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Designing A Product Driven Website

Designing A Product Driven Website
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Tweet What’s the secret to a great product-driven webpage? Is it one that dramatically increases online sales, regardless of its look and functionality? Is it one that gets retweeted and ‘liked’ on social media? Or is it one that pleases

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  • branding / business / Design / product-design / products / tips / web-design / web-development / websites

The Changing Trends in Modern Web Design

The Changing Trends in Modern Web Design
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Tweet Remaining on top of the newest changes in today’s web design trends ensures website owners can offer visitors the best surfing experience possible, and also ensures that the design satisfies visitor expectations. Trends that start small quickly can become

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Evolution of Web Design and Usability over the Coming Years

Evolution of Web Design and Usability over the Coming Years
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Tweet With HTML5 and CSS3, along with other advancements, the internet is changing, and is doing so quite rapidly. Since things change so quickly they also fade away, based on what designers like, and the trends that people are responding

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  • future / future-of-the-web / future-of-web-design / future-trends / tips / trends / web-design / web-design-trends / web-development


How To Make An e-Commerce Platform More Powerful

How To Make An e-Commerce Platform More Powerful
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Tweet We see e-commerce websites all over the internet these days, but what we don’t see is all the time, effort, blood, sweat, and tears that goes into the successful ones. It seems like everyone has something to sell from

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  • business / e-commerce / eCommerce / ecommerce-store / entrepreneur / online-store / store / tips / web-development

Revive Your Passion For Web Design

Revive Your Passion For Web Design
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Tweet Being a webdesigner is a job to die for: you juggle with ideas, paint them in vivid images, play around with color combinations, styles and textures and then enjoy the satisfaction that the whole world can see your work

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  • Design / email / email-templates / how-to-obtain-passive-income / html / html-email-templates / make-more-money / money / passive / passive-income-stream / web-design / web-development

Build A Professional HTML Website With No Code! MotoCMS for HTML Review

Build A Professional HTML Website With No Code! MotoCMS for HTML Review
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Tweet For those of you that have loved MotoCMS but wanted the same awesome designs and editing power, in a more modern HTML/CSS Layout rather than flash, your wait is over. They just released a brand new CMS for HTML

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  • business / cms / DIY / entrepreneur / html / moto / motocms / Reviews / startup / web / web-design / web-development / website-builder / website-design / websites

The Web Designer’s Role is Shifting – Here’s How to Stay on Top

The Web Designer’s Role is Shifting – Here’s How to Stay on Top
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Tweet The rapidly evolving technology landscape demands that Web designers adapt quickly, continually, and at an expert level to stay on top of their game. According to the global research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics, more than 1 billion people

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  • career / creative-design-career / tips / web-design / web-designer / web-development

A Complete Guide to Good Website Designing

A Complete Guide to Good Website Designing
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Tweet As a senior designer and developer I have identified some problems that are common with a large number of web projects. The main one is the failure to make a good plan. Therefore I’ve pieced together this guide to

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Website Design Dominates in the World of Web Content Development

Website Design Dominates in the World of Web Content Development
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Tweet Have you ever wondered if content is everything on the web then why does designing consume a whole lot of time? Each day designers have a discussion on layout, functionalities, aesthetic appearance, but they hardly debate on the content.

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  • Blogging / branding / content / Design / information-architecture / quality-content / tips / web / web-design / web-development / writing

20+ Inspirational Web Hosting Designs

20+ Inspirational Web Hosting Designs
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Tweet If anything makes the web go round, it is Web Hosts. Without them we wouldn’t have anywhere to put our sites (easily) and the web may not have grown so exponentially if it weren’t for the abundance of affordable

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Magento Themes from TemplateMonster Review and Getting Started Guide

Magento Themes from TemplateMonster Review and Getting Started Guide
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Tweet So over the years I have had the pleasure of creating many eCommerce sites for clients using many different platforms (from osCommerce to Magento and everything in between) and I get asked all the time what is the best

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  • eCommerce / magento / online-store / responsive / responsive-web-design / Reviews / software / templates / themes / tips / web-development

100+ Best New Tools For Web Design And Development

100+ Best New Tools For Web Design And Development
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Tweet The great thing about being a Web Designer & Developer is that it is a constantly changing field, full of bright minds that are also constantly changing and innovating. This has yielded not only a fun work environment for

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  • apps / cloud / code / CSS / html5 / productivity / software / Tech / tips / tools / tools-for-productivity / web / Web Tools / web-design / web-designer / web-development

Tips For Speeding Up Your WordPress Site

Tips For Speeding Up Your WordPress Site
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Tweet Site speed is an increasingly important consideration for web designers. While it’s well known among marketers and SEO experts, site speed has often been overlooked in the world of design. And it’s time for change. Studies show that just

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  • cache / optimization / plugins / speed / speeding-up / web / web-development / Wordpress / wordpress-plugins / wp / wp-plugins

25+ Epic Web Design In Cloud Based Software Apps

25+ Epic Web Design In Cloud Based Software Apps
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Tweet Just think, hardly much more than a decade ago our offices and workplaces were filled with all sorts of analog tools to get our work done… offline… in real life (yuck! lol.). Not only did we utilize actual pens

