Fonts, Design and Web Technologies

SMPL Studio – My new workplace

October 15, 2017 · by Simeon Atanasov · in Blog · 0 comments ·

I want to announce my new creative union with Maria Basheva & Diana Valentinova. We will stand behind the brand “SMPL.std” shorthand of Simple Studio. The studio will be doing nice design and development work for clients and our personal projects. Will try to keep our projects under the same brand with different extensions – SMPL.mrkt, SMPL.go, SMPL.design and etc.
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Why I choose WPML to make WordPress Multilingual?

October 10, 2016 · by Simeon Atanasov · in Blog · 0 comments ·

An article about how to make WordPress Multilingual with 3-rd party plugins. As you might tried, there are few translation plugins to make your WordPress working with many languages. Some of them are quite useful but not at all. In this article, I will share my experience in converting WordPress website into a WordPress Multilingual website. Why I choose WPML. Why and bought Multilingual CMS Lifetime Licence long ago. How this helped me a lot and return the investment hundreds of times. Identically as me before few years, you might be in the same situation right now full with many questions and concerns in choosing the best multilingual plugin for our WordPress website. So, let move on.
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Matcha slab & Matcha script handmade calligraphy

August 11, 2016 · by Simeon Atanasov · in Font Focus · 0 comments · tags: font, myfonts, script, slab

I want to introduce you Matcha font made in Chile with NYC taste.Here I will share the recipe behind this cool font. Blended with a natural touch of energy and organic essence. Well balanced with accents of modern proportions and gestural strokes Los Andes Read More
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True North – Vintage Monoline Script Font

May 18, 2016 · by Simeon Atanasov · in Font Focus · 0 comments · tags: font, myfonts, retro, vintage

True North font family is one of best selling typefaces to date made by Cultivated Mind. In the first place True North family is released almost two years ago. As a result this toolkit family has passed the test of time – making it a great investment for anyone looking for a fun, functional handmade typeface that isn’t going out of style any time soon.
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Load WordPress Posts outside of WP installation

May 18, 2016 · by Simeon Atanasov · in Web development · 0 comments · tags: ajax, php, wordpress

This Article is about How to load wordpress posts with featured images in PHP script and of course AJAX. This task requires a bit basic skills with PHP and Javascript. I will show you a small snippet of code how to load WordPress functions in your external PHP script. I used this snippet to load blog posts via AJAX on static HTML page with jQuery. There are few simple steps: 1. Load wp-load.php to have all WordPress functions available in your PHP script. 2. Create a loop to show post with featured image 3. Output the loop to browser (send via AJAX) My advice for developers that try to use the_content(), the_permalink(), the_post_thumbnail() and etc. Use them if you want to show the loop in this file. If you send data over AJAX with variables/arrays use get_the_content(), get_the_permalink(), get_the_post_thumbnail(). Load posts outside of the WordPress – [example snippet]
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Cervo Neue – Narrow Rounded Sans Serif Font

May 03, 2016 · by Simeon Atanasov · in Font Focus · 0 comments · tags: font, grotesque, grunge, heavy, myfonts

Cervo Neue is the new perfected and extended version of Cervo, containing 18 variants. It differs from the previous version with the higher accents over glyphs, enlarged punctuation, old-style numerals and the newly added varieties Semi Bold, Bold, Extra Bold and Black. Additionally, there is the variety of grotesque. Font Cervo is inspired by a “You And Me Monthly” published by National Magazines Publisher RSW „Prasa” that appeared from Mai 1960 till December 1973 in Poland. Font Cervo by Typoforge Studio
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VIVACOM Christmas 2015

December 20, 2015 · by Simeon Atanasov · in Web development · 0 comments ·

I am really proud to announce that I was again involved in creating a Christmas campaign to one of the top telecoms in Bulgaria. For the third time, their agency choose me to develop a mini-game site. The site will be public until the end of the campaign. You can win a Phone, Small Speaker, and Play Statin! Enjoy. VIVAChrismas
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List of Country Locale Code

August 19, 2013 · by Simeon Atanasov · in Tutorials · 0 comments · tags: codes, language, list, locale, multilingual, translation

This is a simple output of all locale codes. You can find your country and locale here. If the locale code is not mentioned here, you can create it for your case following the instructions. Read More
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