As our industry grows up, many of us seem to forget the human side of digital. There still hides a story of real people behind every interface. With this really nice idea and a real sentence, Kai Brach starts the first issue of his magazine named Offscreen. The quote also explains what it is all about. It's about people behind bits and pixels. And by word people I mean not just people who design websites and other related digital products, but also… Keep reading ›

Business cards, for me personally, for a long time were like a phenomenon from prehistoric times. Just like wired phones or cassette players. And there's no need to look deeper why so, because bad design is always obvious. It just happened that all of the business cards I saw in my life were so crappy, that I have been always questioning myself why people share these ugly sheets of paper with one another. Before In the last few years as… Keep reading ›

I have always been interested in elegant yet helpful techniques that in some way extend or rewrite native browser functionality and therefore help making websites a bit more better than they could be. The last time I shared a technique for mobile-friendly and responsive tooltip, which indirectly extends functionality of title attribute in HTML. This time: thoughts and a piece of code for, as titled, more noticeable HTML bookmarks with jQuery. Actually, it's nothing new, nothing that you could not do or… Keep reading ›

CodeIgniter is simple yet elegant, open source PHP framework developed by EllisLab. They also built the well-known ExpressionEngine by using CodeIgniter as a base. So that probably just proves, how powerful the framework is as well. Nevertheless, it is extremely easy learnable. Basically, their User Guide is all you need to craft easy websites. I chose CodeIgniter over Wordpress because wanted to have my website customized as much as possible and be able to control it all over. This post is probably… Keep reading ›

Tooltip is a splendid invention. Small detail in web design that plays a big role when it comes to user experience. Usually, tooltips are used to present a tiny amount of hidden content (mainly explanatory, so-called tips), that pops up when user moves a cursor over or clicks (less common) on a special target. When working on my personal website, I was in need of a tooltip. I decided not to limit it just on a typical definition of a… Keep reading ›