Changing Lanes

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I've always been amazed of knowing that most people in the world never get to leave their hometown and its surroundings. To know that people are usually satisfied with what they see everyday.

I'm not.

I was born in Venezuela, which was ok until I realized how far behind we were are in so many things. And now more with the whole country going backwards. That's when I decided it was time to leave, and see the ...

First Impressions

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They say first impressions are the only ones that really matter, and any extra effort you try to put afterwards doesn't have any effect and it wont change that first impression.

Is this true? I think it is, and I'll tell you why.

Despite what people believe, first impression we get from someone or something is not related to what we think of it, since reasoning comes from an analysis our brain performs with the given information. And ...

5 Things a Designer Should Provide

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Web designers are the builders of the internet's face. Sometimes called artists, sometimes (self) called rockstars, sometimes things not so good. Our passion is to make the internet a better place, by making that face look good doing what it was meant to do.

Design is always a cycle that consists in understanding the problem, creating the solution, making it work, and then making it beautiful. I will give you five handy tips to help you start that cycle ...

HTML5 LocalStorage

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One of the things I find different and new about HTML5 is the relationship with other technologies. While all past versions of the markup language work well with JavaScript, HTML5 relies on it to extend its own capabilities beyond simple markup, allowing us to make so much more with it. That is the case for localStorage.

The localStorage attribute is part of the Web Storage API, and its function is to save, read and delete data in a key/value ...

Basic Concepts of Web Analytics

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Way back, when websites were nothing more than simple electronic brochures, site owners relied on basic hit counters to measure their success. Modern websites communicate, sell, provide support, interact with people among many other things, so they needed something better to tell them more about their visitors.

Who are our users?

The Basic Concepts

There are many options available today to measure web metrics, like Google Analytics, Piwik, Clicky, Yahoo! Web Analytics, and so. Each one of those has its own way to show ...

Django Media URL

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Django newbie tip: Always remember to set the right values for {{ MEDIA_URL }} and {{ MEDIA_ROOT }} in your settings.py file, Django will use these setting in models, views and templates. Also remember when you create your views with Django Templates, always use the {{ MEDIA_URL }} variable when you have to refer to a media file.

The HTML5 Section Tag

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In my intent to adapt the design of this site to a nice HTML5 markup, and the fact that the site is divided in two sections side by side rather than a regular top header, i ran into a few obstacles, and it made me wonder.

After some investigation, I decided (for now) to use two simple <div> tags to separate the navigation area from the main content area, and the reason for that was that i didn't find ...

I Think I Made it

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Well, I've been working with this site for the past several weeks, and I think I finally have something to show. I got the blog part working decent, with almost everything i want it to have, I just need to fix the post types listings so they have a nice unique design for each type.

I finally put myself into learning Django, then I had to learn some Python, and some Regular Expresions, and some other things to help ...

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