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Newsletter Archive: 2009

Popular Software Used in Graphic Design
Today graphic designers have a whole host of powerful designer tools. You can find many design tools for use on the computer.

Date: 2009-12-21


Your Web Site Can Now Do It All
Ektron CMS400.NET provides a complete content management platform with all of the functionality necessary to create, deploy, and manage your Web site.

Date: 2009-12-15


Cloud Computing Webinar with Rackspace
Explore some of the most effective IT solutions available to businesses today, and let us show you how to leverage them in the coming year.

Date: 2009-12-10


Special Offer for Select Verio Hosting Solutions
Use Verio's partner program discounts to offer hosting as standalone services, or as a complement to your existing offerings. And now for a limited time, you can demo select solutions FREE* for one month when you sign up as a new partner and mention "IEDNEW"!

Date: 2009-12-08


Adding A Fading Transition On Your Web Pages
Google recently announced their fade in homepage. From a marketing perspective I think it is interesting to try to figure out why they did that.

Date: 2009-12-07


What Is A Freelancer's Role In The Design World?
For most people the answer is obvious but I occasionally get questions about what a freelance designer is and what a freelance web designer does.

Date: 2009-11-30


Great Resources For Successful Freelancers
There are thousands of designers around the web, most of them have a blog but actually being successful at it can be a different story.

Date: 2009-11-16


Learning Design Through Web Design Bloggers
There are thousands of designers around the web, most of them have a blog but actually being successful at it can be a different story.

Date: 2009-11-02


Creating Killer Titles To Advance Your Blog
How much attention do you pay to the headline of a blog post or other content you write? I always think that the  headline of a blog post, newspaper article, news release or other piece of written material is the most essential thing to pay attention to when you write that content.

Date: 2009-10-19


The Next Generation of Website Functionality
Ektron CMS400.NET provides a complete content management platform with all of the functionality necessary to create, deploy, and manage your Web site.


Date: 2009-10-15


The Need for Creative Inspiration
Just like writers, designers get hit by dry spells, where our creativity has either been drained or is moving the speed of a sloth.


Date: 2009-10-05


Website Appearance and Structure
Sometimes what you need is a good checklist. I love lists, especially when it comes to learning something new. There's no better way to make sure you've done it all than a checklist.

Date: 2009-09-21


Designing A Successful Website
Success is always measured financially and in this recession times many big corporate went bankrupt and so there is a common misconception today that all or most websites are unprofitable and will not make their owners money but thats not true.

Date: 2009-09-08


Shopping Cart Software - 30 Day Free Trial
Grow Your Revenuesand increase your value to customers by providing more e-commerce solutions o your clients than ever before!

Date: 2009-08-25


Tips for Building an Online Portfolio
Online portfolios have not only become more popular, but really have become more common. If you're an artist in any respect, it's nearly unheard of for you to not have an online portfolio... that is, if you're trying to sell your work.

Date: 2009-08-24


Using Imagery To Bring Deeper Meaning To Posts
There are thousands of blog posts that get published every day and your posts are competing with them. Not only is good content needed, but so is a good image.

Date: 2009-08-10


Limited-time Adobe offers for designers and developer
Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Design Premium and Web Premium provide the software tools you need to deliver extraordinary online projects. Now, when you purchase a full or upgrade version of either CS4 product, you'll also get Adobe Flex® Builder™! 3, the ideal tool for building highly interactive, expressive web applications.

Date: 2009-08-06


To Flash or Not to Flash
We're not talking about Mardi Gras here, but the conundrum of whether or not to make your new site with Adobe Flash.

Date: 2009-07-27


Limited-time Adobe offers for designers and developer
Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Design Premium and Web Premium provide the software tools you need to deliver extraordinary online projects. Now, when you purchase a full or upgrade version of either CS4 product, you'll also get Adobe Flex® Builder™ 3, the ideal tool for building highly interactive, expressive web applications.

Date: 2009-07-23


Designing Your Site For SEO Visibility
The relative ease of instant website design has its drawbacks. Plenty of novice webmasters have hung out a shingle for "web design" despite a laughable level of knowledge and experience in the web design trade.

Date: 2009-07-06


Color Theory of Web Design
Have you ever eaten some multi-colored cereal, and looked at the milk afterward to see it's an awful brown-grey-purple color? Well, that's just the thing about color theory.

Date: 2009-06-22


Rapidly Deploy Your Next Generation Web Site: Instant Demo
Build enterprise Web sites on which Web marketers are able to independently create and launch new Web pages.

Date: 2009-06-18


Is Your Site Social Media Friendly?
No doubt your website is going great guns in the search engines, but did you know you're missing out on a valuable source of traffic?

