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The WORST on ReBranding
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Re-branding your company after a few years of being on the market, when it has reached a solid costumer background, is the best strategy to boost the market placement that you have achieved, and it gives you the possibility to place your product amongst younger generations of customers with a more modern approach to your corporative identity.
But Re-Branding is not something to be taken lightly, because you might just be “fixing what isn’t broken”, in changing a solid corporative image into something that doesn’t click amongst your audience or that they just simply hate! … Or even worse you could fail to reach a younger costumer and loose the brand followers you’ve assured over the years all for a lousy new corporate image. Read more
Latest Resources for Designers!
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The followers of might already recognize us for our constant feed of fresh web design related matters, high quality articles, well investigated pieces, and loads of freebies, and like we do for webdesignshock.com, our creative team takes great care and is always vigilant for the contents that go on all our web contact sources.
So, for those of you that haven’t gotten the chance to tweet with us, well were sorry to tell you that you’re missing out on loads of freebies and fresh info on web design resources, but no worries because from now on well be bringing you at webdesignshock.com the best of our daily tweets on a regular basis for those that might have just missed it!, or who just simply can’t get enough of Web Design Shock’s feeds of information.
Deal with Nightmare Clients Without Killing Them!
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Freelancing offers unlimited amounts of freedom and flexibility in your working whilst allowing you to spend more time with your family or to do the things you love. However, freelancing is far from the life of riley and if projects are hard to come by then you may find yourself working on projects with clients that strain your patience and make unreasonable demands on you.
In the current economic climate freelancers are sometimes not in a strong enough financial position to just say no to a client and walk away. So how can they work with nightmare clients more effectively to reduce the strain and maintain their sanity?
We’ve Run out of Ideas!
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Do you consider yourself to be an original creator? How many fresh and new ideas have you come up with lately? And from these ideas, how really sure are you that they’re all completely yours and that someone else hasn’t come up with them before?
It’s very likely that you feel like your brain is completely capable of coming up with fresh and innovative ideas that no other person has come up with. But I can assure you that even your wildest thoughts that passed through your mind, has rambled through another human’s head before in a very similar way.
How to Design an Awful Looking Sign-Up Form, 10 Step Guide
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When signing up for something – whether you’re opening a new bank account, registering for an interesting new app or trying to buy a flight – you want the process to be simple and quick. Speedy, painless sign-up forms help to increase conversion rates and keep visitors happy. Yet, in despite of that, there are countless examples throughout the web of sites that have painfully dreadful and frustrating forms that end up making you feel bad about the whole process. These forms are usually found on archaic, badly designed sites and there’s an unusual trend – the bigger the company, the more likely the form is to be awkward and needlessly complicated, such as: When you enter in Google the search term “beautiful Sign-up forms” you’ll find about 1,370,000,000 results that include an endless list of showcase countdowns resources on the 20,17,7 and even 100 Best Sign-up forms, so why do what’s already been done?
On the contraire this post will, count one by one the bad practices when designing a sign-up form, if maybe this way the web designers will learn their lesson and finally up –date their sign-up forms. Because even up to this day when there’s so many beautiful web resources available for web developers, you can still bump into long, complicated and heavy sign-up forms that just simply suck! So, there you go, if you want to create a terrible, awkward and frustrating sign-up form, here we’ve given you a 10 step guide to go about it. Read more
6 Reasons Why You are not a Demanded Designer
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Nowadays graphic design is a really very popular and demanded field in our Web addict society. Every day brainy designers open new fantastic and wonderful horizons before our curious eyes. Not only striking creations of artists entice us to learn some basic design skills and make our own contribution to this quickly developing sphere, but also the realization of what this type of job can give us and what new opportunities it can open for desiring knowledge people. As almost every kind of business needs services of a designer, you can have a good earning through designing and get many other benefits, such as a freelance work, an opportunity to work anywhere you want and of course a pleasant surroundings of creative people. Read more
Web Login, the definitive guide
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When it comes to creating a successful login web design, although not all the rules are written in stone, there are certain features in the construction of the design that should be kept, in order to construct a model that guarantees a login outline that better suits moderns user needs.
