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Extensive Roundup of the Best WordPress Plugins You’ll Ever Need: Year 2012 Edition
Posted on 10. Feb, 2012 by Daniels Mekšs.
Besides being a beautiful, easy to use and powerful platform by itself, WordPress is also loved because of it’s high level of customization and optimization. Plugins are the best way to optimize and enrich your WordPress blog. And it’s not limited to performance only. The plugins WordPress offers range from page speed optimization, user engagement, advanced backup, [...]
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Review Of New Twitter and Tweetdeck – What’s new?
Posted on 04. Jan, 2012 by Daniels Mekšs.
Recently, Twitter went through a significant upgrade and redesign. This time the update is huge and comprehensive – starting with new mobile apps and ending with a new version of popular tweeting platform Tweetdeck. What has changed? Are there some things you should be aware of? Continue reading and check out a review of the [...]
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30 Beautiful Templates, Greeting Cards, Graphics To Get Ready for Christmas
Posted on 17. Dec, 2011 by Daniels Mekšs.
Winter is finally here and Christmas isn’t that far away now. Christmas is the time of giving and the time when we give gifts to the ones we love and spend time with our families. We all love to receive Christmas greeting cards. Plus it’s a great solution if you have lots of relatives living [...]
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Manage All Your WordPress Sites From One Place: Meet ManageWP
Posted on 16. Dec, 2011 by Daniels Mekšs.
For a kickoff we’ve prepared a review of a really neat and useful service some of you guys will be keen on. Those of you who manage more than one WordPress blog will be more or less familiar with the management problems multiple blogs can create. Installing new plugins, updating platforms, keeping an eye on [...]
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The Most Effective Tools To Enrich Reader Engagement On Your Site
Posted on 15. Dec, 2011 by Daniels Mekšs.
What do we mean when talking about reader engagement? Well, in terms of blogging the first things that come to mind are comments, sharing, questions, conversion rates. To sum up we could compare reader engagement with building a community. A community where readers care about each other, where action doesn’t stop after reading the final [...]
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10 Useful Services To Sell Digital Goods Online
Posted on 25. Nov, 2011 by Daniels Mekšs.
When I first heard of these digital selling services I was confused and asked – why can’t you just use PayPal? After doing further research I found out that there is a fair amount of risks that can be hazardous to your online business and everything’s just not that simple. Converting visitors into paying customers [...]
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60 Beneficial And Great Looking Premium Background from Graphicriver
Posted on 21. Nov, 2011 by Daniels Mekšs.
Background is an essential yet often overlooked element of any artwork. A suitable background can turn good design into a great design and correspondingly moderate one into a good one. You can come up with a perfect background within minutes or squeeze something out in days. A good background has to be balanced yet giving [...]
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50 Practical And Time Saving Premium Product Mockups From Graphicriver
Posted on 16. Nov, 2011 by Daniels Mekšs.
Which is more important to you – the content or the package? No doubt, it’s a discussable question but the compromise we might agree on is that both are equally important. Package and product design plays a massive role in marketing and consumer alluring. Yet we shouldn’t forget about the web – product showcase is [...]
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50 Stunning And Useful Premium Photoshop Actions
Posted on 30. Oct, 2011 by Daniels Mekšs.
Trying to lighten your workload and learning new ways to do things faster is important for every skilled and clever designer. One of the most gratifying and neat, yet often underrated, Photoshop features is actions. Actions are premade sets of commands that allow you to achieve almost any desired effect within seconds. Actions are extremely [...]
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40 Beautifully Executed And Trendy iPhone App Web Designs
Posted on 13. Oct, 2011 by Daniels Mekšs.
With so many iPhone apps in the game you have to really stand out in order to get noticed. One of the best ways to do it is by having an appealing and stunning web design to promote your app. I’m sure you all have seen at least one of those colorful, sleek and pixel-perfect [...]
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Ultimate Guide to A/B Split Testing – Articles, Tips, Case Studies, Tools and Resources
Posted on 15. Aug, 2011 by Daniels Mekšs.
First of all, what is A/B split testing? In basic terms A/B split testing is a variety of marketing testing where customers randomly receive almost identical, yet slightly different, test samples. This method can efficiently be used in various niches such as brochures, email campaigns and landing pages. A/B split testing can help you to [...]
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30 Greatest Online Project Management and Collaboration Tools For Easy Communication!
Posted on 14. Aug, 2011 by Daniels Mekšs.
Project management and collaboration skills play a major role in every business and often the outcome of a project is highly affected by the initial planning and monitoring stages of a project. Project management is especially important for small and flexible businesses where all the work is based on a few people who have to [...]
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The Best Of 2011: Trendy Web Designs From Deviantart
Posted on 05. Aug, 2011 by Daniels Mekšs.
Year 2011 is rolling forward swiftly and middle of the summer is nearly here. Some of you might unwittingly note that the end of the summer is inevitable while for others that remaining month and half is fairly enough to fully enjoy the benefits that summer offers. Here in the virtual world the time is [...]
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50 Superb & Free PSD Files From Dribbble To Learn From The Best
Posted on 31. Jul, 2011 by Daniels Mekšs.
Either for self-promotion or simply for goodwill and to help others, the truth is that finding free resources and inspiration can be a really easy task. If you are an experienced designer, you know the best way to learn is by just looking and studying other people’s work. PSD files can be a powerful way [...]
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Inspiring Videos For Designers & Developers
Posted on 28. Jul, 2011 by Daniels Mekšs.
Whether you’re a motion designer, front-end developer or economy student – you have to keep up with the times and constantly increase your knowledge and broaden your professional viewpoint. One of the best ways to do that is by watching videos from professionals and experts in your field. Videos don’t have to be strictly instructive. [...]
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45+ iPhone Apps To Keep You On Top Of the Edge Wherever You Go
Posted on 26. Jul, 2011 by Daniels Mekšs.
iPhone has gained popularity rapidly and is a must-have gadget for nearly everyone now. Even I, an old clumsy Nokia owner, have finally realized it. iPhone is not your typical phone you pull out only to make a call. It can do much more than that. And with over 350 000 apps it would be [...]
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Get The Coolest Domain Name Now – Best Tips, Tricks And Tools You’ll Need!
Posted on 11. Jul, 2011 by Daniels Mekšs.
So you’ve come up with a splendid business project but become confused when it comes to choosing a domain name. A domain name is a very important element of a website and can be either help or hurt your online business. You may think how hard could it be to make up a single name? [...]
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50 New And Crazy Cool jQuery Plugins From Year 2011
Posted on 10. Jul, 2011 by Daniels Mekšs.
With 2011 a little over half over it’s the right time to look at, and uncover, the current trends of web design and development. It’s sure been a helluva ride for jQuery and it’s growth just doesn’t stop. With more than 40% of websites using jQuery now it’s no longer possible to ignore this efficient, [...]
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30 Of The Most Useful Google Products You Should Consider Using Daily
Posted on 09. Jul, 2011 by Daniels Mekšs.
Most of us are using Google and its services everyday. Their search engine, Gmail and Youtube are some the most popular Google products. But how many of you knew that Google has, for example, a tool for creating charts? And if you knew, were you actually using it? Google has dozens of undiscovered, yet excellent [...]
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45 Online Generators For Designers And Developers To Do The Job Faster!
Posted on 08. Jul, 2011 by Daniels Mekšs.
With so many things to know and techniques to learn it often becomes hard for designers and developers to keep up with their projects and manage their work. While you could start every project by doing the same things again and again, the smart designers and developers know the importance of a well-developed workflow. One [...]