Friday, 31 March 2017
JBL: Speaker that caught fire in New Jersey home wasn't ours - CNET
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Take flight with a McLaren 570GT covered in carbon feathers - Roadshow
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Amazon seller wins $6.8M in suit over knockoff sports gear - CNET
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https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-seller-wins-6-8m-in-counterfeit-lawsuit/#ftag=CAD590a51e
Uber self-driving car project faces injunction in Waymo case - CNET
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https://www.cnet.com/news/uber-self-driving-car-project-faces-injunction-google-waymo-lawsuit/#ftag=CAD590a51e
Search for elusive Planet 9 gets a crowdsourcing boost - CNET
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https://www.cnet.com/news/planet-9-james-webb-space-telescope-crowdsourcing-nasa/#ftag=CAD590a51e
Stealing Galaxy S8's thunder? This phone is rumored to have superslim bezels, too - CNET
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https://www.cnet.com/news/bezel-xiaomi-mi-mix-2-rumor/#ftag=CAD590a51e
South Korea beyond Samsung - CNET
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https://www.cnet.com/pictures/south-korea-beyond-samsung/#ftag=CAD590a51e
Broadband providers reaffirm privacy policies amid FCC rules flap - CNET
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https://www.cnet.com/news/comcast-at-t-verizon-reaffirm-privacy-commitments-amid-flap-over-fcc-rules/#ftag=CAD590a51e
'Ghost in the Shell' stares down its critics - CNET
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https://www.cnet.com/news/ghost-in-the-shell-scarlett-johansson-rupert-sanders-director-controversy/#ftag=CAD590a51e
The 404 Show 1696: Galaxy S8, new ISP privacy concerns, Palmer Luckey (podcast) - CNET
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Apple gets Beyoncé to make its Watch exciting - CNET
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https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-watch-ad-beyonce-freedom-live-bright/#ftag=CAD590a51e
Twitter ditches the egg avatar, opts for a human silhouette - CNET
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Tokyo will test Toyota's new hybrid boat during 2020 Olympics - Roadshow
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Rainn Wilson takes on Harry Mudd for 'Star Trek: Discovery' - CNET
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LeBron James says become a scientist, not an NBA player - CNET
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https://www.cnet.com/news/lebron-james-tells-kids-become-scientist-not-nba-player-verizon-ad/#ftag=CAD590a51e
Watch how upset people get when their phones are wiped - CNET
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https://www.cnet.com/news/watch-how-upset-people-get-phones-wiped-kodak/#ftag=CAD590a51e
Jaguar will sell you a like-new E-Type for $356,000 - Roadshow
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EFF withdraws Verizon spyware claims - CNET
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https://www.cnet.com/news/verizon-appflash-spyware-bloatware-eff-privacy-spying-on-you/#ftag=CAD590a51e
Doodle 4 Google winner sees a future of peace and diversity - CNET
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Teacher's funny fake spelling test wins April Fools' Day - CNET
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Weekend Streaming: 'Gremlins' arrives on Netflix - CNET
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2018 Kia Stinger is even quicker than we thought - Roadshow
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Smart recalls 2,200 Fortwos for cross-eyed headlights - Roadshow
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Meet the Lamborghini Huracan Polizia - Roadshow
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15 Brilliant Website Design Examples To Inspire You. 7 Steps To Awesomeness
Creating a brilliant website design can be a daunting task sometimes. Not just because of all the steps involved in this process, but also because of all things you should take into consideration and the direction your website design should take on.
And a good website, which accommodates effectively plenty of content with an excellent user experience is often a tricky balancing act to pull off. Should you attempt to present the user the whole information in a clean, organized manner, or you should reveal it bit-by-bit, to create an engaging trip that tugs the visitor on the road to the enlightenment?
If you get it wrong, and you will overwhelm your visitors, they’ll leave your website without retaining anything from what they’ve just read. And maybe they will not come back again, as long as their experience on your website was not exactly what they expected.
But if you get it right, you’ll gain a new audience, who not only understand your message, but they will come back again and again, and even bring few friends with them.
