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The daily email check routine found me a suspicious mail suppsoedly coming from eBay. It’s title was Question from eBay member but the email address used was not authentic; messages[a]signin-ebay.com.

Due to my normal curiosity of finding out other people’s website via their email address, the signin-ebay.com led me to an empty lot. That means someone registered the domain just to try and phish or trick anyone to giving their personal details later. I’ve got a screenshot of the email and something only a trained eye might notice.

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I’m not a perfect designer who’s always got the right colors for the right job.

So what I rely on the rest of the time are references whether they’re photos, advertisements, websites, postcards and other different types of inspirational material. There are a bunch of color scheme generators online like:

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Mmmmppphhh phhhmmm mmm pbhhhtttt *removes gag*

What I meant to say is that we’ve finally released an official website for Websites Made Simple. *kicks Hawk’s nuts* I would’ve done it quicker if Hawk wasn’t busy pecking away troopers in his newly acquired Star Wars Empire at War. As you can see, me and Hawk are about a bird of a feather and we’re the ones working most of the projects.

If you’ve not yet seen the homepage or the official website (Is that what we’re calling it Hawk?) here’s the screenshot.

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Particletree not only are the creators of the e-magazine for web designers and developers called; Treehouse Magazine. They’re now in the development stages of creating an easy to use service for everyone in creating a fine form for their websites.

As a web designer I can refer closely to the times when I wish I was more of a programmer especially when I couldn’t create simple things like contact forms on my own. Contact forms or forms in general have become more than a page you fill up details and submit them. It’s become one of the crucial elements to get in touch with the owner of the website.

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This tool is not a generator of finished ideas – it is a “thought-starter.”

I came across a website that offered quite a unique solution to anyone creative with a blockage for ideas. As the creative director of MouseBrains said, the phrases generated from the form you fill up isn’t finished ideas.

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Technically, I have no idea what they’re called exactly. However, I do recognize them as floating hints and probably tooltips. If you haven’t seen what they look like, then you probably haven’t visited Edrei’s Footsteps in the Mirror blog.

What I like about these things is they are a great help for those who are too worried of clicking on some links. There have been surveys done where a user asks, if I clicked or submitted my information then how am I suppose to know where would it go? In comes the solution..DOM tooltips.

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I just visited Darren’s Problogger website and found him featuring something nifty I thought it would be great to share with everyone. :)

Introducing dPolls, an AJAX based poll that you could create for free. When you’d like to create a poll, you need to register a free account and verify the email address you’ve used in the registration. Once that’s done and verified, you’re on your way of creating your poll very easily.

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I was surfing Hardware Zone and noticed they were running a CANON iPixma printer contest but dang, it already passed. Anyway, the micro site was done in Flash and as usual, you’d find out by right clicking the mouse on the area.

I noticed something new in the flash player 8 menu. There was an option called Redraw Regions. Like a curious puppy, I clicked on it and didn’t see any difference until I clicked on a link and loaded the next page. There were red outlines everywhere. It was like..

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Just how far have you taken these familiar elements when developing a new personal or client website? And we’re talking about sections here, not the design. One guy worked with the bare minimum of:

• a short stylesheet
• header
• menu
• content
• sub-section
• footer
• no hacks

..and turned them into a bunch of fluid layouts.

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