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10 Requirements for Working with Clients in Other Countries

Freelancers are given the opportunity to work for either clients within their respective areas or clients coming from abroad. Personally, as a freelancer living in Asia, I?ve worked only with clients who run their businesses a hundred miles away such as those in the US, the UK, and Australia. I?ve never seen their [...]



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Just a single page design, largely a business card type website, but man-o-man is it great. I love that whale illustration and the way it’s treated, wonderful texture work across the page too. The only thing I have to complain about is that I want more website!


10 Jaw Dropping HTML5 and Javascript Effects

Alright, HTML5 has been released for quite a while now, and its capabilities never cease to amaze me. Here, I have got 10 more HTML and Javascript demonstrations that show you what they can do.


69 Sexy and Explicit Advertisements: See It Creatively

Sex sells. In today's society, people are becoming more open minded. As such, advertisers are becoming bolder. They exploit our acceptance and desire for the sensual by using sex to turn heads regardless of your gender or sexuality. Sex has…


50 Amazing Free Icon Sets

There are a lot of free icon sets out there for you to use. In this collection, we rounded up a few icon sets from all over the web that you can use in your design projects. The hundreds of featured icons here are diverse in their styles: glossy, hand-drawn, realistic, textured are [...]


Winners of Custom Stickers from Sticker Mule

After more than 300 comments on last week’s Sticker Mule giveaway, we finally have the results. As you know, Sticker Mule makes awesome custom stickers in all different shapes and sizes as well as skins that you could use, for example, for your laptop, iPhone or iPad. These are not only great fun, but [...]


5 Essential Photography Accessories

Every photographer has their own choice of essential photography accessories to bring in variety of shooting events. For beginner, at least there are 5 essential photography accessories. In the future, DzineBlog.com will start to cover photography topics. Personally, I am getting interested to photography. Many readers recently also emailed me, to add more posts about [...]


Theme: Free WP Theme in Modern Minimalist Style

Imbalance is a free wordpress theme in modern-minimalist style. Imbalance is a very user friendly, jQuery powered theme which looks really well under any browser and OS. Perfectly fits for your blog, online magazine or portfolio websites. Pricing: FREE Requirements: - Source: http://wpshower.com/free-wordpress-themes/imbalance…


How to Track Six Key Metrics for Your Web App

By Ryan Carson
I’d like to share six very important things you should be measuring in your recurring revenue web app. We launched TVM several months ago and it’s going (thankfully) amazingly well. After launch, the biggest challenge became the ability to identify, track, digest and act upon key metrics. After a lot of discussion with old pros [...]


CSS Design: Pancake Payments

Pancake is a way to receive and track payments and project deliverables.

The cartoony illustration style is fun and the bright colors work well together. The overall design is quite clean with plenty of white space.





This design was featured on the 1st September 2010 . It falls under the category of Corporate, and has a layout style of Two Column.

If you'd like, you can visit this site, or view all our other featured designs.




40 Title Tag Optimization Ranking Factors, Techniques + Resources

Title tags often get overlooked by web developers. That's a shame as they are crucial for both search rankings and users seeing search results. Here is the ultimate title tag optimization list to fix them.


How to Implement an Ajax Appreciate Badge

When you publish something online, there are not that many ways to determine whether people like what you have to say. Comments, the cornerstone of blogging, are too demanding, and users often prefer not to post one. If you’ve dropped by Behance, you’ve probably noticed their appreciate badge, which is a neat solution to this exact [...]


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WordPress Podcast: Listen to Liz Strauss: ?Treat Your Blog Like a Business!?

Liz Strauss gave a masterclass tonight; at least, that’s how it felt to both Frederick and myself. We talked about communicating with your audience, and Liz shared some experiences about open comment nights. We discussed positioning yourself and your blog, … Continue reading


11 New High-Quality Free Fonts

Every week we try to hunt down high-quality freebies for our readers. One of our favorite freebies to find for you are fonts, because everybody knows… you can never have too many fonts in your library. In this post, we’ve rounded up 11 brand new fonts that are super high-quality. I especially love the AW [...]


