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Can You Make Money from a Website?

August 30, 2010 – 3:05 am

It seems everyone and their mother now has a website or a blog. We hear the success stories like the woman who blogged about cooking and had a major studio buy it to make the movie Julie & Julia. But how can the average web designer make any money without waiting for that kind of luck?

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Minimalist Website Design Can Now Improve Search Engine Position

August 18, 2010 – 6:47 pm

A minimalist web design makes your webpage load faster, which is now one of the criteria Google uses to determine a website’s search engine position.

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Tips for Taking the Guesswork out of Web Design

July 30, 2010 – 4:39 am

Web design can sometimes feel a little like mind reading–clients trying to express abstract ideas about what they want, you trying to divine what they mean, all of you hoping to land on some kind of common ground. But the design process doesn’t have to be such a scary leap into the unknown.
Expert user experience [...]

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Quick Ways to Bump up Your Web Design Skills

July 23, 2010 – 9:51 am

MediaBistro is offering one killer deal for anyone looking to bump up his/her web design skills. Right now you can get a year subscription to their On Demand Video library for just $97–that’s more than half off the usual price!
The On Demand Videos are a great resource for any designer, and include practical online tutorials [...]

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How to Design an iPhone Application: Part 2

July 15, 2010 – 3:51 pm

So the last post started you down the road to iPhone app stardom. Now let’s talk about how to execute your big idea and actually get it up and running in the iTunes store:
5. Get going on the design work.
While you’re waiting for Mac’s Software Development Kit (SDK)  and Xcode files to download, work on [...]

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