“Object Oriented CSS” what is the theory Behind it?

Hi CSS developers, I found very nice and useful article in the topic “Object Oriented CSS’? So what is the logics behind it. I like to share it with all my friends and visitors of this websites. Please check out the article, it pretty interesting and logical. It will be helpful for your knowledge upgrading.

What is Object-Oriented CSS?
Object-oriented CSS, at its core, is simply writing cleaner, DRYer CSS. It’s not a different language: still the same old CSS we all know and love. It’s just a paradigm shift. Really, object-oriented CSS is a few simple patterns and best practices.

So why call it object-oriented?
Well, according to Wikipedia, Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm that uses “objects” — data structures consisting of datafields and methods — and their interactions to design applications and computer programs.

If we were to re-write that definition for object-oriented CSS, it might say something like this:
“Object-oriented CSS is a coding paradigm that styles “objects” or “modules”—nestable chunks of HTML that define a section of a webpage—with robust, reusable styles.”

This basically means that you have a standard “object” (an HTML structure). Then, you have CSS classes that you apply to objects, which define the design and flow of the object.

Confused? Let’s look a bit of theory.

I feel so bad being Great Nepali who has to read “VISIT INDIA 2009! The Land of Buddha”.

I wanted to post this picture everywhere in all social networks. Everyone may be thinking what is special with this simple …. picture which is caught with simple 5megapixel phone camera.

This year 2009, India have great year with a lot of visitors. I think, around January 2010 the report for this event will report success of the visit India 2009 year. But for me It’s worst. They promote the visit India 2009 with tag lines “Incredible India” and “The Land of The Buddha”. I don’t feel bad with first tag line…. but it hearts a lot when they promote with second tag line. It hearts more than a bullet went through my body. In the year 2009 India promoted their Visit India 2009 in Singapore with this tag line and with picture of Buddha in most busy mrt station where 200 people per minute cross the way in average. Every time I cross that way, it makes me feel so bad and upset. It gets more worst when I see promotion with new picture are changed in every 2 or 3 months with same tag line. But I cannot do anything. I even cannot ask Singapore Government why they authorized Visit India 2009 to promote with wrong information.

I am just surprised… how can country like Singapore lets to promote it, where news have to censored through. And why India wants to promote with fake promotion, except I am not surprised with ignorance of Nepal government. It’s as usual. They even cannot do anything, if they have information also. But being Nepali it’s so hard to see that promotion.

I found the list “The world’s top 20 web designers”

I found the list of the top designers around the world. Designer peoples check this out. http://www.netmag.co.uk/zine/discover-culture/the-world-s-top-20-web-designers

What makes a world-class designer? It’s a simple question and yet once we started compiling this list we realised it’s not at all simple to answer. Is it about pushing boundaries or holding fast to traditional principles? Should the body of work be judged on aesthetics or usability? Is fame or notoriety important, or just a distraction? Ultimately, we’ve tried to balance all these considerations and more, and picked 20 figures who we all feel act as a beacon of inspiration to web builders everywhere. We hope you agree…

In search of Design Inspiration.

Hi. After working as designer for 4 years, I found some great facts about design, user-interface and content presentation in web design. My design experience includes many types of clients, good, bad, and naughty clients. I have even design such websites which are actually by client. They are so nasty that, they want to create website themselves.. not by designers. So working so long with various clients and many design presentation, lastly i came to know few facts about web design.

so the most effective part is the content presentation, readability and simplicity in the website. There should be right content positions, the user should think more to find contents and should be completely readable. If user have to go forward to the monitor to see the fonts, then its going to be problem. If the website is in white background.. then there are great chances user will visit it again and again.

We have many resources to share these ideas better than me. we can find many books, website, articles and papers explaining these web truths. I just want to share some websites, books to inspire the designers.

For design inspirations:
1. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
2. http://www.freelanceswitch.com/
3. http://bestwebgallery.com/
4. http://webcreme.com/ (my fav.)
5. http://www.webdesign-inspiration.com/
6. http://www.designmeltdown.com/
7. http://cssremix.com/
8. http://www.presidiacreative.com/71-free-psd-resources/ (Article)
9. CSS mastery | By Andy Budd, Cameron Moll, Simon Collison (Books)
10. Communicating design | By Daniel M. Brown (Books)

Just to share these resources to influence the design ideas.
Thanks
Amit Gurung

It’s the time to use CMS, Joomla, WordPress, Drupal.

Now, its the time for CMS. My friend who is Joomla Guru is providing hardcore programming on Joomla /CakePHP/JQuery/Mootools/WordPress and PHP.

