Seconds after I published the article about the release of Downloads Box, I received the first comment about it. Flek wanted to know whether this plugin would work as a sidebar widget.
I though, “such an automated plugin must already exist – actually I replied so to the comment – and I don’t want to help spammers to build automated downloads websites full of spammy links pointing to internal looping nowhere”. (more…)
Traffic is god, content gets traffic and downloads are hot content!
One of the Marketing techniques to increase traffic and authority is to offer goodies for your visitors to download.
Downloads Box increases your blog interaction by (more…)
Web 2.0 style is taking over the new standards for web development, and complex buttons are difficult to create. When the button has reflections, refraction, shadows, glow, lighting… composing new shapes and rollover states is very time comsuming.
The big “how” here is “downloading the native files linked below”.
Fortunately Adobe Illustartor can handle multiple fills and outlines with their mutiple effects for each on them, all for the same path. So you’ve just got to move one node, one path, to change all the fills, all the effects, at the same time.
That, combined with multiple path effects (exclusion, subtraction, etc.) that allow new effects applied on top and so on… makes possible the Siamese button.
Here’s a video that shows you how easy is to change the button’s shape, with one single stroke (I used nudges at first, so you can see it with antialiased rendering. Ai doesn’t refresh the preview while dragging a curve, until it’s released)
