10 Minimalist Portfolio Websites for your Design Inspiration
Minimalisit web design has one huge advantage: It allows your visitors to center on the information (whether written or photographed), while stripping down any "visual noises" that might hinder that concentration. Here are some excellent examples of minimalist, elegant portfolio websites. Buero Buero DB Works Irving & Co Neuarmy Altered Landscape Yes Studio Anagrama Julien [...]
Encouraging Better Client Participation in Responsive Design Projects
In all the excitement about responsive Web design over the last few years, someone forgot to tell our bosses and clients, so we’ve been treating responsive design like it’s a design or an implementation problem, whereas in fact it’s as much an issue for business. In fact, it’s an issue for everyone involved: designers, developers, [...]
Freelancer Getting Started Guide to Finances
Riddle me this, freelancers – is a killer month when you earn $10,000 working on jobs or when you’re actually paid that $10,000? If you’ve been working as a freelancer for any real amount of time (whether your business is html5 design, writing or photography) you know all too well that completing a job has [...]
10 Great Free Retro Fonts for Your Web Design Inspiration
Web designers are always in need of new, creative fonts. Here are some beautiful ones – all of them free – for all those nostalgic captions from bygone decades. Riesling Retro Carnivalle Freakshow Airstream Parisian Ballpark Seaside Resort Bellrose Nashville Titania East Market
7 Must-have WordPress Plugins for Bloggers
Content is key when perserving existing readers and acquiring new ones, but any blogger, whether he's a writer, a developer or a web designer, could use some "outside" help to increase his/her blog attractiveness. Here are seven of must-have WordPress plugins to increase your number of shares and readers, and keep better track of what [...]
How to Use Blogging to Market Your Freelance Business
You may have started off your freelancing career – whether you're into web design or professional website development – like I did, by picking up one large client and a couple of small ones right off the bat. This worked for awhile until my husband lost his job and I suddenly needed to bring in [...]
10 Great Google Doodles for Pop Culture
Google has become a household name for millions of web users all over the world. Ranked as one of the top search engines, we know for a fact that millions of internet users log in to Google and key in their search keywords and key phrases, probably not even minding that magnificent trademark found [...]
Fabulous Ideas for Wedding Photography Inspiration
Wedding photography is one of the most lucrative in the photography arena. Many people will probably be hesitant to pose for their own glamour shots or those profile shots fitting for personal portfolios, thinking they will not have any pressing need for them; but couples and their guests will love to be photographed at [...]
Study: The Secrets of High-Traffic WordPress Blogs
We all know that WordPress is awesome — but being awesome isn’t always enough. Does it perform well under pressure? Can it deal with traffic from millions of visitors every month? There’s no question that WordPress can be used for your or my blog, but what about multi-author blogs with thousands of comments? How do [...]
A Refresher on Graphic Web Design for Mobile Platforms
Everything seems to be going mobile these days. Seldom do we now see internet users who get to access the world wide web only on their desktop PC systems, but also in many mobile gadgets they bring with them wherever they go. Even people whose office computers were programmed to have limited access now get [...]
