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The Psychology of Color in Marketing and Branding

May 16, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

The psychology of color as it relates to persuasion is one of the most interesting–and most controversial–aspects of marketing. The reason: Most of today’s conversations on colors and persuasion consist of hunches, anecdotal evidence and advertisers blowing smoke about “colors and the mind.” To alleviate this trend and give proper treatment to a truly fascinating element of human behavior, today we’re going to cover a selection of the most reliable research on color theory and persuasion. Misconceptions around the Psychology of Color Why does color psychology invoke so much conversation … but is backed with so little factual data? As research shows, it’s likely because elements such as personal preference, experiences, upbringing, cultural differences, context, etc., often muddy the effect individual colors have on us…

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The Psychology of Color in Marketing and Branding

Default Hyper-V Storage Paths Explained

May 14, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

by Aidan Finn – May 6, 2014

In my travels, I have noticed that the default storage paths used by Hyper-V can cause some confusion. To be honest, I don’t like how Hyper-V stores virtual machines by default; System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) handles the folder structure in a much more attractive fashion. In this post, I will explain where Hyper-V stores virtual machine files by default, and how you can manipulate those settings to get a better configuration. Hyper-V Storage Path Settings There are two default storage paths defined in each host’s Hyper-V settings. You can find and edit these paths by opening Hyper-V Manager, connecting to and selecting your host, and choosing Hyper-V Settings from Actions. Here you …

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Default Hyper-V Storage Paths Explained

Friendlier HTML Form Controls with CSS Magic

May 14, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Friendlier HTML Form Controls with CSS Magic Forms, MIT License Leave a Comment WTF, forms? provides friendlier HTML form controls with a little CSS magic. Designed for IE9+, as well as the latest Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. The file input is the most gnarly of the bunch. They wrap the input; in a label; so the custom control properly triggers the file browser. They use :after to generate a custom background and directive. It’s an entirely custom element, all generated via CSS. Requirements: CSS Demo: http://wtfforms.com/ License: MIT License Share Tweet Sponsors subscribe to our newsletter – weekly free resouces for web developers Subscribe follow us on social sites – rss, facebook, google+, Twitter Related Resources Ajax or Flash Version of Yahoo…

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Friendlier HTML Form Controls with CSS Magic

Git for Beginners

May 14, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

It is a general tendency of human beings to resist change. Unless Git was around when you started with version control systems, chances are that you are comfortable with Subversion. Often, people say that Git is too complex for beginners. Yet, I beg to differ! In this tutorial, I will explain how to use Git for your personal projects. We will assume you are creating a project from scratch and want to manage it with Git. After going through the basic commands, we will have a look at how you could put your code in the cloud using GitHub. We will talk about the basics of Git here – how to initialize your projects, how to manage new and existing files, and how to store your code …

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Git for Beginners

Quick Tip: How to Use HTML5 “Picture” for Responsive Images – Tuts+ Web Design Tutorial

May 14, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Images are notoriously one of the most challenging aspects of responsive web design. Today we’ll look at how the “picture” element, a solution to the problem of responsive images, can be used right now. First, the Problem The days of fixed-width, pixel perfect website design are well and truly behind us. In the present day of widescreen monitors, internet TVs, multiple sized tablets and smart phones our designs now have to cater for everything from 320px wide up to potentially as high as 7680px wide. Along with this multi-resolution landscape comes a need for images to stretch or shrink to fit these wildly varying requirements. This can prove to be something of a problem given that, with the exception of vector graphics, the vast …

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Quick Tip: How to Use HTML5 “picture” for Responsive Images – Tuts+ Web Design Tutorial