Tips & Tricks Archive

  • One of the biggest issues at the core of freelancing is the need of a more or less steady flow of clients and assignments. Freelancing often means swinging between too much and too little work but, in crowded sectors such as web design freelancing, many have more problems on the “too little work” side, and find it hard to acquire new clients. A sometimes overlooked possibility is to...

    How classifieds can help your freelance business

    Posted on May 4, 2011 | 3 Comments
    One of the biggest issues at the core of freelancing is the need of a more or less steady flow of clients and assignments. Freelancing often means swinging between too much and too little work but, in crowded sectors such as web design freelancing, many have more problems on the “too little work” side, and find it hard to acquire new clients. A sometimes overlooked possibility is to...

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  • The introduction of CSS3 brings revolutionary changes to the day-to-day life of web designers. There are so many crazy new features that CSS3 has in store for us. Things which were usually done with complex javascript code can now be easily done with CSS3. One such feature is known as Text-Overflow. Sometimes through the web design process we may have to clip some dynamic text before it’s being...

    Text-overflow CSS3 property explained – Pure CSS solution to get ellipsis

    Posted on November 27, 2010 | 21 Comments
    The introduction of CSS3 brings revolutionary changes to the day-to-day life of web designers. There are so many crazy new features that CSS3 has in store for us. Things which were usually done with complex javascript code can now be easily done with CSS3. One such feature is known as Text-Overflow. Sometimes through the web design process we may have to clip some dynamic text before it’s being...

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  • The DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) is a software development principle, which has been formulated by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas in their book The Pragmatic Programmer. The DRY code philosophy is stated as “Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system.” A system’s knowledge is far broader than just its code. It refers to database schemas, test plans, the build system, even...

    The DRY Principle in web design

    Posted on June 17, 2010 | 7 Comments
    The DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) is a software development principle, which has been formulated by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas in their book The Pragmatic Programmer. The DRY code philosophy is stated as “Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system.” A system’s knowledge is far broader than just its code. It refers to database schemas, test plans, the build system, even...

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  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of improving a website’s ranking in various search engines by increasing the quality of content. Hence the basic purpose of SEO is to attract more and more targeted visitors to the website by making it search engine friendly. A website with better rankings will naturally obtain good number of genuine hits through the search engines. Search engine optimization is becoming an...

    Quick SEO tips to build search engine friendly websites

    Posted on May 25, 2010 | 12 Comments
    Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of improving a website’s ranking in various search engines by increasing the quality of content. Hence the basic purpose of SEO is to attract more and more targeted visitors to the website by making it search engine friendly. A website with better rankings will naturally obtain good number of genuine hits through the search engines. Search engine optimization is becoming an...

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  • To be able to effectively handle the alpha transparency or opacity of a particular element purely using CSS/HTML was the dream of any web designer. Because, with alpha transparency or opacity they can make visually more beautiful and easily maintainable websites with less effort. Now with CSS3 we can achieve these using properties such as RGBa and Opacity. What is RGBa? In addition to RGB (Red Blue Green)...

    RGBa vs Opacity: The Difference Explained

    Posted on March 29, 2010 | 42 Comments
    To be able to effectively handle the alpha transparency or opacity of a particular element purely using CSS/HTML was the dream of any web designer. Because, with alpha transparency or opacity they can make visually more beautiful and easily maintainable websites with less effort. Now with CSS3 we can achieve these using properties such as RGBa and Opacity. What is RGBa? In addition to RGB (Red Blue Green)...

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  • Personally, I have never celebrated valentine’s day in my life, in-fact I am completely against the idea of reserving days for our dear ones. Be it valentine’s day, Mother’s day or Friendship day, I just can’t understand the logic of waiting for a particular day to celebrate love or express gratitude for my loved ones. My affection will always be there and my dear ones will know it...

    CSS Heart – A web designer way of wishing Valentine’s Day…

    Posted on February 13, 2010 | 13 Comments
    Personally, I have never celebrated valentine’s day in my life, in-fact I am completely against the idea of reserving days for our dear ones. Be it valentine’s day, Mother’s day or Friendship day, I just can’t understand the logic of waiting for a particular day to celebrate love or express gratitude for my loved ones. My affection will always be there and my dear ones will know it...

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