Use the 80-20 Rule to Increase Your Website’s Effectiveness

September 2nd, 2010 by Oleg Mokhov | 3 Comments

Use the 80-20 Rule to Increase Your Website's Effectiveness

Want to increase your website’s conversion rate? Want more subscribers, opt-ins, members, customers? How about doing less work while you’re at it?

Too good to be true? Nope.

It’s possible if you apply the 80-20 rule: focus on the 20% that will bring you 80% of the results.

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50 Amazing Free Icon Sets

September 1st, 2010 by Tomas Laurinavicius | 19 Comments

50 Amazing Icon Sets

There are a lot of free icon sets out there for you to use. In this collection, we rounded up a few icon sets from all over the web that you can use in your design projects.

The hundreds of featured icons here are diverse in their styles: glossy, hand-drawn, realistic, textured are among the design themes you’ll find. I hope you find a handful of icon sets that you’ll bookmark, download, and use!

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Sponsor Love: Companies That Support Six Revisions

August 31st, 2010 by Jacob Gube | 6 Comments

It takes plenty of resources to bring you articles about design and development free of charge. Without our sponsors, we wouldn’t be able to bring you top-notch content that you can enjoy and learn from.

Thankfully, we’re able to do all of this with the help of our sponsors who support our community — companies that also create amazing products and provide excellent services to web professionals like us.

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Designing By Numbers: Data Analysis for Web Designers

August 31st, 2010 by Alexander Dawson | 4 Comments

Designing By Numbers: Data Analysis for Web Designers

Judging what’s best for an audience is never far from the web designer’s mind. The ability to predict whether a web design will soar like an eagle or sink like the Titanic is among the most subjective and complex measurements you will encounter.

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Craftsmanship in Designing Websites

August 30th, 2010 by Shawn Borsky | 37 Comments

With high pressure from clients and crazy development schedules for web designers, it is easy to forget to spend the proper amount of time crafting a design.

In the interest of speeding things up, it’s tempting to skip over small details. This is an easy pitfall to which to succumb, but in the end, it can hurt your overall career.

This article will share methods and simple tools for building better portfolio pieces, having happier clients, and imbuing your work with more value.

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PSD/HTML Conversion: Elegant and Simple CSS3 Web Layout

August 29th, 2010 by Eric Hoffman | 21 Comments

This is Part 2 of tutorial series. The first part dealt with creating a web design mockup of an elegant and simple blog web design. You should do Part 1 before attempting this tutorial so that you to gain the most benefit.

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Winner of Custom Logo Design from Inkd

August 28th, 2010 by Jacob Gube | 7 Comments

Winner of Custom Logo Design from Inkd

Inkd, the world’s first online marketplace for creative businesses, hosted a giveaway on Six Revisions recently. This post announces the winner of the custom logo design by Inkd.

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