Things to Know if You Plan on Working Abroad

Searching for a job abroad is becoming more common every year. Many people go past the border of their own country to look for a life elsewhere.�The reasons vary, it may be because of better financial prospects, it may be because of a better environment. Whichever the case – been there, done that. So if [...]

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Understanding the Theory of Minimalism in Web Design

Minimalism is the stripping down of a work of art, whether a design or a photograph, to its bare essentials in order to affect the viewer somehow. An image or photograph is made up of a combination of elements: light, shadow, shape, color, space and so on. When one or two of these elements are [...]

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Freelance Freedom #200: Existential Examination

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Create Your Dream Workstation: Popular Computers And Gadgets For Designers (PC/Mac)

I spent several hours scouring the internet for designers’ workplaces and their specifications. Now, this will seem biased towards Apple products since almost everything I have seen on Flickr, Dribble, and other communities for designers indeed favor Apple products. But don’t worry here you’ll see all the most popular alternatives and everything else you need [...]

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Beyond the Blog: Get on the WordPress Bandwagon

WordPress, long known as one of the most popular blogging platforms, has turned into so much more. With the release of WordPress 3 “Thelonious”, the platform really steps into its own as a powerful content management system for writers, designers and everyone else to create or manage stunning, cutting-edge websites. Most people prefer WordPress because [...]

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Win 5 Premium Facebook Templates from FlashMint

FlashMint is a one of the leading providers of Flash and website templates. They have a vast collection of high quality website templates for any purpose or taste ? flash templates, flash CMS templates, jQuery templates, e-commerce templates, WordPress themes,�Facebook templates and many more. This giveaway from FlashMint covers�5 Premium Facebook templates for your Facebook [...]

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Tips to Assist Freelancers in Meeting Project Deadlines

Being one?s own boss is a lucrative profession for budding freelancers, but it has its own set of challenges. Being the boss implies that you take all the responsibility for your business. One lapse and you could ruin your reputation, without any guarantee that you?d have an opportunity for redemption.
One of the major challenges for [...]

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Photoshop Tutorial ? Making a Wood Texture

In this tutorial we’ll create a wood texture: 1. Start by making a new file with the Width=612 and Height= 612. 2. Make a new layer and fill it with #765838. 3. Then apply a noise filter Go to Filter->Noise->Add … Continue reading →

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Today Only: Win 10 Subscriptions To The Brilliant WeGraphics Design Resources

I know, I know, too many giveaways on InspiredMag lately. Well, get used to it ‘coz we like freebies and we love our readers => we love offering and curating cool giveaways for you. This time we teamed up with the cool chaps from AppSumo and the amazing team behind WeGraphics to send 10 free [...]

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How Much Of Your Site Is Accessible To The Visually Impaired?

An easy way to increase traffic to your website is to open it up to the accessibility of more users, such as those with with visual impairments.� This would give you a much greater opportunity to get your website?s content out to a larger audience.
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45 Fractal Artworks with Attractive Colors

The beauty of flowers always creates an immense appeal and nobody can stay uninfluenced by their quality for a long period of time. This charismatic appeal of flowers is used by many designers and artists who are desperate to give their designs a little bit of extra oomph.
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Anatomy of a Design Decision

“In this presentation, Jared will take you on an entertaining deep dive into the gut instinct of the best designers (without looking at all the gooey parts). You?ll learn five styles of decision making, from Self Design to Experience-focused Design, and which style produces quality results. Prepare to learn how to be a better designer, [...]

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Anatomy of a Design Decision

“In this presentation, Jared will take you on an entertaining deep dive into the gut instinct of the best designers (without looking at all the gooey parts). You?ll learn five styles of decision making, from Self Design to Experience-focused Design, and which style produces quality results. Prepare to learn how to be a better designer, [...]

