We've all experienced the pain and frustration of attempting to get onto the front page of Digg. For some of us, it is easy, but for millions of people around the world, the front page of Digg is like a fantasy world that we can only dream about without ever getting there. So, if you are one of those millions, I have something you may want t

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I decided to invest sometime this week in another project and its getting close to an official launch. I needed some work done that I didn't have the time or the talent to do. I came away from my experience with Banners Mall extremely impressed. Long gone for me is the time spent trying to turn myself into a Photoshop guru,

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As bloggers we often spend insane amounts of time trying to stuff absurd amounts of content on our blogs. This often makes them look busy, bloated, fat, and ungainly. What would happen if we were to reverse that trend and start worrying more about

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I’ve seen it all too often - people who have amazing websites, blogs, designs, articles, etc., but they just aren’t getting the recognition they deserve. Some of this may not be their fault - after all they can’t make people link to them or submit their posts to social media sites. However, a large part of a bloggers failure to be noticed onl

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Part 3 in my latest series, How To Get Noticed Online. I hope you all enjoy it and learn a lot. The last 2 parts should be coming soon so keep checking back for updates and more information. Feel free to leave comments or drop an email with suggestions or critiques. Thanks, elitebydesign.com. If anybody has any questions, feel free to let me

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I'm going to start a weekly post on Saturday where I recap my favorite blogs of the week.
I added to this list the top blogs that have provided some great content over the past week. If you would like to try your chances at getting onto this list, send me a link to your site and I'll check it out. If I like your site, I'll feature it! Si

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After many weeks and a lot of rough spots, my site redesign is finally complete. I am extremely proud, and with a lot of feedback from other great designers out there, I think that it is a great design that will fulfill the purpose of my blog.

I look forward to seeing blogging zoomers reaction to my site redesign and I hope that you all en

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Ok, so you’re a startup blogger. You want to establish yourself in the online world and hopefully make a little money in the process. Well, if you’re like me, it is quite a difficult and intimidating task to just “start.” Maybe you are a website designer, a logo designer, maybe you specialize in banner design, business card design, blog desig

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The past year has been an amazing period for those wishing to learn the ropes of design, whether you're a noob just getting into the game or a seasoned designer or programmer. As we enter 2008, let's take a look back at some of the most popular articles, resources, and tutorials that helped those who toiled away on the web everyday.

This

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Entrecard is your business card 2.0. It’s a 125×125 image which represents you and your blog. Its part advertisement, part business card. It comes with a widget you place on your blog, so that others can leave their Entrecard for you. You can also use Entrecard to promote your blog and launch free advertising campaigns.For now, Entrecard is j

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Everyone must start designing somewhere. Whether you choose to design logos, banners, advertisements, web templates, blog templates, stationary or anything else you can think of, you must start in one place: Photoshop.Now the newest photoshop, CS3, is a very expensive program. The cheapest I’ve seen it is for $300. However, if you just want t

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I just stumbled this amazing website. Vector Magic
You upload your bitmap or rasterized artwork and get it converted to vector art!

Now for those of you who don’t know what raster and vector artwork is, here is the basic idea:Rasterized art is built by pixels to make an image. Vector art is composed of shapes and lines. The difference? Ve

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I think its fair to say that we all want to know a little bit more about how our website and online business is doing. One way of going about this is to find out how much your blog is worth. Here are 2 simple, fast, and effective tools to get some estimated figures of what your site is worth.

Continue reading to find out the 2 resources I

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Here’s Part 2 of my first series: How to get noticed online.
Today’s tip isn’t necessarily going to bring you a lot of traffic, but instead will keep whatever traffic you already have coming back. This is essential to your blogging career because without readers always checking back, it is very difficult to maintain enough traffic and enough

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This tutorial is for the designer who wants to get acquainted with the basics of CSS layout. There are a lot of articles floating around with advanced CSS tips and tricks but there seems to be a gaping hole where the basic tutorials should be. An article like this would have been tremendously helpful to me when I first started into CSS layout

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Well, my first official review. In this review I will be covering a brief outline of the hosting website, HostICan.

I’ll start things off by simply saying, ‘wow.’ In these first few days, I could not be more pleased. I switched from using the hosting company HostMonster.com. Let me confidently say that I made the right switch.

My overal

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Want to avoid unexpected costs and unnecessary delays with your website development efforts? This article highlights seven strategies for reducing your website development costs and minimizing frustrations. To ensure that your project stays on budget and on schedule, consider the following tips prior to starting a new websit

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