UX Manager - The Landmark Group - Dubai

Play a pivotal role in evolving the design and improving the quality of our web design/redesign projects and products

Responsibilities
- Partner with the Product Management team to turn ideas into reality by creating wireframes/low fidelity prototypes (LFPs)/high fidelity prototypes (HFPs) of items in our product road map
- Partner with the web team lead to drive the design journey by providing iterative feedback when working with our design partners to improve the quality, context and user-friendliness of delivered wireframes/LFPs and HFPs
- Stay on top of the latest trends and techniques in user-centric web design, usability, graphic design and share findings with the team
- Build a library of effective design patterns and styles that can be used or reused in ongoing projects and products
- Conduct usability testing to validate design ideas and build simpler, more user-friendly experiences


Requirements
- Extremely passionate about user experience design, usability, creating simple, effective, user-friendly, elegant and sophisticated user-interfaces
- Master craftsman of front-end technologies such as HTML/HTML5/CSS/CSS3/Javascript/AJAX etc. and design tools such as Adobe CS5: Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks
- Ninja grade skills at creating wireframes, LFPs and HFPs
- Outstanding communication skills - which will be required when providing reams of feedback to design partners
- A solid team player - someone who can partner with his or her colleagues
- Ability to comfortably work on multiple projects and products
- Be creative, fast, and self-critical.
- Be collaborative and communicative.
- Mobile UX experience is a plus

Preferred Enthusiasts who draw inspiration from the likes of Apple, Steve Krug, Jason Fried and other respected design/usability/thought leaders

Salary range AED 15,000 – 25,000 per month (based on experience)

Send CV and link(s) of design achievements to webteam@cplmg.com

User Interface Designer - Ableton AG - Germany

Ableton AG are looking for a User Interface designer for their desktop application and website. They work in mixed, agile teams, which means you’ll be collaborating and iterating constantly.

They're looking for someone who can create efficient and attractive user interfaces that work in the real world, for real users. This means you can work quickly, creatively (within the realm of existing and evolving brand guidelines), and have experience in user interface and visual design. The role is at least 2 days per week, but could be a full-time role for the right person.

Profile
- You have a degree in graphic design, web design, UI design or equivalent experience
- You have 1-2 years experience in UI design
- You’re happy working with other designers and developers, as well as agencies and their guidelines
- Collaboration excites you
- You spot problems on your own and work your way to a solution
- You don’t wait for a brief
- You produce high quality designs with attention to detail
- You have a comprehensive understanding of typography, layout and colour
- You can create all the deliverables and assets for polished, pixel perfect interfaces
- You can present your designs and the thinking behind them clearly
- You can use discussion and criticism to improve your work
You understand design is about communication, not just delivery
- You must be a Berlin resident, or willing to relocate

You’ll really impress us if:
- You can implement your designs in HTML and CSS
- You have experience working in agile development environments
- You speak German

Send CV with work samples (5MB file size limit) to: jobs@ableton.com
Indicate expected salary and possible starting date, and mention "User Interface Designer" in the subject title

Web Designers - Republique Beirut - Lebanon

Republique Beirut is seeking Web Designers

m.nakad@republiquebeirut.com

Graphic Designers - Republique Beirut - Lebanon

Republique Beirut is seeking Graphic Designers

m.nakad@republiquebeirut.com

Art Directors - Republique Beirut - Lebanon

Republique Beirut is seeking Art Directors

m.nakad@republiquebeirut.com

User Interface Designer - Intridea - Remote or Washington DC

The Intridea team is a group of exceptional designers and developers; we love what we do and we are great at doing it. Our focus is on web and mobile development, and we specialize in Ruby on Rails, iOS, and Android development. Our reputation for delivering outstanding applications has won us a long list of clients including Fortune 100 companies and small, agile startups with just an idea sketched on a napkin. We bring great ideas to life, and we’re looking for brilliant designers / user interface developers / front-end gurus to join the ranks of our talented team.