If there is one thing true about the website design, it’s that it is always evolving. The design is dynamic, and it must adjust to accommodate the form and the function. And because of its ever-changing nature, it can be a challenge not only to keep up with the newest design trends but also to follow few principles that should live in every website design.
- Color – the site’s color should always match your brand’s color scheme and have consistency through the site. Colors evoke emotions for your website visitors and sustain your brand messages. Therefore you should take it into consideration when choosing the colors for your website. Also, you keep in mind that the colors on your website should be easy to read and pleasant to the eyes.
- White Space – by using the white space for your website design, you will allow the content and the visitors’ eyes room to breathe
- Font – the site’s font doesn’t necessary match your logo but it should fit in your brand. Aside from this, making sure that the font is legible, is one of the most important things. You can vary and mix different fonts through the site, to increase the visual intrigue and add visual appeal, but make sure they complement each other well. Also, keeping the body font consistent across the whole site is essential.
- Simplicity – the simpler, the better. Keeping your website design simple allows that “clean” look your visitors are looking for.
- Consistency – keep the design consistent. The website colors, fonts, button styles, heading and subheading sizes and styles, image styles and sizes and backgrounds are among the pieces to keep your site consistent.
- Usability – make the functionality the key of your website. An appealing visual website shouldn’t sacrifice the ease of usage for a better visual. Creating user-friendly websites with easy to understand navigation and page layout is what determines how your visitors will interact with your website.
- Visual hierarchy – the relative importance of different content areas and elements can be visually implied in many ways, ranging from the typography (headlines, sub-headings, body text, quotes, etc.) to image size, style, and saturation, placement, etc.
We gathered 15 website designs for your inspiration. Some of them are new, some of them you’ve seen before. In all of them, you’ll see some of the best practices mentioned before. These sites are, in my humble opinion, well-designed for their clearness, usability, aesthetics and user experience and for sure, they will give you inspiration for the next project you’ll be working on.
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Bienville Capital Management
http://www.bienvillecapital.com
This is a very simple responsive design that transitions to mobile perfectly. They kept the information concise and focused, taking into consideration that you don’t need walls of text for attracting and engaging your visitors. Give them the most important information first. In the same time, the navigation menu is very friendly, letting you drive easily through the website.
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Brooklyn Soap Company
One of my favorites in the list. The website design is clean and bold, using the white space very well and allowing the visitor’s eyes to rest. The company makes quality products and they don’t need to astonish with a lot of sparkly or complicated graphics and animation to get your interest. Both the website and soaps have an undeniable classy feel, underlined by the black and white color scheme.
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Emblem
This website is entirely funky and funny. The visitor’s curiosity is caused by bright, vivid and sparkly colors, lots of eye-catching imagery, icons, and fonts you wouldn’t usually find in a law company’s website. In the same time, they offer a great user experience, especially with the services section. And guess what? It’s responsive!
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Auger
I like this mostly flat website, which is responsive and looks good on any device. The solid bold and contrasting colors, combined with vector images and the photos from this website seamlessly melt between devices.
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Falve
This site is a carousel of color-rich full pages images, combined with a lot of white space and clean serif font. The general design is clean, bold and simple, and the overall feeling modern and undoubtedly classy. A site where you are welcomed from the homepage and which implores you to stay.
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Brave People
Check out this website, and you will be rewarded with a brave experience! Simple, clean and bold design, color-rich photography are complemented nicely by the simplicity of the typography. The last, but not the least, the videos from this site tell you the story of this fast-growing digital creative agency in a way you can’t resist!
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GC Watches
Take a look on this website, and you’ll convince yourself (if it was still necessary) that timeless designs always stand out! Clear copy next to bold and vivid images, in a white and black color scheme, pass the test of the time and become more valuable over the time. Besides, the website is responsive, and its usability gives a great user experience to the visitors.
