India’s Web Industry: 30 Promising Indian Web Talents and Agencies

India is a peninsula with the Arabian Sea to its west, the Indian Ocean to its south, and the Bay of Bengal on the east while in the north it shares borders with Pakistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. A culturally rich country, India has the second largest population on earth with 15% of the world population under its belt. With its large population, it is not surprising then that India is a country brimming with talented individuals.

India’s Web Industry: 30 Promising Indian Web Talents and Agencies
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Photo Manipulation Techniques to Enhance Portrait Photography

Even the best photographers need to 'touch up' their photographs – no magazine portrait photography is straight from the camera. Small adjustments can make a big difference to an image, and this tutorial will show you how to execute a few changes to make a big impact on the final result.

Photo Manipulation Techniques to Enhance Portrait Photography
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Hospitality in Web Industry: Good Service is Good Business

Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.

Hospitality, the art of making guests feel treasured and welcomed, is the core dictum of the service industry. However, hospitality is not just crucial to the tourism and hotel industry, but also in the web design and development industry as well. Hospitality in the web industry is more than just meeting the needs of the design brief, but also making your clients feel happy and comfortable in entrusting their projects with you.

Hospitality in Web Industry: Good Service is Good Business
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80 Extreme Advertisements That Will Challenge Your Mind

An advertisement’s aim is to instantly attract the attention of viewers. Some use humour to draw viewers’ attention, but there are other kinds of advertisements that go to extremes to present something different. As a follow up to our previous article 60 Humorous Advertisements That Will Tickle Your Bones, today we look at the opposite extreme to using humour in advertisements. Presenting another side to design, some of the advertisements shared in this article today may be a little visually disturbing or conceptually controversial.

Warning: Viewers Discretion Is Advised!

Extreme Advertisements
Image from: Squid

While some might find them somewhat perverse yet creatively brilliant, others might cringe and be disgusted or disapproving of their content or style. Everyone has a right to an opinion.
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How to Use jQuery to Make Slick Page Transitions

Adding the final touches to a site can be the difference between a polished and beautiful site that looks “refined,” and a mediocre site that leaves no impression on visitors. jQuery, the versatile JavaScript library, can be leveraged to create all these fine tuned elements. Today we’re going to look at how to use it to create elegant page transitions. Let’s get to it!

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The 8 Best Forthcoming Web Design Conferences

Attending major web design conferences show potential clients that you take your work very seriously, that you are at the cutting edge of recent developments in your field, and actively spending money to improve your proficiency in key areas of web design. Every conference is different, so make sure you visit the ones which are most closely related to your area of interest. In the list below, you’ll find conferences for Adobe aficionados, Flash experts, e-commerce designers and much more.

The 8 Best Forthcoming Web Design Conferences

Here’s our run down of the 8 must-visit web design conferences of 2010. All of the great conferences listed here are rather expensive to attend, but they offer educational opportunities you won’t find anywhere else. What’s more, attendees of these events are exposed to various structured, semi-structured and non-structured networking opportunities. All of which can have a direct impact on the quality and number of job offers you receive.
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Eating into Restaurant & Recipe Web Design: 50+ Mouth Watering Websites

The food industry is one of the largest categories of business in the world. While taste is generally the main focus, design & appearance are just as important when it comes to showcasing products, restaurants and recipe websites. There are also an abundance of food bloggers or “foodies” in cyberspace that provide a wide variety of delicious recipes and beautiful photographs of the food.

Eating into Restaurant & Recipe Web Design: 50+ Mouth Watering Websites
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Anatomy of Colors in Web Design: Yellow and the Sunshine Feel

This is the third article of our series, Anatomy of Colors in Web Design. Over the next few months, we’ll continue to cover a spectrum of colors. And one color at a time, we will be featuring web design from around the world. If you have missed past articles in the series, you may want to catch up and read our articles on the colors Green and Blue. Today’s article will explore the use of the color yellow in Web design. Please remember to continue watching this space, as we take a closer look at other colors in upcoming months.

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Anatomy of Colors in Web Design: Yellow and the Sunshine Feel
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