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The Future of CSS Typography

Apr
2010

There has been an increasing and sincere interest in typography on the web over the last few years. Most websites rely on text to convey their messages, so it’s not a surprise that text is treated with utmost care. In this article, we’ll look at some useful techniques and clever effects that use the power [...]

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Why we don’t need asset management…

Apr
2010

This is a tongue in cheek blog post by Widen Enterprises, a bit cheesy but gets the point across… “I work in a small marketing team of about five. We have a designer, a product manager, a brand manager, a marketing assistant and an online marketer. We work closely with the sales and customer success [...]

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MIMBO – Great WordPress Magazine Theme

Mar
2010

MIMBO is a clean, customizable magazine-style theme for WordPress. It’s also a simple framework which can be modified with child themes, discussed further down in the documentation. Read more about the latest features. View site By Darren Hoyt

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Handy design app – Dynamic Dummy Image Generator

Mar
2010

Need a generic image to go into a web design – search your hard disk no more! – just head to this site, the lorem ipsum of image creation Meet the Dynamic Dummy Image Generator by Russell Heimlich

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40 Creative Navigation Menus

Mar
2010

One of the first things to do when planning out a new website is to work out all of the content that will be in the site. You then divide that up into sections and then into various levels of navigation. The result is a boring list of links. That list of links is one [...]

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What are some effective techniques for building SEO links?

Mar
2010

Pulkit Agrawal from Ahmedabad, India asks: “Organic link building, according to me is one of the most difficult tasks for SEOs of SMEs. Can you please list 5 effective ways of organic link building other than building great content?” Learn more From Google Webmaster Central Channel, YouTube.com, 4 March 2010

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5 Important E-commerce Themes for 2010

Mar
2010

Purchasing online and e-commerce has been growing at a rapid rate for many years and during that time things have changed massively. From online merchandising to order management to delivery, things are constantly evolving. This article is aimed at giving what I believe are 5 important themes in this area over the next year, and [...]

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Is Pivot a turning point for web exploration?

Mar
2010

Gary Flake demos Pivot, a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online. Built on breakthrough Seadragon technology, it enables spectacular zooms in and out of web databases, and the discovery of patterns and links invisible in standard web browsing. View more From TED.com March 2010

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Mega Collection of The Best Free Social Media Icons for Bloggers and Designers

Mar
2010

Social Media Integration is becoming a must have feature for every website and blog. It is crucial for a website’s success that this feature is not overlooked. One of the ways to get user’s attention is having nice social media icons because they are attention grabbing and easily recognizable. In this showcase we are presenting [...]

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DLKW turns websites into music with new software

Mar
2010

Delaney Lund Knox Warren has created Codeorgan, a new piece of software that can take any website and turn it into a piece of music. The program, which can be found at www.codeorgan.com, analyses the “body” content of any web page and translates the code into a tune. Read more By Matt Williams, Brand Republic, [...]

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