Grunge illustrations showcase
Written by: milardovich | September 23, 2009
Grunge is a subgenre of rock music invented in the United States of America in the mid 80’s. This music genre brought a new ’stream’ of artworks. Here we have elaborated a list of interesting ‘grunge illustrations’. Hope you find it useful.
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Optimization changes
Written by: milardovich | September 15, 2009
For several days we have been doing maintenance work on the site and we were able to significantly improve the load time of images and the web in general.
We thank all members who have contributed their bit to keep on developing coolshowcase, notifying about the different bugs that were emerging, and we also would like to ask you to notify us if you find any fault, error or unusual behavior at the site .
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RSS dates issue fixed
Written by: milardovich | September 12, 2009
I’ve just fixed the RSS dates issues that shows all the items on the year 1970. Thanks to Jono for sending us a message explaining the bug 
. Now you can keep enjoying the feeds with the correct dates.
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Happy birthday!
Written by: milardovich | August 5, 2009
Just writing this post to announce that it is already a year of coolshowcase is online. Really, the project started about two years ago since Leonardo sent me an email posing the idea to do a job much more complex than those i usually made.
Today, i was looking in my old backups in search of some old files I needed for a project and then, suddenly, I find a cd that said “backup showcase 07-07-2007″. It was one of the first backup that you made the code coolshowcase (then did not even have the name, it was simply “the showcase”). That got me quite nostalgic! Haha.
Well, we would like to wholeheartedly thank all the people registered in our small community (already over 1000 mad-for-arts), and especially those who were involved with the project from the outset, helping of without ask nothing in change.THANK YOU!. It seems inappropriate to start giving names because I will surely forget some and I prefer to avoid any possible friction and 
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We will not rest on our “laurels” in any way. I am sure that this is just the first year of many that will take this young project.
Both Leonardo and I are continually looking for (despite the setbacks) perfection and maturity to the site, although we recognize that sometimes is still immature in some respects. But we promise to do our best for that to change.
Finally, we want to thank again to users, the few fans we have, and all the people who are already part of coolshowcase and makes every day the project progresses!.
Cheers! Sergio.
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::Changes in moderation
Written by: milardovich | August 4, 2009
We have received a lot of emails asking about the way of moderation of the showcase. Well, until last week we just “delete or aprove” the jobs, but now, we implemented a new method of moderation: we can also accept jobs that will not appear in the homepage.(BTW, now you will also receive an email in case of your work will not be aproved).
I think it is a better way to add more works on the showcase and it’s better for new artists that want to have an “online portfolio”.
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Be a part of coolshowcase! :-)
Written by: milardovich | July 22, 2009
We invite you to get involved by coolshowcase suggesting content (whether resources, images, links and soon videos) via twitter. Click here to visit our twitter. All the content is welcome .
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Minimalist designs
Written by: milardovich | July 20, 2009
Excellent post showing a list of interesting minimalist designs. Useful for those who need a little inspiration when starting a project
Go to the list
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TOP 5 blogs that every designer should see
Written by: milardovich | June 14, 2009
#1- Six revisions
Six Revisions is a weblog that provides practical, useful information for the modern, standards-compliant web designer and web developer. It seeks to present exceptional, noteworthy tips, tutorials, and resources that the modern web professional will appreciate. You’ll find a variety of content from tools that can speed up your workflow processes to showcases of beautiful designs for inspiration and tutorials on JavaScript frameworks like jQuery and MooTools.
#2-Abduzeedo
The idea behind this blog is primarily to be a channel for me to write down some ideas, experiments, news, and a lot of thing that I see online and probably will forget in a couple of months. Basically it is an archive of my adventures online as a designer on the daily basis. Another thing that I want to do with this blog is to improve my english skills, as a brazilian and non-native speaker of english, it’s a good way to practice it. By the way, you might find some english mistakes, maybe a lot sometimes, but I will try my best to make it as legible as possible.
#3-Smashing magazine
Founded in September 2006, Smashing Magazine delivers useful and innovative information to Web designers and developers. Our aim is to inform our readers about the latest trends and techniques in Web development. We try to convince you not with the quantity but with the quality of the information we present. We hope that makes us different. Smashing Magazine is, and always has been, independent.
#4-Dzine blog
Founded in December 2007, Dzine blog Is all about designs, here u can find inspirational designs and some good tips in logo, graphics and web designing. My aim is to share quality graphic design resources, graphic design tips and much more good inspirational designs and useful information in designing, precisely and regularly.
#5-Design float
‘The designers digg’.
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1000 Works approved!
Written by: leocorrea | June 13, 2009
On August 15 last year launched coolshowcase. We are always surprised by the big "welcome" they gave us blogs and users around the world. Coolshowcase discussed in many places and do not stop to get more and more visits.
Just today we passed the 1000 approved work! And we have 963 active subscribers. Hope you enjoy the site and we continue to meet the demands of our users.
Work number 1000!
Sergio and me want to thank all artists and art lovers who have uploaded their work. We are very pleased by how the site has grown and we hope to continue working to improve this site.
P.D.: Special thanks to user "Takashi" and user "Loser" because they have worked selflessly to the contents. Without them this site would not be the same.
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8 wordpress plugins that you should know…
Written by: milardovich | June 9, 2009
Well, i see that the blog is getting a bit more popular, so, i decided to write a list with 8 wordpress plugins that you should know… let’s see…
1- WP-Cumulus
A flash-based 3D tag cloud, very cool and easily customizable.
2-WP-Pagenavi
Cool pagination plugin
3- Contact Form 7
Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.
4- Buddypress
BuddyPress is a suite of WordPress plugins and themes, each adding a distinct new feature. BuddyPress contains all the features you’d expect from WordPress but aims to let members socially interact.
5- TinyMCE advanced
This plugin adds 15 plugins to TinyMCE: Advanced hr, Advanced Image, Advanced Link, Context Menu, Emotions (Smilies), Date and Time, IESpell, Layer, Nonbreaking, Print, Search and Replace, Style, Table, Visual Characters and XHTML Extras.
6- Really simple captcha
Really Simple CAPTCHA does not work alone and is intended to work with other plugins. It is originally created for Contact Form 7, however, you can use it with your own plugin.
7- WP-WALL
Cool tagboard widget
ALL IN ONE VIDEO PACK
This is not just another video embed tool – it includes every functionality you might need for video and rich-media, including the ability to upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix content with an online video editor, enable video responses, manage and track your video content, create playlists and much more… And Kaltura covers all hosting and streaming costs for FREE up to 10GB.
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