A crucial element of any business is the creation of a brand name by which people could identify the service or product it provides. It’s also one of the very first things you have to think about, and it’s something that will be stuck with your business for long.
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This is why it’s necessary to be particular about coming up with the perfect brand name for your business. It may not seem like a daunting task, but it requires careful consideration on various aspects of what kind of services or products you will be providing. After all, the brand name, along with the logo and the type, sums up everything your business represents into a symbolic name.
Here are a few essential things you might want to consider before you decide on your brand name:
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Undoubtedly, image slider is one of the most commonly used elements in the business web design, due to its relatively large size that is able to draw the visitor’s attention once they arrive the site. Though the web has started to rethink about the usability of the image slider, it’s still considered as a must-learn for the newcomer of the web design industry.
In this web design tutorial, we will learn to create custom image slider above using Photoshop, which you can preview the final result from here. Not only will we illustrate it in Photoshop, we will also turn it into a functional design by converting it into HTML/CSS and adding jQuery for its awesome sliding effect.
Sounds like a lot of complicated bits involved, but in fact it’s pretty straightforward and very easy to understand, let’s get started then!
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As the Christmas and New Year season are approaching, we would like to continue our grateful thanks to our readers and design community with an exclusive release 18 Christmas and New Year icons. These icons come in PNG format in 2 different sizes 128×128 and 64×64 pixels along with shape layered Photoshop PSD file of each icon.
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These icons are designed by GraphicsFuel.com exclusively for Hongkiat readers, and are delivered in both Photoshop and PNG formats.
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Just if you didn’t know, Facebook Timeline is the latest feature that was introduced in the recent Facebook Conference, F8. It’s generally a complete overhaul of the profile page with the new ability to view your status updates in a list sorted by time, hence the name.
With this new feature comes a new way of introducing yourself though graphic other than profile photo, and we call it Timeline Cover. And yes, what you can expect is thousands of facebookers try to be creative with their new timeline cover, spawning the hype all over the web.
In this showcase we’re gonna show you 40 awesome and creative timeline covers which either inspire you, amaze you or just make you burst out into laughter.
Also, at the end of the article, we are going to throw in a Facebook time PSD template to guide you creating one accurately. Have fun with them and enjoy being creative with yours!
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Web designers have become very crafty with marketing techniques. Luring page content is always good, but when it comes to grabbing your visitors attention images are the most popular form of media. They don’t require sound like demo videos and they can quickly relay important information within a matter of seconds. It may seem easy, but there are some notable techniques to building informative images on websites.
These include feature labels, close-up screenshots, price comparisons, and other minute details. Web designers can use information graphics to model new apps, software, video games, or many other products! Although most commonly you see these techniques utilized in different fields of technology.
Check out the ideas below where we offer not only tips but real-life examples of beautiful product graphics jam-packed with great info.
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If you frequently shop online, you know how overwhelming it can be with all the online deals, coupons, and promotions available all over the Web. It’s almost impossible to keep up with everything and it’s even more impossible to compare product prices with hundreds of other online retailers. So where do you find the time to do all of this research?
Well, you don’t! Instead, you can rely on one or more shopping tools to do all of the work for you.
This list will take a look at some of the best online tools that are available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE, and even Opera. These tools will not only save you a lot of money and help you become a smarter shopper, but they’ll also save you a lot of time since they’ll do all the searching and price comparisons for you.
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We spend about a quarter of our life working. Other than choosing a job that provides food on the table and pays our bills, most of us also look for a career with meaning in our life, something which we are happy and passionate to be doing on a day-to-day basis. There’s a certain ideal which we aim for, and it usually takes some career advancement before we can actually reach there.
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Earning that promotion which you dearly want may seem like a daunting task at first sight, especially when you don’t know where to begin. Indeed, we reap what we sow, so it certainly takes some amount of hard work and dedication. However, there are certain aspects of work which you can focus on such that your effort can be realized.
