I am Andre, I am a web developer from Portugal specialising in web development. I design and develop highly functional websites that engage users, This is my RSS Feed where you can read my blog articles, project updates and free stuff... http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml en DesignFront http://www.designfront.net http://www.designfront.net/favicon.png http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml My projects, my information and more... To all my clients, friends and fans. I write this post happily informing you all that myself and DesignFront will no longer be providing freelance web design services.DesignFront will now be absorbed by MintTwist as a Media information resource, with... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/358/the-end-of-designfront-as-a-freelance-web-agency http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/358/the-end-of-designfront-as-a-freelance-web-agency Fri, 27 Aug 10 11:25:00 +0100 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml I recently received a very nice bonus from work, an iPad 3g which arrived last week, and it is from this glorious iPad from which i write to you from :)Now my quandry, what data plan should i go for?I already have a data plan on tmobile for my laptop... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/357/ipad-on-t-mobile http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/357/ipad-on-t-mobile Wed, 30 Jun 10 17:31:20 +0100 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml Steve Jobs posted today an article on a very touchy subject that has been going on for a while, and many people have been going against apple making them look like they are the tyrants of the industry. The article outlines an overview of the reasons ... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/330/why-apple-will-not-adopt-flash http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/330/why-apple-will-not-adopt-flash Tue, 11 May 10 20:42:57 +0100 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml Twitter has fixed a major bug that saw many users of the service appear to lose all of their followers and friends.The problem began when a flaw was uncovered that allowed people to force others to "follow" them on the site.People who typed "accept... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/308/twitter-hit-by-major-disruption http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/308/twitter-hit-by-major-disruption Tue, 11 May 10 00:24:11 +0100 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml You can do a lot of different things for your website in PHP, Lets go over a very cool technique that has many applications, be it separating features, tags, etc...String delimitingThis is a very cool technique that you can use for a wide variety of ... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/304/something-cool-in-php http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/304/something-cool-in-php Mon, 10 May 10 18:26:00 +0100 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml We love beautiful typography, and we appreciate the efforts of designers who come up with great typographic techniques and tools or who just share their knowledge with fellow designers. We are always looking for such resources. We compile them, caref... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/297/50-helpful-typography-tools-and-resources http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/297/50-helpful-typography-tools-and-resources Thu, 06 May 10 23:28:33 +0100 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml In Modern CSS Layouts, Part 1: The Essential Characteristics, you learned that modern, CSS-based web sites should be progressively enhanced, adaptive to diverse users, modular, efficient and typographically rich. Now that you know what characterizes ... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/296/modern-css-layouts-part-2-the-essential-techniques http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/296/modern-css-layouts-part-2-the-essential-techniques Thu, 06 May 10 23:24:45 +0100 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml CSS3 is probably the hottest trend in web design right now, allowing developers the opportunity to implement a number of solutions into their projects with some very straightforward CSS while avoiding having to resort to nonsemantic markup, extra ima... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/288/css3-solutions-for-internet-explorer http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/288/css3-solutions-for-internet-explorer Thu, 06 May 10 23:17:56 +0100 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml WordPress' popularity has grown exponentially as of late. This rise in popularity is due in part to WordPress' custom fields. Custom fields allow you to add little bits of data to posts. They have changed the way people look at WordPress. A couple of... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/289/extend-wordpress-with-custom-fields http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/289/extend-wordpress-with-custom-fields Thu, 06 May 10 23:16:37 +0100 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml Information cannot be disclosed yet of this project - Check back soon for updates...... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/261/neoma http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/261/neoma Thu, 22 Apr 10 23:34:43 +0100 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml Embed your tweets on your website with only a few lines of code, written in PHP all you have to do is paste the function somewhere on your page or in your functions file and then reference it with one line where you want your tweets to show.Limit you... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/254/embedded-tweets http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/254/embedded-tweets Wed, 07 Apr 10 19:58:24 +0100 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml The website is currently undergoing some design changes so some pages will not be fully complete but a lot of the functionality is already in place. If you find something broken please let me know by emailing me to andre@designfront.net... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/250/website-updates-2 http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/250/website-updates-2 Sun, 04 Apr 10 12:31:03 +0100 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml Andino Content... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/180/sol-andino http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/180/sol-andino Sat, 03 Apr 10 01:07:27 +0100 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml Diary of a Mad Black Woman actress and singer Tiffany Evans insinuated on her Twitter account yesterday that Rihanna worships the Devil as a Satanist and called her new song "Russian Roulette" irresponsible for its glamorization of suicide. The 17... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/155/tiffany-evans-insinuated-that-rihanna-worships-the-devil http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/155/tiffany-evans-insinuated-that-rihanna-worships-the-devil Tue, 09 Mar 10 23:06:59 +0000 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml In Breaking News today, Lori Price, Managing Editor of Citizens for Legitimate Government (CLG) has implied with one word in brackets that HARRP could have been involved in Chile's monumental 8.8 earthquake. CLG highlighting HAARP today concurs wi... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/152/haarp-and-recent-disasters http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/152/haarp-and-recent-disasters Tue, 09 Mar 10 14:18:56 +0000 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml "The Environment" That phrase has been on our tongues for a while now, and environmentally friendly offices are just starting to kick off as people try and make a little effort to lessen our effects on the environment. You are probably thinking, hey ... