Summers is here! Time to stop procrastinating.
Everyone procrastinates at some time in his or her life. As a self-employed web developer, I am certainly guilty as charged. That’s is why in this article I want to show you two things that have helped me, and give you some more incentives to get your business online right now! A – Complex projects often seem daunting and cause many people to procrastinate. When faced with a project that seems overwhelming in its complexity it is advisable to break the project down into smaller components and tackle each component individually. For example – if you need to redesign your website, but you don’t know where to start? Start by taking a good hard look at your website and ask yourself these two questions. How is my brand perceived as opposed to my competitors? How is my website doing in terms of aesthetics and functionality? If it’s not doing a good job, don’t just let it sit there, fix it fast! B – The inability to make decisions also contributes to procrastination. Many people simply spend too much time trying to make decisions about their website. While ...
40 Dazzling Photoshop Abstract and Lighting Effects Tutorials
Well done abstract and lighting effects can enhance your artworks exceedingly and this is very popular trend now in photo manipulations, backgrounds, website headers – definitely useful tutorials to be aware of . You can add them to premade photos, or create whole new scenes from scratch. Photoshop gives you those abilities and allows you to express in all ways. In this post you’ll find 40 best tutorials around web to master abstract and lighting effects. 1. Super Slick Dusky Lighting Effects in Photoshop In this tutorial you are going to put together a sunset image mixing some vector shapes and dusky lighting effects to produce a slick image that will make a nice album cover for a chillout mix. 2. Space Lighting Effects in 10 Steps In this Photoshop tutorial you will be shown how to create a space scene with some nice lighting effects in 10 easy steps. 3. Advanced Glow Effects In this tutorial, you’re going to create some really sharp-looking glow effects using a combination of layer styles, the Pen Tool and Color Blending. The end effect is quite stunning and you’ll pick up some tips ...
The Most Aesthetically Challenged Lawn Care Websites Ever!
I have put together a small list of sites in desperate need of a redesign! I'm not in anyway saying that this is a reflection on how they do business, nevertheless first impressions are lasting impressions. When a new visitor comes to your website an initial impression will be formed pretty quickly, and a bad first impression will drastically decrease your chances at getting that phone to ring. This list looks at 6 examples of some really bad impressions. This one has do it yourself written all over it.. love the borders guys very 1991-1995ish - white, yellow, green and red font nice touch.. Had to search really hard to find this one cause the page titles show up as Home, Home, Home on every page in the browser bar - guess its true what they say "where ever you go, there you are". Nice! oh, it gets worse! Saved the best for last. Read the footer, I'll bet Homestead 's made a million of these babies. 121 hits since 2008! Great job Rob!!! A lot of people make a lot of money in this business ...
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Are you wondering how often should you update your content? Imagine a movie house that showed the same movie for a whole month. Moviegoers will definitely hate viewing the same movie for several times! Similarly, with the dynamic nature of the Internet, your site should continually hook and delight readers. If your website is not doing that then you need to fix it. Websites can be updated daily, weekly and monthly depending on the nature of your services. We'd like to take this opportunity to tell you about a very special offer. For a limited time, all maintenance is 25% OFF, offer expires 06/13/2010. Click Here to sign up now, or to learn more about our website maintenance package… Should you wish to discuss your website or if you need a quote, or anything else, please drop us line and tell us what you think.
Twitter Contest – Up to 25% Discount for Every Participant!
The idea of a Weekly Editors Pick Twitter Contest came up in May when the yet to be unveiled site redesign was being done. It was getting to the point where many cool looking templates were being overlooked—great templates that we put back up three, maybe four months ago. I was worried that these templates would be lost amid the sea of daily new favorites. Thus, the Weekly Editors Pick idea emerged. In fact, we decided why not hop on the twitter bandwagon, make this a twitter contest too and give each participant a 20% promo code for any Foamers order. Besides that, all participants would be instantly eligible for an additional 25% discount on template customization. So, from now on, each week, we will comb through the site, pick out a couple of templates, and mark them with the prestigious “Editors Pick.” And we want you to help us choose the best! Contest entry is free of charge, you don’t need an invitation (as if!). All you need to do is follow the instructions below: Now let's ...
