Hiring a Web Design company doesn’t have to be a daunting task. With this helpful guide you can be assured you picked the right company to build your website. First and foremost when looking online for a potential Web Design company to hire, make sure you view their portfolio. A design company’s portfolio will show you how that company designs, does it fit with what you find appealing, have they built other sites in your industry, all of these questions can be answered simply by seeing what’s inside their portfolio. Don’t just look at their portfolio, look over their entire
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For those interested in Web Design there are a few things you need to know. Being a Web Designer is not something you can do just because you can use Photoshop. Discover the essentials of being a freelance Web Designer or opening a Web Design Company. When we started our web design company we were definitely flying blind. The Web was still very new. There weren’t a ton of resources to reference to find out everything we would need. Growing up my dad was self-employed so I had an idea of the dedication it took to run my own business,
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We created this Twitter background with the Photoshop template so you can customize it to whatever you want. If you just want to upload it we saved a jpeg version of it too. The key to making a Twitter background is making sure it will fit on just about any monitor a person can have. From viewing it on their iPhone to viewing it on a large 27″ monitor, it must be large enough to either fill the screen or fade to a solid color so there are no defining lines. This Twitter background is 2560px x 1600px which should
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I just downloaded a Kindle version of a book on Responsive Web Design using HTML5 and CSS3. I had some money left over on a pre-paid gift card I got for my birthday so I said why not. I had been reading a lot of tutorials on Responsive Web Design, picking up tips and ideas the more I read. So it got me thinking, would I learn more by getting a book? Let’s look at the pros and cons of reading a book about Web Design or just doing tutorials about Web Design. Each learning format has its strengths. When
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I just picked up Canon’s new 40mm f/2.8 STM pancake lens. I’m going to post some test footage later, but couldn’t wait to share.
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Learn what you should do before redesigning your website to mitigate any search engine traffic losses. The decision to redesign your website can be tricky. Your site might be outdated yet it is still ranking well in the search engine results pages, so what do you do? What you do is relative to the size of your website. If you have a small 10 page site it is going to be much easier than a site that has hundreds of pages, but it is still possible to have a successful redesign of your current site, it will just take a
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If you’re planning to start a blog for your business, you should have an idea of how to grab people’s attention with the written word. Writing blog posts that people will read is a skill you can develop with these helpful writing tips. Write Compelling Titles The first place to start is the title. The title you choose is what will ultimately get your visitors to click the link to read the entire post. Some of the best titles are ones that answer a question or solve a problem, just like the title of this post. You were probably looking
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When I started shooting I had an entry level DSLR that at the time (2007) shot video, but it wasn’t great and the sound quality was horrible. Now 5 years later, even entry level DSLR cameras shoot HD video and can record incredible sound with an external mic. Because my DSLR couldn’t be used for video I had to also bring an HD video camera. I looked kind of silly, I shot stills with my DSLR and built a bracket that would hold my HD video camera on it. I was a one man show so I had to improvise.
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The Web can be static at times especially when buying something online. Adding video to your eCommerce website makes your products come to life. Discover the power of adding product videos to your eCommerce site so you sell more products. Quite often when you purchase something, you pick it up and inspect the box or if the product is on display you take it in your hands and really take a good look at it. Online is a different story, most eCommerce sites have pictures of the products some might even have multiple angles of the product. Products images alone
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Before you design a website there are some things you must consider. Web design is nothing without the content properly optimized and a solid plan in place. Learn what you should do before you design. The first step is to write an outline of the content you want on your website. Using this outline gives you the overall structure of your website and a roadmap for its navigation. The next step is to write the copy. Make sure your copy is authoritative and make sure it conveys your knowledge of the subject. Back in the day when writing optimized copy,
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