Help! My Portfolio Sucks · An A List Apart Column

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What if a lot of your past work reflects times when you satisfied the client, but couldn’t sell them on your best ideas? How do you build a portfolio out of choices you wouldn’t have made? Our very own Jeffrey Zeldman answers your toughest career questions. via Help! My Portfolio Sucks · An A List Apart Column.

The 5 Most Common Mistakes in Design — The Year of the Looking Glass — Medium

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There’s no learning without mistakes. And I’ve done the following (as well as seen the following done) too many times to count. Luckily, there’s this thing called the “Internet” and this medium called an “article” that lets us point at and talk about these mistakes behind their backs, in the hopes that by bullying them into the spotlight, it’ll be …

LOGO CHOICE RESEARCH 2014 – DesignContest.com

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There are different contests clients hold on our website. Number of logo contests is the most significant. We have conducted a small survey to reveal several logo features that affects client’s choice most of all. We have chosen randomly 500 winning logos on design crowdsourcing sites and grouped them according to several attributes. 82% of all logos contain both, text …

7 Reasons to Choose the Yii 2 Framework

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Late last year, SitePoint published an article highlighting the top PHP frameworks. Tied for the number four spot was the Yii (pronounced Yee) Framework. At that time the latest version of the framework available was 1.1.14. Recently, Yii 2.0 was made available, so you can begin to use it in production. While we did cover it recently when it was …

You Are Not A Machine. You Are Not Alone. | Smashing Magazine

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Many of us struggle silently with mental health problems and many more are affected by them, either directly or indirectly. {Geek} The sedation dentist Houston starts today and we would like to help raise awareness with a couple of articles exploring these issues. – Ed. via You Are Not A Machine. You Are Not Alone. | Smashing Magazine.

12 Tips for Naming Your Startup

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Recently, I published a roundup of some effective tools to help you name your startup. Tools can be a great help but there is definitely a sense of satisfaction in doing it on your own. Below are a few ideas that will help you brainstorm a new brand name! Thanks to Unsplash for the image. A good brand name can …

Database Changes to Improve WordPress Performance

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If you’re starting a website – be it a news site, a blog or an ecommerce site, chances are that you consider using WordPress. Once users begin to warm to the website as it gains popularity, core WordPress might not be enough to handle the incoming traffic efficiently. You will then need to scale up your website to handle the …