What is Skeuomorphism? Skeuomorphism (the tendency to deliberately make something new look like something old and familiar) is a polarizing design language people either love or hate. Maybe one of the biggest and most familiar supporter of skeuomorphic design is Apple. Like most design languages there are positives and negatives to using it. The Pros When used correctly skeuomorphism can...
If your office is as busy as ours is, then you need ways to stay organized. At our Blueprint Duluth office, our employees thrive when it gets busy in the office. Most of what we do is on a project basis. However, it is easy when doing a large project that requires work from multiple departments, for something to get...
I cannot stress enough how important it is to have a mobile compatible version of a website. I wrote several times before on responsive design, sharing some tips and tricks. Here at Blueprint, I do a lot of responsive web development. While I work on a project, I find myself needing to test my work. Here are some tools that...
FPDF is a PHP class which allows web developers to generate PDF files with pure PHP code. The class can be downloaded for free and modified to suit one’s needs. FPDF contains several practical features including: Page header and footer management Automatic page break, line break, and text justification Image support (JPEG, PNG and GIF) Color & font flexibility Links...
With the arrival of the Smartphone has come a change in the way we use the internet. Searching the web from a mobile device is now an every day activity. With these changes, websites must adapt and be usable on a variety of devices. It looks terrible for a website to just shrink way down in order to fit on...
So you have to do a video shoot in a warehouse… When you hear you have a video shoot scheduled in a warehouse, do you prepare yourself? Video is never an easy project. Furthermore, on location in a warehouse is certainly not an easy project. Warehouse projects may come up often. Several companies want to show off their equipment, laboratories, and...
Mobile web development is very important these days. The numbers vary, but about 50 percent of mobile phone owners in the United States are estimated to have smartphones now. Responsive design comes in handy when making websites because of the website could adapt to the screen sizes of various devices. I have written two posts before sharing some basic tips...
“If I had won the lottery, I would have bought a boat.” In this sentence, it is impossible for the condition to be fulfilled, because it refers to an event in the past. I neither won the lottery, nor bought a boat. Like the English language, programming languages make extensive use of conditional statements. When writing programming functions, conditional clauses...
My experience working with proffessional 2D and 3D animation software, like After Effects and Maya, has been enjoyable and cool. The things you can do as far as effects and animation with these programs are incredible, and it’s thanks to them that we see so many awesome things in movies these days. But even so, being able to use them can come...
If you find yourself writing the same few lines of code more than twice, convert those lines into a PHP function. In order to minimize the amount of code for websites and web applications, call functions within functions. The most effective functions are ones that are reusable. Naming Functions The names you choose for your functions should provide a good...
