They have done a good job with their advent calendar which has created a new meaning for it. I am not sure if 24 ways was the pioneer in the wave behind advent calendars for blogs but they surely have been the driving force. Today, we will try to show you some of the best advent calendars. We will discuss what makes these advent calendars stand out and how they can catch the attention of your website’s visitors.

What is an Advent Calendar?

Google the keywords Advent Calendar and you will find the Wikipedia page that states that Advent Calendars have something to do with Christmas. Advent Calendars are more like flashy archive calendars which are being used by webmasters to give their schedules a new meaning all together. Well, that is the textbook definition of an Advent Calendar. Otherwise, the term Advent Calendar has evolved quite a lot lately and it is no longer just for Christmas but anything that you want. Actually, the blogging community recently picked up Advent Calendars and shaped its definition to suit their needs.

5 Amazing Advent Calendars

1. 24 Ways

The mother of all advent calendars, 24 Ways (as I said before) was the reason behind the sudden surge in advent calendars on various websites. The quality of content and the presentation of the advent calendar with a blog made people’s jaws drop. 24 Ways is famous for topics ranging from design to development. Even discussions on business matters and inspirational articles make way into the elite list of content that is published in 24 ways. This way the website is able to target niche readers and new readers alike.

The design of 24 ways takes care of various screen resolutions which in itself is a big advantage for readers and publishers too. Also, this advantage takes care of readers who prefer to access the website on mobile devices or other platforms like tablets. 24 Ways is famous for its high quality content and the over-the-top advent calendar is enough to attract users.

2. HTML5 and CSS Advent 2011

You might feel turned off when you see the HTML5 and CSS Advent Calendar 2011 after 24 Ways. But, please bear with the new players in this game. 24 ways has set a standard that might be tough for the rest to achieve, but it does not mean that others will never achieve the same. It is just a matter of time. Anyways, this advent calendar was designed with a set plan. The plan was to publish a new article every day until the end of the year 2011 and looks like the webmasters behind this advent calendar did well to publish quality content.

HTML5 and CSS3 Advent Calendar is full of crazy content with amazing images and planned drafts. The final versions of articles that you see on this website will surely force you to learn something new no matter how big an expert you are in the field of HTML5 and CSS3. I wish that these guys had planned to continue even after the year 2011. But, good things always come to an end, right?

3. Electric December 11

This happens to be Watershed’s annual calendar which covers the best possible short films from across Europe. Electric December 11 gives you the opportunity to enjoy 24 short films from across Europe. Enjoy the underwater bubble ride, discover secret twins, listen to unbelievable music, hug a tree or meet the prime minister.

Electric December 11 is not like the regular blogs with advent calendars. Rather, it happens to be an amazing collection of video based content with presentation skills that cannot be ignored. Do share your experiences once you are done with Electric December 11.

4. PHP Advent

Let us concentrate on websites that are more like blogs with advent calendars of sorts. PHP Advent is one such website with a simple to understand advent calendar. PHP Advent is another blog with content curated for the needs of its niche readers. The idea behind PHP Advent was to push its writers to write regularly. This is another advantage of an advent calendar. If you see a calendar right on the home page of your blog then there is this instinct to push content so that the advent calendar looks lively. This is when you learn to be disciplined and regular.

While you are at PHP Advent, you can also visit Photo Advent which happens to be the brain child of the same people who are behind PHP Advent. Similar template with niche concentrating on photography instead of PHP.

5. MDN Holiday Calendar

When big guns enter the arena they have to be different and better than the best. This is what Mozilla Developer Network did when they launched their advent calendar. The calendar focuses on dates that have something special related to Mozilla and its fan following. Be it just for fun stuff for its followers or ongoing developer news which can be of use to Mozilla developers, the advent calendar is regularly updated with fresh content.

The best part of Mozilla’s advent calendar is its look and its smooth display on any browser. Being a firm believer of Open Source, Mozilla has uploaded the source code of the advent calendar on GitHub. If you want something similar for yourself then you know exactly where you need to look for help. Good luck and do share your experiments with us.

Create Your Own Advent Calendar

You can either use the source code provided by Mozilla (and the two part tutorial) to create a Mozilla look alike advent calendar or jump over to Advent Calendr if you are using a tumblr blog. With the tools provided by Advent Calendr, one can easily turn a Tumblr blog into a advent calendar. You get to choose from multiple skins which can help you create an advent calendar that stands out from the crowd.

Advent Calendr provides its users with customization options and can be customized to suit various users’ needs. One can even separate the Tumblr posts from the advent calendar to reduce the amount of confusion that tend to creep in with a advent calendar.

Lastly, it will be your own expertise when it comes to designing your own advent calendar.

Conclusion

There was a time when blogging was new for us. It took time, but slowly everyone dived into the world of blogging and we know how it is today. It’s the same case with advent calendars. They are still in their infancy and webmasters are still experimenting with them. It will take a lot of time before we see very polished advent calendars and they become common on a lot of blogs. Until then, let us just enjoy 24 ways!

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Styling web forms for both usability and aesthetics is a usual practice for any web designer working on a project. However, at the very beginning of the Internet forms were so dreadful that no modern user would have had the slightest desire to fill in one of them – no customized design, no smart capabilities, scarce consideration towards user experience.

Let’s see the evolution web forms over the past 10 years. It’s simply a lot of fun!

1. Pre-web era forms – the prints that we all despise

Yes, yes, these ones do bring bad childhood memories of endless queues at public administration desks. Perhaps this is the reason most of us don’t enjoy filling out any kind of forms. Hopefully, those prints will become out of fashion before we run out of wood.

2. The early days of WWW: 1991 – 1998

The first years of the Internet (1991-1996) remain obscure as far as web forms are concerned. Since we don’t have NeXT software on hand anymore, there’s no possibility of taking screenshots from back then to see how forms looked (if they existed at all).

As we all know, in a short time WWW became a mass medium and electronic forms made their way in. However, they were awfully rudimentary. Customer feedback was processed through executable files running on the hard disk. It was hard to find  anything like an online contact form. For subscribing to a service, you most likely had to download a form, fill in a hard copy and send it to the webmasters via postal services.

The existent web forms at that time mainly performed search and submission tasks. The interface was dead simple and dull, HTML based with no CSS of course.