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The Most Powerful Way to Presell Any Product or Service

Preselling is the art of conditioning potential customers and making them more likely to buy products/services. It is usually performed at your website before you send the visitor over to the vendor’s store or landing page. The goal of all presell tactics is to get prospects into a frame of mind whereby they not [...]

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Marketing Your Website Without Search Engines

I’m not old enough to remember what the internet was like without search engines. Apparently,�there were lists of web-servers: they were manually updated and publicized in news updates like this. And then the search engines came crawling, indexing and sorting out�pages. As the web expanded with more users and businesses putting up websites, search engines [...]

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Web Design Masterclass Conference

Really excited about this conference hosted by a few friends over at Sidebar Creative. Coming to a Philly, Austin and Los Angeles near you! Buy tickets now for early bird prices.

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How to choose fallback fonts

Josh Brewer details a great article over at Typekit on how to consider fallback fonts to match those nice webfonts you just put to use.

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Creating a Basic Wireframe Using Adobe Fireworks

John Warnock and Charles Geschke founded Adobe Systems Inc. in December of 1982. John was working at Evans & Sutherland, where he began developing a concept that would allow printers to print text and images from a computer. Warnock and Geschke formulated this concept in 1982, and Adobe was born with their first product, Postscript.
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6 Fool-Proof Steps to Make More Money With Your Website

Every website has a bunch of web pages which get more search traffic than others. These pages are constantly visited daily by�new visitors, people who have never seen the site in question before.�I call these ‘money pages’ because they are a reliable source of immediate and future income.
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9 Email Designs for Content-Heavy Newsletters

I’ve recently been working on a project to design a daily email newsletter that will be powered by MailChimp’s RSS to Email option. In some ways using RSS limits the design, however by automating the email campaign the site owner can focus on creating content rather than delivering content. The challenge for this email campaign [...]

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A Brief Cartoon History of Social Networking 1930-2011

Our friends from PeopleBrowsr commissioned a brief cartoon history of social networking in order to celebrate the opening of their San Francisco Command Center and the 75th Anniversary of The Advertising Research Foundation in New York. Your turn now – what do you think is the most influential social networking outlet in history?

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FlashTuning Flash Components Giveaway: Winners!

A weeks ago, we created a contest at instantShift called Win Five Awesome Flash Components from FlashTuning had announced the 5 winners of Flash Components from FlashTuning to InstantShift readers.
We?ve got more than 40 response comments. After voiding spam and non-legit comments we have left with more than 38 valid comments. It?s really good to [...]

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Making it as a Creative Freelancer: Online Portfolio Tools You Need to Use

You?re creative. You?re talented. You want the world to see who you are and what you can do. But the world?s a big place, and it?s hard to stand out. If people can?t see your work, they won?t come knocking at your door. You need people to see what you?re all about, and that requires [...]

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Photoshop Tutorial ? Making Rounded Corners Text

In this tutorial we’ll create Rounded Corners text effect, with this tutorial you can make rounded corners for any type of shapes: 1. Start by making a new file with the Width=1024 and Height= 768. 2. Select a square font, … Continue reading →

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The Best Web Design Goodies of the Week #3

New episode people – the cool chaps behind our sister site WebDesignGoodies did it again – here are the best live deals, discounts, freebies & contests from the design & development community. Pretty hot week actually! Let us know what you think and if you have a favorite resource. The Ultimate Creative Bundle, $1500 Worth [...]

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Browse Email Marketing Campaigns on Emailium for Inspiration and Ideas

Emailium, an inspiration database for designers who create email marketing campaigns, opened their public beta today. The site is free to join for now, although it makes no mention of what the prices might be once the public beta is over. The company describes itself as “A filterable, sortable, categorizable, global database of email campaigns [...]

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QR Codes: the Future of Marketing

Recently I was introduced to the unusual concept of QR codes. As this opened a whole new world to me I started looking for more information on the use and success of these mysterious codes.

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QR Codes: the Future of Marketing

Recently I was introduced to the unusual concept of QR codes. As this opened a whole new world to me I started looking for more information on the use and success of these mysterious codes.

