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: Recovering a lost website with no backup? Unfortunately, our hosting provider experienced 100% data loss, so I've lost all content for two hosted blog websites: http://blog.stackoverflow.com http://www.codinghorror.com

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: Way to list "Contact Us" email address on web site, yet reduce likelihood of spam? What's a good way to list a "Contact Us" email address on a web site, while reducing the likelihood it will

Posted in: #ContactPage #Email #EmailAddress #Spam

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: New generation of Save icon that is not a "disk"? Currently, the save icon in almost all applications represents a 3.5-inch disk from the 20th century. An example from Microsoft Office 2010

Posted in: #Icon #InterfaceDesign

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: Why are Apple Macs used so much in the graphic design industry? Why is it that graphic designers more often use an Apple Mac? I am studying graphic design and I am hoping to do some freelance

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: What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google? What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google?

Posted in: #Google #GoogleRanking #Ranking #Seo

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: Should I bother supporting IE6? IE6 is deprecated and Microsoft is bent on killing it. However, I know that a lot of people still use it. Should I continue to support it anyway?

Posted in: #BrowserSupport #InternetExplorer6

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: What are Google Webfonts or Typekit alternatives to Avenir Next Pro? I'm looking for fonts, available from Google Webfonts (ideally) or Typekit, that would look similar to Avenir Next Pro, specifically,

Posted in: #Fonts #WebFonts

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: The Sitemap Paradox We use a sitemap on Stack Overflow, but I have mixed feelings about it. Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites. Sitemaps

Posted in: #Google #GoogleSearch #GoogleSearchConsole #Sitemap #XmlSitemap

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: How do you explain the value of native files to an uneducated client? If you design a piece for print. It gets reproduced several times over the course of a few years. Then the client doesn't

Posted in: #Business #ClientRelations #Repurposing

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: Good visual alternatives of representing the Push and Pull signs on doors? Using "Push" and "Pull" should be quite straightforward, you read the word and follow the instructions. But day after

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: Who is a great domain registrar company? I have used numerous domain registrars in the past, including Godaddy, 1&1, Host Monster, IX web Hosting, the list goes on. (not talking about hosting)

Posted in: #DomainRegistrar #Domains

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: What is the single most influential book every designer should read? What is the single most influential book every designer should read?

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: Say a customer is an observant Jew and wants his site to be offline on Shabat - SEO problem? Someone here might have experience with this problem (it's not my personal problem and never has

Posted in: #Availability #Seo

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: HTML validation: is it worth it? What are the advantages and disadvantages (if any) of making sure that all pages validate compared to having non-valid HTML that however works on all major browsers?

Posted in: #Html #Javascript #Validation

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: How can I test my site in IE6, IE7, IE8, IE9, IE10 and Internet Explorer 11 How can I reliably test my site on all old versions of Internet Explorer ranging from IE6 all the way up to

Posted in: #InternetExplorer #Testing

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: Offline billing software for freelancers The billing/invoicing/time-tracking software I use, iBiz, is no longer being supported by its manufacturer. I am a freelancer, so I need software which allows

Posted in: #Business #SoftwareRecommendation

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: What is the difference between a designer and an artist? I've noticed that I often use the words "artist" and "designer" in the same context. It seems to me that every designer can be an

Posted in: #Designers #Terminology

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: How do you break out of current creative mind sets? Most designers hit a roadblock at one time or another. Few designers get those "dream" projects where they are allowed to create anything

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: Is Design School a Requirement for Graphic Design? Is it required for people to go to design schools to become a Graphic Designer? I've heard many cases where they have started from scratch

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: Is there a good resource or tool to help build a palette/color scheme around colors I select? No matter how nice the composition, flow, and lines of my design are, if I am not copying directly

Posted in: #Color #ColorTheory #Tools

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: Web Safe Alternative to Myriad Pro Font? Is there any font that I can use in my font stack that is more or less similar to Myriad Pro and web safe?