Feed presents us an interesting concept, with a stunning execution that challenges our understanding of what could be possible on the internet. Using the contrast in the best way possible and blending creatively animation and video, the site provides the users a very engaging experience. A totally atypical site, which contains several unique usability elements, including a navigation that doubles as a scroll progress bar.
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ETQ
ETQ takes a minimalistic approach to e-commerce with their clear and bold website, with big and compelling visuals for their products. Simple, flat, mixing the powerful and endless elegance of the white and black visuals with a color-based background, the imagery is accompanied by strong and simple typography that helps users to focus on what they want to see: shoes.
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World of Swiss
Swiss Airlines built a thrilling website that tells their story and describes how it’s like to fly with them in a powerful and engaging way, by captivating their visitors from the first glance. The strong visuals and animation introduce the users to the different sections of the site, which are packed in an unusual sales and marketing pitch.
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IWC Schaffhausen
A timeless classic elegance, perfect for this premium brand. That’s what IWC Schaffhausen’s website offers to their visitors through a refreshingly clean and unexpected design for a watch manufacturer. A simple, clear and bold design, determined by the strong contrast between the neutral colors of the background and the rich-colors photography.
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Jack Daniels
Once you pass the age verification, the Jack Daniels’ website offers you an incredible experience and tells a great story! A stunning design, rich in colors and contrasts. Once you open the “Our History” page, you are transposed in a world full of history and passion. And you experience the same feelings while you are greeted with a carousel featuring different varieties of whiskey.
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Juliana Bicycles
http://www.julianabicycles.com/
If you prefer a photography-infused web design, you should take your inspiration from this site! It is a good inspiration for people who are both goods in photography and web design, as the photos are exquisite and manifest the magnificence in the simplest way possible. Also, like many other websites, this is a responsive one, which makes it good also for tablets and smart phones.
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JOHO’s Bean
This website tells the story of a coffee bean’s journey in a compelling, emotional and engaging way. Storytelling, incredible imagery, animation, interactivity, visual design and sound engineering (which you find out from the very first moment you came up on the home page). These all come together and offer the users a unique experience.
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Ogilvy One Worldwide
The simplicity of this website is amazing, the main focus being on the content and how it could be delivered in the simplest yet prettiest way. The flat design and the minimalistic approach present the content in a readable and logical way, while the very easy navigation makes it better. All these ensure that the content is properly delivered and understood by the user. The site is also responsive, and this makes it even more beautiful and friendly.
Bonus: Here are 8 names every graphic designer should know.
Read More at 15 Brilliant Website Design Examples To Inspire You. 7 Steps To Awesomeness
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Australian Government joins YouTube advertising exodus - CNET
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CNET's Snapchat Spectacles giveaway! - CNET
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https://www.cnet.com/news/giveaway-snapchat-spectacles/#ftag=CAD590a51e
Daedulus is an insane real-life flying Iron Man suit - CNET
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https://www.cnet.com/news/iron-man-daedulus-exoskeleton-richard-browning-red-bull-gravity/#ftag=CAD590a51e
Drones could soon be deadly in Connecticut - CNET
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https://www.cnet.com/news/drones-could-soon-be-deadly-in-connecticut/#ftag=CAD590a51e
Trump's tweet supporting women appalls many - CNET
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https://www.cnet.com/news/trumps-tweet-supporting-women-appalls-many/#ftag=CAD590a51e
Netflix seeks the world's best translators - CNET
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https://www.cnet.com/news/netflix-seeks-worlds-best-translators/#ftag=CAD590a51e
Don't get conned: That free Nintendo Switch emulator is a scam - CNET
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https://www.cnet.com/news/dont-be-fooled-that-free-nintendo-switch-emulator-is-a-scam/#ftag=CAD590a51e
'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' cast reunites for 20th anniversary - CNET
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What does the iPhone 8 need to beat the Galaxy S8? - CNET
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Rawr! Amorous T-Rex dinos had their own form of foreplay - CNET
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https://www.cnet.com/news/tyrannosaurus-rex-dinosaurs-rubbed-noses-daspletosaurus-horneri/#ftag=CAD590a51e