Hey,
People got any projects, websites, cms based application. Please contact us or visit these websites http://www.ansignature.com or http://www.sanjeevshrestha.com.np to find more about us.

thanks
Amit Gurung
Designer

Job Hunting in Economic Downturn!

Huge discussions, many seminars are being organized to solve the economic downturn. I wish “if it can be reduced using any type of antibiotic”, But I guess there is no any such vaccine. These days most of professionals are having very hard days. Every department, each positions are affected by this downturn. Sales and marketing are out of sales. Professionals are just waiting to work for value added operations. Management is looking for reorganizing the company. Every business plans are not working, estimated plans are out of date. Marketing is looking for customers, rather than the peoples walking around. Whole is economic is waiting to go up. Every person from drivers to top managers, politicians are talking about economic, but where is the solution? What is solution? Many job holders are retrenched from their company. Many professionals are finding themselves out of their position after their company is reorganized. What is the cure, is it the time, is it business, is it political, or is it the economic life cycle. I wish to get it rid as soon as possible.

I see myself every day to search new job, new place to find job. I go many website, many seminar, many careers fairs, but all they are not working. I go to facebook, Linkedin, most all social networks to read if there is any good news, well done jobs. I cannot find any of corporate house saying, ok we are hiring. Most of them say just hiring to market themselves. Yea, we all know that, this is the time to find more opportunity to earn huge sum of money, but at least we must have few amount of yogurt to make many liters of yogurts. I am afraid of, what if I won’t get any works? How can I get food, shelter, and clothes? If I will be in such condition, it’s confirmed there will be such a lot of IT professionals in the road searching to find any construction job or cleaner job. But we don’t know how to get them also. May many will go to internet and search in google to get cleaner jobs?

I see again “Bill Gates” become the world’s richest man who is from Technology industry, but here we are running out of jobs and looking for new technology to evolve to work on it.
heri

Again www.ansignature.com is updated!

Hi, I am busy to get my website update to give more impression in contents. Previously it was just like worst content in the internet. Any way I try to keep it for my search engine support. As the contents are not worked properly, I got a lot of feedback regarding my contents in the website. so I came up with some well justified contents related me, mero services and my new skills development. I went through some changes to make website visitor more interesting, and enjoy. Recently, I have added link to my Blog, twitter, LinkedIn profile, Portfolio link and trying to get facebook soon. Wow, that means my clients can get me all over the internet. So here’s the link to my new updated fresh website http://www.ansignature.com. I think you people like it. Enjoy for Life!

Me, IT Industry and Economic Crisis 08/09

I, a professional web designer completely affected by economics crisis 08/09 want to make IT industry more boost up. At first I went just ignoring it, believing that it will not affect me, but after sometime, I was hunted by huge crisis wave, which made me to stop working. That’ means the crisis wave was so big that it affected big MNCs’ to a freelance professional. The crisis went so bad that none of the professionals were safe; at the end all of them are affected. For me, it became very huge problem; I have low sales, low budget projects, few clients and no salary at all. It’s my first time to face this situation after, I entered into the business. So my time is hard, and has to fight against it to survive. Anyway it’s moving till now, hoping the situation will be better. I read articles and try to get me information to reduce it, but its taking time and found, my effort is too little to make it better. But still I will not stop to fight against it. 

The global financial crisis, brewing for a while, really started to show its effects in the middle of 2007 and into 2008. Around the world stock markets have fallen, large financial institutions have collapsed or been bought out, and governments in even the wealthiest nations have had to come up with rescue packages to bail out their financial systems.

On the one hand many people are concerned that those responsible for the financial problems are the ones being bailed out, while on the other hand, a global financial meltdown will affect the livelihoods of almost everyone in an increasingly inter-connected world. The problem could have been avoided, if ideologues supporting the current economics models weren’t so vocal, influential and inconsiderate of others’ viewpoints and concerns.

At the end, I want to ask everyone, why not to fight? Lets fight against it and win it. IT industry have to chances to gain while the situation will be going better. So lets do efforts and win this crisis for next generation.

Incredible ansignature!

Hey everyone, first of all very warm good greeting from the side of ansignature. I, web designer and developer for ansignature is proud to announce that http://www.ansignature.com have been launched just this month.

As currently I am arrived in new place called uniquely Singapore, I came with new ideas, creativity, and innovations in web developing and designing. I tried to come with new and unique inspirations which result to create me ansignature.com. The website basically is all about me, services, contact information, and many other functions are to be added. It allows the user to decide the person for web design in web business. People like to increase, bust up their business really more and more, they want ever y thing perfect and inspirable to any others. The web also sends the message of green environment to new generations. So I want to support the green world, green environment, green life for all the living beings in this world.

