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  • Design

    5 Tips for Stellar Metro-Style Holidays

    Yes, it’s that time of the year. We just exchanged gifts here in the Telerik office and we thought it’s time to present our gift to you, our customers. ;-) Here’s what we have prepared to wish you very happy holidays – this small but essential guide on how to celebrate them metro-style. Do you have any other tips? Please share them in the comments section below. We wish you Happy Metro Holidays! The Telerik Team
    December 22, 2011
  • Design

    Kendo UI Theme Builder

    This past week I had the opportunity to attend the DevReach conference in Sofia, Bulgaria.  Coincidentally, the team working on Kendo UI is also in Sofia.  I spent a few days at the office talking with the team and sneaking glances at what they are currently working...
    October 27, 2011
  • Design

    Five simple steps to create your own custom skin for the grid

     All you need to create your own custom skin for RadGrid is to copy one of our existing skins and change desired CSS settings. To do this you need to perform following steps: Copy one of our existing skins (for example Gray skin) in your application. Replace all occurrences of "_Gray" with your skin name (for example "_MyCustomSkin") in the CSS file. Change urls for the images (and other desired settings) in the CSS file. Register your CSS file in the HEAD tag of your page. Set Skin="MyCustomSkin" and EnableEmbeddedSkins="false" for RadGrid.   The result: Your own custom grid look and...
    October 28, 2008
  • Design UX

    User Experience at telerik

    For the last half a year, we’ve been quietly revolutionizing software development here at telerik, trying to integrate a thought about the user on all stages of product development. While we really wanted to improve the User Experience, we were very careful not to go too far with needlessly expensive usability best-practices – we believe the smartest solutions are usually the simplest solutions, so we looked around for a way to measure usability that would not involve furnishing a state-of-the-art recording studio and flying users over continents. For a start, we thought we just needed to observe users interact with...
    January 29, 2007
  • Design

    Telerik skins photoshop sources.

    Thinking how to make your life and our ROI targets easier, we decided it’s a good idea to provide for download the Photoshop sources of our components’ skins. So we sat down and toiled relentlessly to tame the mess of untitled layers into something of actual business value – the result is a section at http://www.telerik.com/skins with free downloads of the Photoshop sources for the most requested telerik skins. Pure design goodness for you to customize and build upon. Remember this section when the time comes to design your next application – this time you can jump start with a ready...
    March 13, 2006