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Why Bad Designers are Scarier than Dating Taylor Swift
Do you want to have a little fun and learn what mistakes some bad designers are making that you shouldn’t? This post is not for the faint of heart! Web design has become a popular topic, there are a lot of guys changing careers or just starting out to as a web designer, and many [...]Design a Pricing Plan Using CSS3 in Under 15 Minutes – Downloadable
Today we continue the series of tutorials on basic HTML5 and CSS3 coding and we jump even deeper into CSS3 with this video on how to design a pricing plan. If you own a product which you sell only on a subscription basis, then you will probably need pricing tables in order to showcase your [...]WordPress Plugin Development from Scratch, Part 4/4: Settings Page
Welcome to the final part of our tutorial series on WordPress Plugin Development for Designers. In the last three parts, we discussed the importance of plugins for you as designers and identified a basic structure for design based plugins while integrating a jQuery slider into WordPress. Today we are going to complete the basic structure [...]Free Webinar: Proven 3-Step Formula on How to Get Clients
Reading this post might be the best decision you will ever do for your entire career. New Free webinar about freelance web design on how to get started and how to earn your first $300 in just 3 days. What are you waiting for? Our method has been proven and tested, and it even went beyond [...]How These 11 WordPress Scripts Will Stop North Korea And Improve Your Blog
In this post you will get 11 WordPress scripts that will help improve your blog’s performance and that may or may not stop North Korea from terrorizing us. Either way, you will find these little WordPress hacks very useful for your daily blogging needs, which can help you save lots of precious time! If you’re [...]Create a Contact Form in HTML5 and CSS3 for Dummies – Downloadable
Today I will teach you how to create a simple contact form in HTML5 and CSS3 that you can download for free. Many WordPress plugins come with fully functional contact forms that can be installed and used right away, but we believe in beautiful design and in your right to style it however you choose. Therefore [...]Get More Clients as a Web Designer with these Social Psychology Tips
Several years ago, I enrolled in a self-improvement course which taught me a concept I found pretty useful to get more clients for my freelancing career. If you want to “hit” a goal, you need to focus on two things: Trying to hit the goal as much as possible, called goal intensity. Trying to increase [...]Create a Coca-Cola Can Using Adobe Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will teach you how to create a Coca-Cola can from scratch in Photoshop using shapes, brushes and layer styles. You are going to learn different techniques which you can apply to solve different problems in iconography, UI or web layouts. Photoshop is one of the most powerful programs out there and [...]Quick Guide on How to Earn Passive Income by Writing Tutorials
The freelancing lifestyle is defined by one word, uncertainty! As a freelance designer or developer you are building a company as a service provider, and that means you’ll experience times when no income is coming from your service. You aren’t going to have steady client work all the time. So how do you go about [...]Build a Custom WordPress Home Page with Custom Widget Areas
In this video tutorial I will teach you how to build a WordPress website with custom widget areas the easy way. Even if you haven’t touched a single line of code before, this tutorial is simple enough to walk you through every code. This tutorial goes hand in hand with Christian’s video tutorial on how [...]Source: 1stwebdesigner