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Well, here are some points on the design trends for this year. It seems though, that many of those were right there also in 2009. In fact everything is getting big (more) and even bigger. From letterheads to logos, from photography to design space to texts. Modal forms, better use of typography, more glossy images and photos, huge images, a change of perspective and more. Everything is going wild, yet in the same time more clean.

On the other hand these trends will push further the technology needed from viewers. As many things will scroll the rule seems, either buy better screen/graphics card or scroll and scroll more.

The web safe available space in the browser also seems to get more like an environment rather than a “web page”. This has started quite some time ago, yet here in Greece, few clients seem to share this trend. Mostly websites are asked to be designed as they clearly say “…hey, you are indeed watching a web page in your screen…”.

Finally, we have observed that there is a trend for magazine layouts also here in Greece but we also found out that many web sites talk about the same things. So, magazine style is OK but differentiation and fresh content is better. At least for me.

More around this can be read here.

(Photo by Midly)

I was reading an article in PC Magazine yesterday, where one of the readers was posting a question asking if there is a program where with 20-30 clicks he could make a complete and in above average detail 3D representation about Battle of Marathon. Well, it was nice to see that a person is actually getting interested to do such a thing but this is not our point.

The thing is that he mentioned that “…i would like to do such…, “…as there are programs where with 2-3 clicks you get a website, a blog, etc…” and in general things like this. So, you are guessing where this is going.

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By the moment that ASP.Net came to the surface, there has been a long debate among programmers which one is better or not. Since I have used both languages, I will try to do a quick comparison. But lets start with some history first.

PHP traces it roots back to a 1995 Perl application designed to track accesses to Rasmus Lerdorf’s online resume! Two years later, his subsequent open-sourced C implementation of his Personal Home Page / Forms Interpreter – PHP/FI – was installed on 1% (~50,000) of the world’s Internet domains. In 1997 Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski do a third rewrite of the C implementation intended for their ecommerce application which was designated as PHP 3.0, a recursive acronym for Hypertext Pre-processor. PHP has now reached version 5.3.x and 6.0 is on the way!

ASP or Active Server Pages is the first attempt of Microsoft to create a server-side language used for generating dynamic and interactive pages. In 2002 Microsoft releases the ASP.NET as a successor to ASP. ASP.NET is built on the Common Language Runtime, which allows programmers to write ASP.NET code using any supported .NET language (C#, C++, J#, Jscript.NET, Python, Ruby, etc). At the moment ASP.NET is at version 3.x.

Here are some interesting comparative details for both languages:

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We welcome Lesante Hotel and Spa in Zakynthos as our new client. The hotel awarded us with the design and development of their new hotel website (in development phase). The Lesante Hotel & Spa is a newly built 5 star luxury hotel of exceptional quality and style. Located in the magnificent area of Tsilivi, the hotel is the perfect destination for those seeking natural beauty, deluxe accommodations and high quality of services.

The new website is to be fully redesigned and redeveloped, based in our excellent Content Management platform.

Stay tuned for more.

I have been developing web projects for the last 7 years. For me, stepping from a more than 18 years’ experience in ‘regular’ and pretty complex programming (C/C++, Pascal) to the development of web applications, was an easy step. Taking into account the complexity of building a windows application 10 years ago, developing applications on the web at the beginning was an easy task. However for the last few years web applications have been getting more and more complicated.

In an interview of Larry Wall in 1998 (creator of the Perl programming language), he said "Take a good look at what you want to do, and try to come up with the long-term lazy way, not the short-term lazy way". So how can we apply that?

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