Monofactor - Golden Age Eddition

There’re so many times I find myself struggling with IE6 issues and some other misbehaviors when working on the css of my designs.

In order to shorten the time I waste on the css and to modify the elements a bit easier, I defined some common selectors to use and they exist almost on every css file of my previous projects and this site’s css as well.

Most of the problems occur from IE6 rendering for margins, font size and some overall float problems. So here are what I always place to prevent possible troubles i might have.

Aside from work for my payroll at the institute, I’ve also been freelancing for about 6 years. The most disturbing thing when I was using the numerous freelancing portals was the lack of features to differentiate the classified professional and amateur service providers/freelancers.

This is causing the low quality but cheap service being accidentaly demanded a lot, which also make the clients never really satisfied with the result. And the people bidding $10 for logo creation and template editing save their days for a time being.

There had to be a way for clients to elect the classified professionals.

Among other freelance portals, now there is one new service for outsourcing projects and freelancing online: Serebra Connect

Okay folks, here is my first in series of design tutorials.

I’m always amazed with those original mac icons and the effects they use on them.

In this tutorial, we will draw a 3d looking glass box Icon with Illustrator; which might also give you and idea of how to create isometric angled objects with Illustrator.

Allright, here we go!:

It all begins with the word “blogging” by blogger.com. The web started to become even more transparent, visitors gain more controls on where they visit.

Websites went more individual than corporate sheets, communities had more features and usable functions to bring together more people.

We had AJAX technologies, script libraries and frameworks to present better and more functional websites.

It’s all good, all amazing and will be like that as long as Internet enables us and our visitors to have more abilities when surfing, getting everyone closer online.

Though, this article is not about the features of what we call “web 2.0″, but the visual effects of this trend.