Web Design Articles: Tips

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UI Design for Blogs and Online Magazines

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Designing a website user interface can be a struggle match. If you’re building a small portfolio or simple blog layout there isn’t as much to worry about. However an entire magazine requires featured stories and sidebar widgets and author profiles. There is a lot to consider! In this article I want to go over some [...]

Wed, 23 May 2012 12:12:45 GMT | Tagged: Tips

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Maximize Energy, Boost Creativity, & Never Burnout Again

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What if I told you that it is possible to work fewer hours per day, have more free time for fun and leisure, produce more work at a higher quality than ever before and never burn out? If you are anything like me then you would probably say that sounds like a nice infomercial – [...]

Thu, 17 May 2012 04:55:30 GMT | Tagged: Tips

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Setting the Bottom Line for your Web Projects

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Working as a freelance web designer you’ll find yourself naturally jumping from project-to-project. This quick pace comes with the lifestyle and requires some serious dedication. You cannot get lost in the royalties of extra touch-ups and recoloring textures. You need to understand how to freelance working with a bottom line. This should be your ultimate [...]

Tue, 15 May 2012 04:37:11 GMT | Tagged: Tips

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How To Begin Your Creative Dream Job – Today

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Maybe this scenario sounds familiar to you: A few years ago I found myself working an office job that was ok. It paid ok, I liked the work ok, I liked the people I worked with ok, and I was pretty ok at what I did. Like I said, it was ok. But I didn’t [...]

Wed, 09 May 2012 12:52:15 GMT | Tagged: Tips

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5 Tips for Getting Featured on Top Design Blogs

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No matter what sort of art you create – whether you are a graphic designer, painter, illustrator, digital artist, videographer, or any other type of artist – being featured on the web’s top art and design blogs can result in a huge surge of active followers, interested fans, and of course – paying customers. For [...]

Thu, 03 May 2012 12:43:51 GMT | Tagged: Tips

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Efficient Communication in a Freelance Design Team

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Working as a digital professional in any field is tough. You have to constantly push towards gratifying clients and rushing through deadlines. Managing tasks in a team allows you to divide up the work much more evenly. However this also means it can be difficult getting everybody on the same page. Communication is the key [...]

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:26:33 GMT | Tagged: Tips

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Migrating Side Projects into your Work Schedule

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To work as a freelance web designer requires a lot of patience and perseverance. You need to wake up every day and tackle problems one after another until you can successfully complete your projects. There is a lot of stress and turmoil which goes into this process, but also a lot of compassion and learning. [...]

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:58:58 GMT | Tagged: Tips

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Audio and Video with HTML5

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HTML5 has entered our lives for good and it is changing the way we are embedding media on our web pages. Two of the new greatest features are the <audio> and <video> elements. No more do we have to resort to Flash to serve videos and audio to our visitors. The new solutions HTML5 has [...]

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:01:52 GMT | Tagged: Tips

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9 jQuery Mistakes you Shouldn’t Commit

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jQuery is so easy to use that sometimes we just forget that it’s not CSS. While using CSS, we don’t have to give much thought to performance, because it’s so fast that it’s not worth the effort to optimize it. But when it comes to the real world, jQuery can drive developers crazy with performance [...]

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:00:57 GMT | Tagged: Tips

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Focus On: Social Media Badges and Viral Marketing

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There is a lot of talk about Internet marketing and the new era of social media. It is now easier than ever before to create accounts on many infamous social websites to build up your own brand. But this technique requires strategy and a bit of insight into the WWW community. It is my goal [...]

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 04:11:39 GMT | Tagged: Tips

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Tips for Planning your own Design Studio

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Getting started in freelance web design is an exhilarating process. Along with the added stresses of daily work you actually become your own boss, set your own hours, and even choose who you will work with. It’s truly a great way to earn a living! Now consider the steps required to move from a freelance [...]

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:02:03 GMT | Tagged: Tips

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Freelance Guidelines for Getting Paid on Time

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The lifestyle of a freelancer can be very hectic at times. You have to juggle multiple projects and meetings with clients all to make sure your bills are paid. And the only way you’re going to keep ahead is by managing your money properly! Freelancers don’t often consider the payment process as something to analyze [...]