Requirements
- A strong portfolio that showcases your clear visual design skills
- Great communication skills
- Wire-framing and prototyping skills
- Ability to work well with a creative team, as well as developers
- Experience gathering requirements and creating user stories
- Experience collaborating with clients and team members to iteratively create a design
- Standards-compliant HTML and CSS
- Solid understanding of user-centered design
- Pure unadulterated awesomeness

Nice-to-have
- Javascript, especially with the jQuery framework
- Integrating with the Ruby on Rails framework
- User interface design for mobile devices
- HTML5 / CSS3
- Print design / identity
- A/B testing
- Search engine optimization
- Design for mobile websites and/or applications

Our great benefits package includes working from home with a flexible schedule, a strong salary, health insurance paid by the company, 401K with company matching, birthdays off, and Amazon Prime for all employees!


Apply Online

Web Designer and Project Coordinator - IMD - Switzerland

The Web Designer and Project coordinator works closely with the Web Marketing Manager and the members of the Communications and Web Marketing departments who produce design and content for Marketing and Communication initiatives. He or she will also work alongside with the different IMD External Relations teams, IS teams and external agencies.

- Coordination of marketing and communication projects
- Graphical production and animation: image teaser, graphical animation and video
- Web site and content production: sitemap, information architecture, pages creation
- Test and maintenance: user acceptance test, site maintenance
- Support to IMD departments contributors

Desired Skills & Experience
- Fine art or equivalent visual design school with specialization in web or graphical animations.
- Agile project management approach (SCRUM)
- Speaks and writes English fluently, ideally mother tongue.
- Software skills: Photoshop, Flash, After effect, FinalCut, Dreamweaver, MS-Office
- 5 years of experience in graphic design and at least 3 years project coordination
- Preference will be given to candidates with experience in digital marketing and communication agencies.
- Proven experience in coordinating marketing and communication projects, across multi-disciplinary teams, with an agile project management approach.
- Proven creative production experience for multi-channels projects: web design, mobile design, advertisement, videos.
- Proven experience in building sitemap, information architecture and layouts for web sites.
- Proven experience with the software mentioned above. Good portfolio of previous work are considered more useful than specific qualifications!
- Adept at bringing creative customer-centric solutions.
- Ability to lead people and make things happen without having the formal authority.
- Acute attention to graphical and web design details.
- Team player: work intensely at high speed, while paying attention to details; able to take initiative.
- Multitasks well and meets very tight deadlines.
- Flexible, able to work under pressure and communicate priorities within the project’s team.
- Enthusiastic, positive, dynamic, self-motivated, well organized.
- Swiss, EU nationality, permit C / B / G

hrdepartment@imd.ch

Freelance Print Designer - SMEXbeirut - Lebanon

SMEXbeirut are seeking a print designer for a freelance job.

For more details, contact Ms. Naeema on +961 70 954 12 or naeema@smex.org

Senior Graphic Designer - Tagbrands - Lebanon

The Senior Graphic Designers occupy a high-level creative position in our company. He/She is expected to be able to take full creative, and production responsibility for any project. He/She will be responsible for the concept, design and production of communication assets and various other branding and marketing-related materials. The qualified candidate should have a hands-on approach and positive, quick problem-solving attitude and must have strong Graphic design experience and an online portfolio.

