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May 12

Comics of the week #130

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD The content revolves around web design blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers These great cartoons are created by Jerry King an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world today So for a few moments take a break from your daily routine have a laugh and enjoy these funny cartoons Feel free to leave your comments and…..


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May 12

The Shortest Web Design Guest Posting Guide You’ll Ever Need

If this message appears to another site than 1stwebdesigner it has been stolen please visit original source! There are a million web designers out there and every seven seconds there is a new blog that goes live The connection? It’s competition At least for freelance web designers
The truth is the online world is a very harsh place for freelance web designers or even web design firms It takes a gazillion tons of sweat and marketing to be known People’s attention spans are very short Who are you again?
What if I told you…..


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May 12

The Practical Guide to Multiple Relationships Between Posts in WordPress

With the introduction the custom post type feature WordPress has made a very important move from just a blogging solution (very powerful but limited with it’s concept) to full-fledged CMS system All 3x releases more or less are evolving steps in the same direction But some quite common tasks that we’re expecting from CMS are still missing in the Core leaving the battlefield open for plugin developers One such task is creating and management of many-to-many relationships between posts of different types
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May 12

Free download: 40 Exclusive Photoshop Patterns

We’re back with another great exclusive freebie for you This one is a Photoshop pattern file (PAT) which contains 40 beautiful textures that you can apply to your designs A detailed step by step instruction is provided inside the file to help you use them You can use these as textures for your websites or any background Thanks to Rayz Ong from LemonGraphic for creating this awesome freebie for WDD readers Redistribution is not allowed so if you’d like to share this one with your friends kindly direct…..


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May 12

Atomicdust: explaining design process

A St Louis design group announced a special gathering at a local design studio for a program entitled “Educational Night: The Business of Design” The evening’s program was hosted by a local design studio that is making leaps and bounds in the local and national scene so it didn’t take long for the reservations to pour in until there were no more spaces to be had The studio Atomicdust certainly seemed to have the inside information on success having been recognized by the One Show Step Print and Create…..


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May 12

Aggregate Data From Multiple Sources Into A Single HTML – PubwichFork

Advertise here with BSA Previously WRD had shared Pubwich an open source application that can fetch data from different sources
It is not updated since 2010 and there is a regularly updated fork named PubwichFork
To remind the application can aggregate any published data from multiple sources including websites + social networks and display them in a single-page

The sources supported include  Atom RSS Delicious Youtube Vimeo Flickr Lastfm and more …..


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May 12

9 Tips for Staying Focused

Many designers and developers love their work in part because they can work from home or anywhere else that they choose While not working in a typical office setting can be a nice perk it also brings its own set of challenges Possibly the most significant challenge is that there are all kinds of distractions and no one is there to help keep you focused
In this article we’ll take a quick look at 9 things you can do to stay focused and productive
1 Work from a To-Do List Each Day
One of the best…..


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May 12

An Elegant Solution for Cookie Law Compliance

Advertise here via BSA Cookie Control is a universal solution for cookie law compliance With an elegant user-interface that doesn’t hurt the look and feel of your site Cookie Control is a mechanism for obtaining a user’s explicit consent for the use of cookies on their computer It takes just minutes to configure and add Cookie Control to your website
Cookie Control is presenting users with clear information on whether cookies are present linking to your privacy policy (where you should have specific information about…..


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May 12

Line25 Sites of the Week for May 18th 2012

Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs that I stumble across during my every day browsing In this week’s collection we have designs from Iris Vimeo Anthm Little Red Letter and Olly Sorsby Iris View the website Vimeo View the website Anthm View the website Little Red Letter …..


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May 12

Helping Your Clients Build an Effective Mobile Strategy

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It can be a challenge convincing clients to add new strategies to their existing Web presence
In a perfect world a client would simply say "You’re the expert You know what’s best Do whatever needs to be done to make it happen!" But unfortunately it just doesn’t work like that

Granted we shouldn’t expect smart business managers to implement every new thing just because we tell them it’s a good idea That wouldn’t be cost effective But…..