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3. Form use in online sales: 1994 – present

1994 brought two major enhancements in the web arena: e-banking and online ordering (pizza, as you may guess). Shortly after, Amazon launched its online shopping service in 1995 and eBay the next year. Naturally, all of them were using web forms.

Those days, e-commerce was hindered by the limitations of credit cards that didn’t support online transactions. The issue was solved around 2000, once online payment processors appeared. Web forms could then exhibit products for sale and then direct submitters right to the payment gateway where they could complete the transaction. This was a major leap for the internet making its entrance in the day-to-day life of regular people.

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4. Web forms in the days of social media: 2004 – present

Two major landmarks for social media are 2004 (the launch of Facebook) and 2006 (the birth of Twitter). Facebook had the most interesting evolution in regards to web forms.

From the very beginning Facebook provided its own tools for creating simple polls and for planning events. However, the original Facebook forms were simple ones, they had security issues and as for styling they used to hold the blueish standard skin of FB. Things got better though. In August 2006, Facebook launched the free Developers API, which led to a burst of applications, widgets and tools. Around 2010 came the first form management apps for Facebook. Users could now have their own signup forms for fan pages, reuse personalized forms brought from outside and build specific mailing lists. Since then, Facebook forms and surveys are among the most popular tools for businesses that perform social media marketing.

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5. Web forms and security

SSL protocol for data encryption was released by Netscape in 1994. Anti-spam tools for web forms such as CAPTCHA and password protection have only been available since 2000. In the dark ages before, there were knight battles with hackers and spam.

How could you prevent bots from signing up countless times? Using IP validation methods that aren’t by far infallible. One famous hijack of a web form occurred in November 1999, when slashdot.org had the idea to run an online poll asking what was the top graduate school in computer science. Even if the IPs were stored in order to prevent duplicate entries, the students of Carnegie Mellon managed to create a program that voted thousands of times for their university. The next day, the competitors (students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology) put up their own program and the two rival bots took over the poll, leaving the valid submissions in shadow. Fortunately, security options we have today are by far more efficient.

6. Contemporary profile of web forms

An important improvement came around 2007 when the first WYSIWYG form builders made their way in. Any internet user could then create forms. HTML knowledge is not mandatory anymore, since the remotely hosted form generators provide wizards with intuitive interfaces.

The portrait of a form that stands at the top of the evolution chain includes, by case:

• slick design, CSS customizable
• various publishing options: on blogging and social media platforms, on regular websites
• e-mail submissions received, secure data transfer and storage
• capacity to draw reports over data
• payment processing
• integration with 3rd party apps to extend its functionality.

Today’s websites are bursting with creative web forms. Contact pages aim to be both visually appealing and efficient as lead generation tools. Forms are successful in performing a wide variety of tasks: online ordering, event registration, research across the web, feedback. With CSS and HTML 5 at hand, forms can be successfully styled so that they blend in with the overall look and feel of any website.

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1. Save the Children

This website has a very sleek design with beautifully designated avenues intended for assistance. There are plenty of courses of action for users that could have made it a cluttered mess, but the design keeps it all very well-organized.

2. Keep a Child Alive

This sleek design makes use of large buttons with a variety of ways to contribute to the mission. A slight grungy effect is used in order to highlight areas of the page. Overall the design is simple and impressive.

3. Manna FoodBank

In this website, you can see the use of a natural color scheme that fits with their mission. The call to action button with the slightest change in color definitely stands apart.

4. Red Nose Day

The Red Nose Day site makes use of a simple two-tone color scheme that symbolizes the passion for the mission. The red colors spreading through the donation page drive people to take action.

5. Oxfam

Here the design of the donation page focuses the entire attention on the obligatory mission and calls to the readers.

6. Habitat For Humanity

The design of this website’s donation page is simple and clutter free; and focuses only on the mission.

7. Witness

The Witness donation page is mainly covered with the text and relevant information with a nicely designed call to action button that is placed right at the upper right corner.

8. Make-A-Wish

In this web design, although it is constructed well, there is a lack of distinction for its calls. The blue turns out to be rather awe-inspiring with the amount of information it contains.

9. American Heart Association

This stylish donation page mainly draws the attention of their users towards the calls. They picked their color scheme quite smartly and the subtle uses of white with the blue definitely look great.

10. Giving to Johns

Giving to Johns Hopkins pushes their cause with a very stylish and appealing donation page that stands out mainly because of its alluring contrast in colors on the header and call to action button.

11. Doctors without Borders

This design of a donation page stands out in our collection as it utilized tabbed windows in order to separate the different paths that users can take to dig in.

12. ASPCA

Here is another example of a subtle donation page. ASPCA uses purple for their calls that truly stands out from the overall orange design colors. With such a soft coloring, ASPCA imparts a sense of comfort that in turn eases the readers into the cause and taking action.

13. Susan G. Komen for the Cure

Susan G. Komen for the Cure website uses a brilliant color scheme that symbolizes their true passion for the mission.

14. Natural Resources Defense Council

The Natural Resources Defense Council uses a very simple approach. They bring overly large and bold call to action buttons into play that make their donation page stands out from the rest. This no frills approach puts pure focus on the mission.

15. Invisible Children

The Invisible Children donation page is as inspiring and touching as their mission is. In order to connect with their mission effectively, they utilize large images of the children the world tends to overlook.

16. Donate Life California

This is a somewhat unusual design for a donation page but this one really stands out from the rest of the site because of its pink calls to action buttons.

17. Charity: Water‘s

With the help of this understated design, Charity: Water‘s keeps their donation page extremely simple and focuses only on the mission.

18. Humane Society‘s

Large images and bold buttons are used to draw the users’ attention towards the main cause and convince them to take action.

19. Action for Children

This website has an attention-grabbing, large and appealing call to action area. This call to action area offsets the donation area satisfactorily and efficiently pulls the reader to it.

20. MJFF

MJFF brings warm and inviting colors into play in order to engage their readers. The color scheme works well and the gradient on the actual donate button makes it stand out.

21. The Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy uses a quite unusual approach for their donation page. They placed two subtle calls under the header where users are likely to expect the navigation to be.

22. Kiva

Kiva has a very simple, sleek donation page that focuses on several routes to help users. The boldly colored call to action buttons are truly attention grabbing.

23. Operation Warm

Here you will notice a nice, friendly color scheme that varies throughout the page. Though the main calls to action mix together with a majority of the site because they are the same color while the secondary calls are a bit more obvious because they break from the blue.

