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By Jeremy H.

Making Color Contrast Checks a Part of Your Web Workflow

So you have a great looking website and your checklist has you covered. But does your checklist include a color contrast check? Are you wondering what that is?

Let’s first walk through the basics of color contrast and then we’ll move on to some tools and techniques you can use to make color contrast a part of your workflow.

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By Jeremy H.

Coffee Break: An Interview with Chris Castiglione, Co-Founder of One Month

Chris Castiglione is an engineer, artist, and the co-founder of the Y Combinator-backed One Month, the “For Dummies” of online education. Prior to One Month, he was the first teacher at General Assembly, where he created the #1 best-selling coding class for entrepreneurs, “Programming For Non-Programmers.”

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By Jeremy H.

Tips For Enhancing Typography in your Web Projects

Understanding how to select and use appropriate fonts in web design can be a challenge, though. Luckily for you, we’ve compiled a list of tools and techniques to help you identify fonts, select appropriate font combinations, and implement typography elegantly in your responsive web designs.

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By Jeremy H.

January Think Piece: Web Design And Development News

In this issue, you will learn more about UX principles, font pairing, new releases of Firefox and Bootstrap, Project Spartan (rebranded IE for Win 10), and you will discover a new collection of design resources as well. We’ve also included several articles for inspiration and entertainment.

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By Jeremy H.

Web Design Awards Worth Participating in 2015

Are you ready to let the world know about you as a web designer? If your answer is yes, then this post is for you. We’ve compiled a list of awards you might want to participate in this year.

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By Jeremy H.

Converting PSD to WordPress and Joomla Templates in 4 Easy Steps

The most popular systems on the modern web are Wordpress and Joomla, since they are the most versatile – with these CMS at hand you can easily create a blog with expandable menu, galleries, sliding images and other interactive elements. No expert knowledge is required either.

Yet, you need to add personal traits to your project to make it popular.

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By Jeremy H.

Yearly Think Piece: Best of the Web and Design In 2014

2014 is now over, and that means that it’s high time to see the old year out and the new year in. Let’s have a quick look at what was going on this year and check forecasts on what will be trending in the next year.

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By Jeremy H.

Christmas is coming! Download a Free Holiday Email Template! (PSD + HTML)

In the spirit of the holidays we’re giving our customers and blog readers a free holiday email template. It’s a responsive email template in a fully editable PSD format, with the full HTML markup included, hand-coded by our own Site Slinger team. It’s available for free download for your personal or commercial use. Edit away and have your mobile-optimized email template ready to go for your next email campaign.

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By Jeremy H.

10 Proven Tips for You to Get Prepared for Holiday Email Campaigns!

At this time, when Christmas is coming, our main advice will be – do not try to just take from your customers (sell them something). Instead, give them as much as you can and your contacts will love you back. This approach pays off not only in Email marketing but also in life in general.

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