Date: 2009-06-08


Work Smarter & Make Life Easier: Join Our Free Web Community
Share Tips. Build Expertise. Tap into a Web-Obsessed Community.LinkTogether™ is a FREE community created exclusively for Web designers and developers.

Date: 2009-06-05


Creating Good Looking And Informative Websites
When designing a website there are a few things to keep in mind throughout the design and implementation of the website.

Date: 2009-06-02


All-in-One Ecommerce Solution, Increase Sales 14 Day Trial
Volusion wants to turn your passion into online sales. Whether you're an ecommerce expert or new to selling online, Volusion has all the tools to help you attract more customers and more sales. And...your first two weeks are on us!

Date: 2009-06-01


New Design Structures For WordPress
The WordPress blogging software is quite rightly immensely popular. The Open-Source community that supports it has developed a whole raft of supporting code and applications that make it a pleasure to use.

Date: 2009-05-18


Supplementing Your Income With Freelance Web Design
As a freelance web designer there are a number of different methods for creating income than just making websites.

Date: 2009-05-04


Some Basics of Web Design
When you decide to start up a website, or even redesign an old one, there are some basics of design you'll want to keep in mind.

Date: 2009-04-20


Inspiration and the Client
If you've been checking out DesignNewz for awhile, you might have noticed me as a guest author the newsletter from time to time.

Date: 2009-04-06


Power Up Your Web Site: Instant Demo
More than just software: In addition to a thriving online developer community, Ektron can provide support, training, development, hosting and much, much more

Date: 2009-04-02


Adding Expiration Date To Headers
I've been tweaking the performance of BlogEngine.NEXT today using my favorite tool: YSlow for FireBug. One of the things YSlow checks for is the expires HTTP header for static content such as images, script files and style sheets.

Date: 2009-03-30


Add New Revenue Streams to Your Business
Looking for a recession-proof marketing solution for your clients? Want to extend the range of services you offer and add new revenue streams to your business? Adding email marketing to the mix through...

Date: 2009-03-26


Check Top Internet Browsers For Site Compatibility
I always test my sites in the latest crop of browsers - FF, IE, Safari (Mac and Win), Opera. I'm still supporting IE6, unfortunately, but once IE8 comes out I may put a stop to that.

Date: 2009-03-16


Reliable Expertise to Support Your Application
There are other hosting providers out there that talk nonstop about SaaS. But only Rackspace delivers the infrastructure, nonstop support, uptime, services and SaaS expertise that you and your customers rely on day in and day out. And that's why thousands of businesses rely on us to make on-demand application delivery flexible, reliable and easy.

Date: 2009-03-12


The De-Applefication of Web Design
The glossy button. The shiny floor. We've all done it. The iPhone is a groovy new gadget but it's perpetuating the overuse of Apple-style design on the web.

Date: 2009-03-02


Download This Tool For Your Website - Ektron CMS400.NET
More than just software: In addition to a thriving online developer community, Ektron can ensure your success with development, consulting and training services.

Date: 2009-02-19


How To Properly Test Alt And Title Image Tags
Recently, I began a test of the ALT and Title elements in the img html tag. Here is the breakdown of the testing: • Conducting the research by creating a page on the topic of "dogs" that has the same image of a Dalmatian that link to four separate pages.

Date: 2009-02-16


Why Outsourcing Your IT Makes Sense
It's true. Outsourcing some or all of your I.T. needs to Rackspace Hosting immediately reduces your hardware expenditures and payroll expenses. You don't have to own and maintain your hardware or even hire the experts to run it for you in-house. You spend substantially less and get considerably more from Rackspace

Date: 2009-02-13


Learning From The Mistakes Of TV Station Web Design
First things first. I know journalism is hard and that these folks never set out to be a web-centric organization. But the reality is that the audience is using the web and mobile devices to consume your information and share with friends - on their terms.

Date: 2009-02-02


Get The Most Out Of Your Designers
Being a designer, developer, and SEO, I always enjoy perusing other peoples' sites to see how they lay out their content, write their code, and optimize their pages.

Date: 2009-01-26


On-Screen Drawing: Bridging Low and High-Tech Design
As CES 2009 comes and goes, tech-lovers can fantasize about the gadgetry that may actually become affordable in 2 or 3 years.

Date: 2009-01-13


Introducing Rackspace Cloud Hosting
Minimize your expenses for hosting your sites, applications, files and email. Pay only for what you use. Grow as you need to without worrying about managing hardware. And do it for a lot less than what you are doing right now.

Date: 2009-01-08