Today, following the last post, we’re going to bring you 7 more valuable tips that cater about your reputation, networking, attitude and ultimately life goals in work.
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We are all impressed with the smooth running of the Apple Mac OS X as we compare with the contemporary Windows OS like Vista or Windows 7. However, there are times when your Mac might be slowing down as you put in more stuffs in your hard drive and work the system hard. That is perhaps a good time to evaluate where the bottleneck could be and clear it.
In this post I’ll be sharing tips I found useful in speeding up the Mac. While most of the tips do not cost you extra bucks, they also help you to clean up your Mac to not only make it run fast like cheetah, but also keep it as powerful as lion. So spend some time to get really well with these tips, then you’ll be smiling happily as you run your Mac smoothly!
If you are not only looking to optimize your Mac but also seeking to optimize your workflow in Mac, below we’ve got posts with 200 useful applications introduced to you!
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What is the best source of the inspiration? The nature! By living in this beautiful mother Earth, we could get so much inspiration from the sky, the trees, the grasses, and even the ground, your brain is the limit! Witnessing their very beauty, it’s a no-brainer for web designers to implement these elements of nature into what’s so called eco-friendly web design.
In this collection you will find 30 chosen examples of nature inspired websites. Most of the websites use nature-related colors like green, brown and blue as well as the nature textures like leaves, floral and woods. Hope the showcase will inspire you to do an eco-friendly website, be ready to fill your eyes with the beauty of the nature then!
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Over the past year we’ve seen a tremendous increase in the number of design blogs and PSD galleries. The great part here is web designers and graphic designers are becoming more interested in sharing their ideas and works with the Internet, and this great attitude gave birth to several premium quality design freebies from all around the world!
Below we’ve cataloged a serious collection of quality freebies practically every web designer will love. Included are user interface elements, menus, buttons, icons, plus a few other rare goodies up for you to grab! If you have created freebies or know of something we missed, do let us know in your comment!
And for sure, don’t miss our freebies, which are made exclusively for you! Full list after jump
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Gmail (also known as Google Mail) is one of the top email services that seem to get better with time. Gmail already comes with a set of great features itself, but there are numerous other tools out there, namely Chrome extensions and Firefox add-ons, that allow you to extend and enhance its functionality.
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While many of the tools seem to accomplish the same task, there are quite a few unique extensions and add-ons that once you start using them, it’s hard to live without them. So let’s take a look at some of the most useful and helpful tools currently available for Gmail service, and make your Gmail experience better than ever!
Related: Gmail Advanced Search – Ultimate Guide
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Welcome to Hongkiat Baking & Culinary Arts Class! Today we are going to teach you how to hand make a visually yummy french fries icon using just Photoshop!
Yeah, you will be learning to create delicious french fries icon with mainly some shape creations and layer styling involved, beginner baker welcomed! This tutorial will definitely make you full.
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Ambitious employees always seek opportunities to climb up the corporate ladder. There is no dearth of individuals who are eager to climb the professional ladder of success, but what matters is whether they have the discipline and the positive intent to reach the desired level. Successful individuals always keep track of great principles, which will help them to reach the top.
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It is not always the bigger notions that get noticed but a combination of small principles and actions that eventually make the difference. To begin with, here are 10 significant tips for you to practice in your work to make an impact to your company and eventually make yourself rise to the top, have a read and master them all.
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So what do you do when you’re pressed for time, swamped under works and you still need to get some stuff written, and written well? Your nerves are tightened up so well that you can’t sleep, but you can’t squeeze even a sentence out of your mind. I know the feeling so well, but what I did then was, just start writing fast without even thinking, then a professional article was born with the time shorter than usual. Heck, it might be even more professional than my previous articles!
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The phenomena has nothing to do with the God I worship, or any supernatural phenomenon, it’s just how brain works: we write fast and professionally if we can just limit something, abandon certain habits, and put up some beneficial habits. That’s all, it’s really easy, and I’m going to explain them clearly in this article, so master them all and write like a ninja from today!
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