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Showing off the power of Silverlight 2.0 - Windows Media Player redone
Monday, March 17, 2008 5:23 PM

A couple of months ago I recreated the Windows Media Player interface using Blend and Silverlight 1.1 alpha refresh, I wired up the UI so that it behaved similar to the actual application. It had a lot of code in the code behind that managed the resizing... Read More...

by Online Advertising, Web Development & General Rantings

Filed under: Silverlight, Blend, Technology, Blend Candy

Live Messenger done with Silverlight 2.0 - Login Screen Layout
Tuesday, March 04, 2008 10:54 PM

In this post I will take the login screen mockup and create a Silverlight layout from it. But before I delve into the screens let’s talk about layouts in general. When building applications one of the hardest things to get right is the layout of... Read More...

by Online Advertising, Web Development & General Rantings

Filed under: Silverlight, Blend, Technology, Blend Candy, Projects

Live Messenger done with Silverlight 2.0
Tuesday, March 04, 2008 10:42 PM

In this series of post’s I will rebuild the Windows Live Messenger as a Silverlight 2.0 application. This is going to be a great project to build using the Silverlight 2.0 stack as most of the components required for this application can be found... Read More...

by Online Advertising, Web Development & General Rantings

Filed under: Silverlight, Technology, Blend Candy

Blend Candy: How to create a Gold and Sparkly effect
Saturday, January 26, 2008 5:45 PM

In this post I’m going to get creative, I’m going to create something shinny and sparkly. Recently I saw a great adobe Photoshop tutorial showing how to achieve a “gold effect“. I wanted to try to re-create that same gold effect... Read More...

by Online Advertising, Web Development & General Rantings

Filed under: Silverlight, Technology, Blend Candy

"Colour the World" - my version of an iPod Touch Colour Picker done with SilverLight
Friday, January 11, 2008 5:53 AM

I shouldn’t have to tell you of the importance a great colour scheme has on the success of your application or web site. To create that amazing user experience you have to have a great UI and one of the most important ingredients to a great UI is... Read More...

by Online Advertising, Web Development & General Rantings

Filed under: Silverlight, Technology, Blend Candy, Projects

Blend Candy - Windows Media Player
Tuesday, January 01, 2008 4:07 PM

In a previous post, “Blue glowing glass button”, I confessed my adoration for the user interface of windows media player 10. I talked about how I loved the dark coloured theme, the glowing effect of the buttons and the glass effect overall... Read More...

by Online Advertising, Web Development & General Rantings

Filed under: Silverlight, Blend, Technology, Blend Candy

Blend Candy : Another Blue Glowing Glass Button in the style of Web 2.0
Friday, November 09, 2007 1:11 AM

Does anyone else here like the Windows Media Player UI besides me? I have to admit that I’m a sucker when it comes to rich dark colored UI’s. I love black and I love the glass effect. [screen shot of my Windows Media Player 11 - Beautiful... Read More...

by Online Advertising, Web Development & General Rantings

Filed under: Technology, Blend Candy

Blend candy - have a drink on me!
Saturday, November 03, 2007 6:05 PM

I’ve started actively posting again, as if you haven’t noticed! I’ve been dead busy at work but have now forced myself to make time for my SilverLight passion! I’ve got so many small SilverLight projects running in parallel, and... Read More...

by Online Advertising, Web Development & General Rantings

Filed under: Technology, Blend Candy

A "Billboard Sign" done in SilverLight
Saturday, September 22, 2007 1:55 AM

Remember going to a city for the first time and seeing all those 20 foot long billboards with flashing lights and advertisements? One memorable moment was when I was holidaying in “New York”, it was around 10pm just after dinner all the flashing... Read More...

by Online Advertising, Web Development & General Rantings

Filed under: Silverlight, Technology, Blend Candy

iPhone’s beautiful "Battery Recharger" as a SilverLight animation
Tuesday, September 11, 2007 6:19 PM

Have I told you readers how much I love the user interface of Apple’s iPhone? Well I do! There are so many goodies in there that over time I’ll reproduce them using Blend and SilverLight . Today I’ll be recreating the “Battery... Read More...

by Online Advertising, Web Development & General Rantings

Filed under: Technology, Blend Candy, Apple, iPhone

iPod Touch - "Icon Lineup" control
Thursday, September 06, 2007 4:37 AM

Firstly let me say that I am in love with Apple’s iPhone interface. Apple, in my opinion, has single handedly re-written the rule book for mobile phone design. In my opinion they are the ONLY company that puts as much love into their UX, as money... Read More...

by Online Advertising, Web Development & General Rantings

Filed under: Silverlight, Blend, Technology, Blend Candy

Blend Candy - "Speedometer twins"
Tuesday, September 04, 2007 7:16 AM

I’m currently working a super secret project that I’ll be launching soon. This new project of mine required me to create a whole swag of new Blend assets one of which is the speedometer. Here it is: It was really simple to make, the below... Read More...

by Online Advertising, Web Development & General Rantings

Filed under: Technology, Blend Candy