What’s new for designers, September 2014 | Webdesigner Depot

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The September edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, CSS tools, software, email templates, inspiration resources, productivity apps, jQuery resources, pattern tools, and some really great new fonts. Many of the resources below are free or very low cost, and are sure to be useful to a lot of designers and developers out there. …

OptionTree – Advanced Options

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In the previous article we covered how to install OptionTree and how to integrate it with your theme. We also explored many of the most basic, but incredibly useful option types that OptionTree provides out of the box. These options can be implemented in a matter of minutes using OptionTree’s easy UI theme options builder, which is second to none. …

Three Freelance Proposal Mistakes That Are Losing You Business

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For many freelancers, creating a proposal is their least favorite part of the client intake process. What do you include? What do you leave out? How do you walk the line between creating something that gives a professional impression and being too salesy or pushy? And how do you follow up afterwards? It’s tempting to give up and send basic …

QUT – Research annual scholarship round

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Each year we award a limited number of scholarships to students of exceptional research potential who are applying for a masters by research, PhD or professional doctorate. Because scholarship numbers are limited, we conduct one highly competitive scholarship selection round each year, which we call our annual scholarship round. To be considered for a scholarship, you must apply during the …

Quick Tip: Install Zephir and Phalcon 2 on Vagrant

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This quick tip will show you how to install Phalcon on a Homestead Improved instance, and will help you get a sample Phalcon app up and running. The version of Phalcon we’ll be using in this Quick Tip will be 2.0 – a pre-release. If you read this when Phalcon is already in a mature 2.x stage, let us know …