With all the publicity on employees getting fired over wall posts on Facebook, the last thing you’d expect to hear from the popular social networking site is that it can help boost your career. True enough, posting about work on Facebook can bring about negative and serious consequences to office ... Continue reading »

You finally got the project and are getting ready to get started. Little do you know that working from home will present its own sets of problems. Don’t worry, these problems are really not a big deal, but they are common problems that every freelancer faces. Let’s see how we ... Continue reading »

Modern consumers don’t buy cr*p. We see more and more free products made available on the Web since businesses make the move from the material economy to the bits-and-bytes economy. Physical things are much more expensive compared to virtual ones and that is the reason why the free business model ... Continue reading »

A picture is worth a thousand words – based on this, infographics would carry hundreds of thousands of words, yet if you let a reader choose between a full-length 1000-word article and an infographic that needs a few scroll-downs, they’d probably prefer absorbing information straight from the infographic. What’s not ... Continue reading »

Working as a freelancer is just like any other business. You need to market your services to attract prospective clients. I know many of you may be uncomfortable or too shy to sell even your own service. Unfortunately, you have no option. You have to get out of your comfort ... Continue reading »

If you are a 90′s child, this is the kind of the post you shouldn’t miss, because it is going to remind so much of your fun childhood memories! (Image Source: RETROnoob) Super Mario, Megaman, Super Metroid, Donkey Kong; caught with proof of them running here and there in real ... Continue reading »

There are many creative workers, be it web designers or graphic designers, who are very interested in working as a freelancer rather than work at a design firm or agency. They believe that working as a freelancer can bring advantages that cannot be obtained if they remain an employee, working ... Continue reading »

We’re in the middle of the holy month of Ramadan where Muslims worldwide will observe fasting from dawn til dusk for a full month. Not a drop of water or a morsel of food will touch the lips of devout Muslims for periods of up to 12 hours a day ... Continue reading »

We’ve all heard great things about being a freelancer: having the ultimate independence to make all your creative decisions, no bosses to answer to, flexible hours and working from the comforts of home. It all boils down to a single theme: Freedom. Being a freelancer sure beats the constraints of ... Continue reading »

Ringtone is used as an alert to notify you when there are incoming calls and was used since many years ago to keep us informed when someone is calling. It has evolved from a monotone to polyphonic, and now with mp3, but rarely we heard of a video ringtone. Some ... Continue reading »

In my last article on Understanding Typography, I wrote about what goes into the design of typography and how to manipulate it to improve on your website’s layout and to enhance user experience. In this article, I’m listing 10 of my favorite tools for typography on the Web. These can ... Continue reading »

Editor’s note: Thinking of finally quitting your job and going into freelancing full time but still have burning questions that you want answered? Well, we’re hoping to address that in this week-long "Freelancing for Beginners" series, starting with tonight’s post. For me, when I started freelancing full-time, it was (somewhat) ... Continue reading »

It’s been awhile since our last UI KIt handout. To end this dry spell, here is an amazing freebie: Blitz UI Kit.by PSD Freebies. It is all organized into one neat psd file that allows for endless customizable options. The kit includes checkboxes, tags, buttons, menus, sliders, switches and much ... Continue reading »

Editor’s note: This post is contributed by Rishi. Rishi is a web designer and developer from India who is currently running design blog, DesignSkew.com where he focuses on web, graphic design articles and inspirational stuff. The ever-growing Android Market is flooded with apps that never cease to push the boundaries ... Continue reading »

When you are dealing with task involving images, there comes a situation where you find text or quotes on an image you wish you can just copy down to paste somewhere else. But the evident problem is, you can’t just copy text printed on an image, can you? Rather than ... Continue reading »