Brussels web design, concept and development
pixeline web de[sign]
Based in Brussels (BE), pixeline designs and develops specific online applications of all types, from websites, intranets, extranets, portfolios, usually involving databases.
The objective is to make the internet a valuable tool for you and your target audience.
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By email: alexandre(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)pixeline.be
By homing pigeon: B-1030 Brussels, Belgium
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11.01.2012 ‣ There is no such thing as a “page” nor a “webpage”
Using the term “page” to define an online resource is not relevant. Let’s have a look at possible alternatives.
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28.12.2011 ‣ Frederik De Wilde
New radical-serial-minimal website for Frederik De Wilde, internationally recognized new media artist
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14.12.2011 ‣ Emotions in web design
Emotions play a most important role in the way people make decisions. Let see how that applies to web design.
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05.12.2011 ‣ Optimizing WordPress – find the slow queries
if you’re trying to get the most out of your server hardware running your Wordpress-powered website, you’ll need to know how it is doing coping with WP intensive SQL usage.
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16.11.2011 ‣ L’épi-cerise
A one-pager for a grocery store that deserves it… L’épi-cerise in Gaume, Belgium.
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08.10.2011 ‣ T-shirt store !
T-shirt store is up!
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01.09.2011 ‣ Facebook-prohibited sign
Join the fight against the Facebook zombies army. Download & print these two vector Facebook-prohibited signs on stickers or on plain paper and put it everywhere: offices, classrooms, the street ?
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24.08.2011 ‣ WordPress: Display current category ‘s sub-categories as a menu
A quickie on how to display a node’s current category sub-categories as a menu in Wordpress.
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22.08.2011 ‣ Extending WordPress: widgets, plugins or functions.php ?
As a developer using wordpress for all sorts of needs, you’ll be often faced with this question: should a particular functionality be implemented as an external plugin, as a function inside your theme’s functions.php or as a widget?
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13.08.2011 ‣ Customize the wordpress Upload interface
How to customize the Wordpress Image Upload screen
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07.07.2011 ‣ Improving Findability with microdata
Findability, Search engine optimisation and Microdata. Advanced html ?
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30.06.2011 ‣ Video: Human-Centered Design Seminar
Realized a video summary of the Human-Centered Design seminar in June 2011.
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26.06.2011 ‣ Content, design and the user
A reflexion on what really matters in web design: is it the content first, as Jeffrey Zeldman had it, or the user experience, as Steve Krug argued in “Don’t make me think” ? Let us dig in.
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29.04.2011 ‣ Target Archaeological Geophysics
New website for TARGET, experts in archaeological geophysics.
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10.04.2011 ‣ New Life
Branding, logo and custom-made e-shop interface for a traiteur in the Brussels area.
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12.03.2011 ‣ Managing screen real estate: grid design process
One of the most crucial aspects of designing for the web is managing the screen real estate, making sure your content communicates clearly and makes the best of the device it is being displayed on. Here is the thinking process i personally go through. This is a method that takes into account screen responsiveness and [...]
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02.12.2010 ‣ jqUploader updated (maintenance release)
jqUploader, the jquery uploader widget of choice if you need a progress bar that just works has received some love. It now works with jQuery 1.4+. A mighty “debug” option has also been added for those times when something is going weird with the plugin and you just don’t know why. I had a hiccup [...]
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20.11.2010 ‣ CSS Media Queries messed up in firefox by LastPass
CSS Media Queries are a great new feature to manage the screen space. If you don’t know what CSS Media queries are, read this handy tutorial on CSS Media Queries. I’m planning to use media queries on a next project which will use the full available screen space as a core conceptual element, so i [...]
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24.06.2010 ‣ Analytics showcase – lab-au.com
Warning: this is a shamelessly bragging post about website optimisation. But it’s also a good insight into how to actually analyse your traffic statistics, based on bounce rate, average time on site, and returning visitors. After about one year after launching LAb[au]‘s website redesign, here is an excerpt from Google Analytics: 0,91% bounce rate The [...]
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23.04.2010 ‣ 52324 outstanding ways of increasing your site conversion rate
…. just kidding. I’m fooling around this trend of writing articles following the meme: <number> <choose one:amazing/outstanding/awesome/excellent/free> <tutorials /fonts/ways/methods/> and the rest is just about to make the rest of us a super human. [ad#horizontal_inline]
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12.02.2010 ‣ Testing your site on multiple Internet Explorer versions
I just found a nice tool to have several internet explorer versions running in parallel: the Internet Explorer Collection. Do you feel like testing your site under Internet Explorer 1 ? Right, you don’t. But with this tool, you can – up to IE9. The Internet Explorer Collection runs on all recent Windows platforms, so [...]
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22.01.2010 ‣ Email Protector plugin for WordPress
Pixeline’s Email Protector plugin for WordPress prevents spambots from harvesting any email addresses put in your wordpress post or pages. Your wordpress users can simply write the email address “naturally”, (ex: john(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)doe.com) and the plugin will replace it in the html by a user-friendly instruction (ex: john(replace this parenthesis [...]
