Filed under Business, e-commerce, Marketing by Christopher Butler
Imagine you are in a classroom. Let’s say a high school classroom. You’re sitting at your desk, listening to your favorite teacher—the one who inspired you, the one who got you excited about that thing you love for the first time.
You’ve stopped taking notes because your body just can’t quite function normally when your mind is being blown. You don’t feel the pen in your hand, or the surface of the desk under your arms. You’re somewhere in between your body and the blackboard. That’s the magic of learning; it’s transportational.
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April 23, 2012 at 3:12 pm Comments (0)
Filed under Business, e-commerce by Sacha Greif
There’s a realization that every freelance designer must go through at some point: client work isn’t enough to ensure your long-term financial security. What if you get sick? What if you can’t find clients? What if you want to take a vacation?
One possible answer to this problem is earning passive income — i.e. selling products or services instead of selling your own time. A common way to do this is to sell digital goods such as eBooks, PSD templates, WordPress themes, icons, and so on. But how exactly should you sell them?
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March 29, 2012 at 1:46 pm Comments (0)
Filed under Art, best of, Compilation, creativity, CSS, css3, Design, e-commerce, freelancing, Infographics, Inspiration, lists, newsletters, Pricing, sculpture, Steve Jobs, taxonomy, Twitter, User Experience, Web Design, wireframing by Cameron
Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of [...]
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January 8, 2012 at 9:35 am Comments (0)
Filed under advertising, Clients, color Schemes, Compilation, css3, Design, e-commerce, Fonts, forms, Frameworks, freelancing, Icons, javascript, jQuery, Resources, responsive design, Typography, Web Apps by Cameron
The December edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, frameworks, some JavaScript tools and resources, color tools, e-commerce platforms, and a number of great new fonts. Many of the resources below are free or very low cost, and are sure to be useful to a lot of designers and [...]
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December 12, 2011 at 9:19 am Comments (0)
Filed under Business, e-commerce, free themes, Personal, premium themes, themes, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes by Cameron
New WordPress themes are released constantly, some free, some premium. And some better than others. Free themes, especially, tend to have a greater disparity in quality from one another, with some being just as great as the best premium themes, and others being poorly designed or poorly coded (or both). Below, we’ve collected more than [...]
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November 29, 2011 at 9:06 am Comments (0)
Filed under e-commerce, Freebies, themes by Smashing Editorial
In this post we release yet another freebie: the Balita WordPress theme, a theme dedicated to shops that sell products for children. The theme was designed by Tokokoo and released exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. As usual, the theme is absolutely free to use for both private and commerical projects.
Not many theme providers have produced e-commerce themes for baby and toddler products. For you who have been working in this particular market niche for some time or are about to start, this Balita e-commerce theme is a great opportunity for you. Using such bright and cheerful pantone colors that suit this clothes department (baby/toddler products), this Balita e-commerce theme will surely attract more and more customers to your online store.
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October 19, 2011 at 10:32 am Comments (0)
Filed under best of, Business, Design, e-commerce, Ecommerce, Inspiration, showcase, Typography, usability, Web Design by Kendra Gaines
In this day and age, if you are not selling your product online or at least making it available online, you are missing out on a ton of money. Unfortunately, the makers of these sites are most interested in making a dollar rather than making sense (did you catch the pun?). At any rate, some [...]
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October 7, 2011 at 9:15 am Comments (0)
