Biro Sketchbook

I created this software to enable webpage authors to accelerate their development cycles. It is like A/B testing but it goes beyond it. Some comparable commercially-provided services are Google Website Optimizer, optimost, maxymiser.

Slaw Dogs subjects America's humblest food to the free play of the imagination. Where else can you get a chicken Caesar salad dog, with a snappy chicken sausage covered in crisp lettuce, Parmesan and croutons? Where else can you get a Oaxacan dog, with a thick layer of black mole and crumbled bits of tortilla chips for a bit of sharp textural contrast? Or a Thai slaw dog, with bits of cilantro and peanut for extra pizzazz?

A JavaScript bookmarklet for WordPress site administrators and designers. What it does: Using jQuery, it appends the default WordPress admin menu to whatever page you’re currently on and styles it with CSS, fixing it to the top right corner. Assuming you’re on a site that’s running WordPress (and it’s installed in the domain’s root), you now have instant access to the entire administrative back end (sans any pages from custom plugins, etc) from the front end.

Super-Kamiokande is a 50,000 ton water Cherenkov detector, which started observation in 1996 after 5 year of construction

Presenter is a child theme for the Hybrid theme framework, which means you must have Hybrid installed to use Presenter.

Cool notetaking idea

Although CSS is generally considered a simple and straightforward language, sometimes it requires creativity, skill and a bit of experimentation. The good news is that designers and developers worldwide often face similar problems and choose to share their insights and workarounds with the wider community. This is where we come in. We are always looking to collect such articles for our posts so that we can deliver the most useful and relevant content to our readers. In this post, we present an overview of useful CSS/jQuery coding tips, tricks and techniques for visual effects, layouts and web form design to help you find solutions to the problems you are dealing with or will have to deal with in future.

Pixen is an innovative graphics editor for the Mac. It's designed from top to bottom for pixel artists—people who make low-resolution raster art like the sprites you see in old video games. But it's great for artists of all arenas: Pixen is like a very powerful MSPaint or a simpler, more agile Photoshop. And best of all, it's Free!

I was curious how it would perform against a traditional form. Would people be more inclined to complete it because of the narrative format? Or would the unfamiliar presentation format confuse people? Thanks to Ron Kurti and the team at Vast.com, I now have some early answers. Ron and his team ran some A/B testing online that compared a traditional Web form layout with a narrative "Mad Libs" format. In Vast.com's testing, Mad Libs style forms increased conversion across the board by 25-40%. You can see a before and after view of the Contact Dealer forms where they ran these tests below.

More than just a plugin, WPtouchTM is a mobile theme for your WordPress website. Modelled after Apple’s app store design specs, WPtouch loads lightning fast and shows your content beautifully, without interfering with your regular site theme. WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into a web-application experience when viewed from an iPhoneTM, iPod touchTM, AndroidTM, or BlackBerry StormTM touch mobile device.

Setting up caching and mobile version to work together

If you're in a hurry, or on a very tight budget, we aren't the right design firm for you. Our very best work takes time, and we put a lot of heart and research into it.

What follows is a summary of my experiences with installing, setting up, and using the drive in my 2008 vintage 15-inch MacBook Pro (2.6GHz, 4GB RAM, 200GB hard drive)—including some performance test results. I’ll state upfront that this isn’t really a fair fight—the SSD is rated faster than the internal hard drive, plus it’s brand new, while the internal drive has been working away for the last 15 months or so. Fair or not, I do think this is a valid comparison, as it’s something anyone looking for more speed out of their current MacBook Pro might consider.

FacebookFacebook is known for its uniformity. You can post all sorts of content, but the actual design and layout of your profile is the same as everyone else’s. But with Facebook Fan Pages and the array of apps you can plug into them, there are a few ways you can customize what people see when they land on your Page.

What follows is a summary of my experiences with installing, setting up, and using the drive in my 2008 vintage 15-inch MacBook Pro (2.6GHz, 4GB RAM, 200GB hard drive)—including some performance test results. I’ll state upfront that this isn’t really a fair fight—the SSD is rated faster than the internal hard drive, plus it’s brand new, while the internal drive has been working away for the last 15 months or so. Fair or not, I do think this is a valid comparison, as it’s something anyone looking for more speed out of their current MacBook Pro might consider.

FacebookFacebook is known for its uniformity. You can post all sorts of content, but the actual design and layout of your profile is the same as everyone else’s. But with Facebook Fan Pages and the array of apps you can plug into them, there are a few ways you can customize what people see when they land on your Page.

ulling the trigger just got easier. Now anyone can have a beautifully designed, standards-compliant WordPress site. The 60-plus recently created free WordPress themes (AKA template collections) listed by InstantShift’s Daniel Adams are categorized by function and style: “Clean and Minimal,” “Artistic and Fancy,” “Magazine Style,” “Portfolio Style,” “News and Social Media Style,” “Showcase and Galleries Style,” “E-Comerce and Shopping Cart Style,” “Domain Parking/Coming Soon Style,” and “Other.” Something for everyone. Not everything here is a winner or will appeal to every taste, but there is plenty of great work to be had here. If WordPress is your CMS (it’s mine), even if you are a designer, you may ask yourself if you really need to perform that next site redesign from scratch.

Create original zencart buttons, creloaded buttons or oscommerce buttons. Select any button template, customize font color, font style, background color and icons for every button.

Lead gen page design is not only short, sweet, and mostly self-contained. It’s also a perplexing balancing act between designing for conversion “the dough” and employing some conventions (e.g. not hyperlinking logos back to the app’s main home page, stock photography, microcopy, offers, etc.) that feel more trickster-like “the spam.”