Why personal branding will become more important than a degree

The rise of the Internet has meant that we now have many exciting new opportunities for the very first time. Once such opportunity is “personal branding”. It is now incredibly easy to build a following, gain reputation in an industry and become an authority in our respective fields. Personal branding can open up new opportunities [...]

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10 of the most annoying Facebook statuses ever!

Facebook has evolved into the go to place to spew random crap into the world. Is it just me, or are the majority of Facebook status updates annoying? After some careful observation, I’ve determined that the average Facebook updated can be categorised into one of the following 10 persona’s. 1. The “I feel the need [...]

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Design Inspiration #9

Colbow Design http://www.colbowdesign.com Themify Me http://themify.me You Know Who http://www.youknowwhodesign.com Jenny and Grayden http://www.jennyandgrayden.com Kyle Steed http://kylesteed.com

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Why Path will finally succumb to Facebook

Path have recently launched the 2.0 of their private social network with their ground breaking new mobile application. But Path continues to fail break through the niche and find its way into the main stream market. Supported by a freemium business model, Path is on the bleeding edge of mobile user interface design and experience, but how [...]

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The real reason why domain names don’t matter anymore

Inspired by the above tweet from Chris Sacca, I started to think about how domain names are becoming more a “nice to have” rather than a “got to have”. Sacca attributes this shift to three key areas, Twitter handles, search results and App Store names. Whilst Twitter handles and App Store names are very important, [...]

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10 inspiring “Meet the team” pages

“Meet the team” pages are an excellent way of humanising your company and showing the faces behind the business. A well designed “Meet the team” page can make the difference between an new business enquiry or losing a potential new customer. Some of the best examples of “Meet the team” pages including the following elements; [...]

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Design Inspiration #8

Gone Freelancing http://gonefreelancing.com Adham Dannaway http://www.adhamdannaway.com Alexandre Gomes http://www.alexandregomes.com.br Branded07 http://www.branded07.com Envato http://envato.com

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10 of the best car manufacturer websites

Perhaps you are looking to buy a new car, or just day dreaming about what you would love to own. Car manufacturer websites need to give the customer the essence of the brand and the car that they could one day own. Car manufacturer websites should be idealistic and dreamy, but also extremely usable. Customers [...]

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Design Inspiration #7

Matchball http://www.mball.cz Moment Skis http://www.momentskis.com Inflicted http://www.inflicted.nl Moods Of Norway http://www.moodsofnorway.com Biola Undergrad http://undergrad.biola.edu

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How to make vanity URLs using PHP, .htaccess and MySQL

Vanity URLs have become a staple part of any good online service and are a really good way of helping increase engagement and social sharing of your web app or website. For those of you that don’t know, a vanity URL is usually a direct link to a users profile in the following form – [...]

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