Requirements
- Strong "Concepting" skills are a must
- Outstanding creativity
- Demonstrate an excellent sense of design, layout and typography
- Speedy skills - able to turn jobs around quickly and accurately
- Have excellent interpersonal and communicative skills
- Must be comfortable following direction
- Be able to balance great design with rigid deadlines
- Ability to produce results independently and in a team environment
- Highly organized and able to work with multiple projects
- Ability to handle shifting priorities and deliver multiple projects on time with high-quality results in a fast-paced environment
- Careful attention to detail; ability to work with minimal supervision
- Work closely with Creative and Marketing teams
- Client interaction required
- Ability to help clients define and solve the most complex communications problems
- Strong business understanding and financial skills of relevant work

hr@tagbrands.com

Web/Graphic Designer - PopCap Games - Ireland

The Web/Graphic Designer for PopCap Games will have marketing/advertising experience, and a rockstar portfolio to back it up. This position is part of a growing Creative Lab Dublin team responsible for a wide variety of marketing materials for PopCap International and works with Senior Designers and Director of Creative Labs for creative feedback. This position designs everything from banner ads, graphics for our corporate website and portal partners, and localizes creative for the European markets. The ideal candidate will have clear communication skills, will be able to produce the highest quality designs under tight deadlines and has a natural familiarity with the PopCap brand.

Responsibilities
- Support marketing initiatives by creating fun, high-quality designs that drive traffic to our website and games
- Will include, but not limited to: website layouts, static and flash banner ads, mailers, marketing images, custom assets for partners
- Juggling simultaneous projects, delivering on tight deadlines to the highest standard
- Working with the Localisation team translating designs into European languages
- Designing and localizing corporate materials, including posters, brochures, presentation graphics

Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in graphic design within an in-house Marketing/Advertising environment
- Outstanding communication skills, composure under pressure, an aptitude for quickly learning new skills
- An expert using the latest Adobe Creative Suite software
- Digital illustration skills, specifically around 2D character design
- Experience coding XHTML, CSS, Actionscript and Javascript
- Familiar with the latest CMS tools
- Ability to quickly apply successful designs across multiple games and banner sizes
- Reinforces corporate and game branding guidelines
- Must be highly efficient and able to turn out deliverables quickly
- Proven experience meeting deadlines, and juggling multiple projects simultaneously
- Self-motivated and able to work independently, or collaborate with a team
- Must have a colourful, diverse and - most importantly - fun online portfolio!
- Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design or related field.

Apply Online

Web/Graphic Designer - Eye Digits - Lebanon

Eye Digits is recruiting Creative Web/Graphic Designer who will work with a team of web designers and project managers to produce Graphics and dynamic sites and Apps based on the latest technologies.

- Developing original concepts/ideas
- Creating designs (layouts, animations…)
- Adapting print applications
- Working closely with the design team to develop visual content according to standard process
- Able to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment and manage multiple works
- High enthusiasm and creativity
- Expert knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and fireworks
- Minimum 3 years of experience in a well known company

Send CV and portfolio to jobs@eyedigits.com

Art Directors - Leo Burnett - Lebanon

Leo Burnett Beirut looking for Art Directors.

Send CVs and Portfolios to recruiting@beirut.leoburnett.com

Graphic Designers - Leo Burnett - Lebanon

Leo Burnett Beirut looking for Graphic Designers.

Send CVs and Portfolios to recruiting@beirut.leoburnett.com

Graphic Designer - David Abdallah Studio - Lebanon

Graphic Designer is needed for a Studio in Antelias
- Intervention
- Coloring
- Design and Layout
- Minimum 2 years Experience in the Media field

nancy@davidabdallah.com

Graphic Designer - Think Media Labs - Lebanon

- Graduate degree in the fields of Design and/or Computer Science
- Good creative and artistic skills
- Good knowledge of creative software
- Good knowledge of front-end development HTML and CSS
- Highly motivated
- Team player
- Good interpersonal skills
- Dedicated and responsible

jobs@thinkmedialabs.com

Web Designer - Active Web - Lebanon

Active Web are looking for a full time, highly skilled, Web Designer with strong design aesthetic, who will be responsible of creating the website layout design.

