Professional Admin Templates License Giveaway and a Special Offer!

Once Again, we’ve got something special for our community. 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. We at InstantShift love to give away things regularly, all year long. This time I’m pleased to announce our latest giveaway where you all have a chance to win 3 Free Professional Admin Template licenses each from Admin Templates (worth $45 each) which provides a great way to effectively manage your site's back-end.

Professional Admin Templates License Giveaway and a Special Offer!

These Templates are flexible, standards-compliant (XHTML) Admin Template that is professionally built for beautiful website back-ends which fits to any project.

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

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Online Copywriting: Make Your Website Copy Dazzle

If there’s one generalization you should make as a website writer, it’s that your visitors have short attention spans and are overly saturated with information.

If you’d rather generalize, then just think about this fact: search is the most popular function on the internet. This means most visitors to your site are looking for something in particular. If they click on your site and can’t tell whether you will provide what they are looking for, they will leave.

Online Copywriting: Make Your Website Copy Dazzle

Internet users think of their time as precious and the internet as a never-ending trove of information. Your visitors are information scavengers with little loyalty and even less time; this means you need to tailor your writing specifically to them to get their attention.

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30 Creative Business Card Designs for Inspiration

Business cards are the simplest yet most powerful tools in job-hunting and contact-building. They contain, in its small area, all pertinent information that anybody needs to know about you. They help your prospects understand who you are, what you offer and how you can be contacted. However, the competition for one job could be so tight that presenting ordinary business cards might not do any good. In truth, poorly-designed and printed cards may even give future clients or employers a bad or wrong impression of you.

30 Creative Business Card Designs for Inspiration

Here, we have collected a variety of design samples to help you get your creative juices flowing and craft that perfect business card. You can now shy away from the plain and boring. Enjoy!

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How to Create “Touchable” Web Designs

What are touchable web designs? When most people check out a new website, they sometimes think "yikes, this website looks like crap" or "wow, this is one of the best websites I’ve ever seen!" What is it that makes the great websites look so great? In my experience, when I think of "web 2.0" and "great web designs" I think of modern web designs that look touchable. In other words, the elements on the page almost look real, as if they have depth and take up space.

How to Create “Touchable” Web Designs

The purpose of this post is to explore how this effect can be achieved, outline the major strategies for creating your own touchable web designs, and give examples of some great web designs out there that have mastered these techniques. Let’s get started!

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