Posted in: #FontRecommendation #WebSafe #WebsiteDesign

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: Site too large to officially use Google Analytics? We just got this email from the Google Analytics team: We love that you love our product and use it as much as you do. We have observed

Posted in: #Google #GoogleAnalytics #PageViews #TermsOfUse

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: What exactly is a "Pixel"? "Pixel" always confuses me whenever I do web banner work. I use CorelDraw x5 for my work. I usually prefer to use inches rather than pixels as inches are much

Posted in: #HowTo #Pixel #Resize

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: Any way to use an Android tablet as a cheap touch-screen (display + pointer-input-device) for Photoshop? Is there a way (a hack; a commercial app; etc...) which enables me to use any of the

Posted in: #AdobePhotoshop #Android #DrawingTablet #HardwareRecommendation #Windows

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: How to set the rotation point and use Transform Each in Illustrator? I have a triangle I'm trying to rotate in Illustrator using the Object->Transform->Transform Each command, but I can't

Posted in: #AdobeIllustrator #IllustratorScripting #Shapes #Tools #Transform

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: Alternative to Adobe Illustrator Can you recommend a good alternative to Adobe Illustrator? I am learning vector based graphic design, but I am not ready to make such a large investment as

Posted in: #AdobeIllustrator #SoftwareRecommendation #Vector

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: Tips and resources for beginning designers Thanks to the internet, graphic design and programming are becoming increasingly overlapping fields. As a programmer, I constantly find myself needing

Posted in: #BestPractice #ColorTheory #Education #ResourceRecommendations

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: In what browsers do you test your websites? In what browsers do you test your websites?

Posted in: #Browsers #Testing

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: How can WordPress be used, besides a blog? WordPress has been primarily a blogging tool from the start. But recent releases have been very customizable and extensible, especially 3.0. What other

Posted in: #Wordpress

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: What are some good feeds/blogs/twitter accounts to follow if I want to learn more about web development? Who are some of the big names out there (besides Jeff Atwood/@codinghorror, of course)

Posted in: #Blog #Learning #Resources #Rss #Twitter

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: How can I improve my handwriting ability? I really like writing encouraging letters to my friends every so often. Writing them by hand makes them feel a lot more personal, but I am always

Posted in: #Drawing #Technique #TraditionalMedia #Typography

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: What is wrong with Comic Sans? There's a great TEDxExeter talk by a colleague of mine, Simon Peyton-Jones, about the recent advances in the English lower school 'computer science' curriculum.

Posted in: #Fonts #Typefaces

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: What is the easiest way to export just the selected objects in Illustrator? The title says it all, I want to know what the simplest way to export the selected objects. In Inkscape, there

Posted in: #AdobeIllustrator #Cs5 #Export #Save #Selections

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: Why do people keep telling me my site looks awful? I've developed a website, and recently was looking for a job. Practically all interviewers, after taking a quick glimpse at it, told me my

Posted in: #WebsiteDesign

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: How can you export an Inkscape SVG file to a PDF and maintain the integrity of the image? I've been having a devil of a time getting Inkscape to export PDFs cleanly and there don't seem

Posted in: #Inkscape #Pdf

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: How do I learn to be creative? I've been a programmer my whole life, and now I've found that I really need to start designing my own stuff. I know how to use Photoshop in and out, but

Posted in: #Designers #Education #InterfaceDesign #ResourceRecommendations #Skillset

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: What resolution should a large format artwork for print be? For wall sized graphics and large banners (e.g 3m x 5m), what is an acceptable PPI for print. As i understand it 300 PPI is the

Posted in: #AdobePhotoshop #Ppi #PrintDesign #Resolution

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: Where are some good places to find royalty free stock images? I'm always on the hunt for free stock images to use while I design, what are some good resources for images that are under a

Posted in: #Images #ResourceRecommendations #RoyaltyFree #StockImages

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: What web graphics formats to use? Web sites can contain JPEG, GIF,PNG, SVG format graphics. Which ones should be used, and when?

