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“Everyone wishes to be able to do more with less time. It isn’t a dream as we get more experienced with our work. Of course, modern technology also provides us with many “short cuts”. Let’s see what kind of applications are available for us. In this post I listed free applications as well as some brilliant commercial products. Please read on and enjoy!”
“The AIGA|Aquent Survey of Design Salaries is commissioned annually by AIGA, with the support of its partner, Aquent, AIGA’s official sponsor for professional development, and in cooperation with Communication Arts magazine. The salary survey is part of a comprehensive program of AIGA activities developed to serve the professional designer with strategies for success as well as sources of inspiration. AIGA is the principal source of information on the design economy.”
“What is design? Is it something you sketch? Is it a bright idea in your mind? Is it something that makes you ponder? There are endless questions and answers about what design is.”
“With jQuery for Designer’s redesign I decided to add a scrolling carousel that worked in the same way the carousel worked on the Apple Mac ads page. This tutorial will walk through the fundamentals of the effect and how to recreate it.”
“The design phase of creating a website is fairly standard for most web designers however when it comes to presenting the mock up to a client before slicing / coding the design, some problems do arise so I went out and asked the community about how they present a web site design to a client.”
“Every website has to perform maintenance at some point or another. Whether it’s just to upgrade a portion of the site or because of some problem with the site, it’s an inevitable fact of website ownership. And in many cases, maintenance requires taking your site offline for at least a few minutes.”
“Many CSS and JavaScript tutorials suggest using display:none to hide elements. It may be temporarily, for example when using JavaScript to hide or show parts of a page depending on the user’s actions, or permanently, for example in image replacement techniques, skip links, or structural headings.”
“This article will discuss what it is, how it’s declared, some practical uses for it, and drawbacks that need to be considered before implementing it.”