20 of The Best Resources To Get Your Lawn Care Website Ready for Lawn Mowing Season
A lawn mower is a fairly inexpensive peace of equipment, yet no other power equipment is as essential to landscaping as is the lawn mower. You need to have a lawn mower that will consistently get the job done without any hassles throughout the lawn mowing season. And you should also know how to use the lawn mower to your best advantage. Similarly being online is not an option for your business today, it is vital to its growth. A website not only establishes your presence as a professionally run business, it's also where your customers expect to find you. Yet so many lawn businesses do not have a good searchable website, or worse they have no website at all! So whether you want to re-design your website, or whether this is your first online presence, the following list of links will help you get your lawn care business ready for lawn mowing season 1 - The Fact That Your Competitor Has A Website Means What? It should be obvious but maybe you should read this anyway... 2 - 13 Creative and ...
13 Creative and Colorful Themes for Your Lawn Care Website
I found all 13 themes for your lawn care website just searching online. Some were specifically design to be used as a lawn care website and others you'll notice I've exercised a little creative license to use it as a lawn care theme by switching the images that came with the theme with our own.. Also feel free to leave me a comment down bellow - which of these do you like best? Enjoy! Preview Get Customized Preview Get Customized Preview Get Customized Preview Get Customized Preview Get Customized Preview Get Customized Preview Get Customized Preview Get Customized Preview Get Customized Preview Get Customized Preview Get Customized Preview Get Customized Preview Get Customized
So You Think You’re A Web Designer..
That is the questions Homestead-design-seo.com asks. Is it ethical to pass yourself off as a web designer, when in fact your using Intuit's Homestead software to cut paste. Personally I would say there's nothing wrong with using the software within of itself, but just because anyone can make a website doesn't mean everyone should. Unfortunately because it is much easier to want to believe that it is that simple to make a successful website, many unsuspecting clients do fall pray to these guys. However these wannabe web designers aren't the only ones to blame, the majority of their client base are pretty wishy-washy too - cheep always looking to get something for nothing. I'm talking about small business owners who will rent expensive equipment, spend hundreds of dollars advertising on Yellow pages, and then hire an amature to do their website, or what's worse, try to do it themselves. "Do yourself - a HUGE favor. Do something else until you learn the right way to design sites. Otherwise you are doing the client a disservice and contributing to the ...
3 Resources To Organize And Easily Email Your Leads For Free
There is no doubt, being able to follow up with your prospects & customers is the single most important marketing tool you absolutely need to have in order to continue to grow and sustain your business. To do that, and be affective at it, you need some sort of tool that allows you to organize and easily email your leads - where’s once text-based emails where consider the norm, and perhaps to this day you are still doing your marketing with basic text emails, there’s now a wealth of rich media, technology and functionality to consider. One solution, which is what I use and recommend all my clients to use, is the help of something like MailChimp, CakeMail and PHPList, these tools really make it easy to send and manage your HTML messages. Phplist in particular is great because it has a built in WYSIWYG HTML editor that allows you to create and view your HTML message even before you send it out, plus it's free! Other services such as MailChimp and the like, offer free newsletter templates you can edit. Besides that, ...
40 Dazzling Photoshop Abstract and Lighting Effects Tutorials
Posted on 29. Jul, 2010 by Daniels Mekšs.
Well done abstract and lighting effects can enhance your artworks exceedingly and this is very popular trend now in photo manipulations, backgrounds, website headers – definitely useful tutorials to be aware of .
You can add them to premade photos, or create whole new scenes from scratch. Photoshop gives you those abilities and allows you to express [...]
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Giving your site a huge full bleed photo slideshow is a simple trick with a big impact.
I love the images used here and the minimal sleekness of the whole design. They let their work speak for itself and it does a great job of doing so! This design…
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Free Wordpress 3.0 Theme for StarCraft II: Enter the Fascinating World!
Posted on 29. Jul, 2010 by Katarina.
