This past Wednesday was quite the eventful day. The impact of Wikipedia, Google, TechCrunch, Mozilla, Wired, Reddit, WordPress, Funny Or Die, and many more big names , and of course those of you in the community who knew about the events and blacked out your own websites was DEFINITELY FELT! Because of the Blackout and the continued efforts of many before, we got these great results: more people around the world are aware of SOPA and PIPA President Obama has publicly stated that he does not support the legislation plaintiff attorneys for content providers fighting torrent–based copyright infringement like Jay McDaniel opposes the legislation as well and proposes something he feels we all can live with there were 2.4 million anti SOPA and PIPA tweets within a 16 hour period Co-sponsor of SOPA Sen. Maro Rubio dropped his support for the bill Google started a strong online campaign Major hacking spree by “Anonymous” 10 million online protests signatures, over 3 million emails sent to political leaders, and 115,000 sites participated in the Blackout( more statistics ) Does This Mean It’s Over

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In this tutorial you’ll learn how to make a beautiful music player in Adobe Photoshop. It is important that you take the time when you are designing and do not rush things

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Fiodor Sumkin is our featured artist of the day on Designrfix.com. In this series of posts, we will spotlight talented artists ranging from illustrators to graphic artists all the way to industrial designers. These daily posts will serve two purposes; first, is to showcase the works of these accomplished artists and the second is to [...]
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In this post, we have composed a list of some businesses whose logos are very famous and popular. These businesses have allowed us to have a peek inside their fascinating logo design process. We hope that this compilation will get you started on your own logo designing process

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For most of us web design started as a passion or a part-time job. For many of us it started before we turned 18, but most of us ended up working full-time in an agency or as freelance web designers and developers and will probably continue doing so for years and years to come.

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When starting as a designer, you might encounter some issues along the way, especially in the relationships you develop with your clients.

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When starting as a designer, you might encounter some issues along the way, especially in the relationships you develop with your clients. This happens mainly because the clients quite often have the wrong idea of what we actually do and think that “anybody can design a website”. In their opinion it is as easy as opening Photoshop and drawing something, then writing three lines of code and there you go, you have developed a website

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To be a freelancer or a business owner, your main goal should be to always grow your business, get new customers and boost sales. To actually take your business to the next level, it is important for you to focus on the various factors which influence your returning customers as well as getting new customers.
There are multiple ways wherein you will get your existing customers to come back to you, but some strategies require one to spend money. But in this short article, we are going to go through the most economical or FREE way to earn and showcase your clients trust.
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Remember that first time you got into the web industry as a professional? Speaking from personal experience, it must be a pretty amazing experience for anyone

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