Posted in: #Color #ImageFormat #WebsiteDesign

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: How can I see what my web site looks like in various browsers? How can I see what my web site looks like in various browsers? Short of actually having every different browser version installed,

Posted in: #Browsers #Html

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: How do I get images containing text to be indexed by search engines? I am building a small portfolio website for a friend, and being in advertising and all, she hates the standard fonts and

Posted in: #Images #Indexing #Seo #Text

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: Allowing customers to edit static website via WYSIWYG I've set a few clients up with Adobe (formerly Macromedia) Contribute to edit static html content. Add the comments to prevent them from

Posted in: #Content #Contribute #StaticContent #Wysiwyg

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: What is the standard way for conveying vegan and vegetarian as separate icons? Working on a project, I need 2 icons for Vegan and Vegetarian to display at a glance nutritional information. The

Posted in: #Icon

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: What is the benefit of forcing a site to load over SSL (HTTPS)? Let's say I have a large content-only site; no login or logout, no usernames, no email addresses, no secure area, nothing secret

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Posted in: #Http #Https #Load #Seo

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: Is there a term for the moment when a lot of users visit/log onto your website at the same time? Is there a term for the moment when a lot of users visit/log onto your website at the same

Posted in: #Terminology

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: How can graphic designers contribute to Open Source projects? I want to participate in Open Source projects, but I cannot code (that well. Or.. at all). I would love to contribute to GitHub

Posted in: #Designers #OpenSource

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: How can I decide between the medium sized intuos tablet or the small one? I am a high school student with an interest for drawing tablets for some hobby. I went to check on a store that

Posted in: #DrawingTablet #HardwareRecommendation

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: Should I design business cards in InDesign, Illustrator or Photoshop? Basically what the question says, what are the pro's and cons to using InDesign, Illustrator, or Photoshop for business cards?

Posted in: #AdobeIllustrator #AdobeIndesign #AdobePhotoshop #PrintDesign #SoftwareRecommendation

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: How to present web design mockups to a client? I'm working on a website redesign project. I will need to present a few different mockups to the client for review. I want to make sure the

Posted in: #Mockup #WebsiteDesign

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: Why is my PDF so huge? This site seemed like the best match for my question. So I'm about to graduate college, and I made a nice resume in Word. I used a kind of fancy tabling system that

Posted in: #AdobePhotoshop #FileSize #Pdf

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: How to open or save as ico in Photoshop CS6 This plugin to open and save as .ico in Photoshop has been around for a while, but I can't seem to make it work for CS6. According to this

Posted in: #AdobePhotoshop #Cs6 #HowTo #Icon #Save

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: Do people still use RSS feeds? I've built a site where people can submit security vulnerabilities found on websites. I've got some requests (not many though) by people to implement an RSS feed

Posted in: #Rss

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: Do web designers need to know how to code? As a web developer, both front-end and back end architect, I work with many different designers and sometimes find it frustrating working with design

Posted in: #Css #Designers #WebsiteDesign

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: Who has IE6 users viewing their site? I know the general advice is that its no longer necessary to support IE6, but I've also heard the best data is the analytics of actual users to your

Posted in: #CrossBrowser #InternetExplorer6

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: How can I simulate a slow connection for page load? I have a fast server, and a reasonably fast home Internet connection. How can I simulate my page loading on a slow connection?

Posted in: #PageSpeed #Performance

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: Is there a better analytics package than Google Analytics? I've used Google Analytics for a while now, and it's pretty good for a high level view. But when I want to dig into the numbers

Posted in: #Analytics #GoogleAnalytics

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: Providing fake info during domain registration - does it matter? As you are all most likely aware already all domain registrars ask for your personal information. Such personal information includes:

Posted in: #DomainRegistrar #DomainRegistration #Domains #PrivateRegistration

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: User Friendly .NET CMS I am looking for a recommendation for a somewhat powerful but more importantly user friendly CMS for .NET. The ones I have found seem decent at best. If you say DotNetNuke

Posted in: #AspNet #Cms

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: Why is it that people are so surprised that graphics design can be hard? Why is it that people are so surprised that graphics design requires skill and knowledge*? Sure superficially there is

Posted in: #ClientRelations #Designers

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: How to convert Sketch files to a layered Photoshop file? I was wondering if there was an easy way to convert Sketch files to a layered Photoshop file? Sketch exports TIFFs, PNG and JPEG but

Posted in: #AdobePhotoshop #FileConversion #FileFormat #SketchApp

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: What can symbolize both beauty and relaxation? I am looking for a symbol that suggests beauty, and connotes relaxation as well. The context is that I am making an icon for a spa and salon