How to make a good movie even better - CNET
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https://www.cnet.com/news/how-to-make-a-good-movie-even-better-lessons-from-the-screenplay/#ftag=CAD590a51e
Samsung has a clever new message, but will it fly? - CNET
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https://www.cnet.com/news/samsungs-has-a-clever-new-message-but-will-it-fly/#ftag=CAD590a51e
The state of Apple: Is Apple making the best possible products? (Apple Byte Extra Crunchy Podcast, Ep. 78) - CNET
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https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-byte-extra-crunchy-ep-78/#ftag=CAD590a51e
YouTube moved by Indian bride's 17-minute wedding dance - CNET
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Thursday, 30 March 2017
Elon Musk's SpaceX launches recycled rocket in historic first - CNET
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https://www.cnet.com/news/spacex-falcon-9-relaunch-ses-10-satellite/#ftag=CAD590a51e
Samsung Unpacked, unpacked: Girt by CNET podcast 104 - CNET
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https://www.cnet.com/news/samsung-galaxy-s8-girt-by-cnet-podcast-104/#ftag=CAD590a51e
A Farsighted look at Elon Musk's plan to make us cyborgs, and 'Cyborg' on the big screen (Farsighted, Ep 6) - CNET
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FBI Director James Comey? Or @projectexile7 on Twitter? - CNET
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https://www.cnet.com/news/fbi-director-james-comey-or-projectexile7-on-secret-twitter/#ftag=CAD590a51e
Brush up on April Fools' Day early with Burger King toothpaste - CNET
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Activists raise $200,000 to expose lawmakers' web browsing - CNET
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Microsoft says there are 150 HoloLens apps - CNET
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Palmer Luckey doesn't work for Facebook anymore - CNET
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Easter Jeep Safari concepts include hot rods, '93 Grand Cherokee - Roadshow
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High-speed face mapping turns dancers into masked marvels - CNET
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Microsoft PR legend Pam Edstrom dies at 71 - CNET
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Streaming makes most of the US music industry's money now - CNET
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Lyft's Shuttle tests set routes, but don't call it a bus - CNET
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Google now lets you book fitness classes - CNET
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Stephen Colbert snorts at scrapping of internet privacy rules - CNET
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What you need to know about the Samsung Galaxy S8 (The 3:59, Ep. 202) - CNET
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Google delays wider Android Wear 2.0 rollout because of bug - CNET
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Lyft's Mono product video takes a wacky route - CNET
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Control a smart lock with your voice: Good idea or bad idea? - CNET
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Ustwo's Sway app wants to put meditation in your motion - CNET
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'War for the Planet of the Apes' trailer delivers emotional punch - CNET
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Volkswagen settles diesel claims in 10 states for $157M - Roadshow
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Italian cops get a second Lamborghini Huracan (yes, a second one) - Roadshow
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Very real April Fools' Day Comet will zoom by Earth - CNET
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Rock out with your wallet out in music-inspired Rolls-Royce models - Roadshow
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Color Theory for Web Designers – How to Choose the Right Color Scheme for Your Website
You have decided to create a website. One of the first questions that you will face sounds like “What colors should I choose to make it professional and at the same time visually appealing?” This is not surprising because color is the first things that attract your visitors’ attention, that’s why a color scheme is considered to be the foremost thing every designer should know.
Color affects not only the appearance of a website, but also its effectiveness. It means that an average time spent on site, a number of returned visitors, and even conversion depend on the choice of the color scheme. Moreover, taking into account visualization of modern technologies, color plays one of the main roles on the Internet. And you shouldn’t forget this rule when you start your own website.
However, some of us can hardly pick up a t-shirt that matches the color of the jeans, so it’s not always entirely clear how to choose the right color scheme for your website. But don’t give up, because the theory of color comes to the rescue. Having studied its basics, you will be able to create beautiful and effective color combinations. All experienced web designers rely on the theory, which means that you can do that too! Let’s talk about its main principles, and you will see that everything is much easier than it seems.
