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Restaurant WordPress Theme – Voulez

Voulez is a multifunctional onepage WordPress Theme. It’s presented in a clean, minimalistic and modern form. And it hast powerful features like the built-in customizer and already carefully selected fonts to choose.

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Meet Elixir, the Laravel Way of Compiling Assets

Many thanks to Jad Joubran, Gabriel Zerbib, Anthony Chambers, and Scott Molinari for peer reviewing this post, and thanks to all of SitePoint’s peer reviewers for making SitePoint content the best it can be! In today’s web applications, we use a wide variety of tools to speed up the development workflow while keeping the code […]

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3 Pro Tips For Finding the Perfect Image

We Held a Webinar!

You may have heard that we have partnered up with Graphic Stock recently to bring your a chance to win $5,000. You may have also seen that last week we held a webinar with our very own Design channel editor Alex Walker.

It was our first webinar, and we were pretty happy to see such a great turn out! Sure there may have been a couple of early hiccups which are now hilarious playbacks, regardless Alex did a brilliant job speaking to us all about stock images! In case you missed last weeks webinar, I’ve created a recap from part 2 of his presentation.

3 Tips for Finding the Perfect Image

1. Work on good copy first

Killer copy can make ordinary images great! Now let’s take a look at an example of this, the Volkswagen Print Ad in 1960.

Volkswagen Print Ad (1960)

At first glance, it's clear that this layout uses a very stock-standard - even boring - car image with the plainest composition you could imagine. But it's the single-word headline below that is so jarringly brilliant that it forces you to do a mental double-take. A single word. "Lemon".

After being drawn into reading the copy you learn how a small blemish on the glove-box caused this car to fail VW’s quality testing.

Just to prove how clever they were, Volkswagen's ad team re-used the same, fairly tedious car image in different way not long after.

At a time when Time Magazine charged $6,000 for a full-page ad, Volkswagen were brave enough to leave most of their page empty, shrinking the car image and running with the simply headline 'Think small'. In a world of big, glossy cars and big glossy car ads, a simple layout combined with sharp copywriting got amazing cut-through with readers.

In both cases, VW decided to go against current advertising norms and had great success breaking into a very competitive US car market. They didn't need expensive photo shoots in exotic locations - in fact, the image looks like it could well be from the Beetle drivers manual. The lesson from this example is that of clever copywriting (and some good layout) can make an ordinary image GREAT !

2. Identify the clichés - and break then

Once you have identified the cliché images for your project, then TWIST them…. Bend them… and then BREAK them! That’s right, be unique. Some of the clichés you may be looking for could be the subject matter, camera angles, typography, color or style.

Levi Jeans Ads

Consider this thought. You may have grown up watching your parents wear Levi Jeans, and there’s a high chance you’ve had Levi’s at one stage, you may even be wearing them now. Levi Strauss has been around for 120 years now which makes them an old, old company.

So, how does an old company like Levi Jeans stay young and hip in the eyes of its customers? The standard approach has always been to ‘show young, hip people wearing their denim’. Unfortunately, almost any competitor marketing denim will take the same approach making it hard to get cut through.

To change things up for their 'black denim' campaign, Levi sourced a rather prosaic shot of a white sheep flock, and photoshopped in a single black sheep heading the other direction. This ‘stand out from the crowd’ message might have taken 30 minutes to create in Photoshop.

Pedigree Dog Food Ads

How does Pedrigree dog food break the cliché to promote the idea of dog adoption. The obvious approach is to show a sad puppy and ask us to “Please save all the sad puppies” - or help us with our problem.

Pedigree took a less obvious approach by making the pitch all about you and your problems, showing how dog adoption can help your mental health and happiness. A 10-minute photoshop trick changes the meaning of the original image, and the tagline of 'Take care of yourself and adopt a dog' delivers the 'payload'. Clever.

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Lists and Grids for Displaying Data in Sailfish OS

Lists and Grid are one the fundamental building blocks of any mobile application.