Posted in: #Symbolism

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: How do I handle an increasing lack of faith in my design abilities? Do any of you seasoned design professionals have any advice for a young graphic design student/novice? Especially with respects

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: Critique: Tritium software logo design I am looking for a review for a logo that is going to be shipped with a project of mine. I wanted to keep it simple and clean, with a high level of

Posted in: #Critique #Identity #Logo

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: What is the difference between wireframes and mockups? I would like to know the difference between Wireframes and Mockups. I'm hoping to gain a simple understanding of the difference or to definitively

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Posted in: #InterfaceDesign #Mockup #Terminology #Wireframing

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: Do interfaces really need to "look good"? I notice that sites and software with less superficial value (less style, inspiration, or simply "neat-ness") often succeed far above their fantastically,

Posted in: #InterfaceDesign #UserExperience

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: How to align rotated shape back to 0 degrees? I have a "rotation" issue with Illustrator. I've rotated some shape which has no horizontal component which I could align to guide, so I have

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: Is there a free 'Helvetica Neue' alternative? Does anyone know any other fonts similar to Helvetica Neue (free for commercial use)? I'm working on a big website project where 'Helvetica Neue'

Posted in: #FontRecommendation #WebFonts #WebSafe #WebsiteDesign

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: How to automate exporting multiple PNGs with different sizes from Photoshop? I have a PSD file with a 96 px × 96 px resolution. Now I want to save this as four PNG files with different

Posted in: #AdobePhotoshop #Automation #Export #Png

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: Is there a DIN font free alternative? I need a websafe alternative to DIN font. It needs to be free for commercial use. Anyone know of a good one?

Posted in: #FontRecommendation #WebSafe

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: Should I (a web designer) stick with gimp, or buy Photoshop? I am a web designer. I do not use/own any adobe products... except for watching flash videos online of course. I currently use

Posted in: #AdobePhotoshop #Gimp #WebsiteDesign

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: Why don't people upgrade their browsers? Any web designer/developer will know that we have to make our code backwards-compatible with a number of (much) older browsers, just to cater for those

Posted in: #Browsers #BrowserSupport

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: Is there a "Fit to Canvas" option in Photoshop like there is in Fireworks? I am a Fireworks user new to Photoshop. In FW there is the very handy "fit to canvas" button in the properties

Posted in: #AdobeFireworks #AdobePhotoshop #Images

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: What kind of black should I use when designing for CMYK print? My question is what kind of black should I use when printing. At the moment I use this black (split into CMYK): C:0% M:0% Y:0%

Posted in: #Black #Cmyk #Color #Pdf #PrintDesign

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: Are there examples of software that use a dark colour scheme? A client told me they want something with more a design software feel rather than web 2.0 feel, particularly something with a dark

Posted in: #Color #InterfaceDesign #SoftwareRecommendation

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: Is there a standard width for designing web page mockups? Is there a standard size for the width of a website in a mockup? What is that size? Why?

Posted in: #WebsiteDesign

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: What DPI should be used for what situations? I've been seeing the word 'DPI' pop up quite a lot when I export my work out in Photoshop and Illustrator. While I know that DPI stands for 'dots

Posted in: #Dpi #Ppi #PrintDesign #Resolution #WebsiteDesign

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: Website where I can browse domain names I was wondering if there is a website where I can browse trough available domain names. I often create new websites and getting a good name is always

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: Common optimizations to reduce HTML or XHTML page size? What are some common optimizations performed to reduce HTML or XHTML page size? Some that come to mind are: removing comments, removing

Posted in: #Html #Optimization #PageSize #Performance #Xhtml

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: How to add SMS text messaging functionality to my website? I want to add the ability to send reminders to people via email and SMS for specific events that they have signed up for on a web

Posted in: #Notification #Sms #WebServices

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: Should I bother to design web sites that can be viewed in 800x600 resolution? How many people still use the old 800x600 resolution? Designing a site that can fit on the screen for this resolution

Posted in: #Design #Resolution

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: SEO: Where do I start? Possible Duplicate: What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I am primarily a software developer however I tend to delve in