24. Mozilla

Mozilla features a delicate donation page design with an innovative header that accompanies their website. Their fans and users can donate to keep their mission active.

25. Network for Good

Network for Good has got a fantastic design that possesses three courses of action that their readers may pursue. Each of them holds a large, attention-grabbing call to action button.

26. Virgin Money Giving

Here is a unique donation page that is divided into categories in order for users to find the kind of charitable organization they are seeking to support.

27. Planned Parenthood‘s

Here a form is used for the main appeal with more subtle calls placed in the upper right corner. Overall the design is simple and effective leading the reader into the ‘action center’.

28. World Food Programme

World Food Programme uses a very subtle design for their website with an online form to help their users donate for their cause to keep it alive.

29. Red

In this web design, you will see minimalism in a new style as this donation page features overly large typographical elements that truly work well to draw the users’ attention to the action areas.

30. Amnesty International

Amnesty International design of the donation page focuses the entire attention on the obligatory mission and calls to the readers.

31. Dalit Freedom Network

Dalit Freedom Network uses a very natural and earthy color scheme that works well with their mission along with eye catching and appealing call to action buttons.

32. Take The Walk

The boldly colored call to action buttons in this design truly stand out from the other donation page designs. The color scheme is also very appealing.

33. Practical Family Living

Another excellent example of a subtle donation page design that works very well for the mission. All the design elements are in perfect balance making this design stand out.

34. Housing Works

What makes this design stand out is its excellent color contrast as well as call to action button. Housing Works pushes their cause with an extremely trendy and tempting donation page.

35. Children’s Rights

Children’s Rights donation page is designed by keeping the overall design simple and clutter free. The call to action button is moderately sized and positioned at the center of the page.

37. Project Rescue Foundation

In this web design, you will see a unique approach for designing donation pages. An online form is also there to help you donate to their cause.

38. Custodial Abuse

Here they use a large image to connect with their cause in a simple but effective way as they are working for a very sensitive cause.

38. Memphis Zoo

This rather remarkable design for a donation page truly stands out from the rest of the site due to its excellent and vividly colored calls to action button.

Over the past 6 months we have blown away all expectations for the amount of Facebook activity the client was hoping for. Knowing that many of our readers have the same goal as my client, I wanted to share this personal story with you. In this article we will review our marketing strategy, discuss the day-to-day tasks required, and finally share the results. By the end of this case study you should have everything you need to do this too!

Marketing Strategy for Generating Online Engagement

With a goal of generating more online activity from my client’s Facebook community I went to work developing a sound marketing strategy that could work to achieve their goal. Here are the steps I followed:

• Channel Analysis – What are the best marketing channels to leverage for this program?
• Engagement – What type of activity do I want to see from the audience?
• Offer – Will an offer be needed to encourage the sort of activity that I’m looking to achieve?

After running through all of the steps above, my strategy was beginning to form. I would use Facebook, blogging, and Twitter to reach my audience, communicate my message, and encourage engagement in my client’s brand. An online contest with a monthly prize drawing would serve as the strategy that I’d use to achieve my client’s goals.

Contest Planning

Any time you decide to implement a new marketing strategy you should take some time to plan how you will execute your new program. Here are a few questions I asked myself before implementing this new contest strategy:

• How will I explain the contest to my audience?
• How often will I promote the contest?
• What will my call-to-action be?
• What will I offer the winner? Will the winner change monthly?
• How will I select/notify the winner?
• How will I fulfill the offer?

By asking yourself these questions prior to launching your contest you’re more likely to have success. Nobody wants to participate in a poorly thought out contest.

Running an Online Contest

Once you’ve taken time to plan out how to execute your contest, it’s time to implement it. Here’s what we did:

• We used our client’s blog to explain the rules for the overall contest and each new monthly contest. We published a new article at the beginning of each month explaining the rules for the monthly contest and the prize to be awarded.
• We decided to run the contest through Facebook since our goal was to generate more activity from my client’s Facebook community. We had our Facebook fans participate by leaving comments on our Wall Posts.
• We used other tools like Twitter, e-Newsletters, and in-store promotional materials to drive traffic to the contest.
• We came up with new contest activities each week (falling within the theme of the overall monthly contest) in order to keep engagement up throughout the month. We didn’t want someone to participate at the beginning of the month but then have no reason to keep participating throughout the month. We put it in our rules that you had to participate in one activity each week to be entered into the drawing for the prize.

It took some time to get our process fully worked out, but after the first two month’s of running the contest everything was running like a well-oiled machine. Marketing a monthly contest definitely takes some time, but positive results make it worth it. Be sure to keep your contest ideas fun, and your weekly tasks simple. You don’t want to scare people off with tasks that are too difficult. Once the month is over its time to select a winner.

Contest Winner Selection, Notification, and Fulfillment

At the end of each monthly contest we entered everyone who participated in each of the weekly tasks into a drawing. We then selected 1 grand prize winner and 2 consolation prize winners. If you have a lot of people participating in your contest it’s important to have consolation prizes so that more than 1 person can win something.

Here’s how we go about notifying the winners and fulfilling their prizes:

• Since the contest runs through Facebook, we use Facebook to notify winners. We leave a Wall Post on our client’s Facebook page announcing the winner and we send each winner a Facebook message.
• We include a little blurb about the winner in the next contests’ blog article
• Depending on the prize and location of the winner, we usually collect their mailing address via a Google Form that we send to all winners and then mail them their prize.
• We also ask our winners for a picture of them holding up the prize so that we can use it in promoting future contests. If the person lives locally we may actually ask them to meet up for a picture and to give them their prize on the spot.

Contest Results

So far the contest that we set up for our client has been an overwhelming success. The level of engagement by my client’s Facebook community has far exceeded our expectations. Here are some of the data points that we are tracking:

• Average Participation Rate: 10% of fans participate in weekly contests
• Facebook Business Page Growth Rate: Growing page ‘LIKES’ by 5-7% per month
• Facebook Page Impressions: Up 35% since starting the contest

Overall the number of “LIKES” are growing steadily each month, which means we are attracting new contest participants/Facebook community members on behalf of my client. Contest participation is very high compared with an industry average of a few percent. The amount of people seeing our message has skyrocketed since starting these contests. Our labor is starting to pay off as our contest is seeing increasing traffic from Facebook to their website and online sales are increasing.

