WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. Which One is The Best?
After so many years, it was expected that the bloggers worldwide would come out with their comparison of the three most well known Content Management Systems (CMS) – WordPress, Drupal and Joomla. Bloggers everywhere are now coming up with their individual inputs about these three CMS. However, it still feels that something is missing. Hence, we have decided to take the bull by the horn to let you know about them and help you choose the one that suits you the best.
It has only been just over few years that WordPress has started making its presence in the CMS domain. Drupal and Joomla seem to have been fighting for the top space for what seems like ages. Both have always been open source and have allowed their thousands of users to help develop them and extend the possibilities available through them. WordPress, since the past year or so, has definitely managed to create the biggest market in this war.
20 Websites With High Level of User Experiences
User experience (UX) is subjective. It’s all about how a specific user experiences a particular website, the content it contains, how easy it is to navigate, how fast it loads and generally how enjoyable and satisfying it is to use. One man’s dream site is another man’s nightmare, so please forgive me if the 20 sites I highlight below are at odds with your perception of superlative UX.
The sites I have chosen, some that you’ll know, others that you won’t, all look great, perform a specific function better than any of their competitors, and do so with style and technical finesse. Shops, browser-based apps, social networking tools, search engines, online magazines and much more, I’ve covered all the bases here. If you’ve got any more suggestions, leave a comment and let me know.
30 Amazing Corporate Website Designs
This post shows corporate pages, pages with simple yet elegant designs. It is considered as a corporate trend, to look smart. The layout, as well as the text, expresses very suggestive and clear ideas: a company has a mission and through the immediate image they try to expose if not the whole concept of their mission, at least an attractive key point which best describes their activity, a distinctive plus. Usually the appearance of this distinctive note is quite discreet, by taking the shape of a more simple design than what we’ve exploited in our previous articles.
In fact, the message has to be clear and a minimal, stylish web design is the best approach; a very colorful or crowded home page would make the visitor focus on other aspects, rather than the corporation itself (and its mission).
27 Weekly Best WordPress Themes from ThemeForest
The themes from ThemeForest posted this week are, as the previous set, classy and well cropped. The simple but fancy line is still present, with quaint variations from now on, or designated attributes which outline the line of focus: either a corporate, personal, elaborate or a minimal design; all of them fitted approaches for blog or web pages themes which are desired to be easy to maneuver as well as to admire by visitors. Pages load easily and are pleasant to the eye without exposing it to an exaggerated amount of visual stimulus.
Moreover, the theme presented speaks not only for the user, but also for the designer, as an appanage or symbol of its personal brand. Here after, a series of such themes have been selected, starting from the smooth and elegant views drawn in pastel or just “simply” minimal to the more laborious or a bit extravagant ones.
10 Must Have Free Adobe Illustrator Scripts
Sometimes when working with Illustrator tools is not sufficient when it comes to vector editing. Fortunately, Illustrator supports scripting from AppleScript, Visual Basic, JavaScript, and ExtendScript.
When activated, these scripts perform operations within Illustrator or may involve other programs such as word processing, spreadsheet and database programs. You can use some of Illustrator’s scripts, downloaded scripts, or create your own scripts if you are a developer by consulting the Adobe Illustrator Scripting Center.
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30 Glamorous Fashion Designer Website Designs
We’ll be looking now at a great collection featuring the best fashion designers’ sites. The tendency in this kind of sites, much similar with the photographers’ sites that we’ve seen before, is to let the images of the designer’s creation speak for themselves. Therefore, the photos or videos of the fashion collections and fashion shows tend to expand all over the screen and become, again, the main element of the site. The rest of the site graphics is subtle and elegant most of the times in order not to compete with the collection images on display.
Of course, there are also some sites whose graphics are densely drawn or collaged, but in a way that is closely related to the designer’s personal style. Most of the sites are in Flash and they are quite dynamic but the main feature is combining the moving video image with the site graphics in an interesting and original way.
7 Important Tips for Website Copywriting
Readers don’t read all the words. They skim through individual words and scan them. Readers also tend to read slower on the computer screen then they do when they when they read books. There is so much content available on the Internet that your reader will not even miss reading what you wrote. It is up to you to offer your readers that something special that will keep them hooked on to your content.
Given below are seven basic tips for hooking the attention of your reader when you are a writer on the web. Further below are some common English grammatical errors that many of us tend to make when we write for the web.
23 Unconventional eCommerce Website Designs
The snapshots gathered within this collection refer to a category of web designers that is willing to invest a great deal of resources in the looks of their pages. Ecommerce sites are very elaborate and striking original. Actually, these are the sites which participate and win web design contests which ensures them not only prestige – by the seriousness of the presentation – but also a greater number of potential clients which are put face to face not only with magnificent looks and presentation but, willingly or not, also with the concept behind the design.
Of course, what is so provocative about this concept is the interactivity. Once loaded, the page provokes us to explores its corners, if not even invite us inside a miniature world where we are free to explore all corners at wish; usually this liberty is granted once the page has loaded (it might be a bit frustrating for users with not very advanced machineries) and faced you with a demonstrative “performance” which is meant to grasp your interest.
21 Best Contemporary Worldwide City Logo Designs
Designing a city logo can be a difficult but rewarding process: when doing this one should keep in mind that, unlike company logos, a city logo involves a huge cultural background and will be representing the image of the city on many levels – from the political to the social and economical one. Therefore, a careful consideration of what the image chosen for the logo will symbolize and entail is absolutely necessary.
First of all, this sort of logos originate from the old city heraldics, and they still have a strong resemblance to them: when designing a city logo one should be aware that, much like in the old heraldics, each visual element is expected to be a symbol for something related to the city, and that this logo will become the image of the city and it should be very effective in essentializing its main features or its general cultural representation.
It is absolutely necessary to study the city’s past and present landmarks, its history, its main economical activities, its cultural symbols and to look at the old heraldic emblems of the city as well. That is why, managing to create a modern, functional image of the city can be a very difficult and elaborate process.
Some Amazing Retro Style Illustrations Part 2
As we’ve already mentioned in the first part of this article series, we’ll be examining the diversity of styles within the retro trend. There are numerous artists who choose this style and yet, as you can see in this collection, none resembles the other — each one manages to have a unique voice! The characteristic they all have in common, however, is the fact that they all prefer the simple lines and the robust and somewhat naïve style of the illustrations, as they used to be in the 50s-70s.
Most of them also choose to make the graphics look as authentically old as possible by using faded tones and adding grazes, grungy textures and crumpled, yellowish paper backgrounds. One cannot avoid having a vague, mixed-up reaction to this kind of graphics, which makes it so great to look at, in fact: there is a sort of nostalgic tinge inexplicably connected to elements that belong to the most contemporary reality! This contradiction is the reason why the visual effect of such an illustration is so vivid and impossible to shake off!