Qualifications
- University Degree
- Minimum 2 years of Experience
- Excellent communications skills
- Attention to details
- Motivated and Organized
- Understanding of current web design trends
- Fluent in English
- Long term vision
- Excellent Knowledge of: Adobe Photoshop – Illustrator
- HTML design is a plus

hr@activeweb-me.com

behance professional portfolio site

Just received this as a behance notification and it does seem worth sharing:

http://prosite.com/home

Admittedly, the price for this (11USD per month) is rather on the steep side, considering that you could get a fully hosted site for about half the price at places like Bluehost, or indeed that with a bit of ingenuity you could very easily set up a similar site right here on blogspot for free.

However, on the upside, you do get the considerable professional design expertise of the behance team in the shape of some beautiful and fully customizable templates, which could save a lot of time. And, probably most importantly, given that behance is one of the highest regarded design portals online my guess would be that having a site hosted by them would be likely to get you exposure you might not get all too easily through a standalone site.

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Senior Visual Designer - MIH Internet - Dubai

MIH Internet Africa currently has a vacancy for a Senior Visual Designer in their incubation team based in Dubai. The Sr. Visual Designer will be responsible for the development and implementation of the company product’s visual strategy. We are looking for a senior designer with extensive experience in visual design for the web, with a particular focus in the e-commerce field preferred. The Senior Visual Designer will simultaneously be working on standardizing front-end elements across multiple platforms, as well as being involved in the design and implementation of changes to the existing user experience on the relevant products. The person in this position needs to have a deep understanding of the role design plays in the business needs and user experience of e-commerce web sites; be able to articulate the principles of good design; and defend design decisions with clarity and a solid theoretical foundation.

- Develop the visual strategy to bring the company brand to life consistently throughout the user experience.
- Develop visual style guide and UI pattern library to standardize as much of the brand front-end as possible (e.g., grids and page types, button design and behavior, form standards, etc.).
- Partner with product managers, UI designers, and engineering to design compelling and engaging user experiences that drive business results.
- Bring a strong focus on user experience design to the product development process.
- Develop HTML prototypes of visual design explorations.

Requirements
- Strong knowledge of the theoretical principles of good visual design.
- Strong proficiency in Adobe CS products.
- Experienced in HTML and CSS, as well as cross-browser support.
- Ability to visualize vision and strategy, but at the same time have an immense attention to every detail of design.
- Able to adapt rapidly to change
- Show initiative in main roles & responsibilities
- Demonstrate a sustained desire to learn and work hard
- Apply problem solving/solution focused approach to work
- 5+ years experience in visual design for the web.
- Extensive knowledge of and experience with user experience design and usability principles.

fkeepers@mih.com

Senior Graphic Designer - Prinsdesign - South Africa

Description
Looking for an independent minded graphic designer that’s excellent in idea generation, presentation and design for print and web. You have to have multiple creative skills and be interested in art, illustration, brand creation, collaboration and business, and networking. Candidates should be willing to work on a 3-4 day a week basis in the office in Braamfontein.

Skills & Experience
- A degree in Graphic design or information Design
- At least 4 - 10 years design experience in Print and Web. Skills in Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Dreamweaver (or similar) and other related programs. (On Mac only)
- Looking for a responsible, independent thinker with initiative.
- A wide knowledge of production, Litho and Digital Printing is required. (Getting jobs print ready etc.)

Please provide us with an email PDF of your portfolio or a link to a website.

adele@prinsdesign.co.za

semi-transparent and/or image background for all posts in blogspot

This is a step by step tutorial for creating a transparent/image background for the entire main posts section.

1- Creating a transparent .png:

Create a new photoshop (or whichever program you are using) file with 16x16 or 32x32 size, 72 resolution and tranparent background. Fill it with the color you wish to use, then change the opacity of the layer to a desired amount (a value between 70 to 90 is optimal). Save it for Web & Devices, making sure you have png24 and transparency selected. Now, upload it to somewhere (picasa etc.), so that you can have an url of the image which we will need later.

2- Template Designer:

Navigate to your blogger account's template designer tab. Select Advanced, here depending on your blogger template you will either have "Post Background" or "Background", first look for Post Background if you don't have it, select the other one.