Please welcome the Free StarCraft WordPress 3.0 theme that is presented as our tribute to the launch of the widely popular StarCraft II!
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Okay, okay; this may be a thank you posting for the wonderful sponsors of our massive HTML5 competition, however, it’s important for me to note that I refused to accept sponsors of any product that I didn’t honestly feel was fantastic. What this means is that, as the editor of Nettuts+, I fully endorse each [...]
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WordPress is the most popular blogging platform today. It’s being used by thousands of people all around the world. But because of the popularity, it’s getting more attention by hackers and spammers too. WordPress is very secure by itself, but there’s never too much ascertainable.
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Some of the world’s most stunning visions of space are made possible with Photoshop. The ability to combine vibrant colors, photo manipulations and ethereal effects makes the software ideal for this kind of work. Here are 51 Fantastic Space Arts that will blow your mind. Check them out and tell me which you liked the most!
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Check out our latest custom website design for client Custom Pool Pros
Posted on 28. Jul, 2010 by Dave.
If you liked this post, please subscribe! You’ll be glad you did!We’re proud to announce the launch of CustomPoolPros.com websites!
Custom Pool Pros came to Foamers with an idea for a website where people could come and fall in love with the idea of owning their own custom luxury pool. Foamers customized a website that exemplifies [...]
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Today’s inspiration is the work of Omar Noory. He’s got a very polished, professional style, and makes great use of typography. He also runs a little shop called “These are Things” were you can buy some of his letterpress pieces.
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25 Embossed Business Cards for Your Inspiration
Posted on 28. Jul, 2010 by Vandelay Website Design.
Designers are often looking for examples of creative business cards for inspiration, whether it be for designing their own cards or for client work. In the past we have showcased letterpress business cards, die cut business cards, and double sided business cards. Today we’ll look at 25 examples of embossed business cards.
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This exclusive premium video series will take you from a state of absolute CSS “noobness,” all the way up to ninja-status, capable of taking advantage of the latest CSS3 techniques. The series begins with the basics: the syntax, properties, etc. However, each new video expands upon the previous, as you work your way up and [...]
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“Here are some beautiful websites that meet web design standards, in the most minimal way possible. We hope these websites will inspire you.”
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I am on the lookout for a stylish outdoor thermometer. I thought this would be an easy task and that there would be an overwhelming amount of options available. Boy, was I wrong! Had to search really hard to find some stylish ones. I know that we live …
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Following the famous saying, “Security is only as strong as its weakest link,” security is very essential, especially when it comes to doing online things. A single weak link can be used to compromise all your hard work and even online identity. With wordpress being used as a CMS solution for most of the blogs [...]
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One of the cool new features of HTML5 is WebSockets, which let us talk to the server without using AJAX requests. In this tutorial, we’ll review the process of running a WebSocket server in PHP, and then building a client to send and receive messages to it over the WebSocket protocol. What are WebSockets? WebSockets [...]
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“Retro Futurism is a design style that has been growing in popularity over the past few years. It is a combination of what people think the future will be like and retro design”
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“The set contains 208 icons and is available free of charge for personal and commercial projects, with attribution required.”
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Hello everybody welcome to a new tutorial from HV-Designs. In this tutorial Naomi, one of our new Authors on the HV-Designs team, will be walking you through the process of creating a nice e-commerce layout. What We’ll Be Creating Resources Used In This Tutorial Social Media Icons Lets Get Started To begin, start Photoshop and [...]
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This icon set contains 26 Business themed icons. Each icon is available in 256×256 .png format.
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One segment of netizens prefers websites with Minimal design mainly because it let the focus to be on main content rather than on useless information. Minimal sites are elegant and beautiful and showcase only the necessary & selective information. Today we are presenting 20 such Elegant Websites for inspiration.
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This article is an ultimate and huge collection of adobe illustrator tutorials from all around the web, 205 tutorials to be precise. These tutorials can help you improve your skills and in your knowledge in illustrator. It can advance you from beginner to professional. The tutorials are very detailed and informative written by professional illustrators [...]
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