Ah, yes. WordPress. The “belle of the ball” amongst content management systems. What started out as a humble little blogging tool has developed into the most popular platform in the known universe (and elsewhere). Why not use Joomla or Drupal? In a word, PLUG-INS.
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We here at Helikopter Design love music. Maybe more than web design.(Blasphemy!) It’s an essential part of the design process for us. Setting the right tone for inspiration, helping re-energize when attention is flagging, and making mind-numbingly-repetitive tasks much more tolerable. Our personal favorites include Animal Collective, Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, and FSOL.
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For the majority of web designers, Firefox is the browser of choice. On our own humble little design-centric site we can see that approximately 53% of visitors use it. The vast majority of those also use the very latest version. This is largely in part due to the amazing degree of customization that can be done with Mozilla’s star pupil. The following add-ons, for us, have risen into the rarefied air of “must-haves”.
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So, you wanna be a web designer? In addition to the long hours, low pay, and diminished social status, you’ll find yourself competing against the likes of
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While working on this website, I was intrigued by the javascript effect of smoothly (or jarringly if you prefer) scrolling to internal links on the page.
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