For people with Post Background

From the color picker of Background Color, put a tick to transparent. If you don't want borders, do the same for Border Color.

For people with Background

From the color picker of Main Background, put a tick to transparent.

Finally apply to blog.

3- Edit HTML

Under the Edit HTML tab, look for this piece of code,

For people with Post Background in the previous step,

find,

.date-outer {

in it there is a line like this,

background-color: $(post.background.color);

replace it with this line changing the "image_url" with the actual url of your image

background: url(image_url) repeat;

For people with Background in the previous step,

find,

$(content.background.color.selector) {

in it there is a line like this,

background-color: $(content.background.color);

replace it with the following changing the "image_url" with the actual url of your image

background: url(image_url) repeat;

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how to get google to be totally in love with you... ;-)

What we were talking about just before the class broke up today, made into a little blog post for you:

1) Good, focused, (and if at all possible) original content. This is the one and only and penultimate thing that counts! Without good content, forget it, it just won't happen. What you have on your site simply has to be of interest to others - either specialist groups or general entertainment, but it has to be really good stuff! And my general hunch with this is that specialty sites are far more likely targets to get hits, since there is bound to be more search engine activity related to a specific topic, than there will be to general chit chat.

2) A large site will have more material for the search engine to find. Very simple logic really. If you have 100 posts it is far more likely that you wrote about something that somebody out there is searching for than if you have only 10. The larger the easypeasy site gets the more search engine results we get, no doubt about it. When we had only 10 posts, we had none. Nowadays with over 100 posts under our belts we have at least 5 or 6 a day and very often many more, sometimes as many as 20 even...

3) Make sure your site is structured well in terms of navigation. Even the best content in the world is useless if folk have to work too hard to get to it, they will simply not bother and leave and never come back. And needless to say, forget about them recommending it to anyone else... Read Selim's excellent post on navigation to get more insight on the matter here >>>

4) Post often and consistently. In other words, not silence for a whole month and then 10 posts all at once, but more like 3 posts a week, and every week. Remember that you can also write a whole batch and then pre-date them. I am not exactly sure how or why this makes a difference but a site which is consistently active seems to draw more traffic, a thing which I can tell very easily from the site stats of my own blogs. 

5) Make sure your meta tags are in perfect order. More on this here >>>

6) Make sure your post title comes before your blog title. More on this here >>>

7) Make sure you have a lot of links to other sites, either inside the posts or as sidebar elements: Your courtesy to others is likely to generate courtesy in return by them linking back to you - after all, this is how the internet works...

8) Use social networks efficiently. Tweet your blog and also post it on facebook, linkedin etc. Also if your site's content is at all relevant, start creative network accounts such as on youtube, Flickr, deviantart, vimeo etc. Use the groups within these domains to put out videos and photos and link these back to your site. 

9) Finally, be patient! It will take some time for people to find you - anything up to 6 months to even a year, depending on how fast your site is growing and on how good your content is. Usually you will hit the really big visitor numbers only after one of the major portals or blogs, one that covers the same area of interest on which you are focused, spots you and blogs you. This will take time. Just keep on posting and once you have enough good stuff it will happen - count on it.

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embedding a flipbook into a blog with issuu

Last time I looked into this (which was a few months ago) it still wasn't possible to do so but I just found out that you can now embed flipbooks which you create with issuu into other domains! Gave it a try just now and as you can see above it works beautifully!

So, all you need to do is create a free account with issuu, make your flipbook by following the instructions on the site which involve combining the images of your left/right pages into a pdf which you then upload into your issuu library. Once the book has been crunched by the system it will be published, at which point you will find the embed icon (looks like this < >) under the thumbnail of the book. Make sure you have all the correct things checked on the menu which appears when you click on the tags (such as having the double page view as default!), then copy and paste everything into the HTML tab of the post editor and you are done! You can also change the height and width of whatever appears on your blog by playing with the values inside the embed code. If you do so remember to use a calculator so that the aspect ratio remains correct.