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Designing Quality Infographics: Tips, Resources and Inspiration

Infographics are graphic visual representations of data and information.�They come in extremely handy when you need to explain complex information, numbers or data rather quickly and effectively. Infographics are used worldwide from magazines to metro stations.�A great infographic can render complicated information easily understandable and engrossing. However, infographics can be pretty hard to design since [...]

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Milton Glaser Creative Mornings lecture

Stop what you’re doing and check out the January 2011 Creative Mornings�lecture with Milton Glaser ? designer of the iconic I ‘heart’ NY and Brooklyn Brewery logos (amongst others).

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How to Choose a Web Design Agency to Build Your eCommerce Site

With so many agencies out there, how do you choose which company to use to build your eCommerce website?

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Resources for Traveling Freelancers #4: Travel Linkswitch

This is the forth article in a series on resources for the traveling freelancer. Jump over to Traveling Freelancer #1, #2, or #3, if you haven’t read them already.

While you?re working on the road you?ll need to keep in touch with your contacts while keeping your expenses low and your load light.� In this special edition of LinkSwitch we have a number of links to resources that will help you out, as we wrap up this traveling freelancer series.

Keep in touch with clients and other contacts

Skype is probably the most popular communications software out there.� It offers free computer-to-computer calls, including conference video calls, and call quality is generally good.� For the iPhone user there?s also a Skype app.� Prices for computer-to-phone calls are not particularly inexpensive but they’re not too horrible either.� SMS prices are decent.

Send and receive free SMS messages around the world (sort of)

I?ve heard many good things about WhatsApp, a paid app for the smartphone.� If you use it with a WiFi connection you pay nothing to send and receive unlimited text messages to other WhatsApp owners anywhere in the world.

Store your stuff in the clouds

Sometimes it happens that you start running really low on storage space on your laptop, and you’ll also want to make sure your stuff is safely stored, and ideally in a place you can access from anywhere. You want to have access to your files should there be a problem with your laptop – such as when you forget your charger in a hotel room and have to wait a week to get it back!

Find coworking space

Though coworking is mostly popular in the US and Europe, there is an increasing number of coworking sites around the world that can come in handy for freelancers.� Working at an internet cafe is sometimes a necessary hassle given the problems with the computers so you’re better off if you can find a coworking space.

Get know-how from working travelers

?Working abroad? has taken on a whole new meaning. NuNomad is a new resource for those who wish to take their ?at-home? jobs with them while they travel and live abroad. They share with you what we know about the process of going from work-at-home to work-anywhere-you-damn-well-please. They can even help you if you do not have a ?work-at-home? vocation, or haven?t traveled anywhere before.

Working nomads offer basic information, tips and stories from the road.� Some of the sections need to be updated, but there?s lots of valuable info here.

Get information on your destination from locals and travelers

Forums can be a great source of information and this is one of my favorites.� Both locals and visitors answer questions and give suggestions on destinations around the world.� Members can develop their own destination pages with photos and tips on topics, such as underrated eats, overrated sites, and tourist traps.

Tips on booking a RTW trip

There are many factors to consider when planning a round-the-world trip.� Where does one start?� How does one find good ticket prices?� This is a great guide to help you get started.

How to buy a RTW ticket with very little money

One of the awesome things about getting a credit card in the United States is that you can accumulate lots of airline miles.� I used to pay for everything I could with my credit card, then pay my balance in full at the end of the month so that I could accumulate miles.� When I lived in New York I used miles to travel to Brazil three times and to go to the West Coast twice on multiple-stop trips. But what the writer of this post did is on another level.

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Photoshop Tutorial ? Making a Chrome Text

In this tutorial we’ll create a chrome text effect: 1. Start by making a new file with the Width=1024 and Height= 768 and a white background. 2. Fill your background layer with a black to dark blue gradient. 3. Reset … Continue reading →

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