Less is more is truer than ever in today’s digital world as software and app interfaces are effectively employing a minimalist design. Website design has shifted from the antiquated 3-D and skeuomorphic (digital objects resembling their real-life counterparts) to the simple and flat. A few reasons why: Most obvious is information overload. The world is increasingly ...
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JCI Buildings Ltd. – Finding Pre-Engineered steel buildings solutions for your needs
JCI Buildings Ltd., founded by president and owner Darryl McColl, is a leading contractor of industrial and commercial steel buildings in western Canada. Proudly serving BC and Alberta, this leading provider of pre-engineered steel offers the finest quality and service by cultivating the appropriate supply connections and implementing efficient staffing guidelines. JCI Buildings also provides a computer ...
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Concepts & Styles – A User Interface Design Journey (Part 2)
Intuitive design does not require as much instructions. The new Brixwork interface is being built to reduce the need to reference to tutorials & instructions, and also reduce the amount of trouble tickets for our team.
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Researching & Learning about It – A User Interface Design Journey (Part 1)
It all starts with Research! The beginning of my User Interface redesign for Brixwork started with research. See how I prepped, and what I learned, and what I intend to do with it.
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Revival of Jeffkee.com
Jeffkee.com is making a comeback from a 4 year long dormancy to life.
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World Cup Fun Facts
Barefoot footballers, communist countries dominating.. the World Cup is full of colourful and fun(ny) history!
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When timthumb.php returns a 404 Error in WordPress
We recently migrated some of our websites to a new VPS with Inmotion hosting. After the migration, everything went smooth (pretty much.. but as smooth as a server transfer can be), except one issue - all the timthumb.php scripts were not working well in Wordpress, which meant that blog thumbnails were not generating. So for example, ...
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Apple Answers to The FCC Regarding Google Voice
Apparently there was some controversy regarding the Google Voice app that Apple did not authorize to put on the Apps store. There were numerous other applications that try to take advantage of the cellular data network to place voice calls, rather than using the regular voice call network (which is limited in airtime, of course, ...
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G-Suite (Gmail) For Your Corporate Email
2016-11-15 Update - Google Apps is now called G-Suite. Other parts of this article has been updated since its original posting date of 2008-10-15. Gmail has been recognized as one of the best email platforms since its launch, and its corporate email service called Google Apps G-Suite has been taking away market share from the Microsoft ...
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Things I Did Learn in the Corporate World
Over 2 years ago I was working for Bell Mobility, at a fixed hourly rate of $17.21, with a comfortable benefit program as well as 37.5 hours a week guaranteed unless I wanted less. For those of you who know me well, you can obviously picture the lack of balance - currently I own and ...
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Blu-Ray Triumphs???
According to a recent news flash, Toshiba, who is behind the HD DVD format, is considering withdrawing from HD DVD as it seems apparent that Blu-Ray DVD technology is projected to be the winner. Blu-Ray currently has over 80% of the market share, and more retailers as well as movie producers are choosing the Blu-Ray format ...
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Phasing Out Internet Explorer 6 (IE6)
Internet Explorer is probably the worst browser out there among commonly used browsers. By commonly used browser I mean the following : Internet Explorer 7 Internet Explorer 6 Firefox 2 Safari Of course there are other rogue browsers that are rarely used, like Camino, Netscape, and some other nameless ones that most people do not know about, but the above ...
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