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Freelance Web Design Offers Significant Advantages

ShareThe world of technology has marched inexorably onward. While, once, the Internet was more of a curiosity than anything else, that is no longer the case.  Today, if you are a business, nonprofit or even an entrepreneur without your own website, then you are putting yourself at a serious disadvantage.  How do you correct the [...]

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10 Useful Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs – Smashing Magazine

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By Dmitry Fadeyev
December 15th, 2008
Design
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via 10 Useful Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs – Smashing Magazine.
1. Padded block links
Links (or anchors) are inline elements by default, which means that their clickable area spans only the height and width of the text. This clickable area, or the space where you can click to go [...]

WordPress and the Art of Blogging

ShareBlogging is perhaps one of the most common activities online, even more so than sharing videos through YouTube.  While a wide range of different blogging platforms exists, you will find that WordPress is one of the most popular options, as well as being one of the best possible choices.  What makes WordPress stand out from [...]

Components of Internet Marketing; Toronto Web Design

ShareBeginners who are just starting out in the online market will find it terribly difficult to compete without the proper knowledge of internet marketing basics. For starters, online marketing is simply another way to market business through the World Wide Web. With the increasing demands of advertising channels, online marketing provides marketers a unique opportunity [...]

Web Design, Spacevibes, Toronto, 25 jQuery Slider Plugins

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Content sliders are a great way to show large amount of content or images on a smaller area in a website or blog. They are commonly used in portfolio sites, corporate sites or blogs. You may probably heard that jQuery isn’t very hard to learn. If you are interested in implementing a content slider in [...]

Web Design Trends for 2010

ShareWith a new year on the horizon, it’s time to pack away the old, worn web designs and prepare for the brave, new face of tomorrow. Although trends don’t start and stop on January 1st, there is a definite shift from what we craved at the beginning of the year to what we are seeking [...]

Are Mobile Applications Useful?

ShareBy Kathleen Lau , Computerworld Canada , 12/03/2009
Michael Carter, CEO of Toronto-based mobile media company Mythum Interactive Inc., said from his children’s perspective, the fork and the mobile device were invented at the same time.
“As far as my kids are concerned, who doesn’t have one of these and who doesn’t use these as part of [...]

Minimalist Web Design: When Less is More

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Still, many designers have trouble creating one; either they have a hard time making a page with so few elements look good or the final result just doesn’t look “complete.”
There are many articles on the Web about minimalism and this article aims to help you [...]

Your Choices for Web Design

ShareThe modern Internet is quite different from what it was even a few years ago.  This constant evolution and change has increased the need for quality web design options.  If you do not have a website, or your current website is a relic of the past, you need to correct the situation as quickly as [...]

5 Internet Marketing Buzz Words

ShareI’ve been doing Internet marketing in some form or another for nearly four years, and while I’m nowhere near the seasoned veteran as some of the old dogs in this industry, I’ve worked with my fair share of clients, met lots of people, seen trends come and go, and heard plenty of eye-rolling buzz words [...]

Why You Need to Deal With Search Engine Marketing Changes

SharePosted on November 22nd, 2009 by Kevin Gibbons at seoptimise.com
Around 5 years ago I read the book Who Moved my Cheese. It’s a very simple, short story about the different methods of dealing with change. I’ve recently re-read this, (it only takes about an hour so I’d definitely recommend reading if you haven’t already) – but I [...]

HTML/CSS Frameworks: Useful, Universal, Usable, Unobtrusive

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A high quality HTML/CSS framework needs to have four attributes: useful, universal, usable, and unobtrusive. The four U’s. “Meiert’s four U’s” if you like, says a son of marketing gurus.

Useful. If an HTML/CSS framework doesn’t do what sites and the people behind the sites need, [...]

How Web Freelancers Can Survive the Recession

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Lets face it, the economy is still struggling, and though it is improving, there are still signs everywhere that we are still in a recession. Prices are rising, unemployment is growing, and people everywhere can feel the stress of this recession. About 2 months ago, I wrote an article about job seeking [...]

Today’s internet marketing requires much more commitment

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Internet marketing has the great advantage of low barriers / cost for entry. For as little as $50 and about 15 minutes you can be serving up pay per click (PPC) ads, with very little effort. This makes it very attractive for companies to try it out.
But you can’t [...]

Should a business use Facebook for internet marketing?

ShareThere are many individuals on the internet that are wanting to learn how to be successful when using Facebook in internet marketing. In today’s fast paced world and the popularity involved in networks that are considered to be “social”, internet entrepreneurs are taking hold of popular websites such as Facebook in order to have a competitive [...]

What is PPC Advertising?

SharePay per click advertising has become more hard than it has been in the past, but you can approach it in two ways. One way is for you to give it up completely and miss out a golden opportunity. The other way is to master it well to your advantage while everyone else is still [...]

Ten Ways To Identify A Quality Web Design Firm

ShareAn effective website attracts customers to your business, generates sales leads and closes sales – multiplying your profits in the process. Professional web design firms must combine uniqueness and innovation in design with state-of the-art technology and maintenance support to create a powerful website that produces results. Before hiring a web designer, consider the following [...]

39 Buttons and Web Design Resources

ShareOriginally written by Dainis Graveris on November 19, 2009 on http://www.1stwebdesigner.com
This resource article features many extremely useful resources I found over Deviantart community! I consider these resources mainly for learning purposes to understand how different effects are achieved and of course to get fresh ideas to recreate good examples here! Not only that – many [...]