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FTW Friday – Design, Development, Freelancing, and Geeky links.

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Happy Birthday to Co-Owner of Border7 Studios, Ken Tran. A whole twenty-two today! You’ve gotten far for few years. Everyone is quite proud. Keep it up and make this year is twenty-two times better than last.
Design

50 Incredible Examples of HDR Photography: HDR is amazing and, at times, weird. I’d like to see a whole movie [...]

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FTW Friday – Design, Development, Freelancing, and Geeky links.

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day tomorrow! Why does my birthday have to be adjacent to a day like that? Kind of sad. I want them to be the same day! Do not forget that Border7 is celebrating this year of business and it’s amazing clients! Saturday, September 26th, at the Rancho Santa Susana Park [...]

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FTW Friday – Design, Development, Freelancing, and Geeky links.

Friday, September 11th, 2009

Design

Horizontal Navigation Menus: Trends, Patterns, and Best Practices: A good look at what to do and what not to do. This post also brings about some nice design points and also points of organization and structure.
Swiss table slices into portable workstations: It’s the simple but interesting things in life that still amaze me. How come [...]

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FTW Friday – Design, Development, Freelancing, and Geeky links.

Friday, September 4th, 2009

Design

If Famous Graphic Artists Were Web Designers…: Some interesting work here for both art and web design. I’d really suggest giving this a look. It may inspire you a bit, too.
8:00 A Typography Project: This is clever. It would really get those designer/imaginative juices flowing right when you start your day.

Development

Learn 3 Excellent JavaScript Libraries [...]

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FTW Friday 31 July 2009

Friday, July 31st, 2009

First off, Happy Sysadmin Appreciation Day too all of you System Administrators out there! For those of you that don’t know, check it out here. Now to what is known as For The Win Friday:
Design

Mastering Custom Brushes: I’ve recently become addicted to making my own Photoshop brushes, but I haven’t tried this method.

Quick Tip: Preparing [...]

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FTW Friday 17 July 2009

Friday, July 17th, 2009

It’s been a bit since an update, but we’ve gladly been busy. We’ll try to keep up on the blog more.
Design

50 Examples of Vintage Typography : There are some interesting old ads. Typography is a very important part of design and these fonts can really spark some inspiration.
How to Make a Typographic, Retro, [...]

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FTW Friday 15 May 2009

Friday, May 15th, 2009

This week has been intense and I didn’t get much time for reading. But here you go.
Design

Designers Creative Solutions for Necessary Error Pages: a list of fine examples. Personally I like ours.
CSS Basics: A really good place to go for CSS.
30 Creative Illustrative Website Headers: A good list of really nice headers.

Business & Freelance

8 Signs [...]

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FTW Friday 08 May 2009

Friday, May 8th, 2009

All I have to say about today is: Star Trek.
Design

Simplifying Website Usability: The 3 Step Approach: Several site examples that break down everything into 3 step processes.
20 Cool RSS and Twitter Icons: Really good list for inspiration. Ours is also included.
Why Does Clean Markup Matter in Web Design: A really good explanation of why you [...]

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FTW Friday 01 May 2009

Friday, May 1st, 2009

Its a new month! And guess what else? X-Men Origins: Wolverine is finally out. We get to see him battle it out against Sabretooth. And Gambit is in it. And I think we’re going to see Emma Frost too! I’m really stoked and I hope the movie is amazing. If not, I will be disappointed [...]

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Is Star Wars Fantasy or Science Fiction?

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Now, before you go and kill me for asking this question, I seriously want to know your thoughts. Ken tried to tell me its a Fantasy, and I straight up said he’s wrong because how could it NOT be Science Fiction? We’ve had epic battles about this and I’ve decided to finally do the research [...]

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