Should I Run an Online Contest?

Depending on your goals I would recommend that the majority of website owners at least consider running an online contest. Contests can be a great way to engage your online community, as well as, get them to spread your message to their friends. Follow the steps that we laid out in this article and you’re sure to have success.

Watch out! 1stwebdesigner will be launching contests for designers this February!

Google doodles, in a few words, are modified versions of the classic Google logo. They are often seen on special holidays and or for memorable events. Google doodles are a fun and pleasant surprise, because you never know what you’re gonna get. But do you know the story behind Google doodles? Let’s explore them together, and look at the most memorable examples of all time.

The History of Google Doodles

The first doodle was actually in 1998, to commemorate the Burning Man Festival. There is a stick figure behind the ‘o’ in Google. This is to indicate that the founders of Google took part and attended the festival. The design was a nod to the users that the founders were ‘out of office’.

Google doodles became a huge hit, and appeared more and more on other holidays: Christmas, Valentines Day, Thanksgiving, Easter, just to name a few.

Google doodles during the Christmas holidays throughout the years

Soon doodles started to commemorate lesser known events such as: ‘Pi’ day, Hans Christensen’s birthday, the anniversary of Sesame Street, and even the invention of the barcode.

Google is a company with a great sense of humor. Every April Fool’s Day, Google makes hoaxes and pranks that are sometimes silly, sometimes absurd, and always hilarious.

One prank in 2007 was the introduction of the Google TiSP, which is a wireless router that runs through the toilets. Moreover, Google promised that the TiSP has 24 hour, on site technical support in case of backup problems, brownouts, & data wipes.

Another elaborate prank was on April Fool’s of 2006. It was published with the introduction: Dating is a search problem. Solve it with Google Romance’. The search engine tool is used for ‘Soulmate Search’ so users can have a ‘Contextual date’.

Interactive and Flashing Doodles

Recently, Google doodles have gone interactive, and thus, have become more fun. The first interactive doodle was a clickable slideshow of a Halloween candy.

Since then, there have been many unique doodles such as a game, a short film, and more, all on the Google page.
One example is the Google particle logo wherein the particles move away from the cursor every time it moves near.

The Pacman Google doodle is a fun game that celebrates the classic Pacman game. If you missed it when it was on the website last May 22, 2010, you can check and play the game here.

Google celebrated Jim Henson’s 75th birthday on September 24, 2011 with a really funny Google doodle. It’s a pretty nifty doodle, where you can create your own  puppet show. If you missed it, you can still see the Muppet Google Doodle here.

Probably my favorite of all Google Doodles is the Les Paul guitar one. The Les Paul doodle commemorates Les Paul’s 96th birthday. The doodle is extremely fun, it’s playable and you can create and record your own tunes with it.

Some of the Best Google Doodles throughout the years

Here are the best Google doodles from 2001 to 2011.

• 5/24/2002

A tribute to Dilbert, a famous comic strip celebrating every working man. The Google doodle ran for five days, from Monday to Friday, with a funny comic strip feature everyday.

• 3/13/2003

March 13 celebrates the 124th birthday of one of the world’s most lovable scientists, Albert Einstein.

• 1/4/2006

Google in Braille for one day, in celebration of Louise Braille’s birthday.

• 12/12/2006

The Scream logo was featured on December 12, also Edvard Munch’s birthday.

• 5/6/2008

Celebrating the invention of the first laser

• 6/6/2009

Creative Google Doodle with the ‘l’ still dangling on top. This was for the 25th Anniversary of Tetris.

• 3/14/2010

March 14, or 3/14, is a big day for math nerds worldwide. It’s Pi Day– the celebration of the ‘perfect number’, which is 3.14 (or let’s be exact; 3.14159265).

• 9/30/2010

Who can forget the Flintstones? On September 30, 2010, Google commemorated the 50th anniversary of this dearly loved classic cartoon.

• 11/27/2010

Google celebrated Bruce Lee’s birthday with this special tribute.

• 4/3/2011

Celebration of the invention of the ice cream sundae, made on the same date exactly 119 years ago. Yum!

• 2/14/2011

The Google doodle for Valentines day of 2011 is inspired by Robert Indiana’s renowned LOVE sculpture. The original sculpture has been on exhibit at the Indianapolis Museum of Art since the 70s, but now the sculpture has been reproduced in all types of media and colors and is on display around the world.

• 08/06/2011

In honor of the Chinese Valentines Day in 2011, Google featured the doodle in selected countries celebrating the holiday: in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Brunei and Taiwan.

• 12/23/2011

During the holidays, Google made another really great interactive doodle. The doodle is inspired by string lights, carols and popular Christmas icons. Ho, ho, ho!

• 1/7/2012

A Google doodle in honor of the famous and creepy Addams family, in honor of Charles Addams’ 100th birthday.

Doodle your Google Now!

Google Doodle is currently accepting submissions until March 23, 2012. This time there will be winners for all States!

Creating an effective and successful logo design is both an art and a science. The process of logo design is a coming together of the innovative as well as the technical. Let us take a close look at these logo design processes and gain some valuable ideas and insight from them. Enjoy!

1. Logo Design Process: Homespun Chili

Local and international ingredients are used by Homespun Chili in order to create one-of-a-kind meat and vegetarian chili creations. The logo design is clean, smart, original, and conventional with a little Martha Stewart.

2. Metro Aviation Logo Design Process

Metro Aviation is a helicopter transport company that described the whole process of their logo design creation.

3. Case Study: Brokers Logo Design Process

This logo design is simple and fresh, yet gives a very professional image of the event that was organized by Brokers who run stock market simulations and reality contests for college finance students.

4. WebMYnd Logo Design Process

This logo design process clarifies how useful their products are such as one of their products turns your Web-browsing history into an extension of your own memory so that you can also keep a copy of everything you look at on the Web.

5. Mindberry’s Logo Design Process

This Vienna based company offers consulting and project management services and it wants to target a young or trendy audience in addition to more conservative companies which can easily be comprehended through their logo design.

6. Brokers Direct Identity Design

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7. A-List Blogging Bootcamps’ Identity Design

This logo design process clarifies the complete logo design process behind the A-List Blogging Bootcamps identity design which is a website offering a series of short, live online training courses for bloggers.

