User experience (UX)

User experience (UX) involves a person’s emotions about using a particular product, system or service. User experience highlights the experiential, effective, meaningful and valuable aspects of human-computer interaction and product ownership. – wikipedia

What really is User Experience? To many time I come across a guys profile on LinkedIn and one of his/her skills listed is UX, and I’m like, “Is that a skill?”. Turns out, it is a skill. It isn’t so much a Web Development skill as it is more of a Web Designing skill. What is the difference? Lets just think of it as a process.

Redirect to Login Page WordPress

how to redirect to wp-login.php when users are not logged in to your site:

Chemistry Blog… LIVE!!!

This is it!!! My big one The project I have been working on for about 2 months at Match. I am so excited I have learned a lot and look forward to continuing to make the site better!!! So check it out: blog.chemistry.com!!!


It was built on the WordPress CMS. Although most of the UI Development was by me, I would like to give props to The Match Design Team; QA Team; Social Media Team, headed by Andy Chen; Rafik Bryant, for Help with the php development, and Thomas Gormley for leading the development vision! I feel this project is a huge success!!!

Full-time Work @ Match.com

I have just accepted a full-time position at the match.com dating website. This is definitely a pinnacle point in my life!!! I am about
the enter a very competitive environment. But as the slogan says, LOVE. YOUR WORK.

My job at match starts April 18th! Where I will be a User Interface Developer.

TABLES are better than DIVS??? Email Template Design…

Relax, I have not fallen of the face of the earth, I am talking about emails… It is true that because of the numerous email clients lack of support for floats, positioning, margins, and paddings Email templates are safer to build in Tables instead of divs.

I know you are shocked beyond belief at the revelation I have just given you, but for all you super-smart dudes & dudettes, I’ll give you something a little extra.

the Image to the left highlights a website called Campaign Monitor. If you look under resources, you will find numerous tips on building email templates including:

Responsive Web Design

CSS3 Media Queries are an extension to CSS Media Types. They are used to assign different CSS stylesheets to a web page depending on browser window size. A Media Query consists of a media type and one or more expressions to limit the scope of style sheets.

On CSS Tricks, A Web Design Community created by Chris Coyier, a web developer and designer who also co-authored Digging into WordPress. Chris covers a number of aspects of media queries including:

Color Scheme Designer

Are you struggling with coming up with a color scheme for your new website? This is a little tool that I found on colorschemedesigner.com is a great way to boost your creativity when it comes to a color scheme for your website.

The Scheme Designer is currently in Version 3.5. Petr Stanicek, a professional UI/UX designer, analyst, web designer and online application programmer from the Czech Republic, EUROPE created the web application in 2009. If you have any question or suggestions, visit Petr’s Website www.pixy.cz

Object Oriented CSS

Nicole Sullivan has come up with a new way to implement CSS. Object Oriented CSS is a process that allows you to write fast, maintainable, standards-based front end code. It adds much needed predictability to the way CSS is Handled. This Tutorial Video explains everything in detail. As Nicole Stated on GitHub, a social network for coding,

The two main principles of Object Oriented CSS (OOCSS):

Chemistry.com Contract Job

Hey guys! I just landed a contract job at chemistry.com where I will be working full-time for the next six months. The experience I gain there will be invaluable for the future!!

During this employment, I will be residing in Dallas, TX and will not be accepting any other job offers untill the end of the contract in July 2011.

For future Job offers/contracts please contact me, my email is: jacobuid@gmail.com