Your Working Tool
A color wheel is a basic element of the color theory. We think you all saw him, but if not, here you are:
Color circle is your main working tool, clearly demonstrating how colors are created and combined. They are divided into three basic ones – red, blue and yellow, that can be used to create additional colors like green, orange, and purple.
However, circle does not always consist of six sectors, they can include twelve or more variations. In this case, six colors are added as a result of primary and secondary colors mixing. Those are yellow-green, green-blue, blue-violet, violet-red, red-orange and orange-yellow. There are circles that contain 24 sectors with even more additional hues.
Warm and Cool Colors
All color wheels can be divided into two halves. One of them includes warm colors like yellow, orange and red (most shades of brown also belong to the warm color palette). Cool colors are: blue, green, purple and all shades of gray. And here goes the question “Which colors are better – warm or cool?” The answer is obvious – there is no “better” color. Your choice should depend on the effect you are going to achieve and on associations with a particular feeling or idea. Warm colors are considered to be cheerful, friendly and stimulating; cold colors are in most cases calming and relaxing.
As a result, the choice of color depends on your corporate style, needs, and an atmosphere you want to create. If you like experimenting, and you probably do :), you can mix warm and cool colors, the main thing here is to know how to do that right, and in the next part, we will show that to you.
Color Mixing Basics
There are several working color schemes based on the position of colors in the circle. Let’s start with the simplest one, and then move on to more complicated schemes:
Complementary color scheme
According to this scheme, you can combine two contrasting colors located opposite to each other. For example, you can use red and green, or yellow and purple. For a more elegant combination, it is recommended to add neutral additional shades – beige, light brown, light gray, black or white. Those can be the background colors, for instance.
Analogous color scheme
According to this scheme, three colors located next to each other are used. Examples: orange, yellow-orange and yellow, or purple, blue-violet and blue. All these colors will be well combined with each other because of their close neighborhood in the color circle.
Color triad
Speaking about this scheme it will be necessary to remind you some basic geometric rules. Do not be afraid, there is nothing complicated: you take any three colors equidistant from each other. If you connect them using lines, you will get an equilateral triangle. Possible combinations are: yellow-green, orange-red and violet-blue; yellow-orange, red-violet and blue-green. This is a very rich, contrasting scheme, so you will need to find a balance and choose one color as the main one, and make the other two additional.
Split-complementary color scheme
In this scheme, you select a color as the main one and combine it with the other two, that are standing close to its complementary color on the color wheel. If you connect the selected colors with lines, you will get an isosceles triangle. Possible options are: red, yellow-green and blue-green, or purple, yellow-orange and yellow-green. This is a rather contrasting scheme, that has less tension than a complementary one.
Rectangle color scheme
Here you need to choose two pairs of complementary colors. If you connect them with lines, you will get a rectangle. Example: yellow-orange, yellow green, blue-violet and red-violet. This scheme is a perfect option for unusual combinations and creative websites. Though, if you are afraid of creating a color chaos on your website you can choose one color as the basic, and use the other three to make accents.
Monochromatic color scheme
It is clear from the name that this scheme combines shades of the same color. You can both mix dark and light shades, and choose either dark or light variations.
From Theory to Practice
Congrats! Now you know the main color schemes and understand their pros and cons. Let’s see how to use this knowledge in practice. Here are some premium WordPress themes with different color schemes created by TemplateMonster. I think they can be good examples and a source of inspiration. If you have carefully read through the theory and are ready to show your knowledge – guess which color schemes were used in each of the websites and comment below.