A login should especially thrive on being up to date, functional, secure, quick and accessible; amongst other useful qualities it should have to assure its success amid web users, and above all to secure the profitability of your design.
Video: The evolution of google
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A nice and complete retrospective about the evolution of Google (big brother), to see how the search process has changed from its begining in the 90′s until today. If you want to anticipate the new and upcoming changes that will affect how we create and manage our web projects, this video can give you a powerful idea of what you have to expect… Do you think google will continue leading the search world ? Read more
Great video: Timeframes VS creativity
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A great video and a nice experiment, give some time to an artist and he will turn a simple task into a masterpiece, but please, give him sometime ;)
Web Design Jobs, fresh list of resources
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We all know how difficult is to get quality jobs. Basically, due to the actual situation with the global economy, finding new jobs gets quite hard. Very often, people have to rely on their own experience and work on their own. However, there are a lot of business and people who are actually hiring. That’s the main reason why we wanted to show you today this list of 40 web design jobs’ websites, with three categories: Standard, Freelance and Contest Jobs. We also included a category called Other Jobs, which features icon, graphic design, illustration and photography jobs for you to choose the option you like. Read more
Getting Quality twitter followers
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Have you ever feel the need to get more followers in a social network? Well, most of us have and we cannot excuse for that: it’s human nature to get recognition. Social networks have integrated the relationships and the interactions we have with the technological aspect of our lives, and that’s why we feel the need to use them all day. Read more
Technology leaders’ reactions to Steve Jobs’ death
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Most of us went to sleep yesterday with the discouraging news of Steve Jobs’ death, and as this day also dies, it became necessary for us to present our tribute to the man who has been an inspiration to every designer. There was a gloomy cloud of uncertainty since his resignation as CEO of Apple, but although we knew there were complication, did not expect such ending. However, he did not need to die to be a legend. His stubbornness and magic were the fuel, and his creations the road to greatness.
So we wanted to collect these reactions from friends, partners, apprentices, technology leaders and even former competitors, none of them escaping from the category of admirers. RIP, Steve Jobs: as other geniuses, you walked a short but awesome road.. Read more
175 recommended Google+ users to follow
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During the short existence of Google Plus, we have noticed that anyone can become a relevant user, not because of the amount of followers they have, but because of the quality of the content they posted. Today we wanted to present you the users we consider might help you get inspired and those from whom you’ll learn something. They were carefully selected not because the number of followers , not because they are cool or because they are celebrities. We think all of these people create excellent pieces of art in all of their fields, so we were sure to check the content they posted and their respective websites, blogs and portfolios, and we think their contributions are awesome. Here are the best Google Plus users in every field in categories like illustration, painting, sculpting, general design, blogging, writing and others, acknowledging that there are many more users who are also great and post awesome content. So if you know another one who posts great content in these categories feel free to share their profiles with us in the comments and of course, don’t forget to add them to your circles. Read more
Steve Jobs VS Bill Gates
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Due to Steve Jobs’ recent resignation as Apple CEO on August 24th 2011, and Bill Gates’ efforts with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, we wanted to do a tribute for these great men in technology, presenting an amazing infographic created by our designers, showing the most relevant aspects in the lives of these great guys.
It also gives us an insight of their work through representative brands and products which have been part of their careers and have inspired us all! Read more
11 reasons why Responsive Design isn’t that cool!
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Since Ethan Marcotte published his seminal article on Responsive Web Design there’s been an explosion of articles related to this topic. The guy truly made a good work also publishing a book about it, deepening on what many consider, since then, should be a standard for web design. If you have no idea of what this thing is, this Responsive Web Design thing, but simultaneously you’ve been thinking and working on a way for your web projects to be viewable in multiple devices, then you are instinctively working on responsive web design. Here’s a little insight: The main objective of responsive web design is the inherent flexibility a website can acquire through the application of fluid grids, images and CSS Media Queries to adapt the content and design of the website to any device, even if it is a desktop computer, a laptop, an iPad or a Smartphone. You do not have to create a mobile version of your website; you do not have to create an application for every popular device on earth. Just one and it will adapt to everything.
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