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Web Design Rules That You Can Break
Rules are made to be broken, and the world of web design is no exception. The Internet and the media that drives it are ever evolving, and so the law that dictates the design for one website may not apply to others.
Often, it is web designers who are willing to step out of the box and break a few rules who create the most stunning and memorable final design.
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WordPress Security Best Practices and Plug-ins
Keeping your WordPress blog safe and secured are things to be done right away but often gets delayed. Building readership and monetizing the site are daily tasks that produce tangible results.
Often checking of the security needs doesn’t reveal its true importance until the site is compromised by a hacker or a natural disaster like user error. Here are a few of the best methods of protecting your blog from these kinds of disasters.
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How to Build User-Friendly Website
It is critical for web businesses to understand how to build a UX or user friendly website. The aim is to ensure that the site you are designing makes sense to the target groups. The phraseology and terminology you will use forms a crucial part in your ability to achieve this purpose.
You will need to build a site which can satisfy the needs of your users, whether they are browsing from their mobiles or their computer. Bear in mind that your content will be servicing various communication devices and should be formatted to meet these demands.
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Tips For Better Data Flow Design
Data flow diagrams are used mostly to explain how data runs through a system. It is important therefore to make it easy to understand and at the same time comprehensive. It aids business developers and design teams to better understand data processing and use the information to improve the system.
The following are several pointers on how to make better data flow designs.
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Happy Valentine’s Day Vector Pack
At this time each year, people around the world celebrate Valentine’s Day as a display of love and care. Many people including designers and clients want to add a red Valentine’s theme to their websites and social profiles. These themes come in different Valentine’s Day icons, backgrounds and elements, etc.
So in today’s pack, I would like to present to you a new Valentine’s Day vector pack that includes a Valentine’s background, icons and cartoon characters. The Valentine’s elements in this pack are all in vector format, which makes it easy for you to modify them. To download the vector pack, members can click the download link at the end of this post.
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5 Design Contest Winners from 2011
Design contests are always a lot of fun. They tend to be challenging and interesting and really expand your creativity. This year there were a large number of design contests for professionals, amateurs and even children. Each one has given people the opportunity to show off what they are able to create, no matter what the genre.
These five pages show off the design winners for five different contests from last year. Their innovative, interesting and creative designs impressed judges from different contests and could lead to big things in the future.
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Best Grunge Free Fonts on the Web
There are millions of free fonts available on the web. However, grunge fonts deserve special attention for their unique appearance, which goes beyond the typical typeface design and reaches the levels, where fine art starts.
Grunge fonts with distorted lines, fancy glyphs arrangement and ornamentally-rich backgrounds possess magic power to amaze, astonish and surprise. Among the myriad of grunge fonts we have selected the most prominent and free typefaces, which are presented for you below. These free grunge fonts are capable of transforming any project into a masterpiece.
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Tips to Evaluate Design User Experience
To test a website efficiently, a UX designer must develop a site with certain features that can present relevant information to the end-user as well as give pointers to the owner. Since it is important that people feel positive when navigating an online site, a developer must meet every potential demand that customers usually use to associate with internet buying.
Of course, it is necessary that the developer develop a website in mind with design user experience since customers must become attracted to buy products advertised on the site.
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Mastering Photoshop Layers from an Artist’s Point of View, Graphic Mania Premium Webinar
It is time for a new Graphic Mania premium webinar. Our new two -hour online session will take your Photoshop experience to a new level. It will cover Mastering Layers from an Artist’s Point of View and it will be presented by the Photoshop expert and author Stephen Burns.
Stephen Burns will share a more creative insight into using layers in a way that will help you express yourself more completely as an artist. If you use layers in such a way that you have no organization then you should attend this webinar.
Eight UI Design Patterns You Should Consider
As a design professional, you are already aware that UI design patterns are essentially the solution to common user interface-problems.
In this article we will be covering eight UI designs patterns you should consider using.
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Troublemaking Clients – How to Spot, Prevent, and Resolve Situations
When you work as a freelancer, occasionally you will come across clients that cause you problems, it’s inevitable. As the saying goes, “you can’t please everybody”, this rings very true when you deal with a high volume of clients.
Whether it’s clients that refuse to pay; explain how they want something then request a large number of revisions; speak argumentatively; or simply client’s that are impossible to get hold of; we’ll find out how to deal with them. This article covers how to spot these types of clients, how to prevent a situation from escalating and finally what to do when a situation does escalate.
