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10 Sweet Website Design Tips to Cut WP Site Cost in 2015

Website Design Tips to Cut WP Site Cost in 2015

Relatively few small business owners evaluate the real pricing tag before jump into web building. According to Inc.com the cost of ordinary vCard site is between $2000 to $25000 in USA in 2015. It includes design, hosting, maintenance, copywriting, content management and SEO. Since site is such an expensive investment, you would expect high ROI. Unfortunately, web development often turns into financial catastrophe. (more…)

How to Make a Free Website in 5 Minutes

I bet that you have burst into a fit of laughter reading the title. But I’ll show you in the post that it is not a myth and it is quite real to create a website in 5 minutes. What formerly seemed impossible, now becomes possible with an open source publishing platform WordPress. A simple, yet feature-rich solution gives a chance for everyone to build a good-looking website without hiring a dedicated team.

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Free Logo Makers: How to Get a Logo Online

I have been wondering for a long time, how people manage to create logos for their blogs, sites, companies, events… If Photo Software & Design Blog didn’t have a logo, what would I offer if I had such a task but didn’t know how to manage various image editors? With this idea on my mind, I started looking for an online logo maker app…

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Top 5 Photo Stock Sites

Each of us knows how it’s hard to find right images for your website or design needs. Probably you have spent more time on fruitless Google searches than on your photo project accomplishment. To make your life easier, we recommend you to have a list of exclusive photo stock sites at hand. Our Top 5 Photo Stock Sites overview will save your precious time and efforts.
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Image License Types

As I said in my previous post it is important to pay greater attention to image license prior to picture’s download. You have to check thoroughly what you can and what you cannot do with the images. Sometimes you are not allowed to use the image for commercial purposes, to modify it, to display the image more than a certain number of times, etc. Anyway it is preferable to give a credit to the author.
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Where to Get Images to Illustrate Your Blog?

Pictures speak louder than words. A smart photo conveying the main idea of an article owes 50% to a blogger’s success and his popularity among readers. It catches people’s eye and hooks them into reading the post. It also helps to find the content when somebody is searching for a certain theme on the web.

There are different sources to find creatives for a blog. The most popular ones are Google Image Search, free stock libraries, microstock and macrostock agencies. The existing image pool is impressive. Professional and amateur photographers all over the world add hundreds of photos every day. So a number of image libraries available grows at a mushroom speed. At the same time this visible vast choice is quite illusory. You can fish for a desired picture for hours before you find what you have been looking for. Images are scattered across a range of stock libraries and prices.
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10 Best Photo Sharing Websites & Online Storages

Online photo storage is a useful addition to traditional photo collections on your computer. You can copy images from PC to a web cloud and have a spare backup copy at your disposal anytime. Here I’m talking about dedicated to photo sharing websites where you can upload your images and send a link to your relatives or friends who live far away from you. Let’s put aside privacy and security concerns, it’s a different topic for discussion. We will take for granted that you do need to share travel photos online with your best friends. So follow me and see top 10 photo storages:

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Scribus: A Brief Review of a Compact Print Shop For Your Computer

A magazine, a brochure, a booklet, good-looking business cards – these are the items that are vital for any small and not very small business. These branded items serve as a trademark and there are several applications that you could use to prepare them.

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100 Top WordPress Themes for Incredible Website Design

A WordPress Theme is a collection of graphics and code that let you impart your website or a blog a freshly new look. There is a pool of fine WordPress themes on the Internet. WordPress themes are classified by price (free & paid), various categories (like music, arts, business, etc), different layout options, color and features.
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6 Great Photography Tips For Children’s Birthday Parties

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When someone is throwing a birthday party for their child they want great photographs to cherish the memories forever, so I’ve given them a few tips to help them take better photos.

Your child won’t get any younger so you want to make sure you take great photos of each birthday party they have. If you don’t hire a professional photographer you’ll need to take the photos yourself. Do you think you can capture every special moment perfectly? Here are a few great tips that will help you out. (more…)

WordPress History [INFOGRAPHIC]

WordPress is one of the most popular web platforms for blogging. Since the first release in 2003, WordPress has evolved into a full-featured website building tool. Thanks to its open-source…

Pixable, an Online Photo Manager

Pixable is an online photo viewing application that finds photos across all popular social networks and sorts them out. The pictures are divided into different categories (Top of the Day, Top of the Week, Top of the Month, etc.) depending on their revelance to the user.

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