8. Logo Design from Start to Finish

In this process of logo design, they made use of an eco-friendly bottled water alternative that is provided by Vero to different cafés, restaurants and hotels. Basically they use the latest in microprocessor-controlled water-purification technology to cleanse, chill and carbonate tap water, if needed.

9. Logo Design Process and Walkthrough for Vivid Ways

Vivid Ways is a new blog that bring personal development and colorful living together. It intends to inspire and support readers by offering ideas as well as tips on how to live an amazing life.

10. Tammy Lenski brand identity design

Tammy Lenski LLC is a business that takes care of argument resolution in the workplace. The new logo was expected to be simple and fresh, inspirational and appealing.

11. Logo Design Process for Just Creative Design’s Award Winning Logo

This logo design process reveals that how Jacob Cass decided the name for his freelancing business – Just Creative Design, and the process he used to design the award-winning logo.

12. Blackberry Creek’s Logo Design Process

This article was written by Mark Misenheimer of Misenheimer Creative, Inc. and in this write-up, he explained the process of logo designing from start to finish in order to help other graphic designers.

13. LatitudeSouth’s Creative Process

LatitudeSouth is a New Zealand based enterprise that offers a fresh approach to outsourcing legal services for the clients all over the world. The importance of their origins is evident in their logo.

14. Dimitrovi&Co – Identity process

This logo was created for Dimitrovi & Co. that was founded in the early 90’s, and deals in delivering heavy machinery services such as excavators, bulldozers and heavy trucks.

15. Identity Design Process for Butterfield Photography

Since the logo was created for Butterfield Photography that is run by Maria and Robert Butterfield who focus on different areas of photography, thus the logo needs to be usable across a broad range of businesses.

16. Dezeen Watch Store

The company deals in watches by famous designers and boutique brands and their brand identity that is their logo design gives them a dynamic clock identity.

17. Apple & Eve Identity Development

This logo design process post is for a company invitingly called, Apple & Eve.

18. Green Candy’s Logo Design Process

Here we reveal the process of logo design for Green Candy that shows that a lot of thought is required to achieve the best possible design solution for the client.

19. The logo design process for Dounia

This article explains the process behind the creation of the logo design for Dounia, a Mediterranean canned food company.

20. Media Access

This logo design was created for Media Access, and here is the complete insight story of its creation.

21. Visual identity / Sabienzia

This logo has been designed for Sabienzia which is a dynamic and international enterprise having more than 20 years of experience in the area of teleworking, unified communication, and virtualization, advanced analytics and green IT.

22. Thomas & Gray LogoBy

Get a step by step overview of how Thomas & Gray logo was designed which is a company that makes custom furniture.

23. Behind the Scenes of the DesignBump Redesign

Here get into the behind the scene of the logo redesigning process for DesignBump which is a social bookmarking website aimed purely at the design and web community.

24. Logo design for Social Signal

Need to get some inspiration to design a logo for a web strategy company? Here is the logo design process for Social Signal that facilitates business, non-profit as well as government clients employ the most recent web tools to connect their customers, supporters and the general public in crucial conversations.

25. HotBox Studios

This logo design process is shared with the intention to serve as interesting reading for the design community as well as to let you follow this design process from start to finish.

26. The Logo Design Process for Ultimate Potential

Get the guidelines from Jacob Cass for creating the logo for Ultimate Potential. This article will not only provide an insight into the logo design process but will also demonstrate the thought process behind creating the logo, as well as the creation of the logo itself.

27. Logo Design process for Stratega Group

This process of this logo design creation was completed as part of a full branding project for the Stratega Group Ltd which is a UK based financial company dealing with large clients in various financial fields.

28. Brainstorm #9 Logo Process

Brainstorm #9 is one of the biggest and most prestigious Brazilian blogs and here we are revealing the process of redesigning their brand image.

29. The creative process for The Design Cubicle logo

Let us unveil the creative process for The Design Cubicle logo that aimed to reflect the same sense of community that the workspace and “cubicle-life” provide — a place to create, interact and learn.

30. The Logo Design Process From Start to Finish

Grab the complete logo design process from start to finish for the Uke that sells exceptional arrangements of chocolate as a substitute to gift baskets. An upscale market is the target here.

31. Sikbox Logo Design Process

Sikbox is a web app that lets you to add a live search to your site, or any site. It uses the Yahoo Boss api as well as it essentially works better than Drupal default search system. This post shares with you a bit of the ideas and the design process for the logo creation.

32. Logo Design and Stationery for Aspire Hypnotherapy

The logo design project was completed as part of a full branding and web project at carrotmedia. Aspire Clinical Hypnotherapy is the trading name for Judi Butler, a clinical hypnotherapy from Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

33. A Special Need logo design process

A Special Need is a nanny agency committed to supplying nannies experienced in special needs to parents. The brand new company was helpless without a logo to symbolize their services and online blog that helps parents and professionals.

34. The dache Logo Design Evolution

Get an insight into the logo design process as well as the thought process behind creating the logo; and then will take you through the process of logo designing.

35. Behind the Typedia Logo Design

John Langdon created the logo for the Typedia, and here he revealed the deep story behind the creation of this logo.

36. Logo Design: From Start to Finish

The last logo design process in this collection is about DANZK which is a soon-to-be-launched lifestyle blog that aims to display the Danish way of life to locals and foreigners who are interested in the country.

37. Logo Design Process: Ear Center Audiology

This is a comparatively new and fresh logo design created for a new hearing aid dealer named ‘Ear Center Audiology.’

38. Creative Process Study

Get to know some insights on how this new logo was designed for BevReview.

39. Creation of a New Brand: Two Giraffes

Learn how Sean Farrell created this Two Giraffes logo that include the number 2 and two giraffe heads incorporated into the negative space.

40. Plancast penguin development process

This logo design was created by the designer Alex Cornell for local San Francisco start-up named Plancast.

41. Logo design for Visit France

This logo design was created for Visit France – a website that is particularized in finding accommodation in France.

42. Associated Painters Logo Design Process

In this logo design process, you will see how the business of painting commercial aircraft Associated Painters works.

43. Insyndia Logo Design Process

This creative logo design was created for IT Company named Insyndia, and here you will see the complete process behind the creation.

44. Orb Web Solutions Identity Development

This article is a practice for the Orb Web Solutions logo design by the designer Graham Smith.

