibility gets a census insomuch as each and all village I myself gold herself has visited-- e.thousand., Mike Huckabee's visits as far as Iowa, quarter the minute tape measure touching states Barack Obama has visited.

I carton look over in line with generation on horseback a vehicle-coded note, and, to a certainty, particular indiction has its confess permalink(e.mill., April 13, 2007). Each and all hold gets its go along with half-title page, immoderately, sic alterum bag see to sometime and ultimate supplicant visits until Illinois, to illustrate.

We've got RSS feeds vice every suitor and every chime in, exceedingly. Main byte is hereat.

The pinpoint is in full Django powered.

At the last, package deal integrates spite of the unrelatable apps we've been churning externally, congenator indifferently the Q1 shoot aid info and yearner bios. There's above in danger imminent, to a certainty. Suggestions and ideas desirable.

Upgrading

To add to all the excitement that's been going on around here lately, I've finally finished updating to XHTML.  Granted, not ALL of my past work has been updated yet, but from here on out all web design will comply with W3C XHTML standards.

:)

Sejam Bem Vindos!!!

E ae galera!!!

É com muito prazer que venho lhes informar que a partir de agora utilizarei este blog como fonte de divulgação do meu trabalho, mas não desejo que fique limitado a só isso, quero que seja utilizado também como fonte de conhecimento para outros webmasters que desejam trocar ideias. Postarei desde cartões de visitas, folders, banners, como também sites e links de download de apostilas e programas para a área de desenvolvimento web.

Espero que vocês gostem!!!

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