21 Ridiculously Impressive HTML5 Canvas Experiments

HTML5 is the thing to talk about these day. Today, we have a collection of some ridiculously impressive HTML5 canvas-based experiments that will make you say, “Wow!” Let’s take a peek at some of the latest, cutting edge examples out there. 1. 8 Bit Color Cycle 2. Particle Letter Animation 3. Cloth Experiment This is [...]


Some Amazing Retro Style Illustrations Part 1

Previously we had a look at the very original ad thought-provoking retro illustrations of Dan Page. This article means to prove that there is more than one way of being a retro-style illustrator, actually, and that there is great freedom of expression within this very popular trend. We?ll be checking out the different works of [...]


Wordless Wednesday - Working Designer Profiles - Geoff Snow

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25 Websites to Download Free Stock Photo for Your Projects

If you are searching for free stock photo databases, there are quite a few sites on the web that do that, and even at high quality: there are sites that are made by artists or designers for other artists and promote sharing their creations, there are also others which have a double [...]


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Can a Plugin Leave Tell Tale Footprints?

There has always been a bit of heat about whether leaving footprints behind can hurt your efforts to build and market a website. Some people like myself, go out of the way to remove them, and others swear its just a case of being paranoid or wearing a tin-foil hat (I have one of those!) and is a waste of time. So the question is… Can a Plugin leave a trail that may hurt you? (I can’t resist)My guess is that most people fall somewhere in the middle of the road… ...

Can a Plugin Leave Tell Tale Footprints? posted from the Niche Store Builder website.

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100 Amazing Freelance Blogs

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It?s the little things

After setting out late this afternoon from the railway station in town, and having traversed Maidenhead, Paddington, and Euston, and Preston stations, I finally arrived at my destination. It’s perhaps the strangest hotel I have ever stayed in. In recent … Continue reading


Pirate Bay Documentary in the Works

Notorious file sharing website The Pirate Bay is a long-standing enemy of the movie industry, but one Swedish filmmaker has plans to create a documentary called TPB AFK about the three founders of the site, and their reactions to being found guilty of being accessory to crime against copyright law and fined about $3.6 million.


The CSS white-space Property Explaineed

This article explains the different values for the CSS white-space property, and how each one can be used.


Bank of America reaches new low. Charges customers to use parking lot. [pic]

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Tube Full of Plasma Creates Solar Eruption in the Lab

Explosive bursts normally seen only on the surface of the sun can now be captured in a 13-foot-long tube using lab-created plasmas and bursts of laser light.


Creating a Upload/Download System Using PHP Classes

Making a PHP upload script can be a very challenging task when you are just starting out, heck; it's still hard to some extent when you are an experienced developer. So today, I'm going to show you how to make one using PHP5 Classes and a simple form.


Episode 18: Roger Black on web type and templates

Legendary art director Roger Black guests on tomorrow’s episode of The Big Web Show, co-hosted by Dan Benjamin and taped in front of a live internet audience. Roger co-founded the following new companies: Webtype, creators of high-end fonts for online typography; Treesaver, a platform that uses CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and the principles of responsive design [...]


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11 New High-Quality Free Fonts

” In this post, we?ve rounded up 11 brand new fonts that are super high-quality.” View Post


AutoCAD for Mac and AutoCAD WS App for iPad and iPhone

AutoCAD for Mac and AutoCAD WS App for iPad and iPhoneAutodesk announced AutoCAD for Mac. This version of AutoCAD, one of the most widely used software for professional design and engineering, runs natively on Mac OS X and will increase choice of hardware for millions of users around the world.


ColorBlendy: See how two colors blend easily

A handy design tool to test how colors blend while overlaid or multiplied.


