80+ Ultimate Collection of High Quality Free PSD Files

80+ Ultimate Collection of High Quality Free PSD Files

No one can deny the importance of Adobe Photoshop and the role that this amazing software plays for the designing industry. For a graphic designer, PSD files can come very handy because they can easily edit, modify and customize these files according to their own taste and desire. For this post, we’ve gathered an exclusive [...]

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50 of the Best Adobe Fireworks Tutorials

50 of the Best Adobe Fireworks Tutorials

Adobe Fireworks is a somewhat unnoticed but very useful member of the Adobe Creative Suite. It is used for multiple purposes such as to create vectors, design application interfaces, digital artwork, and create rapid prototypes of websites. There is a lot more you can do with Adobe Fireworks, including generating PDFs, exporting CSS based layouts [...]

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40 of the Best Online Generators For Web Designers

40 of the Best Online Generators For Web Designers

By Cameron Chapman Generators can be a great way to save time in your web design projects. High-quality generators can create graphics or code or even layouts in a matter of seconds or minutes, things that might take an hour or more if done by hand. Below are some useful generators to help you speed [...]

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5 Tips for the Initial Client Sales Call

5 Tips for the Initial Client Sales Call

The most important discussion you’ll have with any client is the first. They tell you about their project, you talk about your process, and at the end, both of you should have a good idea about if working together makes sense. Usually, this first client/freelancer discussion occurs during the sales call. That first sales call [...]

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What’s the difference between a .com.au and a .com domain?

What’s the difference between a .com.au and a .com domain?

We get asked a lot whether you should obtain either a .com or a .com.au domain name when building a website in Australia. Here’s the answer. Basically, a .com.au domain name identifies you as an Australian business. This has a number of advantages if you are targeting Australian Internet users. Probably the most important effect [...]

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Conversion Services by PSD2HTML.com

Conversion Services by PSD2HTML.com

Since all of Australia is celebrating its National Day,  PSD2HTML.com, the leader in psd to html conversion services is happy to provide their Australian friends with a 15% discount on all projects. Available from January 23, 2012 till January 31, 2012.   If you need your designs converted into a high quality, cross-browser compatible, valid [...]

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Help The Community: Report Browser Bugs

You’re developing a new website and have decided to use some CSS3 and HTML5, now that many of the new specifications are gaining widespread support. As you’re coding the theme and thinking of how much easier these new technologies are making your job, you decide to stop for a while and test in other browsers, feeling a bit guilty for getting carried away and having forgotten to do so for a while. “Please work,” you whisper to your computer, while firing up all of the browsers you have installed. Browser A, check. You smile, feeling a bit relieved. Browser B, check. Your smile widens, and you start to feel better already. Browser C, “FFFFUUUUUUUUUUU…!”

Sound familiar? You might be surprised to hear that this is not necessarily your fault. With the competition in the browser market these days and the fast pace at which the new specifications are developing, browser makers are implementing new stuff in a hurry, sometimes without properly testing it. CSS3 and HTML5 are much more complex than their predecessors. The number of possible combinations of new features is huge, which leads to the most common cause of bugs: two (or more) things that weren’t tested together. As a result, developers these days stumble upon browser bugs much more frequently than they used to.

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What Popular Movies Can Teach Us About Design

It’s a pretty safe bet to say that the vast majority of people like movies. They’re usually entertaining and sometimes even informative or thought-provoking. But most designers probably don’t pay too much attention to how they might be able to offer inspiration for website or other designs.

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WDL Premium: Dark Modern Web Elements Kit

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This week, for our WDL Premium Members, we present an awesome kit containing 60+ dark modern web elements from WeGraphics. Bring your designs to another dimension with this stunning, modern interface kit. Be sure to check out WeGraphics for more high-quality design resources, like vectors, brushes, textures, icons, and more. Here’s a preview of the [...]

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Building Better Software Through Collaboration: Whose Job Is It, Anyway?

In part one of this series, we looked at the consequences of designing and developing software in isolated environments. Some people work in lonely silos where no process exists, while others work in functional silos where too much (or the wrong) process makes innovation and progress difficult.

So, how do we break down the artificial walls that keep us from creating great things together? How can organizations foster environments that encourage natural, unforced collaboration? There are no quick fixes, but these are far from insurmountable problems.

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Why It’s Okay to Be Small

Lots of freelancers go to great lengths to disguise the fact that they’re a one-man (or one-woman) operation.
They may…

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Traits of Successful Website Welcome Pages

Many websites these days have some form of welcome area on their homepage. Welcome pages generally act as an introduction for new visitors, explain the website and often prompt an action on the part of the user.

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Avoiding Distractions and Procrastination

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We have all been there. Staring down the nasty to-do list and mentally checking through each of your tasks. Procrastination can be a deadly practice for those working on the Internet. It is so easy to put off work until tomorrow while focusing on more pleasurable activities. Even including work on your own projects! It’s [...]

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Happy Labor Day to All Our Readers

Have you been working hard this year? Today is your day! It’s Labor Day in the U.S., a day set…

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