Signs That You Are Living The Top Myths of Freelancing
Rean John UeharaMyths arises because of poor knowledge about things. Some myths are exaggerated claims, others bear truth in them, and others are just plain myths that needs busting. Below is a list of top myths that envelopes some truth in them and how freelancers make them into reality.
Before you go on reading, take note that this is a subjective view of the myths as heard from the people I know who have received the following remarks. Feel free to agree or disagree in the comments below.
Be Inspired: 40 Blogs with Amazing Grunge Design
Charina TorresWhile designing a user interface, it is important that your design is attractive to entice your viewers with your website. One of the hot design trend these days is Grunge Design.
In grunge design, elements are disorganized to give a dirty look. Grunge designs are usually crooked, stained, crumpled, jagged and grubby. Most of them have dirty, dull colors such as Dark Red, Gray, Brown or Black. But nowadays, designers also use bright colors for grunge styles mixed with shapes, textures and real life graphics. A grunge style features wide range of elements that are put together to give a creative impression on viewers. To give you a better idea, I am putting down some examples of grunge design.
450+ Cool Photoshop Lens Flare and Glow Brushes
Taimur AsgharLens flare and glow effects have their own significance in photo editing and designing. Every design needs some sort of light effect in one way or another whether it is sparkles, glows, glitters or lens flare . Best and time effective method to add these effects is by using Photoshop brushes. Today we have collected more than 450 brushes to add high-quality lens flare and glow effect in your photos. Happy editing!
30 Awesome Ajax Lightbox and Modal Dialog Solutions
Jane BernardoModal Dialog and Lightbox are Ajax solutions for displaying the content inside the browser without reloading the whole page. Lightboxes overcome the use of the pop up window to suit on the modern browsers and it is being used everywhere these days. It is widely used for displaying of media files, webpages , messages, forms etc in a nice looking overlay.
In this post, I’ll be featuring 30 awesome lightbox and modal dialog boxes that you can use on you web applications.
40 Useful Cheats Sheets for Graphic Designers
Is there a time that you really don’t know the easiest way to create your design applications? Then there are things that could help you, these are cheat sheets. Cheat sheets give you a good refresher on the topic you want to learn. Just google on your keywords and surely you will find a bunch of cheat sheets that will help you. You’ll find cheat sheets on graphic design applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks.
In this article, I’ll be featuring 40 useful collections of cheat sheets for designers.
PHP for Beginners: Part 2 – Making Decisions and Loops
Nick PlekhanovOver the past part I have shown you the basics of text in PHP and how to store it as variables. In this part of the tutorial I will show you firstly how to use if statements to make decisions in your scripts. Next, I am going to show you how to use another important part of PHP, loops.
Managing Balance Between Inspiration and Individuality
Sheena DosdosInspiration is a very broad word to begin with, since it can be a lot of things. It can be things that make you happy, sad, scared, angry, excited – anything you can feel that works up your creativity and tickles your imagination. It can also be someone who gives you motivation in life – idols, loved ones or simply people you look up to. Being inspired is always a good thing especially to those in the field of art and design.
When people search for inspiration they wander around and look for that something that gives impact. Something mind-blowing and takes your breath away.
40+ Free High Quality CSS/HTML Templates from 2010
Stylish, elegant, interactive and most of all it’s free. Free CSS/HTML templates that will put a great design on your website. If you are creating your own website, you can consider using these free templates. There’s always that will suit your style, personality, work and the website you will be working on.
I’ll be presenting free CSS/HTML templates that you want to consider in your next project but be sure to read terms.
40 Mouthwatering Websites for Your Delight
Being a fan of luscious food and cuisine, I like to surf the net and see what new restaurants are popping up.I crave for food too much that I find myself staring at very tempting pictures for hours. I do believe in the saying – you eat with your eyes first. We always look at how the food is presented before we make our choices. People want good food all the time, and that is a good thing for restaurateurs. Putting up really inviting photos of your menu would really help your website get that attention. Get food enthusiasts running into your restaurant eating what you serve.
But in this new era of innovative technology, people grab their ipads, cellphones or what nots to decide before they go where they need to. It is best to reach out for customers where they find it easy, fast and convenient – the internet.
I have collected 40 mouth-watering webpages for your delight. Enjoy!
Keeping It Together: Before and After an Epic Failure
There are two types of failures in freelancing that anyone can experience, failing on meeting the requirements set by the client and failing to find one. For beginners in the universe of freelancing, readiness is always an issue. For successful freelancers, there is always the fear of losing it all because of a simple mistake or because of the tight competition, clients can choose another freelancer who can do better.
