Evolutionary Designs: September 2012

Sunday, September 30, 2012

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10 of the Best Photoshop Tutorials Created in August

Posted: 30 Sep 2012 01:13 AM PDT

Its time once again for our Monthly Photoshop Tutorial Collection where we only share our favorite and what we feel are the most helpful Photoshop tutorials created each month or in the previous month. The Best Photoshop Tutorials Created in August August was another month of creation. There were so many Photoshop Tutorials created that [...]

Monday, September 24, 2012

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Weekly Mash Up #34: Topics in Freelance, SEO, Traffic Generation, Web Development, and Writing Tips

Posted: 23 Sep 2012 11:10 PM PDT

Its been a few weeks since I last posted a Weekly Mash Up. During those two weeks since I last posted an article, I read some great articles. Out those article I found eleven great articles that I think will be helpful for everyone. I found some great articles on how to earn more as [...]

Saturday, September 22, 2012

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Avoiding Common Design Clichés

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 08:45 AM PDT

We live in a world where collaboration is important. It's natural to be influenced by others to a certain degree and sometimes, this is a great thing. In design however, it's way too easy to allow your influences to get a little heavy, to the point that all you're doing is jumping on the aesthetic [...]

Friday, September 21, 2012

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Twitter Adds Header Photos

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 01:31 AM PDT

Earlier today, I read an article that Twitter made a change to the Twitter Profile Pages. That change is the addition of a Twitter Header Image. The above image is a temporary header image I just made to see what one might look like with my profile. Sorry for the image quality, I did a [...]

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

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Review: Fancier Author Box

Posted: 17 Sep 2012 11:31 PM PDT

With any creation comes the right to adding the creator's right to add their name/signature to it. And writing is no different. Authors and journalist put their name on their work everyday. So why should it be any different for small blogs? So if you are thinking that every blog article lists the author of [...]

Saturday, September 15, 2012

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Why Should You Care About HTML5

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 09:57 PM PDT

HTML5 has been around for sometime and most of the websites you visit every day have some sort of HTML5 coding on it. If you have a fairly advanced site or looking to add some new design elements that previous versions of HTML doesn't do, you might want to look into updating your site so [...]

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

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9 11 Memorial

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 05:27 PM PDT

In honor of those that lost their lives on September 11th 2001, I wanted to share with everyone a set images from the 9/11 memorial in NYC. Although the memorial isn't complete and construction is still on-going, the parts of the memorial that have been completed and are open to the public. So to remember [...]

Review: SimepleReach Slide

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 01:42 AM PDT

The SimpleReach Slide is a WordPress Plugin that recommends related articles from within your site. But instead of adding those recommended links to the bottom of the article, it creates a "slide" effect at the bottom of the page. You might have seen a similar related slider on NYTimes.com website. First Impressions of The SimpleReach [...]

Monday, September 10, 2012

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Weekly Mash Up #33: Topics in Blogging, Business, Design, and Freelance

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 11:36 PM PDT

It's late Sunday night, so it's time for the Weekly Mash Up. Its been a crazy last few weeks and I didn't get much time to write my normal articles for Evolutionary Designs. Luckily, I did get some time to read some articles. For this week's Mash Up, I found some great articles about blogging, [...]

Friday, September 7, 2012

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Hootsuite Acquires Seesmic

Posted: 06 Sep 2012 09:43 PM PDT

Earlier today, the Hootsuite Blog announced that they have acquired Seesmic. By purchasing Seesmic, Hootsuite can now put even more powerful tools into the hands of Hootsuite Business Users. Image source: Hootsuite Blog Both Hootsuite and Seesmic have always had a healthy competition and both companies have many similar beliefs in their services and business [...]

Saturday, September 1, 2012

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What Can HTML5 Microdata Do for You?

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 12:15 PM PDT

If you're a frequent reader of Evolutionary Designs then you'll have seen James writing about rich snippets and semantic web markup before. For those of you not familiar with the terms I've written a brief summary below. If you want to get straight to the article then just skip the explanations. Semantic markup – meta [...]