Why do Black and White images look awesome?

In the world of filters I had often wondered why do black and white images look so cool. You would find them on website front pages, birthday cards, magazines and what not. But the mystery surrounding the human obsession about the binary colors seem unexplained at best. What is it in those colors that attracts us? Why do pictures in black and white look more beautiful than their colored...

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An Experiment on the Ease of Reading Text

Though it is true that the real information about the quality of text can be collected by reading it, there exist better empirical ways to do that for you. To judge the text in accordance with such empirical methods require some raw data.  For instance, the average number of words per unit sentence, the percentage of complex words in the text, and the average number of syllables per word. To...

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The Dangers of Fair Use Copyright Policy

How often do you feel safe about your work? Do you feel that your work is protected enough by copyright laws? If you do there is a bad news for you. There is a flaw in the existing copyright law, a flaw known as Fair Use Policy. What is Fair Use Policy? The fair use policy is an exemption to the existing copyright law, the one which all bloggers and websites use in order to ward off copiers from...

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Why do you need a multilingual website

Learn how you lose about 95% of your visitors and how to get them back. Demographics play an exceedingly pivotal role in determining the fate of your website. Language does pose a barrier if you want your blog to go truly global.  Codemakit ran an article on “Why do some countries hate your website?” answering the question how a simple change in spelling can cause your blog to stop receives...

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The best 404 pages in History

404 is an error page. It simply means that the page you looked for does not exist. The 400 series of errors were discussed before. At codemakit we had also discussed the concept of using 404 pages to your strength. But certainly one learns as he watches. A really good 404 page can spark inspiration and lead to the birth of yet another shining star. So based on several hours of surfing and encountering...

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An Interview with Metin Saylan from Shailan

Metin Saylan is a Turkish Naval Architect with an awesome programming background. He has been coding websites since 1998. This reminds me, when I interviewed Steven Bradley of Vanseo Design, I found that he too was a structural Engineer. It seems that your background does not matter when you have passion for something.  Coming back to Metin, he was associated with yahoo geocities. He is...

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Jacob Gube of Six Revisions Up Close

SixRevisions, A website aimed at providing the best designs to its readers for free. The face behind SixRevisions is here with us today (Applause for Jacob). Jacob Gube is a web developer, designer and the founder of Six Revisions. He has been a web professional for more than 8 years. His comfort areas include PHP, JavaScript, and standards-based CSS/HTML. He is also quite versed with .NET, VB,...

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A Guide to Creating Awesome E-Book Covers

A content based website like a blog is always dependent on its readers for fame. Such websites strive for quality and try to provide as much new knowledge as possible. But alas, webmasters can only do this much.  This is where having an eBook comes in handy. Some distinct advantages of an eBook are often forgotten by people. In this article we'll first talk why do webmasters need eBooks...

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