November 23, 2009 - 2 comments

7 Principles of Japanese Aesthetics: Accessibility

ThisIsInspired will be taking the following seven weeks to explore the 7 Principles of Japanese Aesthetic Design in practical application. Any feedback or usage you’ve found beneficial would be great! Part One is the element Kanso – and we’ll be applying it here to accessibility.

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November 20, 2009 - No comments

Seven Principles of Japanese Aesthetics

ThisIsInspired will be considering seven principles of Japanese aesthetic design and finding their application web design. These articles give you the principles and a selection of their application in real life and help you clean up a layout or keep the viewer engaged. Starts Monday!

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November 19, 2009 - 6 comments

ThisIsInspired Talks Shop with Terri Nakamura

ThisIsInspired will be sitting down every once in a while with noted artists and designers – finding out how they got started and what gets them inspired. Each interview gives you the designer’s perspective and angle on their work – and on creativity in general.

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November 15, 2009 - No comments

10 Really Cool & Fancy Website Headers

Each of these websites has a ton of Photoshop work behind it – and whether you like grunge or not these are still cool. Observe, and be inspired. These aren’t your average oversized, text-only headers.

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November 12, 2009 - No comments

Writing Articles That Keep Your Reader Engaged (& coming back)

We read quite often how to get readers and drive up page impressions, but the next inevitable phase is How to keep those readers interested and coming back? After all, if each visitor only hits your site once, you’re missing something.

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November 10, 2009 - No comments

8 Clean & Sharp WordPress Themes with Centered, Serif Headers

So I tried to nail down a specific look — at least, a specific feature. Each of these WordPress themes features the same style of header: A clean, centered, professional-looking serif typeface. Enjoy.

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November 8, 2009 - No comments

10+ (Almost) Essential WordPress Plugins

I’ve installed WordPress for a lot of people and each time there are a few plugins that always get installed — sort of by default, you could say. If I install a blog, these are ‘part of the package’ that I install and configure right after WordPress itself. I use these all on my own blogs as well — including This.Is.Inspired.

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