Ten Things Your Employees Wish You Knew About Them

"If you think it's tough being a manager these days, try being an employee."


Illustrator Template Toolbox for Web, Mobile and App Developers

“An extensive selection of UI templates, all in Illustrator format, and all perfect if you are a web, mobile or app designer who prefers to use Adobe Illustrator rather than the more commonly used Photoshop.” View Post


What Ernest Hemingway, Toni Morrison, and R. Crumb Have in Common

How those great Paris Review interviews happen. Behind-the-scenes process look.


Tweetin' Grannies and Gramps Outpace Social Whippersnappers

Survey says the fastest growing demographic in Social Media is the over 50 set.


Young Ian McKellen

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Threadless.com Website Breakdown

In many ways Threadless.com is very similar to unmatchedstyle, they are both galleries one kind or another, the major difference is Threadless is an e-commerce website. Looking through Threadless with some eye on the details reveals that the managers of this site are doing a superb job of guiding users through the browsing process and [...]


Beautiful Beach and Palms Wallpapers for Your Desktop


  
   We love to spice up your desktop with nice wallpapers, and sometimes with nature photography. It all depends on your mood. In this post, we?ll be showcasing Beautiful Beach Wallpapers. You?ll get to see the detail, skill, and dedication that go into creating these incredible wallpapers, and how they help fuel our daily lives [...]


50 Amazing Free Icon Sets

“The hundreds of featured icons here are diverse in their styles: glossy, hand-drawn, realistic, textured are among the design themes you?ll find. I hope you find a handful of icon sets that you?ll bookmark, download, and use!” View Post


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4 Advanced WordPress 3.0 Cheat Sheets | Creativeoverflow Most blogs make use of WordPress as their chosen CMS to power their site. The biggest problem that can arise though is that the author/owner of the blog isn?t quite sure how WordPress 3.0 code works after updating to the new release of WordPress. This is where [...]


Yoast: Quick tip: paths and URLs in WordPress

I was reading an article on Sitepoint about custom write panels the other day when I got heavily annoyed. The direct reason for this was one of their code examples and the authors apparent incomplete knowledge of the WordPress API's most basic functions and constants. In that example, he does the following: define( 'MY_WORDPRESS_FOLDER',  $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] [...]

Quick tip: paths and URLs in WordPress is a post from Joost de Valk's Yoast - Tweaking Websites.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on WordPress hosting!


Create a Cosmic Scene with Photoshop and Cinema 4D



In this Photoshop and Cineme 4D tutorial, I will show you how to create a space composition, exploring techniques for creating 3D text in Cinema 4D, a glass effect in Photoshop and a slew of different light effects. Before creating this scene, the concept I I knew I wanted was to have a girl floating unconsciously in space, with two hands trying to get to her and a short message represented in 3D text. You can see in this tutorial what I ended up with. Continue reading...



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Create a Realistic iMac Icon in Photoshop

There is a lot that you can do in Photoshop with just a few select tools. Today, we will demonstrate how to create a realistic iMac icon in Photoshop that includes a 27-inch screen, a keyboard, and a mouse. Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets Photo of iMac box (for reference) Black & Blue Icons Wallpaper [...]


40 Cool Mascot Style Website Inspirations

Mascots are a great way of giving a personality and a natural touch to you site! You can either use them as a logo in themselves, or next with your site logo, but in any case, they are a simple and effective way of suggesting what your site is about and giving it a specific [...]


The Case For Open-Source Design: Can Design By Committee Work?


  

In celebrating the merits of free software and the excitement over this radical networked production method, an important truth is left unspoken. Networked collaboration shines in the low levels of network protocols, server software and memory allocation, but user interface has consistently been a point of failure. How come the networked collaboration that transformed code production and encyclopedia-writing fails to translate to graphic and interface design?