 Tip:  When you publish this there will be several text links which appear under the small flipbook on your site. If (like me) you do not want these text links simply delete the bottom part of the code, which will look something like this:

<div style="text-align: left; width: 420px;">
<a href="http://issuu.com/elifayiter/docs/ctrl_xyv?mode=embed&amp;viewMode=presentation&amp;layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml&amp;showFlipBtn=true" target="_blank">Open publication</a> - Free <a href="http://issuu.com/" target="_blank">publishing</a> - <a href="http://issuu.com/search?q=computer" target="_blank">More computer</a></div>

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Multimedia Designer - Visual Interactive Media - Lebanon

VIM is looking to hire a Multimedia Flash Designer for its offices in Beirut to:
- Design and create custom, innovative, and effective web designs
- Develop content into dynamic multimedia pages
- Create interactive Flash design, functionality, custom solutions
- Publish updates and changes to web pages efficiently and accurately
- Develop internal design & marketing material

hr@v-imedia.com

Multimedia: Web & Flash Designer - BSmart - Lebanon

BSmart is a dynamically developing firm specializing in creating and integrating information systems and in IT consulting. Our long experience as well as the diversity of the projects we have managed result in a unique expert team combining their extensive IT knowledge with creativity, commitment, and passion. These assets make us open to ingenious solutions and specialized technologies.

We are looking for Multimedia Web & Flash Designers with a minimum 1 year experience.

info@bsmart-lb.com

Graphic Designer - BSmart - Lebanon

BSmart is a dynamically developing firm specializing in creating and integrating information systems and in IT consulting. Our long experience as well as the diversity of the projects we have managed result in a unique expert team combining their extensive IT knowledge with creativity, commitment, and passion. These assets make us open to ingenious solutions and specialized technologies.

We are looking for Graphic Designers with a minimum 1 year experience.

info@bsmart-lb.com

navigate in style or fail miserably

Good navigation is the most important aspect of a well designed website. If the visitor is not presented with a clear navigation, it won't matter how well your site is designed, it is highly likely that they will leave your page in a matter of seconds. It is a very tough challenge to create a meaningful and unambiguous yet stylish navigation that allows users to view content easily.

Some of the most important rules of a good navigation are;

1- Visibility: Make sure that your navigation is one of the first things that catches the eye. Do not make it obscure. Don't let it get hidden because of clutter or problematic placement.

2- Consistency: Make certain it has a certain style and placement that it keeps on every page.

3- Clarity: Make sure that every item in the menu is %100 understandable. No one likes to guess where the link will take them. Use either clear names, or little explanations, hover titles are a good way as well. If you are using thumbnail images as links in your menu, make sure they are clarified one way or another.

4- Creativity: Creative navigation will always make your site stand out more, just make sure you don't overdo it, sometimes simplicity is the real creativity.

Good Examples of Stylish Navigation

The Adaptd

It is both stylish and easy to use. Very clear menu with a classic top tier placement.

StephenCaver

Clear well designed navigation. Nice use of typography.

OwlTastic

This is especially for those designing blogs, very slick and clear navigation ina 3 column design. Nice use of sidebars and top level menu design.

CreativeNZ

A very good example of how to fit massive amounts of content into a navigation in a stylish way.

Sarah Hyland

Clear, playful, hand-drawn and animated navigation.

Jordan Gray Creative

Simplicity, minimalist design, left aligned side navigation.

Work at Play

Nice clear navigation.

RedNoseDay

Playful navigation consistent with the style and content of the page, usability is top-notch.

Typographica

Very simple and very attractive, everything is easy to follow and you always get to where you want to go.

Bernat Fortet

Creative way of categorization. Easy to follow, the only problem is it is a bit space consuming.

Nuttersmark

Interesting and creative menu design. Takes a little bit of getting used to but the filter and sorting menu is a must see.