45. Weedon Island AWIARE logo

Let us unveil the creative process for the logo design process of Alliance for Weedon Island Archaeological Research and Education.

46. Creative Process Study

This article explains the process behind the creation of the logo design for the Creative Process Study for Million Monarchs.

47. Complete Logo Design Process For an Eco Green Logo

This creative logo design was created for Envision Customworks and it also contains a case study as well.

48. Re-branding Undersea Productions

Learn and grab the technique how the new brand identity for Undersea Productions which is an imaging company based out of Australia was designed so successfully.

49. The Redesign Process of the IBBT Logo

This article explains the complete logo design process as well as contains the case study that further clarifies how the new identity of IBBT (Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology) was created.

50. Logo design for fabulis

This article explains the complete logo design process for new social network web site called fabulis.

NOTE: You will require an emulator to run a DOS based game. Read the “Before You Begin” section carefully before you start downloading DOS based games.

Before You Begin

DOS games won’t run with just a double-click even when they are executable (.EXE) files. The best way to run a DOS based game is to download an emulator as they are designed especially for this purpose. DOSBox is by far the best emulator for Windows machines. Once you have downloaded DOSBox and it is running on your machine then you will have to mount your game directory on which you have the executable game files. Follow the below steps:

• Type the following in your DOSBox window: mount C C:\games. This will tell DOSBox that you want to use the games directory as the source to run all your DOS based games.
• Now CD (change directory) to C: drive – cd C:
• Place all the executable DOS game files in the games directory and now hit the DIR command.
• You will notice that from C: drive itself the DIR command gives you the list of executable files that are actually placed in games directory. Just type the name of the file like turbo.exe and hit enter to start your DOS game.
• You can create multiple directories inside this directory to categorize your games.
• Have fun!

Mac users can use Boxer as the emulator to run DOS based game while DOSEMU is the emulator for Linux users. Now that we know how to execute a DOS based game, here is the much awaited showcase of DOS games.

Prince of Persia

The good old prince is back to save his princess. Although we have the latest versions of this game already available, playing the same in a DOS console will always bring back old memories. You get three lives for each game which is actually a tad better than the real world where we get one life to save our girl!

DOOM

Ahhh! Doom is here to bring back your killer instincts. You haven’t yet grown old and this game will help you revive your old self. Also, this time you have many weapons in hand to help increase your comfort level against the enemy.

Genius’s Puzzle Pack

You got an iPad? Now you can play your favorite puzzle games while seated at the back of your classroom. Have fun and make sure to avoid your teacher’s attention. To be precise, this is a bundle of six puzzle games namely Scary Nightmare, Part Time Job, Cubby Hole Trouble, Marbles, Detention Tic Tac Toe, and Blitz Tac Toe.

Pac Man

Does this bring back some memories? Well, it surely will if you have lived in the days of DOS games. Pac-Man is here to revive old experiences and take you back to those good old days of DOS games. This version is your own Pac-Man with an all new female star with the original hero making occasional appearances.

Supaplex

Another DOS based puzzle game with pretty decent graphics and sound. The game is more like the retro Boulder Dash that most of us might have played. It is a freeware with a couple of cheats to make life easier.

Mario

If you don’t know what Mario is then you better stop reading this article. You aren’t a computer kid if you haven’t played Mario on your laptop and I mean it. I have spent months playing Mario and I know the love for this game. Those who always loved Mario and want to bring back those memories must download this game ASAP. Let me know about your experiences with Mario (and his girlfriend) in the comments below.

3DCube

Raise your hand if you have ever been able to arrange this 3DCube puzzle in order without any help whatsoever. I did it once after years of patience and I am proud of that! And, if you haven’t done so yet, then here is the DOS version of 3DCube to keep you busy. Give yourself a chocolate if you can arrange this back in order within a day. Let me know how long it took you in the comments at the end of the article.

CHAMP Kong

Wasn’t Donkey Kong a famous protagonist in most of the DOS games back then? DOS game designers had a thing for monkeys I guess. Anyways, here is your chance to live the Donkey Kong days all over again. Kong wants to save his girlfriend and you can help him do that. Don’t let the Kong down, please!

Bat ‘n Ball

Though Bat ‘n Ball is based on an old concept, hitting a bouncing ball, it has been optimized so as to keep your interest levels high. Here, you get to save a castle against a bouncing ball which will break your castle one after the other if you miss to hit the ball back. The bouncing ball will help your reflexes and probably improve them too.

Alone in the Dark

It is tough to get 3D based games in the DOS games family but somehow there are a few for us to enjoy. Alone in the Dark is a 3D adventure game with plenty of action to keep you busy. In this game you get to play a character that will investigate a suicide in an old Louisiana mansion. Be quick and don’t take years to solve the case like it happens in our real life judicial system.

Row Sham Bow

Row Sham Bow is a game development studio backed by venture capitalists. The company focuses on developing games for social networks and various other consumer platforms. The company is committed to create games that touches the audience’s heart and soul. One of their fresh projects is Woodland Heroes that is doing well on Facebook. We expect a lot more from the team of Row Sham Bow most of which have the EA Sports work experience.

Event Grabber

Optimization of location based marketing is the new fad in the Internet industry and the people behind Event Grabber are well aware of this fact. Event Grabber will grab all the local events and categorize them automatically into various categories. Later on it recommends the same to users on the basis of their personal preferences. It is said that you have arrived once you are featured on Mashable and Event Grabber has earned their space on Mashable.

Kogeto Dot

Kogeto Dot was launched by Kogeto in the year 2011 and was appreciated by its consumers. The Dot lets you shoot 360-degree videos from your iPhone. Kogeto Dot happens to be the smallest (and the cutest) panoramic camera for an iPhone available to date. Kogeto Dot raised $120,514 on KickStarter from over 1023 miniature venture capitalists (of sorts).

Warby Parker

Nothing incredibly unique about Warby Parker but they still seemed to have attracted a lot of attention. Warby Parker is an online retailer for prescription glasses and similar products. The reason why Warby has garnered so much attention is the fact that it has shown guts to disrupt an industry that has been around for ages but never found competitors. It solves a real problem in the online prescription glasses industry and gives the end consumer the much desired choices.

Desmos

We see students carrying iPads, iPhones, Kindles and various other gadgets to schools. The problem that has come up with multiple gadgets that are used for the same purpose is the compatibility. Desmos has done its homework and come up with a platform which will be compatible with any device and make life easier for students as well as teachers. Desmos launched onstage at the TechCrunch Disrupt and has gained a lot of publicity since then.

