6 Smart Ways to Increase Your Freelance Income

Whether you are a web designer, developer, or a graphic artist, the tips in this article will be helpful to you.

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Freelancers can enjoy a handsome amount of work & income on a regular basis. However, it may not be easy if you want to extend your income to a higher level. Though it may not be easy, it certainly is POSIBBLE!

What You Need To Know About Google Analytics and It’s Diverse Toolset

Google Analytics is a free service that all web designers and webmasters should know about. It’s an SEO toolset that Google provides to keep track of web contents, improve web performance, and analyse how visitors use your site.

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6 Web Design Predictions for 2013

Do you agree?

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2012’s end of the world did not come and now what lies ahead in 2013? What will be the key changes in design for this year? Here are the six predictions.

20 Stylish Drop-down Menus in Web Design

There are many ways to design a navigation menu. These days, almost all websites come with a stylish navigation menu. In this article, I’d like to share with you some of my favourite navigation drop-down menus I’ve seen so far this year. Designers, come check these out and let me know what you think.

Lake Nona

Are you only good at designing?

Dear Freelancers, merely being good at designing may hurt your career

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Eye-Catching Circular Elements in Web Design

It’s been a while now since I last wrote an article on my blog. Been really busy but I’m happy to have revamp my website. I’ve even given my blog a much cleaner layout design. Hope you guys like my new website and blog. Well, good news everyone! I’m going to start blogging more frequent again.

These days, I’ve seen a lot of websites using circles or circular elements. They are giving a great influence on web design trends as well. Subconsciously, circles are associated with the communication.

They are used at times to convey a particular concept or idea. I’ve visited a number of nice websites creatively using circular elements in their layout.

Evans Halshaw

Rype Arts

Good To Know: What is Object Oriented CSS?

The theory behind OOCSS according to Nicole Sullivan

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In this article, I introduce to you the concept of object oriented CSS. I came to learn about Object Oriented CSS from Smashing Magazine.  Until I read the online article on it’s website, I didn’t know that CSS could be such a powerful tool and what we can do with it. Nicole Sullivan, is a CSS guru who started the OOCSS.org. She has been hired by Facebook to optimize their CSS files.

Nicole first presented the Object Oriented CSS at Web Directions North, in Denver.  The response has been overwhelming. According to Nicole, OOCSS allows you to write fast, maintanable and re-usable codes. It makes for a more efficient stylesheet that is easier to add and to maintain.