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20.01.2010 ‣ Ecole Supérieure d’Infographie – Albert Jacquard
Website and Extranet for Ecole Supérieure d’Infographie – Albert Jacquard, Namur, Belgium
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16.01.2010 ‣ A fix for wordpress and "Fatal error: Allowed memory size"
It happened me twice and maybe it happened to you (hence this post): i would install a plugin (like Relevanssi or Search Unleashed), which would break WordPress or not function like i want it, desactivate it, at which point WordPress goes berseck. everytime i would edit or add a post or page, i would get [...]
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11.01.2010 ‣ WordPress: how to find a page's latest grandchild
In the context of the website redesign of the School of Computer Graphic Design that i teach in, i had the need to display on the frontpage a link to the latest grandchild of a page. It didn't turn out as easy as i thought, but i somehow managed it. Here is how. I looked [...]
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11.11.2009 ‣ progressive enhancement / graceful degradation
This quote by Mitch Hedberg strikes me as a good metaphor for graceful degradation / progressive enhancement. I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience. - Mitch Hedberg [...]
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01.08.2009 ‣ LAb[au] metalab 2.0
Website conception, design and development for LAb[au] laboratory for architecture and urbanism
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13.04.2009 ‣ Revista de Derecho Alimentario
La Revista De Derecho Alimentario is a monthly publication on European Food legislation, curated by Food Law Consultants in Brussels, Belgium. They wanted to offer an online subscription in addition to the printed version. Logo and visual identity was provided.
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10.04.2009 ‣ my Coming Out
yup. That's right this is my coming out. I'm 35 years old, live with my wife and two daughters to whom i 've vowed honesty. I guess the time is just as right as any other moment of my life for this important announcement: contrary to what i pretended so hard to be, what i [...]
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07.04.2009 ‣ A technique to find keywords associated to a website [ SEO ]
Foraging through the website statistics for lisapram.com, I just discovered that the website recently got a lot of love from social bookmarking service delicio.us . Delicio.us includes a neat functionality allowing to search for any urls bookmarked by their community, and see how people tagged it, using which keywords... And whenever you have "keywords" and [...]
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02.04.2009 ‣ IE6, or the aging problem issue
TaskSpeed is a test suite useful to compare the performance of various javascript libraries. These are usually source of a lot of discussion on which is the best library. That's a topic better left aside. IE suck What's remarkable instead in this speed test suite, is the obvious manner in which it appears that Internet [...]
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04.03.2009 ‣ simplyTabs: new jquery plugin to create tab interfaces
Yesterday i released a jquery plugin to create tabbed interfaces easily: simplyTabs . There are several existing outthere, but they were all bloated for my needs. See, i don't need to download the jquery ui tabs 122k of code when i can achieve the same result with, 4kb unminified, js+css. My other intention was that [...]
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02.03.2009 ‣ update laptop's graphic card drivers
The problem: cannot upgrade my graphics driver My laptop ( a good old Acer Travelmate 8204) comes equipped with a ATI mobility Radeon 1600 graphics card. Unfortunately, i cannot simply install the latest drivers from ati.com as they are refurbished by Acer. If i download the latest Catalyst driverpack then run the installer, it detects [...]
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10.02.2009 ‣ 5 sitepoint books for the price of one ! [bargain]
Now, that's a good deal, and for a good cause: Sitepoint.com, one of my favourite resources (alongisde alistapart.com) for continuous learning in web dev and web design, is offering 5 books for the price of 1 ! That's 29.95 USD for 5 books! Hurry it only lasts 3 days. All the money goes to support [...]
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14.01.2009 ‣ php: force download script + convert url to localpath
For a "force download script" to which i send as variable a full URL, i needed to convert this url into the local path, so that the system can check whether the file exists or not, and then read it to output with the correct mimetype. Here is what i came up with. It seems [...]
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07.01.2009 ‣ Michael Heim – The Erotic Ontology of Cyberspace
Michael Heim wrote a book in 1993 called "The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality" and one chapter in particular strongly affected my relation to the internet and my desire to make it my play/work ground since about 10 years now. This article was called "The Erotic Ontology of Cyberspace". You can still find the original here, [...]
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05.01.2009 ‣ lisapram.com navigation system elected nr.1
Today was quite a heavy, dare I say tough, day. I'm even more so pleased to end it by discovering, while browsing through today's referer list for Lisa Pram's website, that Lisa's interactive barcode website has been chosen as number 1 in taragana.com's article: 5 examples of jquery navigation at its best. I'm not bragging [...]
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17.12.2008 ‣ 25 excellent jquery tips
Jon Hobbs-Smith wrote an excellent roundup of 25 good coding habits when using jquery. If your javascript library of choice is jquery, make sure you read it, it's worth a 40USD book! I was particularly interested to read tip#14: 14. Even better, use jQuery's internal data() method to store state It's not very well documented [...]
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18.11.2008 ‣ SPF record how-to, or why people do not receive the newsletter
At LAb[au], we run our own house-made mailinglist software, which we use to regularly update our 4K users about next performances and events with a graphically appetizing newsletter. The tool is in constant improvement since five years and I recently added a way to track opened-email statistics through a simple technique : an img tag [...]
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13.11.2008 ‣ Lisa Pram’s Interactive Barcode
Design of a new identity and online portfolio for Lisa Pram, a Barcelona-based professional photographer.
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