Goalbook

Adding another to the list of ed tech startups is Goalbook. It has been tagged as the Facebook of IEPs (individualized education programs) as Goalbook seems to fulfill a void in the IEP industry. IEP can be extremely complex to design due to various student preferences and Goalbook founders have shown the courage to simplify this niche. Goalbook helps the team working with the student to better communicate with each other so that all can collaborate to achieve the desired goal.

Goodsie

Goodsie is to E-Commerce websites what WordPress is to blogs. You want to setup a blog real quick? Use WordPress and you will be rolling in minutes. Similarly Goodsie has taken up the tough task of gifting everyone with an e-commerce website in no time. You get to choose between multiple layouts and it happens to be a real good option for starters. With over $3 million in funding, Goodsie is here to stay.

Codecademy

Remember the good old days when learning JavaScript would scare the you-know-what out of you? Well, I am part of that same club who was always afraid of JavaScript during its initial years in programming. Codecademy took the task of making JavaScript learning a fun process and the startup seems to have succeeded in that pretty well. One can learn and practice the basics of JavaScript online at Codecademy without getting bored.

Fab

Isn’t that a lovely three letter domain? Fab happens to be a flash sale and home decor portal that has done well since its launch around 6 months ago. With over $11 million venture backing, Fab is here to stay for sure. Fab gained a nice amount of recognition due to its viral marketing scheme. The website asks you to invite 3 friends before you get access to its content (which is actually riveting). Fab is famous for selling unique stuff like iPhone covers that are made out of daily newspapers.

Get Around

Get Around works on the unique concept of renting out your vehicles when they are not being used. Get Around lets you rent your vehicles to your neighbors when your aren’t actually using it. Services like hourly rental and full insurance attracts customers and the service has henceforth done well since its launch. The $3.4 million dollar funding from CrunchFund was enough to keep the service rolling.

Oink

Another amazing domain name. I wonder where these startup guys get these domain names. Must be some hefty money exchanged before these domain names are available for use. Alright, lets get down to business. Oink is a actually a cellphone app that lets users rate any sort of stuff that comes by in their life. You can rate things like hamburgers and later on share it with your friends. Oink is one recommendation app which will let you rate items at the venues you visit on the fly. Oink is actually the brain child of Digg found Kevin Rose and henceforth has already gained enough recognition.

Zaarly

Another location based startup which focuses on the rising form of business in locations next to your home. Zaarly is location based marketplace for requests that are real time. You can pinch your neighbor in Zaarly who is ready to movie tickets that you are searching for disparately. Connect, buy and sell. Zaarly is backed by over $14 million worth of investments which makes its future pretty strong.

The Verge

The Verge might look like just another tech blog but it is a lot more than just that. Launched by former Engadget Editor, Joshua Topolsky, The Verge has the strong backing of Vox Media. The Verge is an overly enhanced form of tech. blogging where journalists strive to bring in in-depth analysis of latest news and updates that target niche audience.

Email newsletters, while building a relationship with your visitors or customers, can keep them coming back to your website. This will ultimately result in increased sales. So, without any further ado let us get a load of exceptional ideas to create appealing and engaging graphic email newsletter designs for your new campaign.

1. Elizabeth Davis

This newsletter design plays tremendously well with the color usage that makes this newsletter design visually alluring and attractive. Furthermore, the newsletter starts with a catchy tagline.

2. eMag

This newsletter design brings somewhat bright color into play with the amalgamation of black color to give it an attention grabbing look. You can easily notice how the call-to-action buttons are placed.

3. Heroes Over Europe

One of the most outstanding newsletter designs in this collection which sets itself apart from the other ordinary designs.

4. Nature Baby

This newsletter design brings beautiful typography and soothing color combination into play to create a compelling and persuasive newsletter design.

5. Percept Brand Design

This creative newsletter has been designed by keeping the target audience in mind and this is the reason why it successfully grabs the attention of the potential customers.

6. Michael Kors

Michael Kors makes use of spanking new and refreshing color and an interesting approach to differentiate the newsletter from others.

7. Limes Farm

The designer of this newsletter design has successfully kept this design simple and unfussy while giving it a very striking and appealing look.

8. Disney Pixar

With this newsletter design, they tend to dazzle those who love animated movies. Apart from the design, the message of the newsletter is loud and clear.

9. ScrapBlog

This newsletter apart from being visually appealing also fulfills the main purpose of a newsletter and that is informing its audience about the subject of the newsletter.

10. eMAG Newsletter

In this newsletter, you will see extremely high contrast colors along with top notch quality of graphics that looks simply stunning and grabs the attention of onlookers.

11. Icon Inc

This newsletter design goes well with their tagline “Your Creative Partner”. Further it brings a very innovative approach towards newsletter designs.

12. Dress Up Diana

This newsletter design perfectly defines the nature of this collage like newsletter design, and this newsletter fits well on the adage ‘A picture worth thousands words’.

13. Sephora

This is a magnificently designed newsletter for advertising beauty products. The use of excellent graphics and color contrast helps in making this newsletter more appealing and stylish.

14. Paul Frank Industries

Here you will notice excellent use of graphics that will grab the attention to their flat rate shipping.

15. IrelandHotels

With a magnificent look at Ireland accompanied by the essential details on going, there is adequate creativity in this newsletter to attract potential tourists to look into the hotel for their next trip for sure.

16. Pizza

This newsletter design showcases a yummy and delicious pizza on the plain background which is sufficient enough to fascinate the onlookers.

17. Apple

This newsletter brings imaginative use of beautiful graphics into play along with many iPhones that are placed in the shape of a heart in order to embody the love that we all have for the device.

18. Bing

This newsletter demonstrates what Bing has introduced in the world of the internet. This newsletter invites its users to discover what is popular on Bing.

19. Miche Bag

This is a well suited template deign for a newsletter that offers exciting deals through newsletter

20. MapMyRide.com

The tempting graphics and captivating tagline are the important components of this newsletter design that mainly focuses on the excitement of cycling.

21. Splinter Cell

Here the newsletter design is slightly more stylish as compared to other ordinary newsletter designs. The use of black and white colors is quite interesting and makes a distinction between different segments.

