Error messages are annoying and disturbing. When they prompted, that means our work for the entire night is screwed. They are frequent visitors particularly if you are Windows users. In fact, sometimes they showed up so frequent that we’ve got no choice but to live with it.
However, scratching your head over these pop-up error messages will not help either. To reduce the level of stress, creative designers decided to do something about these error pop-up windows. They edited the error messages and the interfaces to bring out the humor side of it.
Here’s a collection of 40+ funny and edited error messages for a good laugh. We’ve also included one ultimate (and real) error message at the end of this article. The next time you see an error message, just smile :)
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Panoramic photography, also known as wide-angle photography is a technique that captures a much wider perspective of the landscape into a photo. It can be done with ultra-wide lenses or by stitching together several photos using software like Photoshop or AutoStitch.
Panoramic photos can be very beautiful when they are captured correctly because the photo gives you a very complete view of a particular landscape. Here we’ve collected a total of 30 breathtaking panoramic shots taken by photographers all over the world, just to give you an idea how beautiful they type of photos can be.
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Have you ever encounter situations where you need to create a simple yet good-looking chart, graphs or diagrams and all you have is your browser? Charts are good and effective way to show relationship between entities but sometimes creating one can be pretty challenging especially when your favorite word processing software is not around.
In today’s post, we want to highlight some of the best web services that allow you to create various charts and graphs online on-the-fly. Most of them are easy to use and don’t you even worry about the design. Your output will be as good as what you see in the screen shots below. Full list after jump.
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There will be two articles on Hongkiat.com today and I’d like to start with a giveaway post. If you are a designer, developer or simply love creating websites – here’s something you will be interested in.
Today’s giveaway is a very useful web design e-book "Professional Web Design" created by our friends at Smashing Magazine and we have a total of 20 copies to giveaway to readers.
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A good hosting is very important to any website. They are foundation of your website, your brand and your business. Any server downtime could potentially hurt and ruin everything you’ve developed over years. If you are serious about your website, you need to make sure they are in good hands.
Image credit: Tom Antonis
It is really hard to choose between web hosting companies these days especially as we are constantly overwhelmed by tempting promotions web hosting companies are throw at us. If you are looking to get a web hosting account, here is an article we figured you might take a look before getting carried away by tempting promotions and marketing gimmicks.
Here are some guides to make you a smarter consumer when it comes to getting your own web hosting account.
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It could be quite disheartening to learn that you have a reader reading your post and an message from Instant Messenger pops up and steals the show. Before you know it, your reader could be already checking out someone at FaceBook.
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Eyetracking studies have shown that readers SCAN text, rather than READ. Another bad news is, readers read more slowly on the screen than in print. There is just an abundance of information online. For the reader, he/she has nothing to lose if he misses your article. Hence, you have to allow your readers to gain something so significantly that he cannot afford to lose it.
Let’s jump straight into what we have in store for you before I am become guilty of committing the mistakes that I would be pointing out.
There are definitely more specific tips for writing for different audience, but there are some pointers to get you a kickstart.
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In a blink of the eye, a lot can happen. A lot of astonishing things happen in a split of a second, but they are moving too quickly for us to see. High speed photography is the art of photographing a rapidly occurring event. Depending on the event to be photographed, methods range from use of ultra-short time flash exposures to producing lots of exposures in a split-second. Seemingly frozen in time, a lot of photographers have their own special method doing high speed photography. The usual photographic flash component offers a flash that lasts around a thousandth of a second (a millisecond). But photographic flash component used in high speed photography is so much quicker than this, and it creates a flash of light around a microsecond (a millionth of a second). This let you to freeze time through pictures that are happening tremendously fast.
It’s not easy to come up with a perfect shot while capturing rapidly occurring event, photographers that specialize in this type of photography are masters of patience. Below are some incredibly cool images that shows the beautiful combination of artistic expression and technical precision.
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There are millions of websites out there. Many of them are unique, either in small ways or in large ones. But the individual impact of any particular site on the overall Internet is generally negligible, if there’s any impact at all.
Not so with the fifteen sites here. These sites changed the Internet, mostly for good, in substantial ways. Included here is everything from Geocities (which could probably be blamed entirely, either directly or indirectly, for every ugly web design “trend” that’s ever been) to Wikipedia (which has made information almost universally accessible) to Google (which has changed or influenced virtually everything online).
