You can find out more about me by visiting my about page.

Till last week i had been working for a company based in U.S. , but it was overtaken by  a  larger company, and the board decided that all employees abroad on a contract basis should be fired, and new people will be hired who can go in and work at the offices, for higher salaries of course (what a dumb decision). Parallel to working for the company(doing 1-3 projects/mo) i have continued my freelancing career.

The main point of what i’m saying is that i am available to be hired at a web design company. Even though i’d prefer being hired on a contract basis, you can hire me as a freelancer also.

Why should you hire me & what to expect

Professionalism

The most important factor in any line of work. You tell me the details about the task and i get it done, and i get it done real good.

Work experience & quality assurance

With over 5 years of experience in the field of web design, knowledge of latest web 2.0 trends and over 120 satisfied customers you can be assured that the outcome of my every job is high quality.

Great Interaction

I fluently speak, and write english at an upper advanced level, this meaning that communication issues WON’T arise.

Cheaper rates

Many professionals overcharge for their work. I charge as much as i deserve for my work. After telling me the specs of a project i can instantly tell you a price quote.

Unlimited revisions*

* – Well, almost unlimited. If you need changes done I’ll get them done with pleasure, but don’t expect me to redo the whole design.

Availability

I am aware that you might have a company in Australia or U.S. and that time zones may inflict problems in your point of view, but they don’t. Every day i am available on Instant messengers and we can talk about progress i’ve made on a project and do the revisions.

Reliability

I can work on my own without the necessity of constant coordination by a project manager. I can work effective even on multiple projects and under pressure delivering quality designs.

In my resume you will find contact data, details about me, what i’ve done since the beginning of my career, education, and of course portfolio highlights.

The size of the portfolio large because it is print quality and the background presents a small adventure of a set of characters(i’ve invested over 30 hours of work only in the background design) which i’m sure you’ll enjoy.

If you are interested in working with me you can reach me at exes.slayer@gmail.com

You can see the twitter bird icon on millions of websites, and what you can notice is that many websites use the same icons(maybe you too!) and this is the time when you can start wondering “why shouldn’t i be different?”. This is where the talented artists come in, who release amazing icons and icon packs(mostly on deviant art).

I’ve done some research and collected 17 icons & sets which will get your blog, website or forum readers look out to the tweet icon.

Amazing Twitter bird icon sets

Remember to read the licensing of every icon/icon set on the download pages!

1. Twitter Icons .PSD

2. Free twitter bird icons

3. Twitter Bird

4. Adiumy Twitter

5. Blue Bird Twitter Icon Pack

6. Twitter Icons Pack

7. Twitter Icon BIRRRDFON

8. Twitter Replacement

9. Twitter dock icons

10. Twitter Icon Pack 1

11. Twitter Icon Pack 2

12. Twitter Icon Pack 3

13. TwitterJoy icons

14. The GodTwitter Follow Button

15. Twitter Icon

16. Twitter Space Icons

17. IconTexto Twitter Buttons

Living in Romania pretty much sucks because till a  movie gets to theaters you can download it from the web in blu-ray. Anyway, i had the chance to watch Surrogates, which i was very very eager to watch since july and i have to tell you that it fulfilled my expectations!

The movie is basically about the huge evolution humanity goes through during a very short period(17 yrs) in the future, and everyone uses & controls surrogates(robots) looking as them. The surrogates are made by VSI(visual self) and basically anyone can look how ever they want to look, so a sexy hot chick surrogate could be controlled by a fatman sitting in his chair at home. Everyone got so addicted to using surrogates, that almost the whole USA uses it, except small groups of humans(dreds) who oppose the technology.

Bruce Willis plays agent Tom Greer, who works at the feds(FBI). He and his partner, agent Peters start investigating a murder, in which two surrogates were terminated killing the hosts also. During a chase Greer wanders in the land of the dreds and by this way his surrogate is destroyed. From this point he continues the investigation “in the flesh”. He finds out that the kid that was killed in the murder was the surrogates inventor’s(Canter) son who is out for revenge.

Canter creates and uploads a virus that will destroy all surrogates including the hosts stating that they died when they started using surrogates. Greer gets to him, but before he could stop him Canter suicides. Greer logs in to a surrogate and thanks to the supervisor from VSI manages to create a buffer that will protect the hosts. He has the chance to stop the virus, but he doesnt.

The movie ends with all surrogates crashing and humans coming out from their homes.

I skipped lots of interesting parts, so i wouldn’t fully spoil the movie

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This image is a special dedication to my colleague, mbogdan. This is your dream isn’t it? A nice comfty chair+ a huge desk with lots of lamps, and most significantly 7 monitors where you can code in peace and quiet listening to some rammstein, ;o

I heard this song quite a few times on the radio while @ work, or going to college or to work. The lyrics are really really catchy, but the music video is simply brilliant! I watched it like 10 times and listened to it like 50 times(today).

An other thing i like about T.I. that he doesn’t rap about crap. For example: 50 cent raps about bitchez, cocaine, guns, violence, while T.I. raps about learning from your mistakes and not doing the things you see on tv and in movies. This song is about the morale of life. (the video was made just before T.I. went to jail for 1 year and 1 day)

Along with the selection i will post a screencap of the website and i will comment upon the overall concept, the elements, and what makes the design unique and outstanding. This way you will get to see my design preferences.

After 12 months i will make a public poll, and you, the audience will vote the design you like the most. The winner will get a prize(a badge to put on website + some solid cold cash).

As you can notice it got a whole new look, but i kept the overall brown color, and added some very very nifty features. More than 9 cool addons were created specially for this new theme and to make my life a lot easier. Don’t believe me? Check the new features:

1. Author management. Admins can choose which author’s name and description appears on the front page(bottom right corner) and the author can set his own picture, name and description.
2. Dynamic image resizing. That the small thumbs you see are automatically grabbed from the images inserted in the post and for every size a new thumb is generated.(uber sexy stuff).
3. Ad management platform. This platform contains top header ad, box ad, sidebar ads. I can choose to set an image or use code(adsense for example as an ad.
4. Sexy featured category display. You already saw this didn’t you? It’s a small custom javascript written by my colleague, mbogdan.
5. Latest releases display. The part under the menu shows the latest theme and plugin releases. A thumb of each post is displayed and if you hover it title appears “pushing” the intro title up.
6. Category order. Admins can set which categories appear on main page and in what order. They can also exclude categories from appearing on main page.
7. YouTube video display. I just have to enter the YouTube URL and the video will be replaced with the video i desire.
8. Flickr stream management tool which allows me to display my flickr stream.
9. Super cool admin panel made for the theme (<3 mbogdan).

There are other smaller addons, but there’s nothing special about them worth to point them out.

I did the design about a month ago on a friday night when inspiration hit me on the head. I gave the design to mbogdan the next day and since than till last-last sunday he’s been working a little and stalling it. But eh, we finally got it done.

As you can see in the bottom part we will create a poll plugin(which btw will be released for free), and there are still some minor changes we have to do.

The sexiest part of the whole design is the comment page. I really like how it turned out, and as you can notice i moved the comment post box above all comments and sepparated comment from trackbacks(mixed up they were annoying). To see the comments page at glance check out the Custom widgets v1.0 release post (it has lots of comments).

As usual, if you have any suggestions or feedback please post them and they WILL be considered.

I will get back to the regular-basis blogging soon, but before i do i still have otehr work to finish + exams.