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Contrast is King in Design

Tweet“If you can make a solid design in black, white, and shades of gray, it will often allow you to translate your design to almost any color combination—as long as that color combination maintains... 
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Free Google AdWords Campaigns for Non-Profits

Tweet“Google Grants is a unique in-kind donation program awarding free AdWords advertising to select charitable organizations. We support organizations sharing our philosophy of community service... 
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How to Find the Perfect Color and Create a Color Palette

Tweet“No single visual element has more effect on a viewer than color. Color gets attention, sets a mood, sends a message. But what colors are the right ones? The key is that color is relational.... 
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6 Tips for Better Branding with Avatars

Tweet“We’re living in a social media world, and, like it or not, our avatar is often the first impression others get about us as we interact virtually on social networks, blogs, microblogs and... 
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Xobni Organizes Your Outlook Email

TweetAs a web designer and coder, I collect tons of emails and attachments from clients that have to be carefully tracked and easily found. And many projects have three, four, or more people attached.... 
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UI Pattern Documentation Review

Tweet“To date, the most common approach to propagating a single user experience standard is the development of UI guidelines and principles documentation within an organization. Development teams... 
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(Mostly) Free Website Monitoring Tools

TweetRecently came across two articles about free website monitoring tools, Top 10 Free Website Uptime Monitoring Services, from Design Live, and 12 Excellent Free Tools for Monitoring Your Sites Uptime,... 
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View Your Web Pages in Multiple Versions of Internet Explorer Browsers

Tweet“How many times have you had to debug your web pages on virtual or multiple machines running different versions of Internet Explorer? Or had to wait for a slow web service to return renderings... 
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How to Develop a Facebook Page that Attracts Millions of Fans

Tweet“There are numerous ways for brands to leverage Facebook but the overall branded experience is becoming increasingly integrated into a single offering as the new Pages product highlights. So... 
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Complete Beginner’s Guide to Information Architecture

Tweet“Information architecture is an often misunderstood job title. Are they Designers? Developers? Managers? All of the above? In this article we’ll discuss what information architecture is, why... 
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Google Voice Launches, Perfect for Small Businesses

TweetGoogle stepped up its attack on the telecommunications industry on Thursday with a free service called Google Voice that, if successful, could chip away at the revenue of companies big and small,... 
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75+ Excellent Free Professional Fonts

Tweet“In this article tripwire magazine presents an overview of more than 75 excellent free fonts you should consider using for your designs. Not all free Fonts are worth using but the Fonts listed... 
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Object Oriented Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Tweet“How do you scale CSS for millions of visitors or thousands of pages? Nicole first presented Object Oriented CSS at Web Directions North in Denver. Since then, the response has been overwhelming.... 
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Font Applications for the iPhone

Tweet“It has been predicted that Apple will have sold 45 million iPhones by the end of 2009. And that’s before it hits China. There aren’t hundreds of type-related apps for the iPhone, but here... 
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10 Steps to the Perfect Portfolio Website

Tweet“A personal portfolio website is all about promoting you. You are a brand, and your name is a brand name. No one is going to know about your brand unless you get it out there; and if you’re... 
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How to Deal with Internet Explorer 6 (IE 6)

Tweet“Completely ignoring a browser in terms of CSS is a wonderfully freeing thing. It certainly can’t be done on every site. The important thing to remember is that it’s a site’s statistics... 
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20 Tips for Better Conference Speaking and Presentations

Tweet“I’ll be straight up with you: I don’t profess to be an expert speaker. I’ve had my share of presentations that have been total flops, along with some very successful ones. But if anything,... 
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10 Free CAPTCHA Scripts and Services

Tweet“In the past days I received several requests from my readers to suggest some CAPTCHA scripts and services quickly to embed into a web page. This post proposes a list of ten interesting scripts... 
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Usable Accessibility: Making Web Sites Work Well for People with Disabilities

Tweet“Such problems often come from trying to make a Web site accessible without understanding how people with disabilities actually use the Web. The challenge for UX designers is to find ways of... 
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5 Principles for Setting Type on the Web

Tweet” There are some basic approaches, guidelines and goals to consider when working with type on the Web. Overall, the medium of Web typography involves readability, accessibility, usability, and... 
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