The Smashing Book is a printed book about best practices in modern Web design. The book shares technical tips and best practices on coding, usability and optimization and explores how to create successful user interfaces and apply marketing principles to increase conversion rates. It also shows how to get the most out of typography, color and branding so that you end up with intuitive and effective Web designs.

I have received my copy of the book today and thought of trying to shoot some photos of it. I also wanted to try the NKRemote software which i can install on my Lenovo S10, connect the Nikon D90 and shoot the photos remotely from the laptop. Which makes it very very easy to adjust the focus as it supports the Live View too.

To check out more about the book please visit: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/12/03/smashing-book-its-out-now/

So here are few shots i wanted to share..

And in the making..

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I have designed a logo for the company. But i am stuck with a tag line / slogan for the company. Below are the list of tags going through my mind. I would really appreciate if you can help me decide or you can suggest me some new ones.

- “Right click to profit”

- “It’s simple, we enable you”

- “The web company”

Here is the logo

The tag line is all yours

UPDATE:
We have finalized our tagline. Its “The right click for profit”.

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MGM Grand. ( www.mgmgrand.com )

MGMGrand.com is your premiere online destination for Las Vegas entertainment. All flashy, just like a movie. Might take a little while to load the sections. But its WORTH waiting for. I love the music and the transitions on the movie. Beautifully Done.

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Shine, from Yahoo ( shine.yahoo.com )

A new content portal aimed at women aged 25 to 54. At its core, Shine is a large blog with magazine style layout. Content is broken up into various subcategories with the front page highlighting the newest content from across the site. Topic areas include parenting, sex and love, healthy living, food, career and money, entertainment, fashion, beauty, home life, and astrology. More on Techcrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/..

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HULU ( hulu.com ) { Currently Available to US Only }

Hulu videos are played in their own embeddable branded player. Content from at least a dozen TV networks and two major film studios is promised. Initial distribution partners include AOL, Comcast, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo. More on CrunchBase: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/hulu

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Adobe Photoshop Express Beta ( www.photoshop.com )

Photoshop Express is by no means just Photoshop ported onto the web. It would even be a stretch to say it’s a stripped down version of the desktop software, since it’s intended for mainstream consumers, not professionals. More on Techcrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/0…

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Mitras ( www.mitrasfilms.com )

“We firmly believe that our job is to help clients to build enduring communication through our effective films. We craft the content in such a way that it will definitely live as a part in the lives of the consumers and command their loyalty and confidence From a humble start, in the yr 2006, with only two team members, Mitras Films has now grown as one of the most sought after production companies.”

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Pure Volume ( www.purevolume.com )

PureVolume is the place for rising artists to host their mp3s and get exposure. We showcase unsigned artists, independent labels, and major label artists. Visitors can download over 100,000 mp3s for free.

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Pownce ( www.pownce.com )

Send messages, files, links, and events to your friends. Create a network of friends and share stuff. It’s free and easy…

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Demand Ware. ( www.demandware.com )

Demandware drives the success of high-growth brands with its breakthrough On-Demand eCommerce Platform that empowers merchandising and marketing talent with total control over the shopping experience and continuous competitive differentiation.

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Microsoft Live@edu Website. ( my.liveatedu.com )

This site showcases Microsoft Live@edu services, awsome technology and helpful-tos for students.

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Newspond ( www.newspond.com )

Newspond’s articles are found and stored by real-time global popularity, using a fully automated news collection engine. You can now watch stories as they materialize and flow through the web. It’s the ultimate hub for the latest news.

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LinkedIn ( www.linkedin.com )

LinkedIn is an online network of more than 20 million experienced professionals from around the world, representing 150 industries.

When you join, you create a profile that summarizes your professional accomplishments. Your profile helps you find and be found by former colleagues, clients, and partners. You can add more connections by inviting trusted contacts to join LinkedIn and connect to you.

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Zyb ( www.zyb.com )

Store your phone online and connect with friends

ZYB stores your phone’s contacts, calendar and messages online and connects you with people you know.

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Where to look for?

www.techcrunch.com
Group-edited blog about technology start-ups, particularly the Web 2.0 sector.

www.smashingmagazine.com
Smashing magazine is a weblog dedicated to web-developers and designers.

www.cssmania.com
CSSmania, the most updated css showcase all over the globe.

www.cssbeauty.com
CSS Beauty focuses on providing its audience with a database of well designed CSS based sites, as well as news and happenings on the CSS Design Community.

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The Dashboard’s most important role is to inform quickly and get you to where you’re headed in the admin. In interviewing users, we found that most of you ignore the Dashboard entirely — its useful information being mostly hidden in an overly complex design. The new Dashboard is focused on the most relevant tasks at hand: a quick summary of what’s published and scheduled for publication, the latest comments and incoming links, blog stats, and WordPress updates and news. You can add your own RSS feeds and edit the way information is presented so that the new Dashboard conforms to the way you use WordPress.

Dashboard Widgets — the dashboard home page is now a series of widgets, including ones to show you fun stats about your posting, latest comments, people linking to you, new and popular plugins, and of course WordPress news. You can customize any of the dashboard widgets to show, for example, news from your local paper instead of WP news. Plugins can also hook in, for example the WordPress.com stats widget adds a handy double-wide stats box.

Navigation

The WordPress navigation has confounded even sophisticated users. With the new design, we’ve cut the number of navigation options in half, separating the primary functions (writing, managing posts and pages, editing the blog’s design, and managing comments) from secondary functions. This presents information at a more comfortable pace, revealing only the information that’s necessary. Everything you need is still there — just better organized. (Especially for people new to WP.)

Write

By far, the most frequently accessed part of WordPress is the Write screen. It gets the job done, but its myriad options can be overwhelming. The new write screen only displays the information that you’ll use most often. It displays the most common fields in a way that makes posting incredibly easy. Additional options are hidden away until you need them. The new Write screen anticipates the natural flow of the way you write, and is smart enough to remember the way you left it so that your preferred writing environment is always quickly available. The new visual editor even has a handy full-screen mode to help block out distractions while composing your newest post. (My personal favorite new feature.)

Manage

REF: http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-brecker/

http://westi.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/wordpress-25-in-detail/

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Living on a creative world isn’t easy. Each and everyday i pass gives me tonns of ideas to keep or work on to. Everything i look at, gives me a lot of new ways to think about them. Things we can do to make them better. From Photography to websites. Yeah still living on a creative world isn’t easy. Lets think that collecting idea’s is not the hard part. But to store, keep them on their real state is the tough part.

Living a life with having myself deep inside the machine world gives me enough reasons and ease to store the ideas i generate everyday. Lets start mapping. I use different stoftwares for the uses. Things i use are Mind Manager 7 for Windows. On web its Mind Meister ( from the creators of Skype). Haven’t found a good one for mobiles yet. I will publish posts about these softwares later.

Keep this short, but not so long! Lets say that this blog will help me to share and reveal some of the great things i have worked on and things which i am upto.

Hey, thanks for visiting and will try my best to update this via desktop, web & mobile.

Link to some of my previous blogs.

My Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/nattu
Vox Blog: www.nattu.vox.com

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