Art & Design

Art is a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, usually involving imaginative or technical skill. Design is the creation of a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system (as in architectural blueprints, engineering drawings, business processes, circuit diagrams and sewing patterns). Design has different connotations in different fields. In some cases the direct construction of an object (as in pottery, engineering, management, cowboy coding and graphic design) is also considered to be design.

How to set up a CloudFlare Flexible SSL Certificate within 5 minutes for your WordPress website’s all subdomains & main domain.

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Prerequisite: Please make sure have active CloudFlare account and you have added your WordPress Website to CloudFlare. Also, make sure you are using CloudFlare nameservers for your domain.

 
Step 01: Sign in to your CloudFlare account

 

 
Step 02: Make sure flexible SSL certificate is enabled under the “Crypto” tab for your selected website

 

 
Step 03: While you are already signed in to your CloudFlare account go to > My Profile > Scroll down to API Keys and locate Global API Key & copy the same key for further use inside your website.

 

 

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My new venture into selling Stock Photography on 500px.com

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From the start of being student of BFA (Bachelor of Fine Art) – Applied Art & even before that when I started with automatic film camera I was trying to be good photographer or may be I was.

 
Last year of my graduation I bought Canon A520 Point & Shoot camera & using that camera I shot almost 6,500 i.e. Six Thousand Photos over span of 10 Years. Plus photos taken from Mobile Phone Camera that may count more than another 2,000 i.e. Two thousand Photographs.

 
In Year August 2016 I bought iPhone. Using my latest iPhone I just shot another 2,200 Photos plus Slo-mo, Time-lapse & Videos in just 9 Months.

 
So with this collection more than 10,000 Photos I have decided to post it on Flickr & more importantly on 500px.com profile of mine so that I can sell them as stock photography & fetch some price for my work.

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Colour Behaviour Study of Japan / True Black on Real Life Physical Paper & on Computer Displays or Screens

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I am hereby documenting few of my thoughts about black colour behaviour on Physical Paper & on Computer Display or on Screen.

 
I was from BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) – Applied Art background so we had subjects like Illustration, Calligraphy, Typography, Print Media Design, Logo & Symbol Design, Branding & Identity Design.

 
We use to design our assignments using Japan Black ink which is vary dark in contrast & which creates high contrast reach feeling of black colour tone on white paper.

 
So when we print our designs done in Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw we use to fill the design with (CMYK) Cyan: 100%, Magenta: 100%, Yellow: 100%, K(Black): 100% than using only K: 100%. This CMYK values use to create high contrast Japan Black ink fill on White Paper.

 

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Using Google Public DNS for IPv4 & IPv6 to speed up internet browsing, A resource for Web Designers, Developers & Internet Surfers in General

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As Wikipedia explains,

 

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participating entities. Most prominently, it translates easily memorised domain names to the numerical IP addresses needed for the purpose of locating computer services and devices worldwide. By providing a worldwide, distributed keyword-based redirection service, the Domain Name System is an essential component of the functionality of the Internet.

 
Google’s Public DNS will speedup your computer internet connections performance with faster speed for domain name lookup.

 
google-public-dns

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Irregularities of AdSense Advertisements Delivery, Why smaller 300×250 unit ads are delivered in 336×280 ad unit. Here is why?

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For a while I was observing unusual behaviour of my 336 by 280 Ad units where smaller sized ads were get delivered in the size of 300 by 250 units.

 
I even report this issue to Google AdSense Support Team but received no reply & currently they were not accepting any new support request but any how I got the solution that I wanted.

 
I got the solution to the problem why smaller unit ads were get delivered in bigger size ad units & there by ruining my ‘Website Design Layouts’

 
Here is what Google Says about that:

 
(Source: Adsense Resource Tab)

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How to put comments in .php, .html, .css files to declare, remind explanation of code to third party developers, designers or even users which may even includes you, This technique can also be utilise while writing or debugging code by selectively disabling or enabling lines of source code

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There are different ways of putting comments per type of file on world wide web.

 
Comments helps developer of code to explain third party developers, designers, users or even to himself in space of time why he used that line of code & what function it performs in that web application.

 
So it is real handy to have that knowledge of how to put comments in your files in PHP, CSS & HTML.

 
Here is example how you will put comments in ‘HTML’ & ‘PHP’ pages (outside of the PHP code) & it will look like this:

 

<!-- put comments here to explain it more -->

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Designed in India & Designed in USA, UK & rest of The World, What’s the difference???

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I was just going through the Dribbble jobs page almost 175 jobs were posted almost 160 of them were from USA 10 from UK & Europe & 3 from location posted ‘anywhere’ but nothing was posted from Indian locations or even asian locations.

 
What’s wrong with India? Does India forgot about running Design Directed Companies or they just love working for US & UK companies.

 
Real terrible situation here in Mumbai.

 
Government says person can live with 20 Cents i.e 12 INR per day including lunch & dinner.

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Pages not working after installing or activating WordPress Multisite i.e WP MU

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Here is solution of this problem when you activate wp mu on your single domain i.e. you add subdomain through WordPress MultiSite suddenly your pages are not showing up istead it through ‘404 Not Found’ Error…

 
404 Error File Not Found

 
First thing you have to do is navigate to:

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Email me whenever someone enters or submits the Google Forms or How to generate email to your gmail inbox when client submits your (google form containing your) business questionnaire? Here is how…!!!

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I hope you have already designed your own questionnaire in Google Drive with help of Google Forms & Google Spreadsheet. & I assume that you have linked spreadsheet to your google form to collect submitted answers from people.

 
So to generate mail or notification through mail you have to do following

 
Step 01

 
Navigate to Spreadsheet which is connected to your Google Form your google account.

 
Step 02

 
Click on ‘Tools’ in Toolbar, Click on ‘Notification Rules’

 
google-form-notification-rules

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Search Engine Optimisation for Title Tag & How it works & How it is crawled by Google, A lesson learned from my own portfolio website

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Here is what I learned from Google’s Web Crawling algorithm over the years,

 
For last three to two years I was using just ‘Design Portfolio | Mandar Apte’ as my title tag for my personal design portfolio website’s homepage i.e ‘Page Name | Website Name’. Nothing more than that to explain the people to give them full insight of website by just looking at title on google’s search result’s page.

 
But for last few days I was getting this result when I searched my name on Google, Yes I was listed first when I searched for name i.e mandar apte,

 
But result was something like this, ‘Mandar Apte: Design Portfolio’ instead my curated title ‘Design Portfolio | Mandar Apte’. It seems google altered my website homepage’s title tag on their search results. I was amassed why should this happen, then I contacted google support for the same…

 
mandar-apte-search-results-before

 
& I got this answer from them…

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