var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push([‘_setAccount’, ‘UA-5187250-8’]); _gaq.push([‘_trackPageview’]); (function() { var ga = document.createElement(‘script’); ga.type = ‘text/javascript’; ga.async = true; ga.src = (‘https:’ == document.location.protocol ? ‘https://ssl’ : ‘http://www’) + ‘.google-analytics.com/ga.js’; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();Tumblr (3.0; @kovshenin)http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/<p>Don’t just post links in Tumblr, you should at least describe them ;)</p>http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/12027901977http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/12027901977Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:29:53 +0400tumblr<p>Why are rotating (slider, sort of) background images always such a mess? And why do clients love them so much? And finally, how hard could it be to understand that one image will not suit all devices and screen sizes?</p> <p>And even if it does, it’s probably scaled or cropped. If it’s cropped then probably in the wrong place, cutting off some important part of the image on the client’s 11-inch Macbook Air. If it’s scaled then the aspect ratio can’t fit 16:9, 16:10 and 4:3 all at the same time.</p> <p>But then again, clients would love to resize their browsers, right? They’d like to see how it’ll look on other screens and that messes it up even worse! So what do we say, wrong image composition? Too many browsers? Why serve a 1080p image on an 11” screen? Why do wallpaper websites let you download their images for 10 different resolutions?</p> <p>Here’s as close as it can get: <a href="http://css-tricks.com/3458-perfect-full-page-background-image/">Awesome, Easy, Progressive CSS3 Way</a> then again try explaining why when scaling, the image is still being cropped ;)</p> <p>So the question is: <strong>why bother?</strong></p>http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/11985188303http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/11985188303Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:30:06 +0400web design<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltmxq0Hq431qak7hpo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Finished reading <a href="http://tdh.me/books/tackling-tumblr/">Tackling Tumblr</a> by Thord Daniel Hedengren, a very nice book indeed. I’m not a total newcomer to Tumblr so I scanned through around half of the book but I really, really dig his writing style so staying tuned to what Thord’s got next!</p> <p>Oh and waiting for the next edition of the Smashing WordPress Themes too ;)</p>http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/11951172816http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/11951172816Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:30:06 +0400bookstumblr““Just throw some fucking flowers or something in there””<br/><br/> - <em>The head of sales, contacting me to design a flashbanner for a botanical garden. (via <a href="http://clientsfromhell.net/">clientsfromhell</a>)</em>http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/11946905067http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/11946905067Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:00:05 +0400<p>It took me exactly 4 minutes and 16 seconds to customize my Tumblr blog’s new theme. Slight color modifications, done with custom CSS and the magical “Inspect” feature in Google Chrome.</p> <p>Here’s an addition to Tumblr though, what’s the difference between “publish now” and “publish on”? I love the “publish on” feature and I guess it works with “now” too, so why are there two? I’d also love if I could publish “in 5 minutes from now” and I also think this could be a great addition to WordPress.</p> <p>However, I’ll queue the post this time, let’s see where it ends up ;)</p>http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/11943706244http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/11943706244Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:30:06 +0400tumblr<p>Did you know that having caps lock “On” on a Mac you don’t get lowercase letters while holding down the shift key? Pretty smart, eh? You don’t get things like tHESE :)</p>http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/11908475953http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/11908475953Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:55:06 +0400tipsmac<p>So let’s see if I can give Tumblr another chance although too bad new blogs no longer support the import from RSS feature. Until now I mostly used Tumblr to publish links and most of them were to my own content so that’s kinda sad I know, but I’ll try and do better this time.</p>http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/11908363720http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/11908363720Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:51:13 +0400<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li1sq71E3i1qak7hpo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>I like Google’s 404 page. Never seen it before.. New?</p>http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/3854108801http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/3854108801Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:44:31 +0300googlgoogle<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgcexoUKhh1qak7hpo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Did Google just change their homepage design? Looks cool to me. I like the hover effect, I like the fact that they show you which section you’re on with a blue border on top (although this works for the first two links only). And I like the way they show me my personal profile.</p> <p>And also just noticed the “Change background image” link, was this there before? Looks a little bit more like Bing now, hehe ;)</p>http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/3196479997http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/3196479997Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:12:59 +0300google<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfze7dkBZt1qak7hpo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Wow! TwentyTen fails the WordPress Theme Unit Test? The WordPress team released their new default theme together with WordPress 3.0 which is supposed to be one of the best-written themes around, one that theme designers and developers should base their new themes upon.</p> <p>Yes, the functionality is great, the look of it is good, but hey, the Theme Directory on WordPress.org doesn’t accept all incoming new themes, they make them pass the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test">Theme Unit Test</a> which is not that simple.