Gio Gutierrez

Real ad from back in the day… I can’t imagine pitching this to a client with a serious face.

// Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 11:20 am GMT -5 // No Comments » // Design

Real ad from back in the day… I can’t imagine pitching this to a client with a serious face.

30 Exceptional CSS Techniques and Examples

// Friday, April 25th, 2008 10:53 pm GMT -5 // No Comments » // CSS

30 Exceptional CSS Techniques and Examples
Excellent CSS techniques and examples that showcases the capabilities and robustness of CSS. You’ll see a variety of techniques such as image galleries, drop shadows, scalable buttons, menus, and…

Nice outdoor campaign from Google, which set up see-through billboards in Berlin that looked like big Google Video windows—making the point that online video presents life in all its glorious randomness. The ads were a huge hit with passersby. 

// Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 03:29 pm GMT -5 // No Comments » // Design

Your site design is the first thing people see it should be reflective of you and the industry easy to look at with a nice navigation when you can’t find what you want it causes frustration a clear Call to action to increase the temptation use appealing graphics they create motivation if you have animation use with moderation cause search engines can’t index the information display the logos of all your associations highlight your contact info that’s an obligation create a clean design you can use some decoration but to try to prevent any client hesitation every page that they click should provide and explanation should be easy to understand like having a conversation when you design the style go ahead and use your imagination but make sure you use correct color combinations do some investigation, look at other organizations but don’t duplicate or you might face a litigation design done, congratulations but it’s time to start construction follow these instructions when you move into production your photoshop functions then slice that design do your layout with divs make sure that it’s aligned please don’t use tables even though they work fine when it come to indexing they give searches a hard time make it easy for the spiders to crawl what you provide remove font type, font color and font size no background colors, keep your coding real neat tag your look and feel on a separate style sheet better results with xml and css now you making progress, a lil closer to success describe your doctype so the browser can relate make sure you do it great or it won’t validate check in all browsers, I do it directly gotta make sure that it renders correctly some use IE, some others use Flock some use AOL, I use Firefox title everything including links and images don’t use italics, use emphasis don’t use bold, please use strong if you use bold that’s old and wrong when you use CSS, you page will load quicker client satisfied like they eating on a snicker they stuck on your page like you made it with a sticker and then they convert now that’s the real kicker make you a lil richer, your site a lil slicker design and code right man I hope you get the picture what I’m telling you is true man it should be a scripture if it’s built right you’ll be the pick of the litter everyone will want to follow you like twitter competition will get bitter and you’ll shine like glitter if you trying to grow your company will get bigger design and code right man can you get with it

// Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 07:16 pm GMT -5 // No Comments » // Design

Prisoners performing Crank Dat Soulja Boy and You Can’t Touch This.

// Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 09:44 pm GMT -5 // No Comments » // Random

On having layout — the concept of hasLayout in IE/Win

// Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 03:24 pm GMT -5 // No Comments » // Random

On having layout — the concept of hasLayout in IE/Win

Understanding Search Engine Penalties - eXtra For Every Publisher

// Thursday, January 10th, 2008 01:25 pm GMT -5 // No Comments » // Random

Understanding Search Engine Penalties - eXtra For Every Publisher

The 11 Best Movie-Effect Photoshop Tutorials

// Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 11:28 pm GMT -5 // No Comments » // Design

The 11 Best Movie-Effect Photoshop Tutorials
11 of the best tutorials that make your photos look like the movies. From Scarface to Pirates of the Carribean to ‘300’ to A Scanner Darkly. It’s all here.

Dodgeball Memories: Sent from my iPhone (via Photos from megageox)

// Sunday, August 5th, 2007 06:10 pm GMT -5 // No Comments » // Personal

Dodgeball Memories: Sent from my iPhone (via Photos from megageox)