10 Things a Web Designer Should Consider
While this is an old debate and it is clear that we won’t get very far with it, I want to make some statements regarding the things a web designer should consider in order to improve present skills.
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Choosing the Right Web Hosting for You
Hopefully you now know what form of web hosting that is suitable for your website. The next step is picking a web host, something that can be tricky as there are quite a few to choose between. Below you find a couple of tricks that will help you find a hosting plan matching your needs.
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Things I Love and Hate in Web Design
This post will be composed of all the positive and negative things in web design that I think are worth mentioning. You may agree or not with the list and please complete it with your own Love-Hate things. So here are my 2 lists with the things I find rewarding and the things I detest in Web Design.
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An Introduction to Web Hosting
When looking for web hosting you might become somewhat puzzled by all the different forms of web hosting. What do they all mean and which plan is the perfect match for you and your website? Below you will find descriptions of the most popular types of hosting, making your decision easier.
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15 Tools for Testing your Website
If you want to have the same experience over multiple browsers and different machines then testing your website is vital. In this article I’ve gathered some of the most important tools that you can use in testing your site against various errors – CSS Errors, HTML Errors, Crossbrowsing Errors etc.
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Hack Your Wordpress Plugins for Speed
Back in September 2007, Steve Souders published his book High Performance Web Sites. This book is describing ways to improve your site speed and at the same time to create a better user experience. In the book there is one rule that says: CSS at the Top. By this, Steve is saying that you should put the CSS in the Head section of your HTML using the LINK tag. The reason for this is because the page renders progressively: first text then styling.
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Wordpress: Tutorials and Resources for Designers and Developers
Do you know what Wordpress is? Of course you know… everyone knows – the best open source and most advanced blogging platform. It has great plugins and one of the best if not “the best” community ever. And through this post I want to capture all the movement around this great tool: themes, developers, tricks, cheat sheets and other.
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Bing's Weekly Lectures – Week #1
Today I will start a new section here on Graphic Rating. It is called Bing’s Weekly Lectures. The main idea for these next articles is to sum up the additional information displayed on top of Bing’s daily pictures in a week time frame. I really like the feature and I think most of the phrases are quite valuable. So, here is the first Bing Weekly Lecture:Week #1.
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The New Yahoo! – Pros and Cons
I think you remember the middle ages, it was back when Yahoo! wanted a redesign. Well, after a great deal of time, the redesign is here. Fresh or not, good or bad … I will detail my conclusion over the latest revamped version of Yahoo! portal.
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Web Design Inspiration: KISSmetrics
The third site in the Inspiration category is KISSmetrics. I will not speak too much about it because the design speaks for itself. The colors are well connected as well as the typography and images. Also you can check their blog too, because it has a simple design using same elements from the main site.
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