Houston Business WordPress Template
Bright Print Shop WordPress Design
Fast Cleaning Service WordPress Theme
Bellaina – Realtor Services WordPress Template
Sweet Cakes and Bakery WordPress Theme
Wine Store WooCommerce Theme
Fashionable Apparel WooCommerce Website
Sketchfield – Web Design WordPress Site
SEO Agency WordPress Theme
Elegant Photography WP Design
WordPress Theme for Professional Designer
Reliable Financial Company WordPress Theme
Bright and Fashionable WordPress Template
Vegetarian Restaurant WordPress Theme
Best Event Planner WordPress Design
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Unlocked Galaxy S8 preorders start May 9. Here's why it's smart to wait - CNET
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YouTubers tame 'Fantastic Beasts' with a savage Honest Trailer - CNET
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A rare sighting of a giant octopus reveals its lunch - CNET
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You could soon access Congress' browsing history, for free - CNET
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3 ways the Samsung Galaxy S8 let us down - CNET
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FCC gives states control of broadband subsidies for the poor - CNET
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The 'Von Doom' that came to fan films - CNET
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Wednesday, 29 March 2017
Top 14 Companies To Work For In 2017 As a Graphic Designer
A completely satisfactory career that ensures both personal growth and financial fulfillment is the aim of most of working people, although, unfortunately, only few can attain this seemingly impossible goal.
According to management and motivation specialists, job satisfaction is triggered by a series of factors, like: achievement, recognition (rewards), responsibility, advancement, low stress, work-life balance, and company culture (the way employees find common values and ideas among their peers and supervisors).
According to Fortune, World Economic Forum or Forbes, there is a small list of companies that offer employees all of the above. These are the top 15 companies most graphic designers would love to work for in 2017 and here’s also why:
The tech giant offers its workers openness to diversity, different perks, and a great lifestyle. Facebookers are happy (studies showed an employee satisfaction rating of 93%), they feel free (because they are often encouraged to question and criticize their managers) and they make even more money than Google employees (an experienced employee at Facebook makes $135,000 compared to $133,000 at Google). Great place to work at, I guess.
Certainly one of the best places to work at in the world, Google is trying to motivate its employees by constantly innovating, experimenting, and making things fun. They also offer fully paid 18 weeks maternity leave, on-site childcare, free meals, laundry and fitness facilities. This is as good as it gets, in my opinion.
One of the main reasons the company is very attractive for employees is the fact that they invest in their professional development. Also, managers always make sure everybody is in the right role and that people are happy with their work. Most importantly, the company offers fantastic benefits. I’ll send them my resume, for sure.
Adobe
One of the greatest company of the moment, Adobe offers great benefits to its employees, and the overall atmosphere at work is great. People are open, professional and aware that there is so much room for personal advancement as long as they’re serious and dedicated. Sounds good, doesn’t it?
Salesforce
According to employees, this is a place where you can meet smart, motivated, talented people. The company also makes sure its employees are enjoying working there. Salesforce believes in quality and not quantity, so they don’t encourage workers to do extra hours, but rather to focus and do a better job in less time.
NVIDIA
According to NVIDIA workers, this is an exciting, fun place to work, where people are intelligent, driven, and passionate about what they do. NVIDIA looks for the best talents, and provides them with the opportunity to reach their full potential. There’s no better place to work at if you are a game addict☺
Deloitte
The main reasons why people love working for Deloitte are the sabbaticals and the most generous maternity leave the company offers to its employees. The attractive salary, the benefits, the company culture&values (meritocracy, professionalism, diversity, international growth) etc. are also important reasons you would want to be hired by the tax, audit and advisory giant.
Ikea
One of the world’s top furniture retailers, the Scandinavian-style home furnishings company sells housewares in about 330 stores in some 40 countries. Employees are delighted with the company culture: it’s a great place to grow and nurture your profession and person. According to recent studies, almost 80% of workers feel inspired at work.
Microsoft
Apart from the great salary and benefits (the average pay in 2016 was $138,000), diversity in work and influence, at Microsoft you get to work with wonderful people. The stress level was reduced when the company culture shifted from individual competitor to successful teamwork.
Airbnb
Working at Airbnb could be summed up in a few words: great development opportunities and a great company culture encouraging teamwork, brainstorming and open-mindedness. Who could turn down such a job offer?
Adidas Group
Just like all the other big companies, the group offers great career opportunities, learning opportunities, a collaborative culture, smart teams and a lot of great benefits. Enough for me, I may say.