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30 Fresh Websites with Unique Non-Standard Design

30 Fresh Websites with Unique Non-Standard Design
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Tweet Sometimes the web can get boring when you see the same design schemes over and over again, but today we are going to spice things up! In this showcase we’ll look into some websites that are a bit different

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Adobe Updates ‘Muse’ Website Design Tool with New Features

Adobe Updates ‘Muse’ Website Design Tool with New Features
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Tweet Adobe is going all out to ensure that developers can create sites that perform equally well on different types of modern devices, from mobile tablets and smartphones to laptops and desktops. Adobe Muse – Make It Mobile. Muse is

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  • adobe / apps / cloud / code / creative-cloud / mobile / news / responsive / software / Tech / tools / web / web-design / web-design-resource / web-development

Go Mobile or Go Home: Why Your 2013 Marketing Plan Must Include Mobile

Go Mobile or Go Home: Why Your 2013 Marketing Plan Must Include Mobile
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Tweet Mobile isn’t just an exciting idea with a lot of potential anymore; it’s a powerful marketing platform for potentially every business. Here’s why you should have a marketing plan which includes – if not focuses on – the mobile

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  • business / marketing / mobile / responsive / tips / trends / web / web-design / web-development

How to Go About Prototyping and User Testing

How to Go About Prototyping and User Testing
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Tweet It takes a stretch of days at a time to get the coding and programming in place for your web app and if something goes wrong in the process, it hurts to start it all over again. At times

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  • apps / Design / prototyping / tips / user-testing / web / web-application / web-apps / web-design / web-development / wireframing

Elevate Your Understanding of B2B Usability: Five Easy Tips

Elevate Your Understanding of B2B Usability: Five Easy Tips
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Tweet Driving visitors to a B2B website is not an easy task and several B2B marketers spend tons of money on promoting their websites. Some use traditional marketing tactics for promotion, but such strategies aren’t very effective. To get maximum

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  • business / marketing / tips / ui / usability / user-experience / user-interaction / user-interface / ux / web-design / web-development / websites

Useful Code Editors For Web Designers And Developers

Useful Code Editors For Web Designers And Developers
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Tweet The web has changed the lives of many over the years – none have benefited more from this change than designers and developers! Many tools that programmers, designers, and developers use on a daily basis now live in the

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  • browsers / code / CSS / editors / html / Javascript / js / online / programming / tips / Web Tools / web-browser / web-design / web-development

Epic Hosting Giveaway – Win One Year of Free Web Hosting With Zyma!

Epic Hosting Giveaway – Win One Year of Free Web Hosting With Zyma!
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Tweet We Have Winners! The lucky Winners are Sean Unwin Maria Raj Congratulations Guys! Special thanks to everyone that participated! Your support was overwhelming! Don’t worry if you didn’t win though, there is always another awesome giveaway around the corner!

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  • free-hosting / giveaway / hosting / resources / servers / web-design / web-development / web-hosting / websites

5 Web Design Breakthroughs Designers Are Having A Hard Time Coping With

5 Web Design Breakthroughs Designers Are Having A Hard Time Coping With
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Tweet The whiplash speed of technology is squeezing double doses of creativity among designers, but I don’t think it’s a bad thing. More and more people are pushed off of their mediocre lives because the world is slowly becoming an

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  • Design / freelance / grow-as-a-web-designer / tips / trends / web-design / web-design-trends / web-designer / web-development

Adobe Rolls Out Preview of ‘Edge Reflow’ Web Design Tool

Adobe Rolls Out Preview of ‘Edge Reflow’ Web Design Tool
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Tweet With an objective to serve the web development community in the best possible way, Adobe has been providing developers with the best tools and services that help them design high-quality responsive websites. Having pioneered the development of some the

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  • adobe / apps / creative-cloud / CSS / Design / responsive / responsive-web-design / tools / web / web-design / web-development

PHP is better Than You Thought It Would Be

PHP is better Than You Thought It Would Be
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Tweet PHP is one of the most used programming languages of the world. It comes in different frameworks which take care of all the web development needs. However with popularity it has also attracted many detractors who point out at

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  • code / development / geek / languages / Linux / php / programming / web / web-design / web-developer / web-development

WordPress Theme: Choose Responsibly

WordPress Theme: Choose Responsibly
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Tweet We all know that the user-experience is what determines the success of your website and WordPress has come a long way in helping you in providing websites with good features. Despite this, some websites get good ratings while others

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  • Blogging / theme / web-design / web-development / Wordpress / wordpress-themes / wp-themes
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About Andy Sowards


I am a 27 year old Web Developer, Designer, and Programmer (front & backend) in Lynchburg, VA. I am an Extremely Passionate Creative Entrepreneur. This is where I share my ideas, experiments, experience and tips in the Industry (and whatever nerdy things I come across). If you'd like me to work on your Project, speak at your event, write for your publication, or just say "Sup", get in touch

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