Mário Andrade Web Design, CSS, HTML, Information Architecture

7Feb/104

6 WordPress plugins for better user experience

WordPress is a really great content management system but still needs some fine-tuning regarding the user experience. WordPress in it’s raw form gives you basic functions regarding a CMS but there’s you always need to implement functions.
As some functions are more specific to websites or blogs others I believe to be a current good practice given the user experience on your WordPress powered website.

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22Jan/100

Greenshot

Today I came across a curious little application for Windows called Greenshot, a screenshot tool that I fall inlove with at first sight.

If you take screenshots regularly you know that Windows lacks on support for this. You can take screenshots of the whole screen or just the active window (alt+print scr) but you still need a place to paste and edit the image. Besides Macintosh users have the advantage that their operating system allows them to select what parts of your screen you want to take the screenshot from.

Fortunately there’s still hope for Windows users.

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20Dec/090

Local Distance project

Recently I discovered a project called Local Distance which is simply amazing. It creates a completely new image from other images through vanishing points. The process will result in countless fragments from the several images. Local Distance will then merge the fragments into multilayered shapes, creating a new image with spectacular results.

This project is created and maintained by Torsten Posselt, Frederic Gmeiner, and Benjamin Maus.

Extracts of local distance

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24Oct/090

Flash CS5 Physics

Long are the days where a designer could simple explore flash and learn it. The current times and ActionScript 3 require some programming skills. Fortunately Flash CS5 includes a simple way to associate gravity behavior to objects making certain animations easier.

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21Oct/090

Adobe Photoshop CS5 Patchmatch

Patchmatch is an algorithm developed by Connelly Barnes, Eli Shechtman, Adam Finkelstein, and Dan B Goldman, that allows structural image editing by finding the common neighbor matching it between image patches.
For what I understood, previous versions would search the nearest neighbor to a specific point, the new algorithm has a wider search capability making it more accurate.

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