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Freebie: Facebook Fan Page GUI PSD

A wonderful article I found… take a look:

Today we are glad to release a yet another freebie: a Facebook Fan Page GUI PSD, designed by Hike and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The PSD will speed up the process of creating previews, thus sparing you from drawing all the comps and letting you customize all the texts, buttons and data as you need. All layers are vectorized, allowing you to scale …

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The Lost Art Of Design Etiquette

Here is a wonderful article I found on Smashing Magazine.

Endless layers in Photoshop. Overstuffed image folders. That jQuery plug-in that has 12 files associated with it. Hundreds or thousands of individual pieces go into making a website. No wonder we go off the deep end when we can’t find a closing div — er, section tag. We work with a ridiculously large number of things, and how we organize them (or choose …

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Why I use HostPapa

As any designer or even website owner will tell you, your website is nothing without a good hosting company behind it. Through out my years on the web, I have tried a number of different hosting companies but for the most of it, I ran into the same variety of problems every time:

Prices were too high, Missing features within hosting …

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Ramble (of sorts)

So I’m sat here on the train, I have limited 3G signal and nearly all the apps I use, use it! What else is there to do? Blog…
I’ve reached a decision that I feel is worth noting and it’s this: I don’t try hard enough!
As of Right now, I am making a new mid years resolution… Must try harder!
I have an invisible list of goals I am wrote, …

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Silverstrip Manual

I often get asked what is my CMS of choice – and nine times out of ten, I will recommend Silverstripe. In this blog article, I offer the ability to browse the “how to, to do” of the backend.
Take a look and read a little more on…

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Predesign Questionnaire

Having recently re-done my website, I forgot to backup / save one of the most crucial elements. The pre-design questionnaire! To me the pre-design questionnaire is an important element to any commission as it helps you gauge what your client is both already has / is expecting. The questionnaire is used as part of an ongoing …

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New Website Resolutions

As you have probably noticed, my website has a new look & feel! Well I say new look – an updated look with additional functionality. It is my intention to post at least once a fortnight on my works, technology, inspiration, sites, lift and death.

This month, I will be updating the site with:

Content
My History
Ways of working
Inspirational sites
Portfolio Works

That’s it …

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