As you may have seen on Tuesday, we were disappointed to see that there were no copywriting blogs in last year’s Top 10 Blogs for Writers.
We think persuasive writers — content marketers and copywriters — are as worthy of cheers and accolades as our fiction-writing brothers and sisters.
So today I put together a list of [...]
The internet is on strike! Today, more than 7000 sites are going dark in protest of anti-internet legislation. SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, and PIPA, the Protect IP Act, could alter the way that the internet functions.
Sites like Reddit and Wikipedia have decided to blackout their sites today to protest SOPA and PIPA. The [...]
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Once upon a time, all WordPress themes looked like traditional blogs, with basic functionality and not a heck of a lot more. But as you will see from the themes below, that original “blog” design style is clearly gone, perhaps never to be seen again. It makes you feel nostalgic.
Nowadays, user requirements for WordPress themes are very high. Users expect all themes (including free ones) to have pages for admin options built in, where you can quickly set up your website and personalize it with a minimum of fuss. With the rise of these options pages, niche-specific theme designs (such as for portfolios, blogs or magazines) are no longer required and are, in fact, few and far between.
Internet memes come and go faster than reality TV stars. Once they’re gone, we think of them less than the stars of last year’s Real World, if that’s even possible.
5 ways to measure return on investment for social media
Last week Facebook rolled out a new version of their privacy settings to all users. Privacy settings are something that many Facebook users are regularly confused about. That’s why we published our original Facebook privacy guide back in February. After millions of people visited our privacy guide, we realized how important privacy is to Facebook users. With the new settings rolled out, we thought that now would be a great time to update the guide with the latest changes.
While the following list does not include all of the great new properties in the CSS3 specification, this selection of the top 10 will give you a great start with your front-end coding projects. They’ll save you a lot of time and effort. Note: with the exception of @font-face, neither IE6, 7 nor 8 (from here on referred to as “the older IEs”) support any of the CSS3 properties. IE9 supports several properties and will be indicated.
One of the interesting trend which I noticed recently is to representing the pricing info in creative manner. Modern age designers love to experiment with things and observe how people interact with our work. Even though this is not a common trend to follow but still as the new design styles come up, and as more and more designers notice them and make use of them in their work, this kind of new trends emerge.
Majority of individuals are now browsing the internet through their handsets due to the recently developed mobile phones with internet browsing capabilities such as Bluetooth, WLAN, 3G and GPRS. Because of this fact, the demand is increasing for web designers to make their site’s content accessible to mobile users
Are you suffering from blogger’s block? Is it hard to find time to create content for your blog? If so, look no further. This article lists some easy-to-implement tips to help you get over the hump.
But first, there’s a big myth (and it may be your roadblock) that needs attention.
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This is a new weekly section were we highlight the Top 10 resources from any given field from within the design community. These mini-articles will give us an opportunity to share some really useful resources which would be either-wise ignored and difficult to justify with a full blown article.
We start things off with our [...]
Twitter appears on innumerable personal and professional websites nowadays, whether it is a simple “Follow me” badge in the header or a display of the author’s latest tweets in the sidebar. No longer a fad, Twitter is now a necessity for every website, not just for sharing your thoughts and keeping in touch with people, [...]
