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Be Healthy: Simple Exercises for Freelancersview story

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com Sitting in a chair working for most of the day is never healthy. If you’re a freelancer, it means you’re pretty much glued to your chair since there is no getting up and going over to a colleague’s desk to talk about a project, walk to a meeting, elevator or across the street for lunch. Ignoring the fact that gluing your behind to your work place most often than not, piles on the pounds but also leads to something far more unhealthy – inactivity. If you have recurring back aches, stiff neck and creaking joints then your body needs to start moving. Here are a few simple stretching exercises which won’t reduce your weight, but will keep your body active and blood circulating! (Web Design)

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45 Stunning Examples of Moleskine Artworkview story

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com The Moleskine notebooks/sketchbooks have become more and more popular over the last years. In a world where more and more art is digital, these books stand out as a more basic, yet traditional and creative media. We’ve handpicked a nice collection of sketches that various artists have done in their Moleskine. In today’s world of art, we’ve seen pretty much everything up to several times already, especially when talking about digital pieces. So this time we’ve decided to make a nice collection of Moleskine sketches. These show the great creativity and skills of several artists and can be very inspirational to have a look at. Let’s have a look! 1. Unicorns 2. Moleskine of Roger Haus (Web Design)

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50 Insanely Awesome Apple and Mac Iconsview story

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com Everyone loves free resources so does we, that’s why we keep on posting high-quality resources for you on regular basis. Today we have collected 50 awesome icon sets for your Mac. Beautiful icons make sure you have pleasing and joyful visual interface experience and offer you elegant means of interaction with your Mac. You can renew look of your mac by just changing basic icons with new creative and beauteous icons we have listed in this roundup. Give your Mac a new appearance today. 1. The MacBook In Black 2. Aluminium MacBook Pro OSX 3. HydroPRO -HP- Mac Edition 4. Stainless mac 5. The Mini. Mac Mini (Web Design)

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55 of The Most Colorful and Inspiring Web Designsview story

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com In this showcase we’ve put together a great collection of some of the most colorful web designs out there. If you need some inspiration for any sort of design or just want to have a look at some truly great web designs, these are definitely worth having a look at ! These websites will show you a good portion of all the good design that is available out there. It’s all about trying to think a bit outside of the traditional look and using your creativity and imagination. Enjoy! 1. Splendour in the grass – 2010 2. Forest Edge music festival 3. World design capital Helsinki 2012 4. Pieoneers 5. GO Mammoth 6. 8th Continent Soymilk 7. Silly poems 8. Xhtmlcafè (Web Design)

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Email UI Faceoff – GMail vs Hotmail vs Yahoo – The resultsview story

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com Welcome back to part two of our email UI faceoff – I recently wrote about the usability testing process, and set up a test for comparing the usability of Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail and Gmail. Well, the results are in and we’ve got some pretty interesting feedback from the test – you can get directly to the test results yourself, or read on for our analysis and verdict. Over the days we’ve been running the test, we had north of 300 people take it, and we think the numbers are a pretty good sample. Based on our analytics data, I could see that we had participants from 64 different countries, and it took the average user 2:56 to take the test. So what did we learn from all that? Read on and find out: (Web Design)

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20 Snippets You should be using from Html5 Boilerplateview story

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com I recently, as many web designers and developers will have, became aware of a fantastic resource put together by web developer, Paul Irish, and Divya Manian. Html5 Boilerplate, as they have named it, is a powerful starting off point for any website or web application. As Paul Irish describes it; “It’s essentially a good starting template of html and css and a folder structure that works., but baked into it is years of best practices from front-end development professionals.” It is absolutely packed full of fantastic snippets of code that are still very much worth using even if you don’t want to start using html5 boilerplate as your base template. (Web Design)

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Ultimate List Of Web Design Checklists: Get Work Done!view story

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com When building a website, there are so many things and aspects to keep in mind. It often happens that in that mess we forget about some basic things like favicon or maybe about dummy content removal from test site. It’s much easier to go trough all those things when you have all of them written down. In this article you are going to find bunch of different checklists, questionnaires and tips covering almost everything for an upcoming website. You probably will need just one of these tools, so choose carefully. Read some tips and decide which tool fits the best for your project planning and development process. (Web Design)

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20+ Awesome Flickr Groups for Logo and Web Design Inspirationview story

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com Designers are always attracted towards creative work and new sources for design inspiration. There are plenty of websites for getting inspiration like deviantArt, Behance Network, Flickr and many more. Since Flickr has started, it happens to be one of the biggest source of inspiration, there are also some groups that have been established to showcase the work of designers. Today we have browsed the most valuable source of inspiration simply known as “Flickr” and extracted a useful list of groups for Logo and Web Design inspiration and displayed two images of sample work by members of these groups for your inspiration. (Web Design)

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Performance Optimization: How to Load your javascript faster!view story

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com Javascript is now extremely important. Some sites use javascript for a tiny enchantments, many of today’s webapps are depending on it, some of them are even totally written in js. In this article I’ll point out some important rules, how to use your javascript, which tools to use and what benefits you’ll gain from it. Keep your code at minimum Don’t rely on javascript. Don’t duplicate your scripts. Treat it like a candy-tool to make things more pretty. Don’t bloat your site with s**t-loads of javascript. Use it only when necessary. Only when it really improves user experience. (Web Design)

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Discover What Type of Designer Are You?view story

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com Just like there are different client types, and different people in general – there are a few different types of designers. In this article we will have a look at some of the characteristics of some of these and give you some tips on how to improve. Hopefully you will have a few good tips on how you can become an even better designer when you’re done with this article! Have you ever thought that you’re unique? Or felt that you’re just one of thousands out there struggling to get a project? Picture by Piotr Bizior (Web Design)