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JUN 23

Inspiring Form Design

Forms don't have to be boring, so why not spend some time and make yours stand out from the crowd...

Contact forms, order forms, sign up forms and comment forms. Inspect Element has scoured the web to find the best examples they can of each and there all gathered here in this blog to give you some inspiration...

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JUN 16

Facebook Vanity URLs

Nealy 6 million members of Facebook have secured their username...

Nearly 6 million members of the popular social networking Web site have registered a custom name since the feature became available late Friday night. Currently, there are around 200 million members on Facebook, so less than 5 percent of the total Facebook population has signed up so far.

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MAR 9

Increase your productivity

There are so many different ways to increase your productivity, here we examine the world of shortcuts

Being a professional web designer means you spend your entire working day at your desk, on your computer. Often designers have 3 or 4 programmes open at once, switching between each frequently, and thats not counting looking at emails, browsing other websites and looking at other files and folders. This means an incredible amount of time using the mouse, so how much of this can be avoided using some simple shortcuts?

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FEB 6

The New WCAG 2.0

When the web content accessibility guidelines came out in 1999 they quickly became out of date, look what's new

The proposed WCAG 2.0 are the result of 5 years of hard work by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) but from first appearance it seems many designers are left wondering whether the fundamentals are workable. In this article Joe Clark investigates their workings sees whether it has been worth the wait.

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JAN 27

Top 10 twitter designers

Twitter is fastly becoming a big player in networking - so which designers should you be following?

Twitter is a relative late comer to social networking but is fast becoming a major player. One of its greatest assets is the easy way in which you can stay updated with colleagues and professionals in your industry.

With this in mind, we examined Twitter and came up with a list of 10 designers with think you should be following, so take a look...

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JAN 23

Have you gone green yet?

Turning your business green can seem quite a challenge, but Quotexpert has the solution

On 10th March 2008 QuoteXpert and are associated businesses became totally carbon neutral and we were very proud to start to display the carbon neutral logo on all our website and literature.

Going green wasn't difficult - we simply calculated our carbon emmissions and got in touch with a CO2 offset company and asked them to cancel out our emmissions by planting trees. What was difficult was finding the right supplier who could guarantee elimination of our carbon footprint...

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JAN 16

And finally - the blog is here

We've finally launched the blog

Great news everyone - we've finally started our blog. Over the next few months we hope this will become a trusted source of website design news. In conjunction with the Knowledge Base which will contain information about website design and development together with resources and tools for website designers and the general public. Tools such as Free Scripts, Free Templates and SEO Tips.