What is Copywriting and How is it Important for a Designer?

Copywriting refers to the use of written copy to promote a business or entity. The ultimate purpose of copywriting is to expand the client base of a business. Multinationals and businesses are now promoting themselves globally, with a worldwide audience at their disposal, which has led to an unprecedented rise in demand for copywriters. Advertising and marketing campaigns are increasingly web-based, further raising the demand for creative writers who can get the job done on a tight budget.

What is Copywriting and How is it Important for a Designer?

Copywriting has nothing to do with the legal term "copyrighting," which refers ownership of intellectual property. In this article, we will explore copywriting from a designer’s point of view, with a focus on tips of the trade.

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A Guide to Web Hosting Security Issues and Prevention

Web hosting security can be a real nightmare, especially if you don’t know what goes wrong. What you don't know about Web hosting can hurt your business. Hackers are constantly trying to find new ways into your server and are becoming more and more clever each day.

A Guide to Web Hosting Security Issues and Prevention

While web hosting companies are doing their best to keep up with the demand for improved security measures, it is still crucial that webmasters take precautions to make sure that the security of their sites and data are not inadvertently compromised.

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Giveaway of Great Icons From IconDemon: Winners!

A weeks ago, we created a contest at instantShift called Giveaway of Great Icons From IconDemon had announced the 3 winners of unlimited membership package from IconDemon to InstantShift readers.

Giveaway of Great Icons From IconDemon: Winners!

We’ve got more than 80 response comments. After voiding spam and non-legit comments we have left with 64 valid comments. It’s really good to see that how we can able to help in our reader’s life and their profession.

In case, If you missed this giveaway, make sure you are ready for next one as we going to create more such giveaways in future.

Congratulations to all the winners!

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100+ Fresh and Excellent Photoshop Tutorials

When it comes to Image editing or photo enhancement, Adobe Photoshop is usually the primary option to consider. However, the software package itself is a quite hard to learn — and extremely hard to master.

100+ Fresh and Excellent Photoshop Tutorials

Display beautiful images is a potent element in web and graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using images in an artistic manner. Photoshop is useful for both creating and editing images to be used in print or online. Not too easy to use, but full of high-quality features, Photoshop is the best choice for any image manipulation job.

Below, you’ll find some of the Fresh Adobe Photoshop Tutorials which might help you to get inspired and learned a tip or two by the end of this presentation.

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Things to Remember Before Launching a Website

Effective web-browsing experiences are absolutely necessary in this climate of competitive business and advancing technology. Finding a niche, making a good first impression and staying fresh are among the website owner’s goals. Maybe you’ve got a great concept, selected the perfect designer, brainstormed about design ideas, made decisions and worked hard to get great images and content onto a website.

Things to Remember Before Launching a Website

Maybe you’re about to launch. Well, hold off for a moment and read this article before taking the final plunge. Things can go horribly wrong if you haven’t prepared a checklist and carried out certain tasks.

Many lists available on the Internet give advice on this topic, but few are thorough. If you’re reading this, chances are you’re in a hurry and your deadline is coming up fast. We’ll present you with as exhaustive a checklist as we can.

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Effective Color Palette and Color Scheme Generators

Colors carry a lot of emotions in themselves; each color represents some mood and changes its nature when used in any combination with other colors. So a lot depends upon colors which take a pivot role when it comes to designing a website too because the nature of a website is reflected through colors, say a dark background may give a bold appearance and a light background may suit for a professional site etc.

Effective Color Palette and Color Scheme Generators

There a lot of color combination that can be used in designing a site but not as easy as it sounds because there a million of combination with colors and pairing the right one may become a tough task. So we have color palettes and color scheme generators to do this task. Color palettes can help you choose your colors manually while the color scheme generators will generate the appropriate scheme for the colors chosen by you.

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