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There is a thin line between design and development, and as we move into a new decade, this line is becoming extremely blurry. Is it enough to draw beautiful mock ups in Photoshop? Maybe 5 years ago.

These days, the average internet user requires more. All beauty, with no substance, gets boring after a while. If your only goal is to impress a community of fellow designers with your flashy designs, you’ll find yourself quickly beneath the tide. 2011 is not about beauty, it’s about function. The trends for this new year and emerging decade are responsive design, constant connection and virtual reality.

The ultimate goal of a designer is not to dazzle but to entangle. The supreme designer is able to create an environment which charms and captivates the user to the point where he does not want to find the ‘Back’ button.

Several elements come together to forge such a wonderland: harmonious color scheme, intuitive design, easily accessible information and fast response.

Additionally, one can never under-estimate the power of simplicity. Now, your design must contend with smart phones, netbooks, tablets and the like. Are you ready?

1. More CSS3 + HTML5
2. Simple Color Schemes
3. Mobile Ready
4. Parallax Scrolling
5. Designing for Touch Screens, Not Mice
6. Depth Perception in Web Design
7. Large Photographic Backgrounds
8. Adventurous Domain Names & Integration
9. QR: Quick Response
10. Thumbnail Design
11. Constant Connection/ Life Stream

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With thousands of websites being added to the World Wide Web family every day, the web and graphic design industry has become bigger than ever.

Web design is a skill that involves creativity, knowledge and application of technologies for web development such as XHTML, XML, CSS, XSL, PHP, Flash etc and talent for graphic design. Good web design and graphic design services will also take care of search engine optimization principles to ensure higher traffic to the website.

The Web design process must take care of a few key points in order to ensure that the final product is a success.

The first thing to remember when developing websites is to keep the end user in mind. This rule alone will help avoid falling in many pitfalls that a lot of web designers do.

For example, ensure that the website you design is viewable with multiple browsers as people all over the world are using different browsers and you don’t want half the people visiting your site, not to be able to see your site properly.

A good design can help with cross browser compatibility. When designing graphic content for the web, it is essential to remember the space and time factor. Graphics and web pages should take less web space and take less time to load.

Another important factor when designing websites is keeping the website easy to navigate. It is no use spending countless hours in creative website designing while the final website does not navigate well. The user should easily be able to navigate around the website, searching different web pages and landing on the page of his choice. Website designing must also take care of search engine optimization techniques. A good website is not much of a use if it doesn’t rank well with search engines. Hence the right use of image labels, meta tags, keywords and descriptions are essential to getting quality traffic to your site.

Overall, a good web design and graphic design will lead to higher conversions, higher profit and will give you an instant edge over your competitors. A good web design can make a world of a difference to your results. The World Wide Web is growing real fast and is waiting for no one.

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A company is able to attract traffics by an interesting and creative design. We know that most customers are not confident with the website design process, therefore we have developed a clear process of the website design to guide you through that, making it an enjoyable experience. We will provide advise to you on what to expect from us before, during, and after the development process. We have spent years in web design and developing websites for customers, so you can be rest assured that you are dealing with a professional web designer company that has experience and knows what it is doing.

We will design your website for it is easy to navigate and looks good. As well as working hard for your business identity and representing it perfectly. We will also optimize the structure of your website for the search engines as part of the design process. We can provide you with the latest technology in web site design (HTML, PHP, CSS, Web 2.0, Flash, DHTML, Java, MySQL). We can design with 2D or 3D images, with static or animated graphics (or both) etc., all according to your requirement.

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This summer I found out that my working enviroment just got too many computers and generated too much heat too (of course the electricity bill is a bit too high). This is the time to talk about Green Power and Save the enviroment hah

I will be getting rid of my current server which is

• AMD Sempron (just because it’s cheap)
• nVidia C51 Motherboard (for 3D testing)
• 1GB DDR533 Memory (RAM is expensive when I built this)
• Total of 1.2TB storage (4 HDD with different size)
• 400W PSU (just too much)
• Running on Centos 5 with XEN (I love YUM)

The current server mainly is for NAS Storage, PHP/MySQL Development server and to practice more on SSH + UNIX

OK, let’s talk about new thing now.

I am going to build my new tiny Green Powered Server which I will name it as usual – CORE Server (maybe I should call it 2nd generations?)

The aim for this new CORE server is mainly because

• I will be bringing it along for my long term travel from UK to Malaysia and back
• Small in size (to comply with the above) which can fit in my bag
• I want a less power consuming server (to save the bills)
• I want to try out the new Intel Atom Duo Core (Virtualizations with XEN and VMWare)
• I want to build a beautiful server with facilities such like NAS, LAMP, Media Streaming, Media Player, FTP, SSH + etc (of course, this is a SERVER)

Here are the specs of my CORE Server

Hardware

Software

Now I am waiting for my Intel Little Falls 2 to come on Wednesday and will continue this post

12/June/2009

Finally the Intel Little Falls 2 arrived!!!

It really a headache when trying to put this motherboard into the tiny casing. I have to remove the HDD racks and power supply in order to fit the board in. I even have to take off the bottom part of the casing (No wonder this tiny casing so expensive, the design is really user friendly )

The second problem is the cables after fit in the board and every other parts. SInce the space will be super compact, I have to squeeze all the power and data cables into the sides. The CPU Fan only remains about 3cm height of space just under the 5.25″ HDD rack on top.

Just after completing the assembles, the first thjing I need to check will be the temperature of the CPU. It shows around 40 celsius in the BIOS with the CPU fan running at about 2800rpm and the casing big fan which draws out hot air running at around 4500rpm.

Since the server will not be fit with any optical drives, so I have to temporary plug in the DVD-RW drive to install the CentOS 5.3 Final. The installation went off smoothly and then after around 30 minutes I have the OS up and running!!! It takes long for installing because I want to customised all the installations. I only choose the Server-GUI version with customized packages to keep the overall system file size below 2GB.

If you are interested in the system process details, please leave me a comment so I can tell more. At the moment let me test the server first and moving all my data files into it.

updated: by using “smartctl” command, 3 HDDs detected running at around 30 to 36 celcius, not bad huh!!!

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boyd Design, Hardware, Mobile core server, ftp, green powered, mini-itx, nas