Octwelve – A Web Designer's Blog by Luc Melgar

I noticed so many people in Twitter started changing their avatar to some cartoonish icon. I asked around (well, around twitter) and found out that these are from www.faceyourmanga.com, a site which basically lets you create a cartoon version of your face. Though I don’t plan on changing my Twitter avatar forever, I thought I’d [...]

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Well, I know I’m late, but anyway, the 2008 Philippine Blog Awards is now open for nominations. It aims to recognize the finest blogs and bloggers in the Philippines. I’m really happy that my blog design has been recognized internationally, but ofcourse, as a Filipino, it would be my pleasure to be recognize in my [...]

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Yet another cool WordPress blog design list by Noupe. It’s very inspirational indeed. Octwelve is one of them :) I think my personal pick is Malene Hald, Leslyg, and Web Designer Wall. Continue reading…

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Today, I want to share with you some of the great things about having a standards compliant website and why you too should start using it. Search engine friendly, increased traffic This is one very important reason to practice web standards. Search engines such as Google are blind user. It doesn’t care about the design. [...]

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The latest design showcase of Smashing Magazine is about the use of Mascot in modern web design. And I’m happy because Luc (that Luc above) is one of the chosen ones. I’m so delighted! I’ve always hoped that my site will be featured on Smashing Magazine. They collect and showcase beautiful websites and graphic designs. [...]

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Octwelve is featured on these best web design galleries ^_^ Thanks for appreciating my site. It’s really nice to be listed with other great designers that I look up to! Technorati Tags: Web Design Gallery, CSS Gallery, Web Design Showcase, CSS Showcase, Best Web Designs

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So yesterday I’ve finally verified my Paypal account by adding the Eon Card from Unionbank. And here’s how I did it. To open an EON Account, go to Unionbank’s website and sign up for the EON Visa Electron account. Choose the Unionbank branch where you want to claim your card. Claim your card after a [...]

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Hey check that out! Octwelve has its first recognition! And it’s first on the list! Yay! Grand prize! hehe http://pinoytwitters.com/2007/11/25/pinoytwitters-of-the-week-week-1-faces/ The theme is about Bloggers. I’m actually pretty new in Twittering and blogging so it’s cool to be selected even though I don’t have much contents yet. I guess they chose me for the design [...]

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