The web-world evolves and grow esponentially every day, web-designers and web-developers have to stay up to date in order to be competitive in their field. But designers and developers are not the only professionals who work in the web industry and no I am not talking about SEOs, Social Media Experts or whatever new definition has just come out.

In this post I want to talk about lamers. Did you think about it? Lamers also got to stay up to date with the continous growing of the web! Infact they just joined twitter and if you also received a mail like this one below it means that...

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This round-up is a best-of lists dedicated to the creative use of the water element and contains web-site designs, logos, photographs, textures, photoshop brushes and tutorials.

Even if some of the lists share similar content I thought it's good to link them anyway since they contain information and comments viewed from a different point of view.

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While developing this web-site I encountered one of those little tipical annoying bugs that characterize Internet Explorer. Even if version 8 is a much better browser than versions 6 and 7, it still sucks under many points of view if compared to other modern browsers like Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera.

The issue I want to talk about in this post is the use of a repeated 1x1 pixel semi-transparent background. While this works just fine in all the other modern browsers, IE8 has a little issue that drove me mad.

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I always liked to take pictures but I never thought about doing it seriously. Just recently I understood how the use of great photography is important in web design: an image is worther than a thousand words. Being able to take and manipulate pictures is a great bonus skill that can help a web designer to transmit feelings more effectively when designing web sites.

Here begins my adventure in photography. This new passion makes me excited, so much that I wonder why I've never realized it before. Maybe I was just not enough mature or I didn't have enough energy to start a new activity. Who knows? The only thing I know is that I like it, It excites me and I decided to invest my money and my time in it.

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I noticed StaticGenerator while I was looking for some cache invalidation solution and I understood that would have been just perfect for my web-site, but the instructions on its web-site show only how to make it work with Nginx configured as frontend server. What if you want to stick on Apache? Read the rest to know...

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Today 3rd of May 2010 is a great day, my new web-site is finally online!

I've spent the last two nights of the weekend in setting up the server and fixing the last bits but now I am done and very satisfied.

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It never took me so much time to build a web-site in my life.

I started to work on this web-site in the summer of 2008 but unfortunately, due to high amount of work and personal problems I've never had time to finish it. Recently I finally had the chance to finish it but unfortunately I didn't like the original design anymore, so I redesigned it again. 

Now I am almost close to launch it and I am very satisfied.

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