</p> <p>While working on a new theme of mine, I downloaded the test and ran TwentyTen against it and guess what, the Images Test failed (as illustrated in the screenshot above) in Chromium and Firefox under Ubuntu Linux, WordPress 3.0.4. So guess it’s not that good after all huh? ;)</p>http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/3064736655http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/3064736655Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:28:25 +0300wordpress<a href="http://webdesignledger.com/inspiration/12-fun-clever-examples-of-html5">12 Fun & Clever Examples of HTML5</a>http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/2973370929http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/2973370929Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:40:00 +0300<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfon4wzhjG1qak7hpo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I’m on the left, my friend Timothy is on the right and I have absolutely no idea who’s the girl in the middle ;)</p>http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/2957293557http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/2957293557Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:07:44 +0300photos<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kovshenin_com/~3/4St3G3n_kZs/">Snippet: Nofollow for Tag Cloud in WordPress</a>http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/2868050286http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/2868050286Sat, 22 Jan 2011 07:34:22 +0300<p>This is a tryout of a new series of popular posts. I won’t yet tell you how popularity is measured, all I’m going to say is that these are from a limited array of sources, mostly about social media, web design and development.</p> <ol><li>HTML5 Gets an Official Logo from W3C <a href="http://goo.gl/2QWQH">http://goo.gl/2QWQH</a></li> <li>A Twitter Snapshot Of The Tunisian Revolution: Over 196K Mentions Of Tunisia, <a href="http://goo.gl/mj6X5">http://goo.gl/mj6X5</a></li> <li>Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Sorry For Osechi Snafu: “We Really Messed Up” <a href="http://goo.gl/RTxhQ">http://goo.gl/RTxhQ</a></li> <li>Look! I Am A Programmer (Comic) <a href="http://goo.gl/QPEpq">http://goo.gl/QPEpq</a></li> <li>10 Things You Can Do to Become a Better PHP Developer <a href="http://goo.gl/VbKr9">http://goo.gl/VbKr9</a></li> <li>14 Really Useful jQuery Plugin for Create Web Apps <a href="http://goo.gl/VEj5u">http://goo.gl/VEj5u</a></li> <li>40 Examples of a Single Letter Designed Logo <a href="http://goo.gl/PQMCG">http://goo.gl/PQMCG</a></li> <li>5 Upcoming Web Apps for Designers <a href="http://goo.gl/z0MFi">http://goo.gl/z0MFi</a></li> <li>Are Current Web Design Trends Pushing Us Back to 1999? <a href="http://goo.gl/rOzEl">http://goo.gl/rOzEl</a></li> <li>Top 8 Content Management Systems (CMS) You Should Know About <a href="http://goo.gl/2lMWf">http://goo.gl/2lMWf</a></li> <li>Steve Jobs To Take ‘Medical Leave Of Absence’, Stays On As CEO <a href="http://goo.gl/SC1xu">http://goo.gl/SC1xu</a></li> <li>Cleaning Up The Mess: How To Keep Your Coding Workflow Organized <a href="http://goo.gl/PYjGk">http://goo.gl/PYjGk</a></li> <li>Client vs. Designer: Four Lessons to Win the Battle <a href="http://goo.gl/MCLBX">http://goo.gl/MCLBX</a></li> <li>Dribbble Pro accounts are coming soon. The freelance graphics market just got <a href="http://goo.gl/E8LE6">http://goo.gl/E8LE6</a></li> <li>Google Voice now lets you port your own phone number (update: option <a href="http://goo.gl/gByQp">http://goo.gl/gByQp</a></li> <li>iPhone App Lets Users Share While They Shop <a href="http://goo.gl/ZlwP6">http://goo.gl/ZlwP6</a></li> <li>Learning Ruby: Expert Advice for Intermediate Developers <a href="http://goo.gl/1IqxI">http://goo.gl/1IqxI</a></li> <li>Payback: I Just Canceled AT&T By Way Of Google Voice <a href="http://goo.gl/M6RpO">http://goo.gl/M6RpO</a></li> <li>StumbleUpon Reports Record-Breaking Day With 320 Stumbles Per Second <a href="http://goo.gl/QOmgJ">http://goo.gl/QOmgJ</a></li> <li>What to Ask a Client Before You Start Their Project <a href="http://goo.gl/87oDw">http://goo.gl/87oDw</a></li> </ol>http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/2841238814http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/2841238814Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:29:17 +0300Social mediaweb designpopular<a href="http://kovshenin.com/archives/google-url-shortener-googl-wordpress/">Using Google’s URL Shortener (goo.gl) in WordPress</a>http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/2707645233http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/2707645233Wed, 12 Jan 2011 06:11:25 +0300<a href="http://kovshenin.com/archives/review-nexus-one-android-software-freedom/">Review: Nexus One, Android & Software Freedom</a>http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/2696117007http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/2696117007Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:58:57 +0300<a href="http://kovshenin.com/archives/how-to-track-your-social-links-with-google-analytics/">How to Track Your Social Links with Google Analytics</a>http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/2510067198http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/2510067198Wed, 29 Dec 2010 11:43:15 +0300<a href="http://kovshenin.com/archives/happy-2011-in-10-different-programming-languages/">Happy 2011: In 10 Different Programming Languages</a>: <p><span>The end of the year 2010 is near so I’ve prepared this post for all you coders, developers and other geeks. You know when you build applications (especially web applications) you often leave a copyright notice on every page saying “Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved” or whatever? Right, but what developers tend to forget is that time passes by and that they have to go back and change 2010 to 2011 in January — so we often browse websites, especially in January and February that have last year’s copyrights.</span></p> <p><span>Keep reading: <a href="http://kovshenin.com/archives/happy-2011-in-10-different-programming-languages/">Happy 2011: In 10 Different Programming Languages</a></span></p>http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/2479917204http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/2479917204Mon, 27 Dec 2010 10:39:15 +0300<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Mashable/~3/p0niC8kbzX4/">290+ Social Media Resources From 2010</a>http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/2479900980http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/2479900980Mon, 27 Dec 2010 10:37:33 +0300<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldzdg5jf831qak7hpo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I got my dog a 48” cage for Christmas</p>http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/2456782093http://tumblr.kovshenin.com/post/2456782093Sat, 25 Dec 2010 14:04:57 +0300