Are you applying for a creative, web, or graphic designer position and can’t even get through to the first interview? Maybe it’s your resume. Generally, it is important for every job applicant to have a well-designed curriculum vitae, but it is even more important if you’re applying for a designer’s position. This is your one [...]
Design is an important factor in a website but a lot of people tend to overlook the importance of text and typography. Without good, clean, and readable text, your website will lack functionality and readability. Here are tips on how to effectively incorporate text in your web design: Select readable fonts. There are tons of [...]
Search Engine Optimization or SEO is the art of reaching the top page of Google’s listings. By using the right SEO, your site can easily be found by visitors, getting you more traffic and probably more revenue. Here are simple SEO tips for 2012 that you might find helpful: Understand what keywords work for you [...]
Twitter has proven itself as a very effective SEO tool. Its usage of hashtags as a way to categorize tweets makes it quick and easy for users to search for relevant topics and discussions within the site and the Internet. By putting a hashtag on your posts, you can greatly improve your [website’s] visibility and [...]
Graphic design is a field that is quickly changing, and while it is easy to get caught up in learning new technical skills, it is just as important to focus developing and pushing the limits of our creativity. It is easy to surround yourself with inspiration and engage in activities that help you understand effective [...]
Today’s post features a nice tutorial video from Nettutsplus and it’s about troubleshooting performance problems when using Ruby. This is great especially for beginners. It only runs for just about 6 minutes but already manages to cover everything from identifying the problem to testing and actually fixing it. You’ll be able to learn the fastest [...]
Steve Klabnik wrote an interesting piece on how to take make the most of Ruby’s classes, which are the Struct class and OpenStruct class. In his blog post, Steve shares its documentation and gives a few good examples of where and when to take advantage of these structs and use them quite effectively. For instance, [...]
Today’s helpful tip comes from the people behind WPDoctors and it’s a nifty ready-to-use WordPress action hook that displays a custom message to admins that indicates urgency. This is helpful in situations where you need your message recipients to take immediate action on admin-related concerns. function showMessage($message, $errormsg = false){ if ($errormsg) { echo ‘<div [...]
Good news to all Twitter users! Like with Facebook and Google+, now you can put a header image on your profile and it will be displayed both on desktop and with mobile apps. TwitrCovers.com provides you with the coolest images for your header and currently they have over 300 to choose from. Best of all, [...]
Creating unique and eye-catching T-shirt designs is not an easy task. Designers everywhere often look for new techniques and styles where they can apply graphic designs specifically for T-shirt printing. T-shirt Designer Mike Ng gives you his pro-tips in designing T-shirts. Take your time to explore your concept. – Sometimes it seems like starting is [...]
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