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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 the same level of contrast between the visual elements. Create your sketches and roughs in black and white and then create comps in grayscale. This workflow not only allows your mind to stay focused... 
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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 to help the world in areas such as science and technology, education, global public health, the environment, youth advocacy, and the arts.” From Google Grants. The value of their grant varies and... 
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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. Colors don’t exist in a vacuum but are always seen with other colors. Because of this, you can design a color-coordinated document based on the colors in any element on the page. Here’s how.” From... 
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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 other online communities. Our avatars are a representation of our brands — our personal brand or our company’s or organization’s brand. But how many of us are thinking strategically about our avatars?” From... 
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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. Often I have to dig out their contact information to make calls. Awhile back, I found Xobni, a software tool with an odd name that should be in every version of any email software. Now they have a Plus... 
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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 — usually incorporating a user experience specialist — then reference this documentation during implementation and upgrade processes. However, as the numbers of systems grow within an organization,... 
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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, from Six Revisions. Both articles are good for identifying possible services to use. Both have some overlap in the services they document. (I’ve also covered this topic before, Website Monitoring... 
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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 of your pages? You don’t have to do that anymore. Now you can debug your pages on multiple versions of IE on the same machine that you use for Web development.” From the MSDN Blog about... 
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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 what are the primary benefits and changes for the new branded pages?” From AllFacebook. This article nicely describes how to take advantage of Facebook for your business. It is extremely comprehensive,... 
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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 it’s related to usability, and what are the common tools/programs used in information architecture. Along the way we’ll share some of the tweeters, books, and resources we found useful for budding... 
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