August 22, 2010 admin
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This is an exclusive Six Revisions freebie of a 4-page PSD site template called vCard Personal Portfolio Minisite. The design is perfect for web designers, graphic designers, photographers and for all types of creatives who are interested in having a slick and handy personal website design. The design comes in 4 pages: Homepage (About), Works (Portfolio), Portfolio Pop-Up, and Contact.
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August 20, 2010 admin
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Page titles are one of the most powerful on-site search engine ranking factors that you have control over but website owners often neglect them. Whether your intention is to improve your search engine visibility or make your website more meaningful and interoperable, you should avoid these five common pitfalls when coming up with page titles. What Are Web Page Titles?
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August 19, 2010 admin
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It’s a familiar situation for any freelancer — you open your email inbox, scan through the day’s spam and auto-responder messages, and come across a request for proposal. It’s the same as the other design requests, aside from one small detail — instead of the standard “we can pay [this much]” message, there’s a line at the end asking how much you think the project will cost. Being asked to name your own price might seem like a miracle situation, but it’s rarely a relaxing experience for freelance designers, particularly those without a solid and secure price structure for their services
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August 18, 2010 admin
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The explosion in user adoption of mobile devices has revolutionized the web. Though designing for the Mobile Web follow similar principles to designing websites, we must consider some notable differences
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August 17, 2010 admin
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Web designers, like other artists and craftsmen, impose structure on the environment. We enforce order and beauty on the formless void that is our blank computer screen
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Most of the web pages you encounter is presented to you via HTML, the world wide web’s markup language. In this article, I will share with you 20 best practices that will lead to clean and correct markup. 1.
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If you’re reading this, then I can safely assume that you’ve at least heard of CSS3 . The latest version of CSS includes properties that allow you to style your HTML elements with rounded corners, drop shadows , and even color gradients . However, these techniques just scratch the surface of what CSS3 can really do.
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I love a good domain name.
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August 12, 2010 admin
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What’s stopping you from creating a functional app/website for the iPad? My answer was the Objective-C coding language, time constraints and having to deal with the infamous Apple App Store. But if you’re a web designer, like me, and you think that designing for the iPad is outside the realm of possibility — think again
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One of the hardest tasks we undertake in the user experience field is trying to gain and hold a visitor’s attention in the right way. Distinctive design and the ability to focus eyes where they are needed in our web designs is a tricky task, but is something that we should have a firm grasp of. Understanding the artistic traits of influence and distinction allow us to balance important details over our regular content and thus gives us the opportunity to have a great impact and influence on our consumers.
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