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Increase Your User Activity with Points, Badges and Status

Increase Your User Activity with Points, Badges and Status

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about strategies for engaging your visitors. In it, I expanded on four different techniques to keep visitors to your website...

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Quick Tip: How to Tame the Gradient Mesh

Quick Tip: How to Tame the Gradient Mesh

The Gradient Mesh can be one of the hardest tools to control. Even professional Illustrators can be heard crying out in frustration at its seemingly random actions....

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Chomp Out Your Own Pac Man Animation – Part 2

Chomp Out Your Own Pac Man Animation – Part 2

This 2 part tutorial is a simulated Pac Man animation as he navigates a maze and gobbles dots along the way… with ghost chasers. The tutorial will include...

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The "We Make Awesome" Trend

The "We Make Awesome" Trend

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Whiteboard Interview – Google’s Matt Cutts on Redirects, Trust + More

Whiteboard Interview – Google’s Matt Cutts on Redirects, Trust + More

Posted by great scott!We've got a very special bonus video for you today. Our buddy-and the Googliest spam cop to ever walk the webz - Matt Cutts stopped by to do...

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How to Create a Social Media UFO Icon

How to Create a Social Media UFO Icon

When we design websites or user interfaces, often times we need to create unique and creative icons. Most websites these days have some sort of social media presence;...

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Town Square

Town Square

Excerpt from A London Plane-Treeby Amy Levy, 1861–89 Green is the plane-tree in the square,  The other trees are brown;They droop and pine for country air;  The...

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Whiteboard Friday – Sitewide, Reciprocal, and Directory Links

Whiteboard Friday – Sitewide, Reciprocal, and Directory Links

Posted by great scott!Link building sucks.  You know it, I know it, everyone knows it. It can be slow, tedious, and exhausting. It's also one of the most crucial...

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Great Designers Are Spawned From Mediocrity

Great Designers Are Spawned From Mediocrity

Some people are just geniuses when it comes to design. They’re the "Albert Einsteins" of the industry, often forcing you to *facepalm* for the insane...

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The changing landscape of CS5 for Broadcast (part 2)

The changing landscape of CS5 for Broadcast (part 2)

As I spoke previously, the landscape of broadcast has been changing.  That perfect storm of change is forcing broadcasters to think differently about the...

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