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Not too long ago I was having a conversation about chocolate and realized that one either loves it or just simply finds it not to their liking at all. There are also those who crave chocolate on a constant basis. The color that we all identify chocolate with is brown
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Chocolate Treats
I finally had a chance to create some Fractal Photoshop Brushes and here they are. These are very useful for getting unique space effects and abstract compositions, such as a solar flares. The brushes are all at a 2500 x 2500px – Maximum quality
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8 Free Fantastic Fractal Photoshop Brushes
There seems to be confusion about the minimal set of elements that make a valid HTML5 page. (Amended on prompting from Tab Atkins and Mathias Bynens in comments below.) The simplest valid document is The title element is required in most situations , but when a higher-level protocol provides title information, e.g.
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A Minimal HTML5 Document
In what one Facebook spokesperson is calling a “frivolous” suit, a New York web designer is suing the online social networking giant Facebook, Inc., claiming that he has 84 percent ownership of the wildly successful company, reports the Wall Street Journal . The suit stems from a 2003 contract between designer Paul D. Ceglia and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg which allegedly says that Ceglia would pay $1,000 to develop and design a website and eventually receive a 50 percent stake in the product, plus an additional 1 percent interest in the business for every day after Jan.
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Web Designer Says He Owns Large Chunk of Facebook
New iPhone 4 Copes with Bad Reception Blues The new iPhone 4, the latest in Apple’s ever-popular line of smartphones was released to much fanfare this summer. However, upon its release, consumers everywhere complained about the reception
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New iPhone 4 Copes with Bad Reception Blues
This generator creates an interesting background image for your website. You input between two and four color values (hex) and it will generate a tiling image that uses gradually changing dots on a gradient background. I created one image based on the colors of my blog, and then tried it out using the random option
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Web Design Software Pick of the Week: PixelKnete’s Background Dotter
The Evolution of The Logo Logo design has been a controversial subject in the design press lately. One branding professional recently claimed that logo design is not that hard to do and another said that logos are dead; some rebutted while others concurred. Why all the fuss
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Linkswitch #26
If you could go back in time to the moment you first started freelancing, what is the single most important piece of advice you would give yourself? Would you spend more time developing a specific skill set? Would you tell yourself not to take on that CFH – Client From Hell?
This is the start of a series of posts centered around low-budget wedding/reception advice involving my own wedding in 2005 and the weddings I’ve helped with since, including my most involved wedding recently for my brother Sam. I’ll also be including a bit of outside research for other tips and tricks from people on the web.
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Realities of a Low-Budget Wedding: Chapter #1: Locations
When you’re a traditional freelancer, you’re always constrained by your individual capacity to produce work. In fact, after talent, knowledge and experience, time is your most important resource. And since there are only so many hours in a week, you need to treat that time with great care
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What Is Your Ideal Client Profile?
You may not have had to deal with that call yet, but rest assured it’s probably going to happen. You pick up the phone, and you have a very unhappy client expressing their displeasure in your recent submission. And the worst part about it – it’s your fault. You missed the deadline, your design didn’t incorporate their mandatories, or you got their phone number wrong on a DM – after they had given final approval
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How Do You Apologize to Clients?
If you’ve been to a bookstore or library lately, you’re quite aware that there’s no shortage of business books. However, you probably have a shortage of time for reading them. As an avid reader and freelancer, I’m going to give you some tips on how to read books about business — everything from small business books to advice from Fortune 500 CEOs.
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Profiting from Business Books: How to Read Books About Business
These textures are all taken with a tripod to ensure accuracy. They are all at a very large 3264 x 2448 so will come in handy on a variety of projects. They are of various shrubs trees and plants from nature in the British Summer.
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15 Stunning Free Hi-Res Nature Textures
Are you doing anything to develop your current clients into bigger clients? Do you have a few small clients that you enjoy working with, but they aren’t giving you quite enough work to keep you busy? You might think I spent a bit too long working under the golden arches, but I think it’s better, and easier, to develop the clients you like working with instead of finding new ones.
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How to Upsell Your Services as a Freelancer
A growing trend for some companies is to hire freelancers for a full 40 hours (or occasionally more) per week. These freelancers have to show up to the office on time, handle whatever work is on the agenda, work on an indefinite basis and generally act like employees
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Permalancing: Full Time Freelancing with a Client
It’s no secret that freelancers run unusual and sometimes extended hours. When making a deadline matters, what do you use to give yourself a kick in the seat? When you need to pull an all-nighter, or you need to stay awake after your last all-nighter, which energy drink do you reach for before you fall asleep on your keyboard
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Energy Drink Showdown: Rockstar vs. Red Bull
credit: Shutterstock Poor PC freelance users, we never get the love we deserve! So to help rectify that, I took some time to round up the best 50 PC apps that freelancers can use in their business, in no particular order. Everything from time tracking apps and online storage apps, to anti-virus apps and instant messaging apps, well-known favorites to new-comers in beta, we got a comprehensive list of PC applications to help you organize your digital workflow. 1.
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Cool PC Apps: The Top 50 PC Applications for Freelancers
Green Products Hélio DAB Radio Via Designed by Lea Longis, the Helio DAB radio concept uses solar panels to provide it with energy. It incorporates Gratzel solar panels that capture sunlight and provide the radio with the energy required to run it. Not only do the panels give power, but also a fascinating appearance
I am an avid reader. I get lots of books on Web design and other topics – whatever interests me, in fact. One of the biggest boons for me with the advent of eReaders like on the iPad is that I can get more books without filling up my house (which is already quite full) with more books.
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Poll: How many Web development books do you buy a year?
Here we have a selection of various Photoshop photo effect tutorials fresh from this year. They are all in Photoshop but if there are enough requests, I’m sure we can do some in other photo editing programs too. You might also enjoy these posts: 11 Great photoshop photo effects tutorials 16 Great Photoshop Light Effect Tutorials Create a Devastating Twister With Photo Manipulation Techniques Create a Dark and Surreal Poster Using Your Own Portrait Photoshop Tutorial: Create a children’s book illustration Create a Beautiful and Dramatic Scene With Photo Manipulations Super Easy Typographic Portrait in Photoshop Create a Vivid Themed Illustration Using Simple Hand-Drawn Elements Make a Surreal 3D Outdoor Room Scene in Photoshop Design a Surreal Desert Scene in Photoshop Use Photo Manipulation and 3D Layers to Design a Surreal Cover Art Illustration Melting Girl in Photoshop How to Create a Matte Painting Inspired Scene Making of Urban How to Make a High-Impact Fashion Poster in Photoshop Matte Painting: Create A Distressed Surreal Cityscape Photoshop Tutorial: Create dynamic lighting
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15 Fresh Photo Effect Tutorials From 2010