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5 Ways Your Small Business Can Boost Facebook Engagement

Posted by Ian Nuttall in Marketing
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Love it or hate it, Facebook is still the number one social network and first-stop web destination for a majority of web users. Despite this, many entrepreneurs are still unsure of best practices for using the site to benefit their small business. The truth is, Facebook is one of the best ways to market your…

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Free Productivity Tools for Webmasters

Posted by Ian Nuttall in Tools

In this post you will find 7 of the best free web applications that can simplify your work life. It doesn’t matter if you are a supervisor, manager, office worker, home user, student, developer or designer – these tools will definitely improve your performance at work and make your life easier. Just take a look…

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Why Your Design Needs Negative Space

Posted by Ian Nuttall in Design

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Lewis Sellers, founder of the web design agency Pinpoint Designs. It’s what you can’t see that counts, well in the case of negative space; it’s being able to see what’s not there that counts. The power of negative space in art and also in design is extremely…

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7 Aspects To Designing A Valentine’s Day Website Banners

Posted by Ian Nuttall in Design

Every year Valentine’s Day is a focus for lovers the world over and one of the things any website designer will know is that it is a good idea to make sure your website banners reflect this important occasion!

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Bigg: A free Genesis child theme

Introducing Bigg: A free responsive child theme for Genesis

Posted by Ian Nuttall in Freebie

Bigg is our first free WordPress theme, built on the popular Genesis framework and fully responsive. it is jam-packed with features and is free like beer, so check out the demo and download it now.

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The Mobile Book

The Mobile Book Reviewed

Posted by Ian Nuttall in Books

A review of The Mobile Book – the latest print book from Smashing Magazine covering techniques, tools, and ideas for designing for the mobile Web.

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Snow Effect using Canvas & PaperJS

Add Snow to Your Site Using Canvas and PaperJS

Posted by Ian Nuttall in Tutorials

Looking forward to the Christmas season? Bring a bit of cheer to your website this Christmas by using this simple script to add a cool snow effect to your site.

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6 Reasons to Avoid Building Your Own CMS

Posted by Ian Nuttall in CMS, Framework

Thinking about building your own CMS from scratch? Before you do, consider these 6 reasons not to and consider using a tried and tested CMS to build your site on.

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What Does CRO Stand For? Designing For Your Audience

Posted by Ian Nuttall in Marketing

Today we have a guest post from : Daniel Travis Brown is a Manchester-based Conversion Rate Optimisation Consultant at Web Vitality, and regularly writes articles on his ideas and findings over at the Web Vitality blog. For more updates and information find Daniel on Twitter @DanTravisBrown If you’re looking to guest post on a design-related…

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How to Get Your Clients to Pay You On Time

Posted by Ian Nuttall in Freelance

Most of us were drawn to design as a career path for one reason: we’re creative. Design allows us to tap into our creative sides and spend our time creating and brainstorming. Because we tend to be right-brained, however, we’re also not always the best at dealing with the business side (read: boring) of daily…

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