Posted in: #Seo #WebDevelopment

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: SEO International Websites usage of sub domains and ccTLD domains Is it better to have separate country specific domains (which costs more money) or sub domains which define the country, for

Posted in: #Domains #Internationalization #Seo #Subdomain #TopLevelDomains

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: Font from old 70's American engineering schematics I am looking for a specific font used in oldish technical engineering docs (ca. 70's and earlier American electronic schematics and/or block diagrams),

Posted in: #FontIdentification #Typography #Vintage

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: Is there a safe way to redirect traffic from a dozen old websites to a new (unrelated) website? Over the years I've built over a dozen unsuccessful sites. They get 10-100 visitors per day

Posted in: #301Redirect #302Redirect #Penalty #Redirects #Seo

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: Why are URLs case-sensitive? My question: When URLs were first designed, why was case-sensitivity made a feature? I ask this because it seems to me (i.e., a layperson) that case-insensitivity

Posted in: #CaseSensitive #Url

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: What makes this POS design look dated? I'm trying to understand what makes this POS screen design look dated. Is it the 3D buttons, the colours, the layout, the font? And what would you do

Posted in: #Applications #Critique #Layout

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: Is the use of a QR code worth the space it requires? I recently had a discussion with a client. He asked me if I felt a QR code on a marketing piece would be beneficial. I asked him,

Posted in: #Barcodes #Business #ClientRelations

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: Designing my company’s logo – should I get professional help? I am getting frustrated trying to design a logo for my company. It is taking me longer to launch my website because of it.

Posted in: #Hiring #Logo #WebsiteDesign

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: Which should be designed first: logo or website? I am about to ask someone to create a website design for me but I am not sure if the website should drive the logo design or the logo drive

Posted in: #Logo #WebsiteDesign

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: How can the "dress" optical illusion be accurately reproduced on other images? By now pretty sure the entire world is familiar with the "dress" optical illusion as it will one day be known.

Posted in: #ColorTheory #OpticalIllusion #Perception

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: Preparing for a huge spike in traffic Our company will be appearing on a prime time TV show this week, and they've told us we can expect around 200,000 visitors on our website all at once.

Posted in: #Downtime #Traffic #Visitors #WebHosting

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: Is it frowned upon as a designer if you don't use "top" software? This question crosses my mind from time to time as I am a Windows user and have often thought about going down the cheaper

Posted in: #Business #Free #Workflow

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: How can I make sure my website will be available during a presentation? I have an online presentation to do next week and I have it all ready to go. The website is HTML and CSS only (no

Posted in: #Domains #SharedHosting #Xampp

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: What are some of the benefits of having a Mac vs a Windows PC in a design environment? I work in a b2b business and everyone here is on Windows PCs. A co-worker is pushing to move the

Posted in: #Apple #Mac #Windows #Workflow

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: How can I work with a client that doesn't know what they want? I am helping a client/friend with a website design. He is a conceptual thinker. Yet his ideas are always inspirational but not

Posted in: #Business #ClientRelations #WebsiteDesign

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: Object won't align central to artboard in Illustrator I create a new file in Illustrator. 30 x 30 px. No stroke just black fill. I create a new rectangle 27 27 px I select the rectangle and

Posted in: #AdobeIllustrator #Alignment

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: Adobe Illustrator Zoom around selected, not to screen centre? Command (Cntrl) and = gives zoom in, in Adobe Illustrator. Is there a way to set it so that it zooms to the selected object rather

Posted in: #AdobeIllustrator #Zoom

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: How can I find out what RGB colors a website uses? I want to learn the RGB (or others like hex, CMYK or HSL) details of a color on a website. Say the background of this very website. I

Posted in: #Cmyk #Color #Rgb #WebsiteDesign

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: How to make this hand-colored drawing even more fancier? I wanted my son to color some brain template. I will put this into front of my thesis (on visualization of diffusion MRI tractrography

Posted in: #Critique #Illustration

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: How can I quickly enter editing mode of a selected text layer? I'm looking to solve a workflow issue; editing a selected layer's text without having to go back to the mouse each time. You

Posted in: #AdobePhotoshop #Shortcuts #Text

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