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Month: June, 2009

Illustrator Tutorials To Make You An Expert – Massive List Of Freebies

June 24th, 2009 by Tim Norton Comments

Vector graphics are harder than other graphics unless you know what you are doing. Using Illustrator can either be freeing … or frustrating, depending.
Check out this huge list of tutorials that can help you with every imaginable aspect of using Illustrator. Just dedicate yourself an hour or two a week, and in a year you [...]

Hoity Toity Web Designers’ Look Down On You? Don’t Let Them …

June 24th, 2009 by Tim Norton Comments

Often you’ll find that a web designer who has spent 10 years in school will consider themselves to be a lot better than you. (Do you have 10 years of web design education? Well good for you … and stop reading now :)
After all, they have the sublime gift of education. They’ve been beaten up [...]

Get The Best Reseller Hosting AND MotherTheme! – Only This Week … Don’t Miss It!

June 17th, 2009 by Tim Norton Comments

Every web designer needs a reliable hosting company where the servers are clean of spammers (so you don’t get taken down with them).
This hosting company is the BEST there is. Hands down …
And for a limited time, when you sign up with a reseller account, I’ll give you a FREE copy of the MotherTheme developer [...]

Trends In Web Design: 3d Effects – Here Are Some Amazing Tutorials To Help You

June 17th, 2009 by Tim Norton Comments

According to Smashing Magazine, there is a trend today in 3d effects. 3D effects are really cool looking and they give your pages the look of popping out. (Even see the new redesigned signup page of this newsletter! Look here.
Anyway, go check out this list of 50 tutorials to help you create really cool 3D [...]

Cool Free Tools ALERT – FREE Twitter Tool For A Pro

June 5th, 2009 by Tim Norton Comments

This tool costs nothing and will help you do mass actions like following everyone who follows you and unfollowing people who you follow but don’t follow you back. It’s going to save you a lot of time in cleaning up your followers list and I use it a couple times a week at least.
Only thing [...]

Don’t Just Focus On The Fun Stuff – But It’s Still Fun :)

June 5th, 2009 by Tim Norton Comments

You know what you enjoy doing in web design, and chances are pretty good it’s not sales and marketing.
But especially these days, you have to be focused on generating cashflow in your web design business. Otherwise your business will drain your cash instead of growing it.
So sales and marketing, are how you are going to [...]