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Guilloché in Adobe Illustrator CS6

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Guilloché Rosette Feather by JCToday I had a little task of producing an expo Z-flyer for hurrying team, and stumbled upon the necessity of custom bullets in InDesign. The font was not enough and I recalled the ancient bank notes security engraving patterns called guilloché for help.
Indeed, with new opportunities of applying gradients to strokes in Illustrator CS6, why not to try recreate some guilloché-ish rosettes for fancy bullets and apply them to deco text?
This handy tutorial gave me the idea of applying asymmetrical effects to ellipses. So I followed and had fun.
You can do this as well. Apply your patterns to brushes and you can create original “security” engraved prints for yourself. No additional software required. Just for comparison – a paid parametric curve drawing tool can cost you 1500$ per year in licenses.

You cannot test for all browsers on Earth

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Browser Support Recently I followed several discussions at LinkedIN Front End Developers group. It came to my attention that average web-designing Joe became absolutely dependent from popular frameworks and readily packaged libraries. This is not a consequence of his background. He may be OK with PHP, JavaScript and HTML/CSS in their recent incarnations. It is browser landscape extreme fragmentation that makes him following frameworks like WordPress or Drupal. The old era when a “web guy” could produce a “website” is now completely gone, and here is the simple proof.

How on Earth a single person can test, document and fix the behaviour and appearance of the average 3-screens funnel for “modern” browsers if just WebKit comes in 24 (twenty four) really differently behaving flavours? Women rarely if ever update their browsers, once they feel comfortable with, say Firefox. With a pace of versions spawning from mozilla.org ovipositor you can easily find a landscape of 11-12 differently behaving Firefoxes in your analytics. Yes, they are more consistent than Microsoft Internet Explorers, but troubled MSIE is not mutating that fast.

Say, if you are taking a thorough exercise of proper testing you can easily come to 180 tests per day. This makes your good intentions of bringing a well-tested website to a client to look like Hercules desperately trying to catch a tortoise from a famous Zenon’s paradox.

Helped my friend to get online in 24hrs

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I made www.cretediver.com for my Russian scuba diving buddy in a single day. Now he has power to accept and process orders for scuba diving sessions and tourism, and car rent on Crete, Greece. Thank you, WordPress! And thank you fellow divers!
It is a quick-fixed TwentyEleven child theme that made job quick and easy. The website is totally multilingual aware, only uses Russian at the moment. I like that Elephant Cave thing. This site seeing is incredible.