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The Photo Argus (@thephotoargus) just released an amazing set of Photoshop Actions that give photographers professional retouching workflows with a single click. If you’re a photographer, ranging from a hobbyist to professional, you’ll want to check out these well-done, thought-out actions. There are three different suites of Photoshop Union Actions. Photo Designer Portrait Suite Texturize [...]
Photo by Images Money on Flikr When I put together a proposal for a client, I include the the ongoing costs. These costs are the investment fees to keep the site up and running beyond the initial launch of their site. The initial investment of a site was covered in a previous post. This post [...]
Photo by Mark Strozier on Flikr One of the most common questions I get as a web designer is “what will a website cost?” The initial cost of a website is dependent on a number of factors: amount of content type of content functionality (features) of the website Amount of Content A 3-page site will [...]
Having worked in the creative industry for over 15 years, sometimes I’m just plain done with coming up with one more creative idea. Yet, over the years, I also know being creative breathes life and energy into me. If I can get beyond that ‘creative block’, I easily lose track of time as the creativity [...]
Ever need a professional looking chart? There are a number of options that let you create a chart quickly using your own data and then embed that chart on your site. And some of these offer other types of visualizations as well. Tableau Public Create a professional graphic within minutes. Download this this powerful free [...]
WordPress is a great tool for setting up websites. One of its strong points is not having to know code. But, I have found it is incredibly useful to know something about CSS. For every WordPress site I’ve done, I’ve had to tweak the CSS code at least. In this post, we’ll look at the [...]
The Lightbox Effect is a great way to showcase our images. You’ve probably seen it and may not realize it was the Lightbox Effect. Have you visited a gallery page, clicked on an image, and it opens up into it’s own box? That’s the Lightbox Effect. It is easy to use and gives a professional [...]
Not only is text important when it comes to search engine optimization, the code around our images affects SEO results. If we are not optimizing our images for search engines, it’s likely we’re missing out on significant traffic. Here are several steps we can take to improve search engines results with our images. Use keywords [...]
One of the many things I love about WordPress is the ease in which a gallery or a portfolio can be placed online. There are tons of options available for Portfolio Themes. In this post, we are going to take a look at FREE themes. All these themes have good documentation available online and make [...]
As creatives, we often hit the creative roadblock. When that happens, I always like a fallback plan. For me, that includes visiting other websites that offer creative motivation. Here are 7 sites that do that for me. Siiimple I tend to like simplistic. This site offers just that. Lots of sites using the simplistic approach. [...]
