Yearly Archives: 2013

A Complete Guide of Self-Marketing As A Freelancer

A Complete Guide of Self-Marketing As A Freelancer

Few years ago, the term freelancer was considered as an excuse to avoid calling yourself jobless. Nowadays the situation is very different; there are many cases of highly specialized individuals that prefer working from home. Much more, many companies accepted the idea of working from home…it is a real growing...

Announcement: Winners of DesignCrowd Giveaway

Announcement: Winners of DesignCrowd Giveaway

A weeks ago, we created a contest at instantShift called DesignCrowd Giveaway had announced the five winners of $275 Custom Logo Design from DesignCrowd. We’ve got more than 40 response comments. After voiding spam and non-legit comments we have left with 29 valid comments. It’s really good to see that...

The Ins and Outs of WordPress Semantics

The Ins and Outs of WordPress Semantics

Most software that is released has its own language made of words specific to the program. The same is true for WordPress. For people that are new to a program like WordPress, it may feel a bit confusing at first, trying to understand the meaning of so many new words....

44 Incredible Sand Sculptures That Make You Say WOW

44 Incredible Sand Sculptures That Make You Say WOW

In this article we have come up with some interesting and incredible sand sculptures that will surely call for a second look. Sand sculptures have been created all over the world and they vary in terms of their conceivable theme and ideas that turn out to be into dazzling realities...

Facebook Marketing: Some Exercises to Help You Find and Use Your Voice

Facebook Marketing: Some Exercises to Help You Find and Use Your Voice

The key to successfully marketing your business on Facebook is finding an authentic voice that connects with and engages your desired audience. This article walks you through some exercises to help you find and use your voice. Whether your business is small or large, I help you turn it into...

WordPress Is There for a Reason (Many Reasons, in Fact)

WordPress Is There for a Reason (Many Reasons, in Fact)

It is useless to talk about WordPress unless the reader has some idea on content management systems (CMS); in short, a CMS is software that allows controlling the way your site will use content, including changes and updates. WordPress is one such CMS with remarkable admin section simplicity. Add to...

What the Future of Cloud Computing Means for Web Designers

What the Future of Cloud Computing Means for Web Designers

Businesses around the world are raving about the latest computer application model, which is called “cloud” computing. In the early days of mainframe computers, central processing was the common model used by large enterprises: public and private. Each large entity maintained separate computer systems with software that was designed to...

The 10 Weirdest Search Engines Revealed

The 10 Weirdest Search Engines Revealed

Remember the days when the internet was shiny and new, and how there used to be so many search engines? That was long before Google held dominance. Many people used different search engines, even during the course of a single day, to find information online. While Google and the other...

Giveaway: $275 Custom Logo Design from DesignCrowd

Giveaway: $275 Custom Logo Design from DesignCrowd

Designers spend their time creating solutions to their client’s product and communication problems. If you’re already baking a cool startup idea then you’re already thinking about branding. Or maybe your old logo needs a new look? Maybe you want fresh thinking and loads of ideas and don’t want the hassle...

Web Design & Development Conferences to Attend in 2013

Web Design & Development Conferences to Attend in 2013

The biggest issue most freelancers face is the absence of communication with other human beings. It’s rather hard to work long hours alone, and it only gets better when you find someone like you who’d be pleased to communicate a bit. Conferences are rather helpful when you are having communication...

A Comparison Between Magento, osCommerce, and OpenCart [Infographic]

A Comparison Between Magento, osCommerce, and OpenCart [Infographic]

E-commerce are becoming very popular these days, all sales are done directly or more familiar that you can called with traditional sales. Where seller and buyer meet at the same place then conduct the payment transactions. But now, Internet can make connected people all over the world, and also tools...

Lessons Beginner Webmasters Must Be Aware Of Before Using WordPress

Lessons Beginner Webmasters Must Be Aware Of Before Using WordPress

WordPress is a great platform for creating websites. It is easy to use and with a bit of knowledge one can customize it almost indefinitely. But no matter how experienced we might be, there is always something new to learn or perhaps, something so basic that we have already forgotten....

50 Perfect Animal Camouflage Photography

50 Perfect Animal Camouflage Photography

This time we are presenting a unique and interesting compilation for your inspiration, and this is about some of the incredible camouflaged animals. Camouflaging for animals is a way to protect themselves against any danger that they sense within their habitats. Many animals make use of camouflaging whenever they sense...

Modeling and Rendering a Car in Blender and Photoshop

Modeling and Rendering a Car in Blender and Photoshop

In this tutorial, We will be Modeling Lotus Elise car using Blender, we will do amazing studio lighting and rendering with Blender’s Cycles render engine. We will do little bit of compositing inside Blender’s compositor and some final effects and post processing in Photoshop. Fire up Blender and let’s get...

Wireframing and Sketching for Web Designers: Tools, Utilities and Reasons

Wireframing and Sketching for Web Designers: Tools, Utilities and Reasons

A website wireframe is a visual guide, or a skeletal framework that will help you define your future website’s characteristics. By wireframing you are basically defining the primary steps and the shape your website or product is going to have. One of the main purposes of wireframing is to set...