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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

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…..


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May 12

Designing a Landing Page Using AIDA Principles: New on Premium

In our latest Premium tutorial we’ll design a landing page layout in Photoshop Not only will we cover Photoshop techniques we’ll also look at the theory behind each decision made – knowledge that can be applied to your very own designs

Become a Tuts+ Premium member to gain access to the whole tutorial as well as hundreds of other advanced videos tutorials and courses

You’ll Learn How to:

Employ a number of Photoshop skills
Get an understanding of AIDA marketing principles
Apply logic…..


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May 12

Put Users in Control With Confirmation Feedback Buttons

This tutorial will teach you how to create a responsive web page with buttons which take on different states depending on the user’s interaction This type of interaction is especially useful on links such as “purchase” or “delete” where it’s wise to confirm that the user indeed wants to take a specific action

This interaction is one that many are familiar with; you can see a similar effect in Apple’s app store when purchasing apps
Apologies for the French you get the idea
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May 12

Diving Into CSS Regions

This tutorial will cover the basics of CSS regions which allow us to flow content within various sections of the page Confused? You probably are; read on!

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CSS Region Support
At the time of this writing the CSS Regions specification is a working draft and things may change! Techniques mentioned in this tutorial might change in implementation The aim of this tutorial is to give…..


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May 12

SASS vs. LESS

“Which CSS preprocessor language should I choose?” is a hot topic lately I’ve been asked in person several times and an online debate has been popping up every few days it seems It’s nice that the conversation has largely turned from whether or not preprocessing is a good idea to which one language is best Let’s do this thing
Really short answer: SASS
Slightly longer answer: SASS is better on a whole bunch of different fronts but if you are already happy in LESS that’s cool at least you are doing yourself a favor by…..


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May 12

Responsive Images and Web Standards at the Turning Point

Mat Marquis keeping us up to date on the responsive images hot drama Good reminder at the end about not picking sides
Direct Link to Article — Permalink Responsive Images and Web Standards at the Turning Point is a post from CSS-Tricks …..


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May 12

Responsive Web Design – Ideas, Technology, and Examples

The web design industry is constantly evolving whether that be with the latest trends in design – big header images large photographic backgrounds etc or with the latest technologies – HTML5 jQuery CSS3 and so on It’s important as a web designer and developer to keep up with these ever changing “ trends ” within the industry
One of the biggest “ trends ” that has hit this field over the past year or so is the concept of responsive web design It…..


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May 12

How to Code a jQuery Rolodex-Style Countdown Ticker

Advertise here with BSA I’m sure many of you are familiar with how an office rolodex works You have a series of cards with contact information which you can flip over to sort through alphabetically These are most common in the office settings because businesses must to keep in touch with so many different people Although the value is in translation into a web interface we can still use this idea to create a really neat timer effect
More specifically I have seen a couple countdown widgets on landing…..