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10 Great Tools to Create a Mobile Version of Your Site

February 24, 2010 by Tom Walker 73 Comments

84% of Americans currently own a mobile phone. Sadly, there are no figures showing how many of these devices are ageing bricks without internet capabilities, but you can bet that, within a few years, the majority of mobile phone users will be able to browse the internet, wherever they are. Right now, most websites are […]

Filed Under: Mobile, Tools, UX

20 Fantastic Usability & Conversion Analysis Tools

February 10, 2010 by Tom Walker 27 Comments

Once you’ve built or designed a website, it’s absolutely vital that you perform some degree of usability testing to ensure that it’s functioning as it should. Analyzing conversion rates (the percentage of visitors to your site who perform a desired action) is also a must. Usability and conversion rates are inextricably linked. If customers are […]

Filed Under: Resources, Tools, Usability, UX

20 Color Combination Tools for Designers

January 23, 2010 by Joel Reyes 53 Comments

Being able to select the right colors is key in designing an effective and intriguing design, whether for the web or for print. If you’re able to achieve a good balance within your design, then it’ll communicate a stronger message much more easily to the users or readers because certain colors “activate” certain types of […]

Filed Under: Design, Resources, Tools

Concept Feedback Giveaway – 5 Premium Concepts

January 12, 2010 by Jon 19 Comments

Concept Feedback is one very useful and simple tool for designers and developers to get feedback on their designs and concepts. Whether you’re working on a brand new web project or redesigning your own site, getting feedback before you launch can prove very, very useful. We’ve partnered with Concept Feedback to give away premium concepts […]

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Enter To Win One Of Three Copies Of Billings 3 : Time-Tracking And Invoicing For OS X!

August 31, 2009 by Jon 42 Comments

This contest has ended! Thanks everyone for participating! :) The 3 lucky winners are below. We used random.org to pick the winners! Mike Acevedo Steve Bargas Ryan I am always looking into ways of making the (often time-consuming and painful) tasks of billing and invoicing easier and quicker. Guess what? Billings 3 helps me do […]

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How To Create A Simple Portfolio Site Running On Surreal CMS

August 12, 2009 by Jon 23 Comments

I always enjoy working on new things and learn about new CMS and how they work and all. I recently connected with Cory at Surreal CMS, and I decided to write a tutorial on how to create a portfolio site and run it with Surreal CMS. It’s pretty simple actually. In this tutorial I’ll show […]

Filed Under: CSS, Design, Tools, Tutorial

20 Tools For The Freelance Designer On A Shoestring Budget

August 10, 2009 by Jon 86 Comments

In your career as a freelance designer you’ll probably use tens, if not hundreds, of different tools to perform all the tasks needed to run your business. From image editors to accounting apps to text editors. There’s no way I could list all the tools available in one post, and if I did they would […]

Filed Under: Design, Resources, Tools Tagged With: freelancer tips, tools

Top 12 Free Content Management Systems (CMS)

June 18, 2009 by Mike Smith 269 Comments

Building websites by hand with all html/css pages was fine a couple years ago, but these days there are a ton of awesome Content Management System options out there that make our jobs as developers and website publishers SO much easier! So, What Exactly Is A Content Management System? According to Wikipedia, they describe a […]

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12 Tools And Sites I Use To Run My Web-Design Business

January 3, 2009 by Jon

Running your own business can be quite a challenge sometimes! But fortunately for us there are some cool folks out there who create tools and sites to help get things done better and faster. I’m often asked what tools and sites I use and why, so here it is! Note that many of the tools […]

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Nifty Services We’re Too Proud To Use

December 3, 2008 by TDH 8 Comments

We’re all designers, right? We look at the current trends, break them when we can, and we try our best to make our work look great. In the backdraft of this are the would be designers that just don’t cut it. The ones that can’t do a gradient logo with reflection in Photoshop. That’s fine, […]

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