Blogging is dead. I know that’s true because I read it on a blog. The truth is that while social networking and microblogging sites have grown drastically in the past year, blogs remain a central part of the global cyberspace landscape. Blogs remain popular and important, especially when it comes...

Movie posters have the unique assignment of presenting a memorable graphic that will represent the movie from the big screen to all sorts of merchandising opportunities. And while some movies have cute little creatures or scary aliens to turn into toys and key chains and what have you, others must rely...

Thinking about hiring someone to build your company a website? If so, you would be wise to consider your decision very, very carefully. Because of rapid growth and strong demand for services, there are a tremendous number of poor web design/web development companies offering services. What’s more,...

20% of all new active websites are now using WordPress as their content management system, and along with this huge increase in WordPress users is a greater increase in websites being hacked.  In fact, because this CMS is so popular, more hackers are targeting it and looking for vulnerabilities within...

Looking to sell your car, or draw attention to it? A good place to start is to improve your photos. No matter if you’re selling your car online or in a printed ad, the pictures you offer will be the first thing a potential buyer sees. Imagine you’re a car shopper and you see two identical...

Night photography is challenging, you have to be playful with your gears and photography settings to have a stunning nocturnal shot. You will get a great reward if you mastered this photography technique. Night photography refers to photographs taken outdoors between dusk and dawn. Night photographers...

While Google+ hasn’t reached critical mass yet, the newly created social media network has continued to grow. That doesn’t mean it is big enough though. If you are one of the 5 million or so active users on Google+, chances are many of your friends still haven’t found their way onto...

Interested in having your photography receive more exposure and possibly win some cash or camera equipment for yourself as well? Try entering your photographs into a photography contest! Photography contests are a great way to gain some exposure to your work as well as receive some feedback, and the...

Elements in web design is full of choices, it will depend on your client’s requirement and need, but if the design lays in your hand, why not try to use illustrative elements to make your web design stand out from the millions of websites out there. Most designers used illustrations for backgrounds,...

I am commonly asked questions related to fonts, usually by web masters or aspiring designers who are hoping to find out the name of a specific lettering from a poster, advertising campaign or similar. Sharing this kind of information is one of the perks of the Internet. It gives us wider access to materials...

Your blog is your baby, but if your baby isn’t talking the talk, you could quickly find yourself losing traffic, money and followers. As you have probably heard before, blogging should be about the passion first, and the money second. If you blog about topics you are passionate about, chances are...

There was an era when being a designer meant you owned a lot of paper, a bunch of fancy pens and had to work in a studio, be it yours or your company’s.  These days everything has gone digital and paper and pens have merged into a computer, and a studio is just about anywhere.  But somewhere during...

Most people believe that if your personal style is good, you can be a good website designer. However, everyone has witnessed really absurd website designs that instead of appealing repel the visitor and force them to revert to a different page. Therefore, it is not necessary that if you have a good...

BigStockPhoto was founded in Davis, California, in the fall of 2004 and quickly grew into one of the Web’s leading royalty-free stock image communities. In 2009 BigStockPhoto was acquired by Shutterstock, the biggest subscription-based image library in the world. BigStockPhoto adopted a fresh...

When is it time to give up on your existing web host? I am sure we all have experienced some sort of downtime or server slowness. Either our website would not come up at all or if it would come up it would be horribly slow. Over the years I had plenty of occasions where I wondered what was going on....

The internet is expanding its territory. In this extremely mobile world that we’re living in, people no longer have to make use of a personal computer in order to access the web. You can do so while shopping at your neighborhood grocery store or trying out a dress with the help of your mobile phone....