Five Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Expand Your Design Business

May 27 2010 by Mathew Carpenter | 24 Comments

Five Reasons Why You Shouldn't Expand Your Design Business

Few industries are as primed for expansion and scale as web design. With a successful sales and marketing routine in place, gaining extra income can be as simple as hiring, researching, and delegating. From contracted designers to highly optimized business processes, scaling an online business tends to be a significantly less stressful process than expanding a more traditional offline company.

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Semantic CSS3 Lightboxes

May 26 2010 by Alexander Dawson | 45 Comments

Semantic CSS Lightboxes

The rise of jQuery, MooTools, and JavaScript frameworks has given many web designers a new lease on life, adding more unique functionality into their sites.

Most notably among the various cool and interesting features you can find being injected into a design is the humble lightbox (modal window).

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The Crowdsourcing Quagmire

May 25 2010 by Jeff Boshers | 38 Comments

The Crowdsourcing Quagmire

Crowdsourcing is one of those things that designers hate to hear mentioned. It ranks up there with “Spec Work” and “My little cousin’s friend Tony can design me a logo cheaper than that!”

Since designers are a pretty vocal bunch on the subject, there are many debates about crowdsourcing. Trying to make sense of it all can be more daunting than trying to catch a greased pig. Let’s look at it from several angles, shall we?

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Win a SlideshowBox Flash Photo Gallery License

May 24 2010 by Jacob Gube | 142 Comments

Win a SlideshowBox Flash Photo Gallery License

SlideshowBox is a collection of stylish and highly interactive Flash gallery templates that allows you to create custom photo slideshows without coding.

Smartketer, the software company who created SlideshowBox (along with software suites such as JumpeyeComponents and SnackTools) is working with Six Revisions to hand out five SlideshowBox Premium Plus licenses, each worth $149.

Read on to see how you can win one of the five SlideshowBox Premium Plus licenses.

UPDATE: Giveaway is Finished. Please Stay Tuned for Results.

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40 Beautiful and Very High-Resolution Wallpapers

May 23 2010 by Tomas Laurinavicius | 100 Comments

Beautiful and Very High-Resolution Wallpapers

Do you have a boring desktop wallpaper? Are you tired of looking at the same, old desktop wallpaper? Well, here’s the remedy. This collection contains beautiful, high-quality and high-resolution (at least 1900x1200px) wallpapers. I hope you will find several wallpapers to refresh and invigorate your workspace.

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Beautiful Footers in Modern Web Design for Inspiration

May 22 2010 by Andy Johnson | 42 Comments

Beautiful Footers in Modern Web Design for Inspiration

Over a year and a half ago, Six Revisions published a footer inspiration collection named 25 Stylish Website Footer Designs (which you should also check out). Today, we have the next generation of footer designs showcased in this collection.

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What is The Future of Web Development?

May 21 2010 by Amber Weinberg | 73 Comments

What is The Future of Web Development?

What we do on the Web changes every day. The web development industry is constantly evolving. While we may not be able to tell the day-to-day changes while it’s happening, it’s easy for us to look back to the past few months and see that a lot of things we do now are much different than what we’ve been doing before.

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