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Passing The Holy Milestone: How To Meet Deadlines

John Doe — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:44:14 +0000

For too many projects, there comes a time when every action taken, every decision and sacrifice made, is spurred on by pressure to finish. Tempers seem to shrink along with the available days, talk about “high standards” gives way to “good enough,” and people realize that dead lines are aptly named. During the last-minute crunch, someone may well wonder, how did it come to this? Could it have been prevented? Every Web project has deadlines.

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Passing The Holy Milestone: How To Meet Deadlines

New eBook From Smashing Magazine: Mastering Photoshop For Web Design

John Doe — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:11:01 +0000

Mastering Photoshop for Web Design is the third book in our eBook series, and it’s definitely the best eBook we’ve published so far. It was written from scratch by our regular writer Thomas Giannattasio, exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. We are very proud of the result, in particular because of the high quality of tips, ideas and techniques that Thomas — who is a deep expert in Adobe Photoshop — presents in his book. Mastering Photoshop is written for advanced and intermediate designers who want to brush up on their workflow and improve their Photoshop skills

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New eBook From Smashing Magazine: Mastering Photoshop For Web Design

Make Money With Your Blog and Google AdSense

John Doe — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:23:07 +0000

Posted by Courtney, AdSense North America team AdSense is a great way to get paid for doing what you love to do: blogging! AdSense allows you to show targeted ads on your blog and earn revenue from your traffic. It also helps your visitors find things they may be interested in, based on the content of your blog posts.

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Make Money With Your Blog and Google AdSense

Interview With Croatian Artist Ranko Blazina

John Doe — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:31:14 +0000

Recently, I had a chance to talk with Ranko Blazina who is a very talented and award winning digital artist from Croatia.

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Interview With Croatian Artist Ranko Blazina

Seven Must-See Videos and Presentations for Web App Developers

John Doe — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:49:18 +0000

In previous video roundups, we’ve collected together some interesting videos and presentations from a variety of speakers discussing topics covering usability, graphic design, CSS frameworks, web standards, and more. In this small roundup, we’ve included seven videos that we think would be of great interest to web app developers in particular, with less focus on design and standards. These presentations are a little more technically heavy than ones we’ve featured in the past, but we think they’re worth every minute. Check them out, and be sure to comment to include links to any related videos that you feel are worth mentioning.

Seven Must-See Videos and Presentations for Web App Developers

Critical Mistakes Freelancers Make

John Doe — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:35:56 +0000

Seeing as we are all human (well, presumably whoever is reading this post anyway), we should recognize that mistakes happen. They even have that saying, “To err is human…,” which goes to show that it is not only commonplace for us to err once or twice: it is expected .

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Critical Mistakes Freelancers Make

Designing Style Guidelines For Brands And Websites

John Doe — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:35:41 +0000

A website is never done. Everyone has worked on a project that changed so much after it launched that they no longer wanted it in their portfolio. One way to help those who take over your projects is to produce a style guide. Edward Tufte once said: “Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers.

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Designing Style Guidelines For Brands And Websites

How To Use CSS3 Media Queries To Create a Mobile Version of Your Website

John Doe — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:35:05 +0000

CSS3 continues to both excite and frustrate web designers and developers. We are excited about the possibilities that CSS3 brings, and the problems it will solve, but also frustrated by the lack of support in Internet Explorer 8.

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How To Use CSS3 Media Queries To Create a Mobile Version of Your Website

The New Visual Design of WordPress 2.7

John Doe — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:15:14 +0000

WordPress 2.7

I just upgraded to the latest version (2.7) of WordPress and I noticed that the admin dashboard has new look. Until I’m playing with it, check the official post on this here:

WordPress › Blog » The Visual Design of 2.7.

50 Most Beautiful Icon Sets Created in 2008

John Doe — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:13:01 +0000

Noupe comes up with the 50 Most Beautiful Icon Sets Created in 2008. Definitively worth a look.

Icons are everywhere on the web. In most modern designs it is used to not only complete our design but also to attract the user’s eye. Designers use Icons to create breath-taking designs and decorate their desktop as well. Today we’re going to take a look at 50 most beautiful icon sets we’ve found over the year 2008.

50 Most Beautiful Icon Sets Created in 2008 | Noupe