Mandar Apte

UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Category: Art And 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.

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

    For a while, I observed unusual behaviour of my 336 by 280 Ad units, where smaller ads were delivered in 300 by 250 units.

    I even reported this issue to the Google AdSense Support Team but received no reply & currently, they are not accepting any new support requests, but how can I get the solution I wanted?

    I solved the problem of why smaller unit ads were delivered in bigger ad units, thereby ruining my ‘Website Design Layouts.’

    Here is what Google Says about that:

    (Source: Adsense Resource Tab)

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  • How do you put comments in .php, .html, and .css files to declare? Remind third-party developers and designers of the code’s explanation.

    Different ways of putting comments per file type on the World Wide Web exist.

    Comments help the code developer explain quickly to third-party developers, designers, users, or even himself why he used that line of code and what function it performs in that web application.

    So it is convenient to know how to put comments in your files in PHP, CSS & HTML.

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

    <!-- comment here about what is going on -->

    Comments inside of PHP code look like this:

    <?php the_excerpt(); // Show excerpt and not full post content ?>
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  • Designed in India & Designed in USA, UK & rest of The World, What’s the difference???

    I was going through the Dribbble jobs page, and almost 175 jobs were posted. Nearly 160 of them were from the USA, 10 were from the UK and Europe, and 3 were from locations posted ‘anywhere’, but nothing was posted from Indian or even Asian locations.

    What’s wrong with India? Has it forgotten about running Design-Directed Companies, or do they just love working for US and UK companies?

    The actual terrible situation here in Mumbai.

    The government says a person can live on 20 Cents, or 12 INR, daily, including lunch and dinner.

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

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

    404 Error File Not Found

    First thing you have to do is navigate to:

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  • How do I get an E-mail whenever someone enters or submits the Google Forms? Here is how to do it!

    I hope you have already designed your own questionnaire in Google Drive using Google Forms and Google Sheets. I assume you have linked your Spreadsheet to your Google form to collect submitted answers from people.

    So, to generate mail or notification through mail, you have to do the following.

    Step 01
    Navigate to Spreadsheet, which is connected to your Google Forms in your Google account.

    Step 02
    Click on ‘Tools’ in Toolbar, Click on ‘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

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

    For the last three to two years, I have used ‘Design Portfolio | Mandar Apte’ as my title tag for my personal design portfolio website’s homepage, i.e. ‘Page Name | Website Name’. This is nothing more than to explain to people that they can get a complete insight into the website by just looking at the title on Google’s search result page.

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

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

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    & I got this answer from them…

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  • Art & Design Competition in Maharashtra, India – ‘State Art’, Maharashtra State Art Competition by Directorate of Art Maharashtra State

    This competition is famous for the name State Art.

    Competition Information & Admission Forms are issued in the First Week of November Every Year & Submission of Admission Forms & Artwork for State Art are collected & submitted in the next Month i.e Every 3rd or 4th Week of December.

    Results are declared in January’s first or second week or so, and the Exhibition is scheduled for seven days, i.e., a Full Week in February or March.

    Submission Requirements & Rules

    1. You, i.e. Participant, must be in Residence of the State of Maharashtra for the last 10 years or so.
    2. A Domicile Certificate signed by the concerned authority as proof of residence in Maharashtra for the last 10 years has to be submitted with the form.
    3. Well Framed artwork should be submitted with submission as an entry
    4. Image (JPEG or JPG Files) files of respective submissions have to be submitted on CD (Compact Disk) with form
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  • WordPress Installation Security & Performance Boosting with easy .htaccess hacks.

    I am writing it down to help you secure your website & boost your WordPress website performance with this simple .htaccess hack.

    Implement or copy-paste this code in .htaccess in your root of WordPress installation to secure wp-include only files.

    # Block the include-only files.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^wp-admin/includes/ - [F,L]
RewriteRule !^wp-includes/ - [S=3]
# RewriteRule ^wp-includes/[^/]+\.php$ - [F,L]
RewriteRule ^wp-includes/js/tinymce/langs/.+\.php - [F,L]
RewriteRule ^wp-includes/theme-compat/ - [F,L]
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  • How Odd Numbers are out & Even Numbers are in for Web Designer & Icon Designer or even for any designer

    While I was designing Icons for my client, I realised that it is true in website design as it is in Icon Design: you can work in odd numbers,

    When you have even numbers like 14px Square or 16px Square, you can easily fit a round box inside it, but in a 15px Square Icon, it’s tough to manage…

    Here is The example…

    Odd Numbers of Pixels:

    Odd Pixels with 15px by 15px

    15pxicon

    Even Numbers of Pixels:

    10px by 10px, with 1px of rounded corners, it fails to generate an illusion of circular when viewed at actual size or maximum size

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  • How Designer look at the Job Interviews

    Here are list of things that one designer sees in company’s job profile before he even thinks to go for interview….

    1. Does Company Has Website?
    2. Does company website has right domain name & extension ethics applied to it?
    3. Does that website really use today’s web standards?
    4. Does company Logo really up to the mark?
    5. Choice of Company’s Color for their Brand
    7. How many other designer are employed?
    8. What is Position & grade?
    9. What Operating System Platform that company uses?
    10. Does they use industry leading softwares?
    11. Does company really understands the design process?
    12. Are other designers employed in company are happy with their work?
    13. Does company has canteen?
    14. What is lunch time?
    15. What are regulation of working late & working overtime?
    16. Can company allow freelance work from other companies?
    17. What is work time?
    18. Does they have shifts?
    19. How & what type of transport is available to commute from home to office?
    20. Does company has free internet?
    21. What are international locations that company is located in?
    22. What are company’s main business?
    23. Exact count of company’s current employees…
    24. Is Saturday & Sunday OFF?
    25. Does company has it’s own transport for their employees?
    26. Does Company has Payroll & Provident Fund Facility?
    27. What past employees are talking about the company?
    28. Does company has their own email server & service?
    29. Does company give frequent salary increments & benefits & incentives?
    30. How tight is security of IT properties?
    31. How many days are allowed to take leave?

    So, here it is, it really explains mind set of designer joining some company…!!!

    & Me no different…!!!

    Thanks & Regards
    Mandar Apte

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