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 04:01:22 GMT | Tagged: Tips

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How To Gracefully Fire a Client

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Clients come in many varieties. Some are thoughtful, professional, cooperative and ALWAYS pay on time. Then there are the other ones. When a client goes beyond “difficult,” to being such a burden on your resources that your other clients suffer, then you may have no choice but to cut the cord. There are many legitimate [...]

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:00:33 GMT | Tagged: Tips

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Creating a Productive Home Office Setup

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Working from home is like playing a whole different ball game than at the office. You’re always around the house and prone to distractions such as dishes or phone calls. Because of this it’s important to have a room you can feel productive working any hour of the day. However not everybody has a personal [...]

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 04:07:42 GMT | Tagged: Tips

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10 Best WordPress Sharing Plugins of 2012 To Get More Social Traffic

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What does it take to get your posts shared on Social Networks? With over 250 million Tweets being posted every day and close to 4 billion items being posted on Facebook, there is definitely not a lack in volume of Social Media updates. To make a larger junk of those being posted about your articles, [...]

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:30:20 GMT | Tagged: Tips

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Blending Ads into your Website Layout

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Advertising is the age-old medium which has been transformed via the Internet. Ads can be served on websites in different ways than TV or radio shows. Google AdSense is the most notable company, although there are plenty of alternatives to consider. Not to mention the growing popularity of in-video ads! But there is a systematic [...]

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 05:09:29 GMT | Tagged: Tips

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The Popular Rise of Mobile Studios

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Savvy tech consumers are slowly adapting to a world where smartphones and tablet PCs are commonplace. With these new devices comes a revolution of mobile software which we have never seen before. Mobile dev studios are popping up everywhere to showcase and market their latest app ideas. In this article I’d like to go over [...]

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:01:43 GMT | Tagged: Tips

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How To Determine What Your Clients Really Want

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The world of freelancing is host to many complicated skillsets. Artists and graphic designers are constantly trying to match their talents with the numerous demands pouring out from clients. Project work can be exhilarating, yet also very stressful if you aren’t prepared. In this article we’ll go over tips to figuring out exactly what your [...]

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:56:40 GMT | Tagged: Tips

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Creating Minimalist Designs Makes You a Better Designer

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The trend of using minimalist designs has been with us for a while now. It seems like every day major design blogs publish a new gallery of great designs. But do minimalist designs actually mean anything to a designer? Can you become a better web designer by going the minimalist way or is it just [...]

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:00:11 GMT | Tagged: Tips

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Google authorship profile: A do or don’t for design professionals?

Google is the world’s largest business directory - any search brings up a huge number of competing organisations trying to get noticed. As more traffic is driven by Google each day, it is becoming a necessity to stand out in search listings.

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:15:11 GMT | Tagged: Tips

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Keeping Yourself Motivated Throughout the Workday

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Centering your attention throughout the workday can be a difficult process. You need to truly love your work and cherish the time you spend. Unfortunately not all of us can feel this way 100% of the time. Freelancers are often given tasks related to concepts they care nothing about. In this regard there isn’t much [...]

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:36:10 GMT | Tagged: Tips

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Tips for Keeping Focused on Freelance Deadlines

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It can be a bummer when you’re stuck in a freelancing rut. Anybody who has worked this field will understand the grief of struggling to finish project deadlines in time. Often the work quality will suffer along with the accompanied mental fatigue. Rushing to the finish line will additionally put a huge strain on your [...]

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:30:49 GMT | Tagged: Tips

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Usability Design for Online Web Forms

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Designers aren’t just creating pleasing graphics for the Internet anymore. As a web designer you need to consider other properties of user interaction and coding. UX design is possibly the most important topic to cover, and this is especially true designing web forms. All webmasters should understand this message. Your goal is to offer the [...]

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:35:04 GMT | Tagged: Tips

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Launching soon: The Webdesigner Depot Newsletter

For over three years, you have relied on Webdesigner Depot for quality articles, editorials, inspirational posts and an array of other cool stuff. Now, we’re adding a new layer to WDD by launching our own newsletter and you’re the first to know about it today! Needless to say, we’re super thrilled and pumped about this!!… [...]

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:48:59 GMT | Tagged: Tips

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Juggling Between Freelance Designer and Business Owner

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The world of digital design is full of both young and experienced talent. Freelancing has slowly become a more affordable career path for many web designers and developers. But it’s not enough to just create pretty websites in HTML/CSS. You also need to have some sense in marketing a business! There is a thin line [...]

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:16:04 GMT | Tagged: Tips

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