Archive for January, 2010

50 Excellent Adobe After Effects Tutorials By Nousheen Aquil This post presents a round-up of Adobe After Effects Tutorials for your visual effects and motion graphics-related work. After Effects is getting popular as the industry of Computer Graphics and Digital Motion is growing. With After Effects, you have choice to generate dynamic and expressive motion graphics with truly stunning visual effects — very easily and quickly. So here is the list of Adobe After Effects Tutorials. We hope that it will be helpful for you! via 50 Excellent Adobe After Effects Tutorials - Noupe.

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A Collection of Free Design Resources Designers can never get enough resources. Fonts, tutorials, source files, plugins, stock images, icons… you name it we love them. Especially when they are free! Thankfully within the design community there are no shortage of designers willing to offer free stuff, it just about finding them. That is where we can help. In today’s news round-up we have collected exactly what you want, some fresh and free design resources. via A Collection of Free Design Resources | Design Reviver.

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What to Do In Between Web Design Projects 11 January 2010 One of the problems with a freelance web design career is that sometimes the time in between projects can be unpredictable. Sometimes it only takes a few days to find a new project, other times it may take weeks or even months. Often times we get off task and unproductive in between each project. However, there are many things you can do in your off time to advance your career besides watching Family Guy. via What to Do In Between Web Design Projects | [Re]Encoded.com.

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What’s In A Price: The Guidelines For Pricing Web Designs By Thursday Bram Pricing a website design can seem impossible. A good website design can cost anywhere between thousands of dollars and under fifty dollars, depending on the type of site, how you build it and a hundred other numbers. Those numbers can make it difficult to decide where the right price point for your own work is: how do you know what your work is worth when other designers’ prices are all over the place? All prices are not created equal: while it may seem to the lay person that all websites are similar, differences like the framework the site is built upon and the process the website designer uses can require drastically different prices. A website design that doesn’t require you to do much more than design a new theme for WordPress probably shouldn’t be priced the same way that an e-commerce site that expects to see plenty of traffic should be. It comes down to the question of what’s in your price. In this article, we’ll look at how four web designers set their prices — and how you can learn from their experiences. via What’s In A Price: The Guidelines For Pricing Web Designs - Noupe.

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Download Glary Utilities Pro for Free; Today Only Windows: Normally $40, Glary Utilities Pro—a system utilities suite—is available for free, today only. We've highlighted the free version of Glary Utilities before, today you've got a chance to grab the professional edition for free. Although you can certainly get all the functionality found in Glary Utilities Pro by using a collection of open-source or freeware tools for the cool price of free you might as well save yourself the running around and grab a copy of the Pro edition which includes features like an uninstall manager, registry repair, a startup manager, secure file deletion, disk analysis and a duplicate finder, as well as process manager. Have a good system utility to share free—temporarily?—or otherwise? Let's hear about it in the comments. Glary Utilities Pro is Windows only and free until the end of the day at the link below. Giveaway of the Day: Gary Utilities Pro [via Download Squad] via Download Glary Utilities Pro for Free; Today Only - Utilities - Lifehacker.

Your Passwords Aren't As Secure As You Think; Here's How to Fix That If you allow applications to save your passwords, anyone with physical access to your PC can decode them unless you're properly encrypting them—and chances are pretty good you're not. Let's walk through the right and wrong ways to store your passwords.

For the purpose of this article, we'll assume that the people you allow into your house are trustworthy enough not to hack your passwords, and your laptop has been stolen instead—but the tips here should apply to either scenario. Regardless of how you choose to save your passwords, you should make sure to use great passwords and even stronger answers for security questions. via Your Passwords Aren't As Secure As You Think; Here's How to Fix That - Passwords - Lifehacker.

The 10 Stages of Social Media Business Integration Brian Solis is a principal at new media agency FutureWorks. You can connect with him on Twitter or Facebook. An overnight success ten years in the making, social media is as transformative as it is evolutionary. At last, 2010 is expected to be the year that social media goes mainstream for business. In speaking with many executives and entrepreneurs, I’ve noticed that the path towards new media enlightenment often hinges on corporate culture and specific marketplace conditions. Full social media integration often happens in stages — it’s an evolutionary process for companies and consumers alike. Here are the ten most common stages that businesses experience as they travel the road to full social media integration. via The 10 Stages of Social Media Business Integration.

Getting Started with jQuery January 4th, 2010 by Louis Lazaris The web development scene is moving forward at a lightning-fast pace, and it’s imperative that developers continue to keep their skills fresh. If you’ve been involved in front-end design or development in any form over the past five years or so, then it’s very likely that you’ve experimented at some point with one of the popular JavaScript libraries, many of which have become quite prominent and are now used on a number of large commercial websites. Getting Started with jQuery In this article, I’ll be introducing and laying the groundwork for advanced JavaScript development with one of the most popular JavaScript libraries available: jQuery. Although there are many beginning tutorials online that can provide a great starting point for jQuery development, in this article I’m hoping to go beyond just quick-start syntax and instead provide a solid overview of jQuery and discuss the benefits of using such a library. Of course, much of this information–outside of the syntax and other jQuery-specific details–will be applicable to any JavaScript library. via Getting Started with jQuery.

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Modern Art Movements To Inspire Your Logo Design * By Daniel Eckler It’s always nice to go to a bookstore, grab a book of logo designs, sit down, inhale that new-book smell and absorb the goodness. But knowing where all of these designs, fonts and creative elements have come from is also good. In this article, we look at modern art movements and a series of diverse logos inspired by those movements. You may be surprised by how easily these colors, shapes and strokes can be adapted to logo design. Have a look, see how logo design works and maybe even draw inspiration for your own creativity. via Modern Art Movements To Inspire Your Logo Design - Smashing Magazine.

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Star Wars burlesque show (yes, even Jabba's in here) Above, Stormtrooper striptease Courtney Cruz in a Star Wars-themed burlesque show at the Los Angeles club Bordello (a sexy bar which opened at the site of a notorious, historic LA whorehouse). Liz Ohanesian has a post up at LA Weekly with more about the performance. Lots of great photos by Shannon Cottrell, who shot the image above. I did not post Sexy Jabba the Hutt, and you can thank me for it later. (thanks, Isaac B2) via Star Wars burlesque show (yes, even Jabba's in here) Boing Boing.

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