The word globalization has become a major buzzword in the business world. Nowadays, businesses realize the important role that the internet plays and as a result have tapped into it to reach new and emerging markets on a global scale.
Over the past six months, I’ve lived and breathed the startup life, working full-time as lead designer/frontend engineer for a pre-Series-A startup in Silicon Valley. I’m back on the East Coast now tending to some family issues, but I wanted to take some time to reflect on what I’ve learned over the past few months.
So it turns out you guys really like Notepad++. It was the clear leader of our last poll, with over 31% of the total votes. What surprised me, however, was that Dreamweaver was second in popularity, followed by Eclipse.
I’ve been running across several new UI PSD kits that cover a wide range of elements, everything from buttons to media players. I wanted to take a shot at making my own with a few simple elements – feel free to use the following UI elements in any project you’d like.
One of the most important characteristics you’ll find in successful individuals (especially entrepreneurs) is belief in themselves. It’s no secret, many athletes use it to give them an edge to beat competitors and current billionaires have used it in the lowest moments of their lives as motivation to keep going. A lot of us know the importance of this important trait yet fail to make use of it in our daily lives.
Jason Calcanis provided some really useful tips a while back about how to save money when running a startup. While they’re great tips, a lot of them don’t apply to budding entrepreneurs who are simply trying to save money during the actual “startup” part (buy an expresso meeting for how much?).
What is the difference between passion and obsession? For starters, an obsession is usually an act that you are always (and sometimes uncontrollably) preoccupied with. A passion, on the other hand, is a strong love that can be the pathway to a healthy relationship or to a harmful obsession.
A few users have asked me how I’ve created the Subscribe box in the sidebar and some have even called for a WordPress plugin that helps automate it. In reality, it’s just simple HTML/CSS paired with the Feedburner subscribe code and can be replicated very easily. Let’s take a look at the code used to create it:
I came up with this simple Polaroid design for a small project and wanted to share it as a quick freebie. Download the PSD, play around with it and use it however you’d like – no attribution or credit is required.
I’ve been trying to utilize HTML5 more recently in a few smaller projects and came across a really cool new attribute: ContentEditable. You can add this attribute to any HTML element and it automatically makes that (and any element within it) editable.
DevGrow is a journal on web design, development and usability written by Monji Dolon.