Epic Agency

Impressive use of top tier navigation, clear simple and yet stylish.

Pixel Resort

Good example of Apple inspired navigation, everything is consistent and clear.

Paiko.de

Little explanations when you hover over the menu items is a great way of guiding your visitors through your site.

Things We Make

Another clear navigation

Blue Cadet

Very slick navigation. 2 tier top level navigation, the sub tier works especially nice in works section. It is a bit graphic heavy when you use the works next, previous project navigation, but it looks really cool.

Design Intellection

Unconventional right-side tabbed navigation does actually work very well in this site. Scroll down to see how the navigation changes style beautifully.

Also see these...

Students Association at Unitec

Time for Cake

Unstoppable Robot Ninja

Christina Ung

Sarah Longnecker

And when it fails....

ThereStudio

First of you are presented with bouncing links that kind of sattle later on. And guess what not everything that looks like a link is clickable, not a very satisyfying navigation for a visitor.

Design Sul

Seriously.. where is the navigation. Am I supposed click on those bottles, is that it?

Zinc Bistro

Don't get fooled by the top lunch and dinner items, they are unclickable. There is a small thing under the disturbing video called navigation, well it seems to work if you refresh the page 10 times.

HBO+EMTB

When simplicity fails miserably. Worst use of top tier navigation. It looks like a word document rather than a webpage. And that isn't the worst part, just go on, decrease the size of your browser window and see what happens.

Nomek Solutions

Wow simply amazing, the middle menu runs away when you move your mouse to click. Plus the content font is so small that it is impossible to read. Check out the news section and you will see.

mxyplyzyk

Menu items continuously change into images that don't give any clues to what they are connected. Very irritating navigation.

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Senior Graphic Designer - Fido Advertising - Lebanon

Fido is seeking experienced Graphic Designers to join the creative team and play a role in creating memorable advertising campaigns. The Senior Graphic Designers occupy a high-level creative position in the company. They are bright, imaginative and have a curious mind. They have the desire to transform compelling ideas into extraordinary experiences. In addition to the creative and production aspects of the job, there is a lot of analytical thinking involved.

Skills and Requirements
- BA in Graphic Design or equivalent
- Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience
- Solid understanding of the client/advertising agency delivelables and the ability to take responsibilities for them
- Strong knowledge of design principles, visual arts, page layout and typography
- Proficiency in using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
- Ability to meet tight deadlines and to work independently on strategic issues
- Capable of handling shifting priorities and managing fairly complex projects
- Exceptional organizational and communication skills
- Web and multimedia design experience is a definite advantage
- Drawing and painting ability is a plus

jobs@fidoadv.com

free flash photo galleries + free swf hosting

Just stumbled upon this:

http://www.flash-gallery.net/index.html

A lot of these are freebies and some of them could look really cool on a custom designed header, or embedded into a page post as a photo gallery.

In order to be able to do this you will need to host your swf file somewhere - unless you have your own server or a remotely hosted site, that is. Here are a couple of places that seem to do the job, for free:

http://megaswf.com/ 

http://www.novamov.com/

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blogspot: unlocking the header widget so that you can place it in a different location

Oooops! A couple of posts ago I was talking about making a vertical header and completely forgot to mention something very important related to that: In order to move your header to a different location on the site you will have to do some sniffing around inside the HTML editor (with expanded widgets!), where you need to find this line:

<b:widget id='Header1' locked='true'
and change it to
<b:widget id='Header1' locked='false'

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design + details: padding the widgets

Fairly self-explanatory image I would say... On the left is the default state and on the right is the one where I have tweaked padding values by placing this code in the CSS box on the Advanced Editor:

#Label1 {
padding: 24px;
padding-bottom: 8px;
}

The padding makes a huge difference as to how this looks. The strokes become much sleeker when they stop a bit short of the border, and the top and the bottom of the box is also sitting much better now that I no longer have that big space below the last line.

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