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Your Sneak Peek at Photoshop CS6

Photoshop CS6 Beta is available for download. Some of the many new features include: General FeaturesDark UI Presets (Migrate Presets and Import/Export) Patch Tool w/Content-Aware Option Scripted Patterns... 
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50 Free UI and Web Design Wireframing Kits, Resources and Source Files

“This article focuses on actual wireframing tools and standalone applications, as well as resources that you’ll need to build your own wireframe: wireframing kits, browser windows, form elements,... 
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Interview with Michael Doret, Illustrator and Font Designer

Inspired by designs found in the real world — signs, matchbooks, postcards, automobiles, books, magazine covers, and postage stamps, Doret has evolved from an illustrator to a font designer. His... 
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How to Design Without Graphics

Amazing little video that shows how to use white space and contrast to create image-free designs. The video is an excellent introduction for non-designers, as well, about the nature of white space, how... 
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Contrast is King in Design

“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

“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 to help... 
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How to Find the Perfect Color and Create a Color Palette

“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. Colors... 
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6 Tips for Better Branding with Avatars

“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 other... 
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Xobni Organizes Your Outlook Email

As 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. Often... 
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UI Pattern Documentation Review

“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

Recently 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, from... 
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View Your Web Pages in Multiple Versions of Internet Explorer Browsers

“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 of... 
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How to Develop a Facebook Page that Attracts Millions of Fans

“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 what... 
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Complete Beginner’s Guide to Information Architecture

“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 it’s... 
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Google Voice Launches, Perfect for Small Businesses

Google 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, like... 
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75+ Excellent Free Professional Fonts

“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 in... 
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Object Oriented Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

“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

“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 are... 
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10 Steps to the Perfect Portfolio Website

“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 a Web... 
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How to Deal with Internet Explorer 6 (IE 6)

“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 that... 
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