March 12th, 2010

9 Handy FireFox Add-ons For Every Day Use

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Having worked as a project manager at several companies and having to monitor my own projects there’s a certain list of things I do to check on often (and I still do). Some of the things are SEO related, some are tech tasks, some help to achieve the marketing goals. Some of the things are just general but still it’s very convenient to have the nice set tools to perform the actions that you do on a regular basis. Today I’m going to write about Firefox add-ons that I have added my browser options (yes, I’m an addicted Firefox lover) as a project manager and just a human. All the add-ons listed help me in my daily work and I don’t know how much time I would spend if I had to search from all the information they give to me manually. I decided to divide this list into 2 sections-  the add-ons that I use as a usual human being and the add-ons I find extremely useful for the project management. So here we go.

March 12th, 2010

5 Can’t-Miss Usability Tips for Mobile Website Designs

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Finding your way around a majority of the mobile websites that exist has become a nightmare with the lack of proper usability being implemented into their designs.

This has caused the quality of designs (especially the mobile usability factor) to decrease on a larger scale when compared to the sites that not only practice good mobile aesthetics, but allow their users a smooth transition between the regular site to an enticing experience on their mobile devices.

Because of the instability in a lot of the mobile web design information that is being distributed on the web, a lot of websites have very poor mobile interface designs. Below, we’re going to cover a few simple, yet prominent steps to designing a much more effective interface and increasing the quality of a mobile websites usability.

March 12th, 2010

70 Creative Artistic Websites For 2010

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If you spend much time browsing through web design galleries you’ll notice certain trends in design that vary from time-to-time. Right now, there are a number of sites that effectively utilize illustration and other types of very artistic design. Hopefully this collection will be a good source of design inspiration for you. Feel free to mention your favorites in the comments.

March 12th, 2010

14 Important Writing Tips For Graphic Design Related Bloggers

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When I’m thinking about what i have to be a good graphic design blogger, i began to write useful post about some important writing for graphic design related blogger. As we know, there is a lot of graphic design related blog all over the world. Some of them are very excellent and well known in all over blogosphere. I don’t know why, but i can’t find any articles about it. I just found one simple article about Writing Tips for Graphic Designers.

Now I’m going to share some of important writing tips for graphic design related blogger. Not only for graphic design blogs, but also for web design & photography blogs. There are some important things that i learned from being a graphic design blogger since months ago. I hope that this article will help every graphic design bloggers to grow their blog rapidly.

March 12th, 2010

Desktop Backgrounds: 70+ Colourful Photos of Spring

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Spring is the most beautiful season of the year, when nature awakens and a huge variety of trees and flowers comes into bloom. Today’s collection includes many interesting views of colourful meadows, gardens and parks. Take a look at 70+ beautiful photos of blooming nature.

March 12th, 2010

Showcase of 30 Beautiful Blog Designs

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It’s been a while since we did our last blog design showcase, so this post is a collection of 30 beautiful blogs for your design inspiration. You’ll see some that use a minimalist design approach, others that use a grunge-style design, some that are magazine-style, and more. For more blog design inspiration, please see our gallery site Blog Design Heroes.

March 12th, 2010

9 jquery plugins you probably haven’t seen

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As we know jQuery is a lightweight cross-browser JavaScript library that emphasizes interaction between JavaScript and HTML and is most popular JavaScript library in use today. While digging through articles , found some plugins which I haven’t seen. Check out!

March 12th, 2010

25 Awesome Tips to Become a Successful Freelancer

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Being a freelancer means a lot of freedom to plan your own days at work, but it also does require discipline and planning. Being your own boss, you need to be good at making the right rules to succeed. Most of these tips sound just like common sense, but actually remembering everything when it’s needed isn’t necessarily as easy as you would think.

Different rules work for different people. Having worked as a freelancer on and off for over ten years, I’ve created this list of my best tips on how to succeed. Maybe you already use several of these or versions of them, great! Hopefully you will also find a tip or three that can help you to succeed in what you do! : )

March 12th, 2010

8 Ways to Promote Your Work Through Internet Collaboration

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Promoting our products and services can be a time consuming and daunting task. A lot of us get tangled up in online self promotion without realising the value in collaboration more often with other people through the web. It can be a wise way to expand your network, pool resources and save time, money and work.

March 11th, 2010

80 Beautiful Web Design Trends Of Minimal Site

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Minimalism is a design style that emphasizes simplicity and the removal of superfluous elements in one’s own work. It’s applied in art, architecture, print work, and in web design. There is something extraordinary about making something magnificent with limited resources, and in this showcase, you’ll find the work of talented designers that exhibit exemplary use of Minimalism theories applied to web design.