Koodoz Design

Via Digg, I recently found a magazine scan from Wired Magazine that arranged corporate logos (I’m guessing from Fortune 500 companies) by their dominant colours. Unsurprisingly, a visible majority of those logos are blue. I’ve been wondering why people seem to like blue so much. Think about it: most operating systems are dominantly blue by default (bad ubuntu!). Heck, even denim jeans — western society’s greatest achievement — are predominantly blue!

Now I think I know why we tend to like blue so much: it’s because we’re really bad at it. Allow me to explain… Read on!

Three cheers to us, for being voted Site of the Day and nominated for Site of the Week at The CSS Awards website, a site that features some of the best CSS websites in the world from the top designers, agencies and bloggers working today.

Since launching the new site, Koodoz Design has been featured in some of the industry’s most renowned and popular CSS and Web Design galleries and blogs, including Smashing Magazine, Noupe, Abduzeedo, Design Shack and CSS Mania Read on!

One of the coolest features of CSS3 is the ability to create newspaper-like columns on your layouts without any extra markup. We always find ourselves “cheating”, using things like <div id="column-one"> which is not very good, so this property would save us a lot of time and unnecessary code.

CSS3 solves all this with the use of some really cool properties: column-width, column-gap and column-rule. I guess they’re pretty self explanatory, except for column-rule which basically behaves like a border in between columns, so it can be treated like one, using width, style, etc. If you need more details, you can go to the source. Read on!

Don’t you just hate it when you print a website only to find out that it’s gone all wrong? Background images and colours are lost, text becomes unreadable due to lack of contrast and many elements, such as menus, are unnecessary when in paper, thus wasting precious micro-drops of the most expensive liquid in the world. Worry not, for CSS is the answer to all of these problems. Read on!

Well, we just installed this plugin that automatically tweets your WP posts. If you do a ‘twitter’ search on the WP plugin repository, you get zillions of them, so we just shorlisted and picked the one we thought would fit our needs best.

This post should work as a test.

The plugin is called Feed2Tweet if you’re interested :)

So, ever since IE8 was released, we’d been delaying installing and testing on it, because, you know, we’re Mac people here at the office and I’m more of a GNU/Linux person myself, so as you might expect, Microso*t does not have too many fans here. But, you know, we have to support it as it is still dominant and it will keep making us miserable for a while.

Read on!

The My School Memories website has just gone live! The focus of this stunning e-commerce website was to create an online store with a boutique feel – something that would to appeal to all the mums and dads that want to savour their childs school years in a beautifully designed keepsake album. Read on!