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7 Critical Features to Look for in Your Next Digital SLR Camera

Digital single lens reflex (DSLR) cameras are distinguished from their ‘point-and-shoot’ digital camera counterparts by a removable lens and reflex mirror. This reflex mirror enables the photographer to see exactly what will be captured in the image.

DSLR Buying Guide
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DSLR cameras generally have a higher image quality than point-and-shoot cameras, and for sometime were the preserve of the professional. Increasingly, the price of DSLR cameras is dropping, and manufacturers are extending their ranges to accommodate amateur photographers and those on tighter budgets. Camera specifications can seem confusing at first glance, but there are several key features, options and extras you should bear in mind when selecting your next DSLR.

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The Case Against Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash is no longer the go-to platform to develop rich interaction content as it once was. Developers are more enthusiastic about using alternatives like jQuery rather than turning to Flash. While I still think Flash has its place, I’m not promoting it or recommending its usage to my clients if other more straight-forward and functional options exist.

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Six Years of Suckerfish Dropdown Menus

If you’ve ever done the “dropdown dance” while developing your websites and avoided clunky code while still attempting to be standards compliant, accessible and semantic — then you know about the Suckerfish menus made popular on A List Apart. That article was published on November 7th, 2003, so that means we will be celebrating the sixth year anniversary of our favorite friendly neighborhood dropdown.

Celebrating 6 Years of Suckerfish Menus

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CSS Selectors – A Guide To The Common & The Rare

Most of you will be surprised by some of the CSS selectors that I’m writing about today. For instance, did you know can select a element based on a ending substring such as “.pdf”? BAM, add that selector to your a element and you can make all PDFs on your website italic and purple without any addition HTML! You xan do that with other substrings too!

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We’re also going to go over some of the differences between more common selectors just so you know you’re efficiently implementing your code.

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3 Fresh Web Design Ideas

We’re always on the hunt for new techniques, better solutions and just some good ol’ fresh ideas. Here are a couple of simple concepts I found in use on the web that I think help us look at a standard solution and offer a non-standard answer.

Fresh Eggs
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Dell’s Della & Designing Websites for Women

Knowing your demographic is crucial to designing an effective website. You can hone in on the unique characteristics of that demographic and deliver a quality user experience that’s effective. However, you want to avoid blatant pandering because it can be offensive. That’s exactly what has happened with Dell’s mini-site for women — Della.

Della Backlash

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How To Properly Archive Your Design Work

Archiving my past projects is something that I did not do well. It all somehow ends up in a box that I shove somewhere — and when I need it, I pray that it’s still in presentable shape. That’s quite pathetic on my part. However, I’ve changed my ways due to lack of space and anybody who has the same issues can learn from my recent archiving adventures. Here’s a simple five step guide to archiving your work reliably and efficiently:

Old Boxes
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10 Elements of Stellar Business Card Design

Business cards, no matter what the print industry is going through these days will always survive. They are a simple, inexpensive and non-cumbersome physical extension of yourself that can continue to serve a functional purpose no matter what technology shifts occur. Here are 10 important elements designers should consider in their quest for business card nirvana:


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A Designer’s Guide to Copyright

I think most designers can stand to know more about copyright and how it pertains to their work. Here’s a quick practical guide written just for designers with information from AIGA’s Design and Business page, U.S. Copyright Office Website and my first-hand experiences as a freelance designer, advertising agency production mule, in-house and design firm employee.

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10 Simple Email Marketing Tips

Email marketing is as popular as ever in these economically turbulent times. It’s inexpensive but when done correctly can yield tremendous results. There are some tricky pitfalls such as spam filtering but what better way to directly connect your audience to what you’re trying to say? Here are ten simple tips that will help you understand the world of email marketing and how to hopefully turn out some successful campaigns.

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