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What makes a designer happy? My response is: Working all day long at the PC, sketching, drawing, building and learning. But what happens when you`re out of your computer? Well, there are not many options…An alternative is to use your phone smart. (I believe that`s way they`re called SmartPhones). Iphone, the best smartphone available let you install all kind of apps. There are available apps which can be very useful for designers… wouldn`t you love a Photoshop inside your pocket?
I collected bellow 20 awesome iphone apps which I consider very useful and which may help you become a better designer!
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The content management system you choose can really make a huge difference in how much time you (or your clients) spend keeping a site updated and maintained. There’s a huge variety out there—some estimates put the number at around 1700 different options. Some are great…some, not so much.
Below are ten useful guidelines to consider when choosing a CMS, followed by rundowns on ten great CMS options available and how they stack up based on the guidelines.
What do you want your website to do? Is it going to be primarily a static website, like an online brochure? Or is it going to be a fully-functioning ecommerce site? Or maybe it’s going to be really media-heavy with tons of videos, photos, and audio files. Or is a blog going to be the primary focus?
Whatever your site’s primary function is going to be, you need to define it and then find a CMS that does that particular thing really, really well. If blogging is the main focus of the site, then use a blog platform. If images and video are the main focus, then you need to find a CMS that either has great support for media built-in or has great plugins for enabling those functions. If your site is going to focus on an online store, then the platform you choose needs to be able to seamlessly integrate that online store without a ton of extra work.
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Auto-completing fields in a form can be a huge time saver and a major benefit to the user. For example, searching for email addresses is a chore that can easily made much more simple (and I dare say fun) with a splash of Ajax. TextboxList meets Autocompletion is one such example of an auto-complete script that takes a Facebook-esque approach to autocompletion. The implementation is crisp and useful, not to mention easy on the eyes.
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For Web design projects, you may find yourself sometimes scrounging around for a simple yet useful image gallery and slideshow. But imagine having a huge collection of AJAX, JavaScript, Lightbox, CSS and Flash-based image galleries at your fingertips. Hopefully, this post will do the trick and provide all the resources you might need.
by Obaid ur Rehman
Adobe Photoshop is great image editor. One of the best out there… Sometimes happens that you are not home and you don’t have your computer or laptop with you soa there is no way to use Photoshop. But if you’ve got internet connection then this shouldn’t be a problem. There are really some great online alternatives for Adobe Photoshop that will help you do your work effectively. Here are 13 free online image editors that I’ve found and tested. They are really powerful online apps and for even better effects, you can combine their features and get amazing results. Many of these don’t even require any registration or anything, you just upload the image and enjoy editing!
A list of the best WordPress themes: both free and premium blog, magazine and newspaper style themes that turn your WordPress blog into an authority site: complete with organized content, images, videos, ad spots and more!
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