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Free Software Alternatives to Substitute Adobe Products
The price of Adobe software can really put the pressure on both experienced and beginner creatives, lets take a look at some of the best free alternatives to popular Adobe software.
At the time of writing, the newest version of the Adobe master suite is priced at a wallet-busting $2,499, a lot for an aspiring web or graphic designer. For newcomers to the sector especially, it’s easy to think that the Adobe products on offer are the only industry-standard pieces of software actually available when infact, there are many different free alternatives to some of the main elements of the creative suite.
Building Instant Rapport with Your Clients
Effective distance communication can be a difficult task. Let’s take a look at how you can adapt traditional communication techniques for use on the web and begin establishing instant rapport with your clients.
Have you ever sat on one end of a phone or inbox and wondered what was going through your client’s head on the other end? Have you ever met someone and thought to yourself, “I don’t know what it is, but there’s just something about this person that I really like?”
Web Designs Prices: Charging With Confidence
Pricing web design services has always been a problem for everyone in the beginning of their career. There is no standard price or baseline you can follow until you create one. Here you will learn tho charge with confidence, learn a couple tips to find your rate, and see how others are doing it.
20 Amazing Samples of Web Typography
As times go by we notice a lot of changes and improvements on the web. Typography has always been a main element of graphic design and today a lot of web designers are bringing this into the web showing that the different use of typography can be an extra weapon on their design.
Here you will see 20 amazing samples of typography taken from different websites and show you how they look apart from the design that brought them alive.
The Freelancing Checklist: Before Going Full-Time
Many web professionals want to venture into freelancing for its number of obvious benefits. However, many are hesitant because of a few key factors: financial instability, more responsibility, and lack of experience.
This post is for those thinking about it — here’s a quick checklist that can make the transfer less painful.
CSS Galleries – Getting the best out of them
One of the biggest trends of today is the creation of CSS galleries to help web designers research for some type of inspiration, or just to check out what others are doing. For others, it is a way to get good exposure and recognition for a nice design.
Here will go over some of the most famous CSS galleries of today to see how we can get the best out of them.
Announcing the Breadou Donut Giveaway Winners
The winners of the Breadou Donut Giveaway for Webitect’s 1st birthday have been announced. Check out who’s won the three Breadou donut wrist-wrests, and how you can still get your own!
Thank you to all that participated in this weeks giveaway for Webitect’s 1st birthday. We really appreciated all of the comments and feedback we’ve gotten through it, and plan for a very bright 2nd birthday by providing more useful content to you, our readers within the upcoming year!
A Webitect Birthday Freebie: 25pc. Blue Icon Set
In joy of the very day Webitect was born, we are giving away a free blue icon set — great for bloggers, designers, or webmasters of any sort.
A special thanks to one of our bloggers, Nick Parsons, for providing this free icon set to our readers.
These icons are 48×48 in PNG format. Click on the image preview to download the zip file.