In this article I’m going to introduce the design of the SilicaListView and SilicaGridView, the Silica implementation of these common components. We will see some examples on how to display types of data, handle clicks and more, keeping the code as simple as possible.

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This Week in Mobile Web Development (#82)

Read this on the Web Mobile Web Weekly November 11, 2015   #82 Brian Rinaldi recommends What is a WebView? — The WebView is used to create hybrid mobile and desktop apps. Jen Looper explains what it is and all the different types of WebViews on various platforms. Telerik Developer Network Brian Rinaldi recommends Why You Shouldn’t Ignore The Bigger Breakpoints in Responsive Web Design — Rob Lafratta warns designers that their focus on mobile devices can sometimes cause them to overlook the very big desktop when building their media queries. InVision Blog Holly Schinsky recommends Building Hybrid Mobile App with PhoneGap and Kendo UI — A video presentation from Todd Anglin of Telerik on building hybrid mobile apps with PhoneGap and Kendo UI. Code Geek Brian Rinaldi recommends The changing form of the web browser — A look at the changes in how users engage with content via the browser and how that impacts diverging strategies for the browser between Apple and Google on mobile. Peter Gasston Holly Schinsky recommends Sending Out Android Push Notification with Ionic.io to Your Users — A tutorial on sending Android push notifications to your users using Ionic’s Push Notification service. Devdactic Holly Schinsky recommends Screencast: How to use Framework7 with AngularJS — A screencast on how to properly use Framework7 with Angular. Timo Ernst's Blog Holly Schinsky recommends Apache Cordova Tools Release: November 6th, 2015 — A new Cordova tools version is out with fixes to a number of items as well as features to convert old plugin id’s to the new syntax and to detect/prompt when a new version of the CLI is available. Apache Cordova Brian Rinaldi recommends Mobile is not a neutral platform — A look at how the mobile platform is different from the web because it is vendor controlled. Benedict Evans Holly Schinsky recommends Hello Master Detail: Your Fourth Ionic Framework App — The 4th post in a series on creating a hybrid app with Ionic. In this post you will learn how to implement the popular master detail pattern. Andrew McGivery Brian Rinaldi recommends Notification: the push and the pull — A summary of discussions around mobile notifications from a recent summit says that the notification screen is becoming our primary mobile interface. John Borthwick Holly Schinsky recommends 6 Ways To Avoid App Fatigue With Enterprise Apps — 6 key points to understand and focus on when building apps for the enterprise. Read Write - Daniel Kraft Holly Schinsky recommends Crittercism Adds Hybrid Application Support — Crittercism adds full hybrid support to their mobile app intelligence product to provide a single tracking mechanism seamlessly across both native and web. Crittercism Holly Schinsky recommends Top 10 Mobile App Development Trends on the Rise — 10 development trends mobile developers should keep in mind when designing a new app. Appsee Blog Brian Rinaldi recommends Checking for platform and plugin updates in your Cordova project — How to check your platforms and plugins for updates on your hybrid project. Raymond Camden Holly Schinsky recommends Virtual Device Wall for Cordova apps — A virtual device wall for testing your hybrid Cordova apps quickly on multiple platforms at once. Parashuram's blog Brian Rinaldi recommends Mobile App Developers are Suffering — Alex says that the “app ecosystem has an extremely harsh power law where app adoption and monetization are heavily skewed towards the top few apps.” Alex Austin Brian Rinaldi recommends Why We're Addicted To Our Smartphones, But Not Our Tablets — Liraz Margalit explains smartphones and tablets activate different mindsets - the intense connection we have with our smartphones does not exist with our tablets. Smashing Magazine Job listing What's More Lame Than A QR Code? — Spending countless hours looking for new job opportunities online. Join Hired and have companies reach out to you with interview requests, which include salary and other benefit information upfront. Hired.com Curated by Brian Rinaldi and Holly Schinsky for Cooper Press. Cooper Press is located at Office 30, Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK Update your email address or stop receiving MWW here

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