How to Prepare a Well-Focused Graphic Design Portfolio

A graphic designer has to take care of its portfolio because it is the way in which he presents his abilities. The portfolio is a collected sample which showcases your creativity and ability and you need to submit it properly to your public. Potential employers or clients may read it and what they see can help them to decide whether they want to hire you. That's why a good presentation has to be properly built up.

How to Prepare a Well-Focused Graphic Design Portfolio

Along this article we will analyze which samples are better and how to arrange them, we will see example of both online and printed portfolio and how to present them to potential customers/employers.

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The Constitution of a Modern Freelancer

The majority of the nations around the globe base their interactions between the habitants on a basic law, written or unwritten called the constitution. This entity guarantees various aspects of the common wishes of the citizens as a way of organizing, the most important civil rights and duties. A better approach in order to familiarize with this concept may be the reading of the constitution of each reader’s country; personally, I consider the reading of the state constitution a moral duty for any 18+ years old person.

The Constitution of a Modern Freelancer

Several organizations, big corporations and associations have established their specific "constitutions", which are subordinate to the entire system of laws of the country where the respective new "constitution" is created.

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70+ Fresh WordPress Site Designs for Inspiration

Many of you should know that instantShift is proudly powered by WordPress, as a Blogging and CMS tool. If you are in search of good CMS or a web tool for your projects, we strongly recommend WordPress to you. WordPress is a great tool, and best thing is FREE!

Now days Creative Designs is one of the key aspects for improving your website’s traffic and pagerank. Getting a site featured in some of the popular WordPress/CSS galleries can bring thousands of visitors and many valuable inbound links with excellent SEO benefits.

70+ Fresh WordPress Site Designs for Inspiration

It’s always hard to think in right direction and even harder to find right inspiration. Here in this showcase below, you'll find a comprehensive collection of Fresh and Inspirational WordPress Website Designs which will give you better understanding of design capabilities as well as inspiration for your site.

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Effective Home Page Design: Essential Tips and Examples

A home page is the official entry point of a website, and it’s one the most important pages. Its efficiency directly affects the efficiency of a whole website. Some designers overlook its significant role or fail to take advantage of its potential to enhance their designs. They should learn how to leverage a home page’s power to make websites user-friendly as well as efficient. We’ll explore this in detail in this article.

Home pages are all about first impressions. They should captivate and attract attention from both regular visitors and new ones. The home page is the first and last chance we have to convince visitors to stay and to return.

Effective Home Page Design: Essential Tips and Examples

Generally, users see the home page after entering a website, and a remarkable number of users enter from lists of search results provided by search engines or from bookmarked links; in fact, from there they often go straight to internal pages—but they’ll eventually get back to the home page. So it can be seen from various perspectives, and each should be carefully considered when designing.

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Win 5 Subscription of Awesome Design Goodies from Design TNT

We are again excited to present you with something special, more exciting prizes. InstantShift again came up with cool freebies giveaway as promised. This is our way of saying thanks to our readers for being part of the iShift community and helping us make it to where we are right now.

Win 5 Subscription of Awesome Design Goodies from Design TNT

This time we're pleased to announce our latest giveaway where you all have a chance to win five subscription to awesome design goodies from Design TNT.

So Hurry up, read the rules, drop a comment to enter in this contest.

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Facebook Etiquette Rules People still Break

With over 600 million users worldwide, Facebook is without a doubt the killer social app! But with so many users, there are bound to those who share too much or cross the line of appropriateness (often unknowingly) and this can put them in a compromising situation with friends, relatives or even employers.

Facebook Etiquette Rules People still Break

Facebook can be a great tool, as much as it can be great vice. In order to use this powerful networking tool wisely, here are 15 behaviours to avoid.

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