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Recently, I shared a roundup of some truly creative contact pages to inspire you to take a look at your own or at least get you thinking if you’re in the midst of launching your own website. The pages featured everything from talking cats to hand-drawn, animated illustrations that gave the pages a truly original feel. But, what about the…
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There are plenty of ways to impress and make introductions online, but business cards are still very important, and regardless of whatever nascent technology lies ahead, a compelling, tangible business card will always play a key role in attracting new clients. A unique and appealing business card design can help you stand out from the crowd and demonstrate your value…
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A stunning photo is one of the best ways to draw an eye to a design, whether it’s for the web or print. Full background or off to the side, a photograph will also help to control your viewer’s experience and cause the right emotions you want associated with your brand or ad. Waterscape photographs are an excellent way to…
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Creating an effective “Coming Soon” page may seem like a nuisance at first, but in all honesty it doesn’t take that much to build and can provide surprising benefits. Most “Coming Soon” pages are designed with very little thought or effort, as most designers focus their attention to the main “meat” and impending launch date of their sites. Luckily, we…
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Mobile devices have become extremely popular, so web designers — just like software developers — are focusing in the transition to mobile apps. The popularity of mobile applications has created intense competition, and any opportunity to help your app stand out from the crowd is worth pursuing. A stylish, sharp-looking app icon is one obvious way to help your app shine in…
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In this part of our series on creating a responsive, real-time graphs within a WordPress site, we’re going to finally get to the good stuff! The last three parts were for getting the newer designers up to speed. If you’re just arriving, skipped ahead too quickly, or got flagrantly confused, go back to the earlier parts and review a bit.…
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Over the years, I’ve found that clients typically fall into two extremes when it comes to pricing: the “I don’t care” crowd, and price-sensitive clients. Of course, my favorites are the ones that don’t care about the price, but these are few and far between. Generally speaking, most clients seem to fall into one of these two categories: I Don’t…
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The Internet is full of so many resources nowadays that you can sometimes find yourself overwhelmed in your search for the perfect texture for your design project. From free to premium texture packs, the choices are endless, but they even a set of thousands of textures might miss the mark and detract from your design. Even if you find a…
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In this series, we’ve been building out the functionality needed to create amazing, real-time graphs. Up to this point we’ve done the following: Part 1 We loaded a base plugin that loads our graph libraries We uploaded a blank PHP file via FTP We told WP how to find our custom PHP files We familiarized ourselves with the admin functions for beginners…
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Times are changing…fast. So fast, in fact, that often web and graphic designers forget that certain symbols or icons that they place in designs may no longer be recognizable nor relevant. Symbols that one generation recognize immediately may be completely unknown to younger users. Like me, you may remember a time when everyone had a home telephone, used 1.44 MB disks for…
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