Well, I know I’m late, but anyway, the 2008 Philippine Blog Awards is now open for nominations. It aims to recognize the finest blogs and bloggers in the Philippines.
I’m really happy that my blog design has been recognized internationally, but ofcourse, as a Filipino, it would be my pleasure to be recognize in my own country.
If you think I’ve got what it takes for the Best Blog Design Award category, feel free to nominate me. ^_^
http://www.philippineblogawards.com.ph/entries/nomination-form-special-awards/
April 26th, 2008 · 4 Comments ·
I get a lot of emails asking about the plugins I use here at Octwelve blog. So today I’d like to share it with you.
Adsense Deluxe
Adsense Deluxe is a very easy to use plugin for quickly inserting Google ads. So instead of copy pasting the google code over and over again, you simply put an HTML comment “<!–adsense–>” anywhere in a post. Download the plugin here.
FlickrRSS
FlickrRSS allows you to integrate the photos from a flickr rss feed into your site. Download the plugin here.
Twitter Tools
Twitter Tools lets you create a complete integration of your Wordpress blog and Twitter account. It brings your tweets into your blog and pass your blog posts to Twitter. I have a previous post here on How to add Twitter on your blog. Download the plugin here.
SimpleTags
Allows you to create a list of Technorati tags at the bottom of your post by providing a comma separated list of tags between the [tags] tags. Download the plugin here.
That’s all the plugins I use. I hope that helps :) Laters!
Technorati Tags: wordpress, plugin, blog
April 20th, 2008 · 6 Comments ·
As you know, Octwelve is my first blog and the character is my first original illustration. I am really happy that my blog design is making it into different lists like this. But what truly flatters me is to see my work featured amongst other great designers I look up to..like Meomi. Now I wish I could see my blog design on magazines too someday. ^_^
Anyway, here’s the 25 Incredibly Artistic Websites by Vandelay. I’m sure these will inspire you. Thanks Vandelay!!
Here’s my personal pick:
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Technorati Tags: artistic, website, design
Yet another cool Wordpress blog design list by Noupe. It’s very inspirational indeed. Octwelve is one of them :) I think my personal pick is Malene Hald, Leslyg, and Web Designer Wall.
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Today, I want to share with you some of the great things about having a standards compliant website and why you too should start using it.
Search engine friendly, increased traffic
This is one very important reason to practice web standards. Search engines such as Google are blind user. It doesn’t care about the design. It cannot tell if it’s a heading just because you set the page heading to font size of 20px to make it larger.
In a standards compliant website, the design is separated from content. The HTML holds the contents while visual presentation is controlled by CSS. The HTML uses a semantic code. A semantically structured website uses the right tag to describe the contents within it. So if something is a heading, instead of using font size=20px, wrap it with heading tags such as H1, H2, H3 and so on. e.g., <h2>The Benefits of Web Standards</h2>
By describing your contents properly, the more Google will understand what your site is all about and improve your ranking which will lead to an increased traffic.
Less bandwidth, loads faster
By removing the visual presentation markup from HTML and moving it to CSS, means that your HTML page size is smaller and thus it loads faster. We should keep in mind that there are still lots of dial-up users out there. And we can’t just ignore them. Slow loading sites are so boring and annoying. The tendency is your visitors will leave your website and you lose a business.
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March 31st, 2008 · 9 Comments ·
I used to watch a lot of anime since I was 12 years old. I remember my first favorite anime was Saber Marionette J. And since then, I got hooked to animes and watched every anime dubbed locally. However, over the past few years, my interest is gradually waning because of heavy workload. The only anime that’s currently airing that I watch is Bleach.
Fortunately, I had a lot of free time in the past couple of months and I spent it catching up with Death Note. It’s definitely one of the best series of all time. I’ve also recently completed watching Blood+ which is also awesome! They said it’s one of the best titles last year, and it’s great indeed. After watching these 2 titles, my love for anime grows again. ^_^
I feel like I’m more obsessed now than before. I answer “moshi moshi” on the phone, and I was looking for a Nihonggo dictionary when I went to the bookstore. Haha I’m nuts! And if you ever wonder why my hair is like this, it’s because i’m really fascinated with the anime characters ( it’s nothing emo nor f4 ^_^ )
I’ve stumbled upon this useful site which lets you organize your anime collection. You can check out the top anime series so you can have an idea what to watch next. You can also catalog the animes you’ve watched and yet to watch. Check it out at MyAnimeList.net .
Kampai! ^_^
Technorati Tags: anime, collection, death note, blood+, bleach, saber marionette, manga
Web design for Repros Therapeutics.
Brochure and business card design for Premier Lawn & Landscape.
February 23rd, 2008 · 6 Comments ·
People have been asking me how on earth did I manage to integrate my Twitter feeds on my blog. It’s really simple..I used a plugin called Twitter Tools.
Twitter Tools is a Wordpress plugin created by Alex King that lets you create a complete integration of your Wordpress blog and Twitter account.
With Twitter Tools you can:
- Archive your tweets
- Create a blog post from each of your tweets
- Create a tweet on Twitter whenever you post in your blog, with a link to the blog post
- Post a tweet from your sidebar
- Create a daily digest post of your tweets
- Post a tweet from the WP Admin screens
- Pass your tweets along to another service (e.g., Facebook)
- You can also choose the number of tweets you want to show in the sidebar.
So, here’s how to add Twitter on your blog.
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February 11th, 2008 · 6 Comments ·
About a month ago, I picked up the Logitech VX Revolution cordless laser mouse. It is the laptop version, the little brother of MX Revolution mouse for desktop. Logitech labels the MX Revolution to be “the world’s most advanced mouse” and so for the VX, it’s the ultimate laptop mouse.
I bought this to use with my Vostro 1700 laptop but I found my hand so comfortable with it, I’m now using it as my primary mouse for desktop. The precision is excellent. I use it a lot with graphic designing. VX Revolution is not as small as all other laptop mice but it’s not a full sized regular mouse either. Its size and ergonomic design fits nicely with my small hand.It has a lot of cool features and my favorite are:
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