Business is always about monetizing one component from among a host of other important things. The reason behind every business is to make money or generate revenues. Given the inherent focus on revenues, when launching a business or a site, it is critical to understand how to manage finances, which is one of the major factors for successfully maintaining a site or running a business. In addition, when maintaining a website, it is important to consider factors such as the unique selling product, the main idea, and employees—namely, freelancer or full time, salaries, bonuses, and funding.
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Manage Your Money to Avoid Freelancing Failures
What’s new for designers – January 2012
The January edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, frameworks, jQuery plugins, color tools, and a number of great new fonts.
Many of the resources below are free or very low cost, and are sure to be useful to a lot of designers and developers out there.
As always, if we’ve missed something you think should have been included, please let us know in the comments.
10 Benefits of a Professional Web Design
Professionals always make sure that their offices, their uniforms and even their actions look professional. Even the manner of speaking needs to sound professional in order to communicate well with people in the industry. This goes to show that everything should exude professionalism in order to be successful in whatever field one wants to make a name in. It is also important in order to have high sales and to get the attention and trust of the people.
Websites are also part of the business. Hence, it is also important for the website to look professional. Online reputation is important these days because most people rely on the internet. Even business can succeed through the internet. So, we will enumerate the benefits of having a professional website so that you can have a better understanding on its importance.
5 Traits of a Successful Icon Designer
What makes a successful icon designer? Is it their skills in digital rendering, the clever ideas they have or is it something else? The truth is, it’s managing to be many things at once and keeping a balance between communicating a concept and crafting great designs. Do you have what it takes to be a productive, happy and successful icon designer? Find out at the jump.
Best Of Web And Design In October 2011
Its the spookiest month of the year the month of Halloween. Surprisingly their has not been to many Halloween tutorials been released this month but nevertheless a great collection of some great Photoshop and illustrator tutorials as well as design articles.
How Clean is Your Web Design?
Clean. A term often used to describe a website design, but what does it mean? How do you define it? I’m fairly sure that it doesn’t mean that the whitespace is whiter than white or that all of the dust has been brushed under the footer…Let’s take a closer look…
10 Things Designers Can Learn From Pastry Chefs
So, I have a confession to make. I’m not actually a pastry chef. But I did work in a professional kitchen once upon a time, and baking is one of my favorite hobbies. I just love the awesome sights, sounds, and smells of a kitchen full of baking goods. The brilliant red of cherry pie filling, the magical crackle of pastry crust, the heavenly aroma of cinnamon and pumpkin pie spices…
I’m sorry, what were we talking about? Oh, right. Regardless of whether you bake or not, you can use a lot of the same knowledge pastry chefs and bakers draw upon every day to improve your design work. How can you do this, you ask? Well, sit back, dear reader, and I’ll tell you!
Web Usability: Top 10 Tips
With bounce rate and time-on-site assumed to be the top trump cards in Google’s new algorithm; there is most certainly a push from Google — and subsequently advertisers — for websites to become more user, in addition to search engine, friendly. Read on to find our top ten tips for enhancing the user experience including everything from Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and rich media, to navigation and mobile device optimization.
Innovation And Other Great Ideas
Have you ever been sitting, watching TV and a show or ad comes on and you say, “I had that idea a long time ago!” and then feel like you’re a failure? Some people say there are no new ideas, that everything has been done and some say they have no luck with their ideas.
The Beatles certainly went through years of rejection from music executives that said guitar music was on the way out, etc., etc. blah, blah, blah. Who was right? What did The Who go through?
How to Pick the Right Color Palette for Your Designs
Color is very important especially to designers. A design would certainly look dull without the element of colors. No doubt, colors are indeed very important. It has a great impact on a business, on marketing and even in one’s emotions. With the variety and infinite number of colors you could choose from, you might have a hard time creating a color palette for your designs especially that you have a lot of things to consider.
To help you with that, we will give you ten tips that can be your guide in creating your own color palettes. For designers, it is important to have your own color palette especially for creating a design for a company or for marketing purposes. It has to be unique and attractive so that people could remember it and be attracted to it. Here are the different approaches and techniques in creating a color palette:
