The festive season is arriving and the whole world feels like it is dressing up in its entire splendor! If you are one of those people who hate all the rush that this season brings with it, it is time for you to get into the Christmas spirit. But how does one get into the Christmas spirit? Well, Christmas is all about spreading love, kindness, happiness and joy and the best way to do this is to do it spontaneously. Does your wife do all the Christmas shopping and cooking by herself every year? Why not ask her to take a break from it all and do it yourself? That will get her in a good mood for sure! Joining a worthy holiday cause in your community is also a wonderful way of enjoying Christmas.

The Perfect Way To Celebrate It
Giving presents to children who don’t get any is a beautiful expression of Christmas. If you do up the house in holly and mistletoe all by yourself every year, ask your family to join you. Doing up your home together and staying up all night listening to Christmas music and watching Christmas movies while sipping mugs of hot cocoa and cider is a great way of spending Christmas in the way it is meant to be! While the holiday season is knocking at the door, why not decorate your business with the same spirit? Christmas themed cards for your business associates is a great way of letting people know how thankful you are for their business. Also, surprise your business partners with elegant present in form of postcard printing. (more…)

Owning a quality website is a great pride but this joy is the result of a good payment for the creator. It’s worldwide recognized that quality means money, hence the bargains where an individual invests a small amount of money to receive the best services are rare. One of the most challenging projects for a web designer is to create an ecommerce website, these are situated at the intersection of business with design and the final purpose is not a beautiful header or a good informational resource, it’s all about money and profit. Any mistake in the conception of an online store is equivalent to a smaller profit and no one wants it.

In spite of these challenges, any web designer must have the courage to take these kinds of projects, only in the worst conditions the qualities of a person are clear for everyone. The evolution of e-commerce reveals to us that these online presences will become more and more frequent and the “fight” between them, harsher. Translating into the language of web designers this means that more clients will ask for many e-commerce layouts. (more…)

Adobe Photoshop makes it achievable to edit your photos in numerous manners. With infinite possibilities the challenge is recognizing how to employ the photo editing tools successfully. In this post we will feature some helpful tutorials that instruct different photo editing skills and tricks. You are sure to discover at least some that can be put to good exercise in your own work, whether it is on your photos or on those of your clients.

With this post, you can learn some new techniques of photo editing that you can consider next time when you want to upload your photos online. Also, it can help you to prepare a quality photo that will be like a real artwork using canvas printing. Here is the complete list of 50 most helpful Photoshop Photo Editing Tutorials for you. We hope that you like this collection. After reading this, you will know how to use adobe Photoshop CS3 to edit the picture

Starry Night Sky

In this Photoshop effects tutorial, we’ll learn how to easily add a star-filled sky to a night time photo. Artist is using Photoshop CS5 throughout the tutorial but any recent version of Photoshop will work just fine.

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Number of smartphone users are rising consistently and thereby putting equal amount of pressure on online marketers and website owners create a mobile friendly version of their websites. Now, how we are supposed to achieve this? No, just slapping some images and texts here and there or squeezing things small is not going to help either. Moreover, there are so many different species of mobile devices available that it might spin your head when you are to choose the precise screen resolution for the would-be mobile version. But despite all these hardships, a mobile version of a website is a necessity and ignoring it would be just be spoiling the chances. So, if you do not wish to miss out on this opportunity, here we are going to list some tips that you will certainly like to give a go:

Select The Domain: It is not good idea to have different domains for mobile versions and desktop version. Users are less likely to remember two different versions of your websites while juggling between desktop and mobile and if this is not enough, you are just splitting the importance of the website by doing so. (more…)

Facebook has come a long way in the last few years. In February of 2011, they introduced new and improved Facebook page features that allow you to add a little more personal flair to your fan or brand page without having to know any coding or use any special apps. Up until now, most custom fan pages sported “FMBL” tabs, a Facebook app allowing page owners to insert specially formatted HTML to create a wide variety of designs. Unfortunately, FMBL was discontinued in March 2011 to make way for iFrame tabs. Naturally, this new feature gives you the most control over how your page appears and behaves, but what if you’re not a coder?

Even with the demise of Facebook Static HTML tabs, you can still create fully custom pages using several great applications if you need to go beyond basic customization to stand out from the other 1 million pages. In this article, I will cover the basics of page customization and touch on a handful of the most useful apps for creating an iFrame page. (more…)

Animals are an incredible source of action. Whether it’s a favorite family pet or exotic creatures on the hunt, animals give us amazing action shots. Animals in their element — and out of their element — provide us with funny, cute, and thought-provoking material for magazine ads, postcards, posters, and even web design.

But it can be a challenge capturing all of that energy. Animals do not stay in one moment of action for long, especially when a photographer is trying so hard to take the perfect picture. In this collection, we celebrate creations of creatures in action and applaud the photographers who manage to snap that shot at just the right moment. Let these photos inspire you to greatness in your own photographs

This is an amazing shot taken of a dog in his element: playing fetch.

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Anyone who works in the advertising world knows that sex sells, but how risqué an ad actually gets is up to the brand. Many companies, even top brands, have tried anything from simply using a beautiful woman to using shocking images that are flagrantly sexual, even on posters, TV commercials, and even billboards. However, my view is that unless a brand look is based on sex, a middle-of-the-road approach to eroticism is best. With this in mind, the following are a few of my favorite ads that tastefully spice up the message without going overboard.

Pantene Pro V

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Search Engine Optimization has been the name of the game in web marketing and website development for many years now. As more and more blogs and sites swarm the web, it has become ever more essential to rank highly within the various search engine hubs online. Without strong SEO tactics, it can be nearly impossible to gain popularity online. A successful website relies completely on visibility on the web. If your site isn’t being seen, there is no way it can ever be very profitable. However, SEO tactics and techniques have in many ways become the burden of the content writer and marketing team. While these are perfectly logical areas for SEO to fall, there are plenty of SEO efforts that can be made in the area of web design. These are three major SEO mistakes that a web designer may make while designing a site that can really harm your site’s web visibility.

Too Much Flash
As many SEO specialists know, a Flash driven website bears no threat to its competitors because they do not rank well on Google. Many web designers use flash because it is great for interesting animations, games, illustrations, slideshows, and pictures. However, Flash just doesn’t make sense as the sole thing on a webpage. Google views Flash sites as websites without any content and, therefore, ranks them poorly. There are some ways to make Flash animation more SEO friendly, but it is still common belief that HTML content is superior. Some Flash is acceptable in your site’s design, but do not let it overpower the entire project. As a web designer, look into CSS3, HTML5, and JavaScript programming over Flash animation. (more…)