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/139/keep-it-green-in-the-office http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/139/keep-it-green-in-the-office Thu, 25 Feb 10 00:37:42 +0000 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml A killer whale has killed a 40-year-old female trainer at the SeaWorld marine park in Orlando, company president Dan Brown has said.This is a sad ordeal and my condolences go out to the family and relatives of the trainer, but i write this blog today... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/133/seaworld-trainer-killed-by-whale http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/133/seaworld-trainer-killed-by-whale Wed, 24 Feb 10 23:33:45 +0000 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml The brief for this website was the create a beautiful website to show the kind of food that they do and show what other services are provided.... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/124/the-stuffed-olive http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/124/the-stuffed-olive Mon, 22 Feb 10 00:39:30 +0000 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml CSS3 is just around the corner and Microsoft have announced that they are going to offer support for CSS3 (Finally!!!), and so i present to you my top 5 CSS3 Features, all code, is presented with each feature. For now these CSS techniques will only w... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/94/top-2-css3-features http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/94/top-2-css3-features Wed, 17 Feb 10 19:26:14 +0000 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml Web development is tough, whether you are planning, designing or building, these phases may be tough but boy are they fun! And there are many things that no web developer should be without. I have outlined the most important ones to me for my process... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/85/top-5-tools-for-web-developers http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/85/top-5-tools-for-web-developers Wed, 17 Feb 10 01:08:41 +0000 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml Well, Microsoft has launched the Windows 7 phone, and to be honest i cannot say i am surprised, it is to my belief that Microsoft are planning to directly compete with the iPhone, and with such a large network like Microsoft, who wouldn't want to com... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/63/microsoft-launches-windows-7-phone http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/63/microsoft-launches-windows-7-phone Mon, 15 Feb 10 23:35:27 +0000 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml I am currently still updating my website, it should be fully functional but if anything isn't working just wait a bit and it should be working again soon.... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/60/website-updates http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/60/website-updates Mon, 15 Feb 10 21:34:51 +0000 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml This is an ongoing project which i am investing my own time and money with some friends, Our brief is to design and build a website for users to sign up to and advertise their properties abroad, this website will include many different sections inclu... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/56/rentmyvillas http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/56/rentmyvillas Mon, 15 Feb 10 21:30:18 +0000 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml To design and build a website to describe to the users what services are offered and to present photos of the recording studios.... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/49/newborn-studios http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/49/newborn-studios Mon, 15 Feb 10 21:26:31 +0000 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml To design and build a website with a fully integrated photo gallery to showcase the types of flowers that they provide.... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/45/pola-florist http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/45/pola-florist Mon, 15 Feb 10 21:23:05 +0000 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml Leonard Property is a private business specialising in reselling private residences in a short period of time, They needed small attractive website that users could fill in a form to enquire about selling their properties.... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/41/leonard-property http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/41/leonard-property Mon, 15 Feb 10 21:20:12 +0000 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml To Design and build a website in XHTML/CSS with a administration centre to manage photos, the main part of the website is just to describe the different kinds of services provided, The target region for this website is the island of Madeira.... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/37/carpintaria-figueira http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/37/carpintaria-figueira Mon, 15 Feb 10 21:17:48 +0000 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml I Designed and built a full XHTML/CSS Website that allowed the company to describe the different kinds of services that they provide.... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/33/bes-electrical-contractors http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/33/bes-electrical-contractors Mon, 15 Feb 10 21:15:06 +0000 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml The project brief for Addon Technology was to create an online catalogue with a fully functional admin centre that allows the administrator to manage users, and manage products into many different categories.... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/29/addon-technology http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/29/addon-technology Mon, 15 Feb 10 21:12:44 +0000 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml To create a website to advertise this Driving School and to attract clients online, as well as to provide a system for current clients so they can buy driving school equipment and also mock theory tests.... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/25/belas-driving-school http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/25/belas-driving-school Thu, 11 Feb 10 20:29:27 +0000 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml So you have set up a YouTube account? Well below are my tips to get a successful channel...The key to YouTube marketing is the same as with any other social network, the only difference is with YouTube you can reach out to a lot more people and be mo... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/14/setting-up-youtube http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/14/setting-up-youtube Fri, 05 Feb 10 15:51:08 +0000 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml Well the iPad has been announced and it seems it has left a lot of people in disappointment.. in my opinion, Apple has opened up like they mentioned the space in between the Smart Phone and the Laptop. Sure you may not be able to multitask and you on... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/11/the-ipad http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/11/the-ipad Fri, 05 Feb 10 00:23:31 +0000 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml Freelance web design work, there is a lot of people getting into it these days, so much so that its diluting the market and good designers are starting to have slight troubles getting work, The way around this? Be professional, don?t treat your freel... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/6/what-should-a-freelance-web-designer-charge-the-breakdown http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/6/what-should-a-freelance-web-designer-charge-the-breakdown Thu, 28 Jan 10 00:47:22 +0000 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml Dynamic websites are becoming more and more common as companies and individuals are realising that the internet is the best way to do business these days, and SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is becoming more of a widely used term by people who have ... http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/3/url-rewriting-the-drill-down http://www.designfront.net/my-blog/3/url-rewriting-the-drill-down Wed, 27 Jan 10 23:42:23 +0000 http://www.designfront.net/feeds/feed.xml