Neon signage has now been around for decades; the signs in red, yellow blue and all other colours flashing brightly on shop fronts in the dark of the night are seldom noticed due to their common use. However, in terms of graphic-design neon colours can really add something and could be considered akin their effect to when they first became popular in the 1920s, until they became less often seen after the 1960s. Unlike in the past need where there was a luminous tube, all most graphic designers need is a Photoshop palette to create such effects. Neon can have a powerful effect on sites, logos...
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Current technology advertising trends veer towards the iconic, minimalist and slick, with limited amounts of copy and super-glossy design. However a quick look back through the annals reveals that this wasn’t always the case. As the world began to move towards a more technologically savvy age at the turn of the twentieth century, consumers sought reassurance and information from their press advertisements, whether they were looking to upgrade to the latest gramophone in the 1920s or indulge in the newest mobile phone in the 1980s. Here we take a brief look at the trends and styles that have defined...
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WordPress plugins are really great, because you even don’t need to know anything about coding to install and use some really great features. WP-Invoice and Web Invoice are free premium WordPress plugins for online invoicing and billing. These plugins are ideal for developers, designers, contractors, SEO consulting firms, freelancers and any small businesses owners that need to create, send and track the status...
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jQuery is a JavaScript library that is CSS3 compliant and supports many cross-browser features. The jQuery framework is extensible and very nicely handles DOM manipulations, CSS, animations, communications to server requests, document transversal and event handling. I have compiled a collection of 15 useful jQuery plugins that should be useful for your next project. (more...)
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I thought I had better write this post earlier in the month so everyone has time to download the freebies from the Envato Marketplaces.

I always download their freebies, since you never know when they might come in handy. I'm starting to build up quite a collection of quality resources that I can use whenever I need to.

Once again, this month they have a great selection of items to download for free. You will need to register, but registration is also free. Read Full Article

Anybody who has done some serious (or even not so serious) web design work knows what a pain Internet Explorer 6 can be. Designs that render correctly in compliant browsers such as Firefox, Chrome and Safari just do not work in IE6 (or sometimes even in IE7 and IE8). Significant rework and workarounds are often required to make a website "compliant" for IE6. So now that we have rolled into a new year, it's time to make a decision. Should I still attempt to make my website designs IE6 compliant (even if a client asks for it)? Before making a rash decision, let's look at some statistics....
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There are only a few days left in December 2010 to download the freebies from the Envato Marketplaces.

I always download their freebies, since you never know when they might come in handy.

This month they have a great selection of items to download for free (registration is also free).

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There are only a few days left in November 2010 to download the freebies from the Envato Marketplaces. I always download their freebies, since you never know when they might come in handy.

This month they have a great selection of items to download for free (registration is also free). (more...)

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So you're looking for a web hosting company to host your website for the first time and you just don't know that much about it. Well, it can be a fairly daunting task due to the overwhelming number of people and companies out there claiming to be the best. Not to mention the endless options and vast array of pricing plans. Finding cheap, dedicated servers may be your best bet or maybe a big name hosting site is the way to go. It can be rather confusing at first, but read the following paragraphs and find out what to look for when choosing a hosting provider for the first time. Read Full Article

As a web designer / developer, reading reference material while developing is essential since there is just no way that anyone could keep all of the syntax for any API in memory.

Whilst all languages and frameworks have complete documentation accessible on the internet, recently I have noticed that a few iPhone apps have been created so that documentation is accessible offline. (more...)

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