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Call to action buttons on websites are often neglected. Designers sometimes don’t understand exactly what makes a good call to action button beyond being attractive and fitting into the overall design. But call to action buttons are too important to be designed without some kind of understanding of what makes them effective. After all, the main point of a call to action button is to get visitors to do something.
It’s important to gain at least a basic understanding of how color, scale, language, and other factors influence the conversion rate of a call to action button. The concepts here aren’t complicated, but they do take a bit of forethought and planning to create the most effective call to action buttons possible within a given design. Read on for more information on each of these points and more.
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American architect Julia Morgan once said, “Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.“.
Indeed, architecture serves as a voice to express the artistic stance of the architect at that time. Photography takes a step further to interpret architecture in several ways. What used to be an accurate portrayal of the structure has now gradually evolved into a manipulation of different perspectives to bring out the interesting elements of a single structure. The art of photographing architecture takes on many forms. Whether it is photographing the exterior or interior, many awesome images can be resulted with the correct techniques and more importantly, the observant eye to spot the different points of view.
Like other types of photography, what lies ahead is always a series of challenges for photographers before an excellent shot is taken. However, there are two main challenges in architecture photography – Lighting and Image distortion. When photographing the exterior, natural lighting is all you have got and you have to capture the building at its most glamorous moment. Image distortion occurs when the building has lines running horizontally and vertically and they appear distorted. The right equipment and the right angles would prevent that pitfall.
Interior architecture with repeating patterns and geometric shapes is a bonus to photographers. Employing the use of different camera angles would reveal the beauty of these designs. Architecture with unique and unusual structures also tend to catch our attention. We can’t help but start to ponder how it was made (or maybe built) possible. Photography comes into play as it does justice to impressive architecture.
You probably haven’t seen all the architecture in the entire globe, so we shall bring you bits of the world. Here is a collection of architecture photography that will keep you bedazzled. If you are amazed at these images, your jaws will drop in awe when you get to see the real McCoy.
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Typography plays an important role and is an integral part of any design; be it print or web. Sometimes, when there is no room for images, typeface is all you’ve got to give the audience an idea what the whole thing is all about.
Image credit: Sven the ghost by Starfy
But one common thing in designing with typeface is – we usually use a particular font once for any design or campaign. It’s probably not worth buying, certainly not economically feasible from a business standpoint.
If you have recently receive assignment or job to create design for something gothic, spooky or old-fashioned we urge that you take a look at the following free fonts we’ve collected before adding premium fonts to your shopping cart. Here’s a list of 50+ free gothic and horror fonts you may want to bookmark.
Here are more font relative article we’ve previously published:
Full list after jump.
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Photoshop is cool, and we mean really cool! With the right technique and some creativity you can totally turn any image into something extraordinary with a bigger impact. It’s fun to just take a photo, manipulate and see what output becomes.
Today we want to show you some amusing photo manipulation – the robotic animals. These images comes from our talented friends over at worth1000 who took Photoshop into the next level by manipulating photos of normal animal and turned them into robotic creative by injecting mechanical parts into their body. We hope this inspires you and help your creativity.
Quick article recommendations for animal lovers:
Enjoy!
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Every now and then we find ways to reward our readers to show how much we appreciate the support they’ve given to us along the way. Sometimes we create giveaway contests; sometimes we give out freebies and hope that some will find them useful.
![social truck icons [Freebie] Social Truck Icon Set](http://media02.hongkiat.com/social-truck-icons/social-truck-icons.jpg "[Freebie] Social Truck Icon Set")
Today we would like to release yet another set of social network icons – The Social Truck Icons.
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Are you one of those job seekers who have been sending far too many resumes and been hit with far too many disappointment? The problem may not lie with your qualification or skills set. Employer filters tons of resumes on daily basis, only the outstanding ones get noticed.
A creative resume is fairly important. Not only it resembles your personality, it also speaks your capability and creativity. Putting more effort and thoughts into creating an impressive resume is definitely worthwhile, as it is usually the first thing any employer sees before flipping through your entire portfolio.
Today we want to bring to your attention a collective of 45 creative and beautiful resumes that will definitely impress an employer. Let’s not take any chances to let your dream job slip away (again). Full list after jump.
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