It is amazing new creative website which made me more popular in most the inspirable website collection. When I lunched the website and posted in cssmania.com then it bust-up with 5-6 more website collection.  The new emails started to came with adding ansignature.com in their websites. That’s my great achievement as I came to uniquely Singapore. The website has been elected for the editor’s pick in http://w3csites.com/ for this month too.

Here are some links to website collection for ansignature.com please check out them! It’s really good to view them.

http://www.webdesign-is-art.com/webdesign/ansignature

http://w3csites.com/profile.asp?u=ansignature

http://cssfreshblend.com/gallery/?submitID=242

Please visit this blog regularly as I will update this link section.

Next month I have few more new projects which will say hi to new website collections. That’s what ansignature .com wants and be always who achieves new and more fore-steps in the world of web design and development.

Thanks to all of my design fans!
Amit Gurung

Good Designers Copy, Great Designers Steal

It’s true. Picasso really said, “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” Or at least, since his death in 1973, everyone believes he said that.

But why? Why would someone as original as Picasso say something as ironic as that? And what did he mean? Google Picasso’s quote, and you’ll find plenty of opinions and interpretations as to what he really meant.

My intent here, then, is to uncover one possible interpretation. This interpretation involves three levels of design, each of which:

1. involves some aspect of copying or stealing,
2. shows increasing design maturity, and
3. adapts Picasso’s quote to modern graphic design.

Three Levels of Design

To help you understand my reasoning, I’ve segmented this interpretation into three levels. Are these the only three levels of design? Of course not. They’re only a guide to help improve your design maturity as related to copying and stealing.

I’ve included short case studies to effectively demonstrate the primary concept at each level — at least, that’s the intent. You be the judge as to whether or not they’re effective examples.

Level 1: Copy, Don’t Create

I’m all for being as original as possible, but a beginning Web designer (or any designer, for that matter) should start out by copying other well-created designs.

Gerry McGovern, Web copywriting guru, makes the same argument for writers:

One of the simplest tricks that professional writers learn can greatly ease the process of getting ready to write: look for a model of the kind of article you need to do, then dissect it, analyze it—and copy it. . . . Novice writers often make two mistakes: they think they need to be entirely original, and they think they need to wait for “inspiration.” Take it from the pros: for most kinds of writing, originality and inspiration are overrated.

Replace the instances of “writers” and “writing” in Gerry’s quote with “designers” and “Web design” and the message is the same: copy, don’t create.

Surprisingly, there’s a positive side effect to copying: conventionality. Building on the same foundation as other sites — specifically, layout and information architecture — often leads to intuitiveness and familiarity for the end user. By no mistake do BarnesAndNoble.com and Amazon.com have similar navigation structures.

Additionally, if your career is anything like mine, you hardly ever enjoy the luxury Michelangelo relished as he expended four long years completing the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Often, we have only four months — more likely, four weeks. So, in a commercial art environment such as Web design, copying is almost mandatory, given the time constraints and budget limitations we face.

Level 2: Steal From Yourself

Simply put, one of the best sources from which you can steal is yourself.

Think about it. You probably have a folder on your hard drive that contains dozens of designs that were never used or completed. You’ve created designs that have been a success with clients. And more importantly, your distinctive design style is probably a selling point for many of your clients.

Why not tap into some of the great work you’ve created that was either unused or never fully completed? Or even better, reinvent some of your work that was highly successful in establishing your personal style?

Level 3: Steal From Discrete Sources

A good design friend of mine, Jesse Bennett, adorns his signature on message board posts with a quote by Albert Einstein: “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”

Perhaps the easiest way to ‘hide’ your sources is simply to use sources that are already hidden.

“Picasso hardly meant that great artists steal popular designs whose original source is known to everyone,” says Wes George, writer for The Mac Observer and financial Mac nut.

“What Picasso did mean was that great artists rummage through the great junk heap of lost, bypassed, and forgotten ideas to find the rare jewels, and then incorporate such languishing gems into their own personal artistic legacy… Picasso implied that great artists don’t get caught stealing because what they appropriate they transform so thoroughly into their own persona, that everyone ends up thinking the great idea was theirs in the first place.”

Level 3 entails the difficult process of searching through magazines, books, Websites, historical artifacts, cultural compositions and other rich design sources to locate those unused and forgotten ideas Wes speaks of.