“Undesign” Your Portfolio Website

Apr 2 2012 by Kean Richmond | 57 Comments

"Undesign" Your Portfolio Website

Even the most ineffective, unattractive or simple of man-made objects have been designed in some way. The same is true for the Web: Even the most hideous of websites are created by someone who has consciously made decisions into its design.

For web design professionals, it’s normal to put a lot of work into a design, using research, analysis and their expertise to form a design to delight and engage. This process is not quick and while many of us spend hours crafting websites for clients, our own website goes wanting.

It’s in this situation that the process of undesign is growing.

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Announcement: Winners of Credits on Stockfresh

Mar 31 2012 by Jacob Gube | No Comments

Announcement: Winners of Stock Photo Credits from Stockfresh

In a recent giveaway, we announced that we’d give away 100 credits on Stockfresh (with a value of $79.99) to three lucky participants. The winners would be awarded credits that they can use to download royalty-free stock photos and vector illustrations on the Stockfresh site. In this post, you’ll find out who the winners are.

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Announcement: Winners of SliderWall Licenses

Mar 31 2012 by Jacob Gube | 1 Comment

Announcement: Winners of SliderWall Licenses

We recently held a giveaway of licenses to SliderWall, a premium jQuery plugin for creating many types of sliders for content such as images, videos, text and more. In this post, you’ll see the five lucky Six Revisions readers who’ve participated and have won the giveaway.

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Mobile UI Design Patterns: 10+ Sites for Inspiration

Mar 29 2012 by Jacob Gube | 7 Comments

Mobile UI Design Patterns: 10+ Sites for Inspiration

User interface design patterns are solutions to common design challenges, such as navigating around an app, listing data or providing feedback to users.

Mobile apps and sites have unique UI design requirements because, compared to their desktop counterparts, they’re used in smaller screens and, at least with today’s modern mobile devices, rely on fingers instead of a keyboard and mouse as input mechanisms.

Whether you’re designing a mobile app UI for the first time or in need of specific design solutions, these mobile UI design pattern resources will surely help!

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Designing Landing Pages That Work

Mar 16 2012 by Karol K. | 6 Comments

Designing Landing Pages That Work

Having knowledge on how to create an effective landing page can increase the number of site visitors that take the desired action of the web page. Lets discuss factors and considerations that can lead to a better landing page design.

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Top 10 Free Online Blogging Platforms

Mar 13 2012 by Sufyan bin Uzayr | 18 Comments

Top 10 Free Online Blogging Platforms

A blog is a great way to express your thoughts, create a web presence for your company and provide content to Internet users.

If you’re planning to create a blog, but don’t wish to get into the hassles of hosting, developing and deploying it yourself, consider creating a blog at any of the free blogging platforms mentioned below. Such services offer a plethora of features and generally come with both free as well as paid plans.

Let’s look at the top 10 most popular online blog-publishing services.

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Giveaway: 5 SliderWall jQuery Image Slider Licenses

Mar 13 2012 by Jacob Gube | 75 Comments

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We’ve teamed up with the creators of SliderWall, a powerful premium jQuery image slider, to give 5 lucky Six Revisions readers licenses that allows them to use this wonderful tool commercially and on one domain. Continue reading this post to discover how you can win a SliderWall license.

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