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Act.fm UX/UI Design & Prototyping

My strongest skill-set and passion is for User Interface and the use of GUI development and design tools.
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Creative thinking starts with good observation.

My objective is to identify the audience's needs, goals, challenges they face, and develop a compelling design that will create a memorable experience.
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Programming small or huge websites

Programming from scratch allows complete flexibility and control over the look, functionality and expandability of the website.
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Flash is the future of user interface design

The viral campaign should be edgy, surprising, original, sexy and emotional. Flash is a great solution, flexible enough that you can create any graphics and establish easy a new environment for your viral campaign.
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Now in London!

I am relocated in Ealing, London, UK since 2010
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Before you buy it, Flubit!

"All we want to do is save you money on everything you buy, and soon we hope to be doing it for so many people that we are in turn saving the world.
Our proposition to you is simple: Tell us what you want to buy, and we'll generate you a Flub Deal within 24 working hours at a price lower than the one you found."
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Designed for everyone, everywhere.

Bootstrap provides a modern framework that you can hand over to a designer and say "make this look fancy!" without them hacking their way through the code.
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Hi, I'm Victor

I'm a freelance web producer, UI, UX, interactive designer and developer, project manager and business consultant.
I am passionate about creating the new and combining creativity, business and opensource technologies.

London freelancer

Currently living in London, I am working as a freelancer for clients around the world under the Webstrateg label.
A solid grasp of web standards, SEO and usability, as well as obsessive need to continuously improve, ensure my work is delivered to the required standards.

Skills and tools

Working on numerous custom development projects, I have acquired considerable experience in using the open-source software.
I often provide consultation and advice on solutions and technology feasibility.
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Intentions

I enjoy my work, design well, develop accessible and standards-based web sites, learn something new everyday, and treat others with the utmost respect. In the short-term I intend to focus on creating & developing mobile applications and producing digital & social experiences.

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Posted in: General, Social Media
Tags: dictionary, entrepreneur, Founder, Infographic, start-up
March 21, 20122 months ago

What are the Startup Buzzwords Every Entrepreneur Should Know?

Angel, Bandwidth, crowdsource, virality, User Experience - just some of the keywords any entrepreneur should know, understand and use. Check the "The Founder’s Dictionary" infographic for a short, funny version of the Entrepreneur Dictionary or the guide to business terminology, "The Entrepreneur's Dictionary - Guide to Start-up Business Terms for Non-MBAs" a PDF prepared by CompanyCrafters. Read more

Posted in: Frameworks & Tools, PHP best practice
Tags: API, Bing, Flickr, Google+, JSON
March 12, 20122 months ago

Using Google, Bing and Flickr API to search for images

Need to show some pictures for searches, products or names and you don't have them?

I came across this problem once and I will like to share an easy solution. The solution is strickly technical, you should check the terms and conditions before using the images. Focusing just on Creative Commons-licensed photos is the safest approach. Read more

Posted in: Facts and figures, marketing
Tags: Affiliate Window, affiliates system, Akimlinks, amazon affiliate, Amazon Product API, comparison affiliates, EveryFeed, ProductFeed
March 8, 20122 months ago

UK Affiliates System API Comparison

Amazon is one of the first affiliate programs, they started in 1994 with books, since then they have expanded their selection of products to almost anything that you can buy. Amazon is a great affiliate program for you to join, at the same time there are a few things which you may want to consider before joining. Read more

Posted in: Frameworks & Tools, PHP best practice, Trends
Tags: frameworks, PHP
February 23, 20122 months ago

How to convince a client to use a web development framework?

Take a piece of functionality, preferably not very complicated, yet not very simple. Ask him how much time did it take to implement it - and create same functionality with your preferate framework, at least twice faster. That should be enough. Read more

Posted in: Facts and figures, Frameworks & Tools, PHP best practice, Trends
Tags: framework, PHP, Yii
February 23, 20122 months ago

Why Yii?

Last time I was talking about how great CodeIngniter is. Still if you've tried both CI and Yii you might find few notable advantages over against CI:

- enough module-based architecture - much better work with views/layouts/partials/widgets - more advanced ORM/ActiveRecord/ActiveForm - more necessary core-in functionality: commands, migrations & etc

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Posted in: Frameworks & Tools, PHP best practice, Trends
Tags: codeigniter, framework, PHP
February 23, 20122 months ago

CodeIgniter

CodeIgniter is one of best frameworks available, as long as you are not building a big, really big project.

It will easily introduce you to the MVC paradigm, has a small footprint and great documentation. Moreover, it is backed-by an active company, a large community and just a couple of days ago released a brand new community-driven fork. Read more