Shopify
Extremely caring towards their employees as well as their customers, Shopify offers numerous benefits to its employees. Starting wages are a lot higher here than they used to be and they get higher every year. In case you are driven, always looking to learn new things and a hard worker, this is just the type of person Shopify is looking for.
Fast Enterprises
Fast Enterprises is a big family and this relaxed, cozy atmosphere makes working together as a team satisfying and successful. Employees only have great words about the management and the working conditions: people are ethical and they trust each other, the company listens to employee’s concerns and co-workers celebrate success together.
About 3,600 workers are employed by the social media giant, the majority of which are based out of its Bay Area headquarters. Like many other tech players, Twitter offers employees scores of benefits, from unlimited vacation days to free healthy food.
If you think the working conditions offered by these giants are attractive, you could just send them your resume. Who knows, maybe one day you will be spoiled with all the benefits mentioned above. I have already sent some applications.
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My Journey Of Learning Programming Through Flatiron School #17
My name is Mason Ellwood, and I’m currently working on Flatiron School’s Online Full Stack Web Development Program. Each week, I’ll be writing about my experience, what I’m learning, and tips on learning to code.
In this post I am going to be skipping through a lot of material that was covered within The Flatiron School, this mainly entailing Object Oriented Ruby. At this point, or if you are following along with me learning Ruby you should have a basic understanding of what OO Ruby is and what it entails. If not be at the point that it will be easy to pick up where I left off on your own. Doing this will allow me to write about the current material I am working through and allow you to quickly catch up to where I am in the school, giving you a better understanding of what the school offers in terms of material covered as a whole.
So here we go!
What the heck is SQL:
SQL is a structured data language that is used for managing data in a database. Its sole purpose is for talking with the database. You may also people talking about SQL in terms of a special purpose or domain specific programming language.
SQL has taken a few forms as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite which for this course we will be using. And as a web developer, you will be working closely with databases to manage data that is associated with your application. But how do we create a database and access information?
First you have to make sure that SQLite is installed. Because I am using a Mac, this makes this process much easier, and a majority of the time unnecessary because it comes preinstalled on your machine. In your terminal create a new folder that will hold you database file. Then in your terminal navigate to that folder and type sqlite3. This should return something along the line of what is shown below.
This below tells you that there is a version of SQLite downloaded on your machine. If you receive an alternative message or error, please visit homebrew and download their gem package, this will install SQLite on your machine and create the appropriate result. To create a database now that you know that SQLite is live, run (SQLite test_sqlite.db). Within the (sqlite>) prompt not accessible to you, type (create table test_table(id);) and then (.quit). Then open up the folder that you creates your database by using (open .).
This will then create a database for you that you will now be able to operate on. Keep in mind that all SQL statements that you write in your terminal, inside of SQLite prompt must be terminated with a semicolon, though this excludes .quit.
SQL Database Basics:
A relational database like SQLite stores data in a structure we refer to as a table. A table in a database if a lot like a spreadsheet. When defining columns in out table, then we can store related data in those columns. This stored data is referred to as records, which are placed in rows within columns in our database.
Keep in mind though with everything there is the convention of typing. Column names follow simple rules, such as always use lower case and when column names are multiple words, use snake case.
So let’s start from the beginning. Let’s create a database and define its schema.
Once the database has been initiated, you then need to define your table. Running something like CREATE TABLE cats; will result in error. This is because SQLite expects definitions of the structure being created. When we create database tables, we need to specify some column names, along with the type of data we are planning to store in each column.
Capitalization is arbitrary but rather convention for visually separating SQL commands from names. This will save you time later, cutting time down through debugging.
End Notes:
Awesome! So now you know how to create and add columns to your table, within your newly created database. SQL so far has been surprisingly fun, and learning to query a database is a great skill to be acquainted with. In the next post, I will get into how to operate, add and subtract from your database.
Please leave comments or questions below, and I will answer them as well as I can.
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Tuesday, 28 March 2017
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'S-Town' podcast review (and 5 things to listen for as you binge) - CNET
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