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The following is an investigation into the difficulties of extending the open-source collaboration model from coding to its next logical step: interface design. While we'll dive deep into the practical difference between these two professional fields, the article might also serve as a note of caution to think before rushing to declare the rise of "open-source architecture," "open-source university," "open-source democracy" and so on.


Vintage Advertisement of Modern Technology

Vintage design is always described as outdated, old looking design with most updated products like [...]


JavaScript Fundamentals: Basic Types and Tools [Video Tutorial]

By Keir Whitaker
In this video Jim looks at some of the tools that are essential in any JavaScript programmer’s toolkit. We also introduce some of the basic types in JavaScript, and how to create them. runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience593380655001', 'anId'); brightcove.createExperiences(); For more videos be sure to check out Think Vitamin Membership, new video tutorials are added daily.


Playable10: International Design Competition

Playable10: International Design CompetitionPlayable10 invites designers of all types from around the world to design playground structures and spaces that will give a sense of place, wonder and fun so strong that they will entice children, teens and adults outdoors to play.


SAIC Announces Visiting Artists Program Fall Lineup

SAIC Announces Visiting Artists Program Fall LineupThe School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) announced the newest guest presenters for its Visiting Artists Program (VAP), continuing a tradition formalized nearly 60 years ago.


Graphic Design Through the Decades Series: The ?70s

As a child of the 1970s, I recall growing up with bright, clashing colors and balloony words. It was like the ?60s kept all the serif fonts to themselves and left the next decade with rounded typography. While psychedelic rock-concert posters carried into the 1970s, that decade also saw an evolution in advertising, with more [...]


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10 Twitter Tools That You Should Definitely Know About

Twitter has gone large, really large. Everyone of us has seen the tremendous growth this nifty little service with just a basic and simple idea has gone over the years. The main thing that makes twitter so powerful is their API. The twitter API enables developers to develop their own custom twitter applications and tools. [...]


Quipsologies

Quipsologies

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Thought and Theory - Collection

Thought and Theory - Collection

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There?s a Theme for That ? The Best WordPress Templates for iPhone & iPad Related Sites

"Niche Wordpress themes" is one of our favorite topics - you know that by now. We had roundups for business, portfolio, shopping or super specialized themes, but this time we're lining up the coolest 10 WP themes for iEverything - iPhone apps, iPad accessories, appstores and so on.


There?s a Theme for That ? The Best WordPress Templates for iPhone & iPad Related Sites

"Niche Wordpress themes" is one of our favorite topics - you know that by now. We had roundups for business, portfolio, shopping or super specialized themes, but this time we're lining up the coolest 10 WP themes for iEverything - iPhone apps, iPad accessories, appstores and so on.


AOL Buys Mobile App Dev

AOL has purchased mobile application developer Rally Up to improve its mobile application offerings. For the first time, AOL mobile applications will consist not only of mobile versions of its desktop and web offerings, but also include new products that launch first on mobile devices. Rally Up will be based in AOL?s new West Coast office in [...]


Review: Toodledo Task Manager

First, let me share a little secret with you.  I am a master procrastinator.  I always manage to get the job done, and often to the best of my abilities, but if I don?t have that looming deadline, sometimes time slips through my fingers.  I blame YouTube, Twitter, FreelanceSwitch, WorkAwesome, and lifehacker.  If it weren?t [...]


Sevnthsin

Sevnthsin

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WebOS 2.0 Developer Beta Announced

Despite what Apple and Google have accomplished, Palm still controls a respectable share of the mobile market, and developers can now start to play with the operating system that’s meant to improve its fortunes.  A developer beta of WebOS 2.0 was released yesterday. A page created to celebrate the move declared, “We’ve got lots of new [...]


CSS Design: Aint Rocket Science

This is a crazy looking site that is a wonderful mix or random and structured.

I really like the unique way in which they showcase their work.





This design was featured on the 1st September 2010 . It falls under the category of Portfolio, and has a layout style of Other.

If you'd like, you can visit this site, or view all our other featured designs.




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