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From Tutorialzine –20 Protips For Writing Modern CSS:
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In this post we want to share with you a collection of 20 useful conventions and best practices that are recommend by the CSS community. Some are tailored more towards beginners, and some are a bit advanced, but we hope everyone will find a cool trick they didn’t know about
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From A List Apart: The Full Feed –Why Aren?t You Asking Questions?:
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It's the kickoff meeting. You are the lead designer on the project, and this is the first meeting with everyone in the room. Your client is reciting her wish list, and you're taking diligent notes – probably with cute, relatable doodles. An hour passes, and you've barely said a sentence. You're nodding your head, scarcely making eye contact. You have some thoughts, but you aren't speaking up. Why aren't you speaking up? You've likely been burned in the past. Perhaps you've shared some ideas and they were turned down. You have felt embarrassed in meetings. Projects that you put your heart and soul into were changed at the last minute without your consultation or discarded, apparently without a second thought….
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From Graphics – CreativePro.com –Soft-Proofing: Benefits for the Graphic Designer:
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There is a very useful, but often overlooked, feature in Photoshop relating to color reproduction. When used properly with the required process control procedures in place, it is extremely helpful to preview how the color in an image will render as it moves through the digital workflow. The feature I’m referring to is soft-proofing. Let’s discuss what soft-proofing is, and the benefits it offers before getting into the how-to steps within Photoshop. Quite simply, soft-proofing answers the question, “How will this image look when printed?” Or more specifically for a graphic designer, “How will this image look when printed by my print vendor on their press with the paper I selected?”
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From Tutorial Lounge » Tutorial Lounge –How to Create a Portfolio Website that Entices Clients:
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There was a time when designers and artists had to carry a large brown bag to every job interview which was full of big and small papers representing their work. Today, like every other organization has shifted to different online mediums for its publicity and promotion, artists and designers have joined the same bandwagon with […]
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From Queness Feed –Stop Using Lorem Ipsum, Use Redacted, The Font for WireframingStop Using Lorem Ipsum, Use Redacted, The Font for Wireframing:
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Lorem Ipsum, the Latin placeholder text is the most commonly used dummy text in design. Although there are other dummy text generators, Lorem Ipsum seems to be the most popular one.
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From Queness Feed –Optimize Your Websites For Killer Page Load Speed:
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No matter how well your website is designed, if your it loaded painfully slow, you will lose your visitor’s interest. Page loading time is very important thing to provide great user experience. If you’re wondering how fast your page load, try this Google Page Speed to see your score.
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From Dropinks –Crafting a Drop-Down Notification List With CSS3:
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This is the kind of list that your visitors can use to view activity that has happened on their account while they were away. Facebook and Twitter make great use of this kind of feature already – and …”
From Tutorialzine –Freebie: 4 Great Looking Pricing Tables:
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A pack of 4 pricing table templates for displaying different subscription plans or services. They are absolutely free, require no attribution, and are really easy to implement and customize.
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From Queness Feed –Creating New Projects By Using Strong Resources:
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Whenever you start a new project, I believe you will have a list of web applications up your sleeve, a well-chosen tools that will smoothen the planning, design, development and support process. Here we have a good list of web applications that we reckon it will be a great addition to your list:
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From Tutorialzine –Quick Tip: The Easiest Way To Make Responsive Headers:
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In this article we will show you a super simple way to create a responsive header which adapts to the available screen space with only a few CSS properties.
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