22. East London Design Show

The color theme of this newsletter is really comforting and delicate. The whole newsletter design has been given a very natural and well accepted look,

23. Glasshouse

Yet another great example of using black or dark colors to create a strong impression and grab the attention of the audience.

24. Nike

We can define this newsletter template as being simple, un-cluttered and fresh newsletter design with delicate and nice color combination.

25. Cafe Diario

Tremendously simple and fresh design for a newsletter without too much graphical components being overstuffed in the design. The content of this newsletter is presented against the plain background giving it a very professional look.

26. Steve and Co

The designer effectively has created a very natural and lovely newsletter design for Steve and Co that not only gives you a revitalizing feeling but also is pleasing to eyes.

27. One is enough

No more added graphical elements are used in this newsletter design rather the designer only takes advantage of nice typography to draw the difference between different elements.

28. Look Hear

This creative newsletter design plays tremendously fine with the color handling that makes this newsletter design visually tempting and appealing.

29. District Dining

District Dining newsletter design is simple, uncomplicated and has been designed with the concept of minimalism.

30. The Beast Magazine

Yet another excellent example of employing soft and delicate colors while making a strong notion.

31. Appstrakt

Rather unique color contrast you will notice in this newsletter design. The designer has blended grey, yellow, black and white extremely well in a single design.

32. Webfit

This innovative newsletter design has been created by keeping the target audience and their expectations in mind and this is the reason why it effectively grabs the attention of the potential customers.

33. MarketSpace

Another beautiful example of the combination of creativity and skills that can be seen in this newsletter design that sets itself apart from others.

34. Big Cartel

Big Cartel design is comparatively different and unique from other newsletter designs as it has been designed with an extreme creative mind. The concept of this design

35. Sprowt’s

This creatively designed newsletter template is one of those templates that grabs the onlooker’s attention at the first glance and inform them about the subject of the newsletter in a very concise and engaging manner.

36. Chris Assaad

Chris Assaad makes use of fresh and energizing colors to distinguish the design of their newsletter from the others and creating a powerful first impression.

37. Hard Rock

Another best example of the black newsletter design that looks simply stunning, eye-catching and highly appealing.

38. Unica

This design is somewhat simple and designed on the concept of minimalism. A beautifully designed and neat design.

39. Namesco

This interesting newsletter design is an excellent example of acquiring loads of information into a small space concurrently keeping the whole thing de-cluttered as well as user-friendly.

40. Sioux Chief Patriot

This particular template plays quite well with the eye catching color combination that makes this newsletter design visually appealing and soothing.

41. Lands End, Email Marketing

In this newsletter design, you will see how the designer has used a very simple concept in an extremely creative and innovative way.

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10 Best Articles of 2011

The following articles have been selected by the number of activity going around them. In case you missed them, now is your chance to look back and catch up before we begin the year with a bang!

1. 20 Reasons Why Your Website Design Sucks Part 1

2. 9 Tips On How To Improve Yourself As A Web Designer

3. 15 Most Influential People In Web Design

4. Where Have All The Comments Gone?

5. Ancient Website Design Practices That Beginners Should Avoid Part 1

6. How To Create A Web Spy With A PHP Crawler

7. 17 CSS/HTML Effects With Cross-Browsing Alternatives

8. Create Your Own Premium Membership WordPress Blog Part 1

9. What Is The Future Of Adobe Flash?

10. 10 Highly Used And Abused Twitter Trends That Are Not Cool

Bonus: Twitter Marketing Guide

Series of 2011

Following are the most viewed, tweeted, and commented series of 2011. Don’t worry, we have more to come this 2012!

Graphic Design From Around The World

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

Ancient Web Design Practices That Beginners Should Avoid

Part 1 | Part 2

Reasons Why Your Website Design Sucks

Part 1 | Part 2

Graphic Design Basics

Part 1: Elements | Part 2: Design Principles | Part 3: Composition

Website Planning & Developing Your Website

Part 1 | Part 2

WordPress Plugin Development –  Relate Posts As A Series

Part 1 | Part 2

Blogging Like A Pro

Introduction

1. Science Of Writing Process: Getting Ready, Set Up Mood & Avoid Distractions
2. In Search For Ultimate Blogging Tools: Writing Simplified Now!
3. How To Find Article Ideas To Write About, Write Sticking Points
4. Learn How To Do Effective Content Research
5. Blog Post Formatting: Make Reading For Visitors A Better Experience

6 Back-to-Back Photoshop to PSD Tutorials of 2011

Can you design but you’re not so keen with coding? Then these tutorials are for you! Converting a PSD file into a working HTML/CSS website. Top that!

Photoshop Tutorial: 3D Portfolio Dark Layout

HTML/CSS:  Convert A 3D Portfolio Dark Layout

Result: Click here for the demo

Photoshop Tutorial: 1stDelicious: Create A Simple Clean Portfolio Layout In Photoshop

HTML/CSS: Convert 1stDelicious Portfolio Layout

Result: Click here for the demo

Photoshop Tutorial: Dezign Folio: Create A Detailed Portfolio Homepage

HTML/CSS: Converting Dezign Folio

Result: Click here for the demo

Photoshop Tutorial: Create A Fantastic Landing Page For Your Next Product

HTML/CSS: Convert Your Product Landing Page From PSD To HTML

Result: Click here for the demo

Photoshop Tutorial: Burnstudio: Create An Amazing Personal Website From Scratch

HTML/CSS: Convert Burnstudio

Result: Click here for the demo

Photoshop Tutorial: 1st Ideas: Create A Stylish Design Agency Website

HTML/CSS: Convert 1st Ideas

Result: Click here for the demo

Looking Back

Last year we began publishing two articles a day, which is quite a leap from one article a day while trying to maintain quality articles. This year we will attempt to publish more interesting, and high quality, articles! Of course we can’t do this without your help, so if you are an expert in your own field (of course it needs to be relevant to our website) then contact us! We’re always looking for amazing people who can share their knowledge with us! 2011 was a great year, and we’re pretty sure that 2012 will top that!

How To Start Your New Year

Start it with a new set of resolutions!

20 New Year’s Resolution Ideas To Become Better At Your Career

7 New Year’s Resolutions To Help Improve Your Personal And Work Life

2012 will be full of surprises. Lots of contests and giveaways! So don’t forget to subscribe to our newsletter to not miss any of the fun!

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