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The Nike swoosh is one of the most simplistic and easily recognizable logos in the world. It has become an integral part of the company’s identity and has helped Nike to evolve as a globally appreciated brand. The company could very well see how the brand successfully won people over and wisely decided to stick to it. Over the years, Nike has tried out different color patterns but has never parted with it’s swoosh logo.

Nike is an enormously popular U.S. based sportswear and equipment supplier. It is the world’s largest seller of athletic shoes and apparel. The company borrows its name from the Greek Goddess of victory, Nike. It was originally founded on 25^th January, 1964 as Blue Ribbon Sports by Bill Bowerman and Philip Knight and became Nike, Inc. in 1978.

The original Nike logo was designed in 1971 by Carolyn Davidson, a graphic design student at Portland State University. Carolyn did some freelance work for the Blue Ribbon Sports Company before coming up with the famous swoosh logo. The swoosh is said to represent the wings of the Victory Goddess, who is a source of inspiration for the Greek warriors.

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Unsurprisingly, most people tend to opt for low cost or cheap web hosting. Its cheap and cost effective so why not anyways. And the reality is that most people’s web hosting needs are pretty easily met with a cheap web hosting plan. But if you’re someone who needs more than the typical shared server plan, going with
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Colors add life to designs. Every color has its own symbolism and conveys a particular meaning. To create a successful brand identity it is very important that the logo of the business uses the right color to represent itself. Contrary to popular belief, the color of logo doesn’t only serve the purpose of attracting clients. It also speaks volumes about the brand’s objective and vision. Therefore, colors can’t be chosen at random while designing a logo. A lot of research and thinking goes into it.

In this article, I will discuss a few such companies that have decided to choose the color yellow to signify their brand. Yellow generally stands for brightness and intellect. It is also associated to imagination, energy, optimism, glory and respect. Companies often use the color to generate a feeling of happiness and warmth. Let’s see how these businesses have used the color to convey their messages.

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Royal Dutch Shell Group, commonly known as Shell, is a multinational petroleum company. It was created in February 1907, when Royal Dutch Petroleum Company merged with Shell Transport and Trading Company, based in U.K. Shell is presently listed as the world’s eighth largest corporation and operates in over 140 countries.
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How often do you search a certain website and eventually give up because you just can’t find what you want? How many times have you had to put on glasses in order to read the text? And how frustrating is it when certain websites makes you scroll your screen from left to right to complete a sentence?

Your website visitors are busy, impatient, and have ten other webpages open that are competing for their attention.  They will leave your website if they can’t very quickly find what they are looking (in a matter of seconds) or if they have to work too hard to get it.

Good website design is a crucial element to attracting and keeping users. To help you out, here are some simple do’s and don’ts that will help improve your website design:

1. Home is where the “HOME” is

A surprisingly common (and painful) mistake is forgetting to include prominent button that can quickly guide your readers back to the home page.  This makes it difficult to navigate your site, which in turn frustrates users and leads them to abandon it (most likely never to return).  The site below is a great example for a wise use of navigation.


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There’s no doubt that a design well done is impressive, but there are times when even the most beautiful designs become intrusive, and that’s when beauty starts to become brassy. The world of web design is no stranger to such occurrences what with designers being focused solely on their design without considering what their primary audience wants or needs. And that’s why we see:
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I call myself a freelancer and I am very proud with my appurtenance to this category. A few days ago a friend of mine asked how one could differentiate between two freelancers; it was a very interesting question which probably has an even more interesting answer.

In my opinion the number of finalized projects, experience and clients’ testimonials are the determinant factors in establishing a hierarchy of freelancers. Of course these are not the only ones, the art of negotiation is also very important (even if it has nothing to do with the talent and creativity that one shows/or not in his work) and of course good luck has plays its’ part. But how could we compare or index a new freelancer, one that hasn’t any finished projects, no experience in dealing with clients…to be more exact a beginner? In most cases he is not paid any attention so he won’t receive any projects that could earn him some money. Thus we should see which steps should be undertaken in order to succeed in getting a project?

Don’t worry, nobody was born a designer or developer and did a thousand things before he/she was five years old. There is only one thing that I am sure off and I will give you this advice: work and work again! Do not wait for a miracle!

A very good strategy for getting the first good projects is to create an account on a website with jobs for freelancers (the name of the website chosen has no relevance, if readers request it I could list some in a future article…just let me know in a comment). It might seem as words spoken to the wind but there is a complete strategy to succeed in receiving projects on these websites.

1. Bid on what you are sure that you can finish


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There are lots of JavaScript libraries out there and many of them are in use on social media sites like twitter. This Twitter plugins uses the popular jQuery library, article contains a sampling of jQuery twitter plugins I’ve found useful. If you know other useful plugins please add it in the comments to this post.

A jQuery Plugin for Custom, CSS Styled, Retweet Buttons

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“What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.”

And, everything is subjected to modifications. Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological category.  And, this is what we tend to take the basis of this post wherein CSS has never failed to amaze us with the flexibility it accompanies.

The unexceptional functionality that the CSS comes with, force us to enlist a few—

1. CSS  prevents the hassle where the footers float halfway. The CSS technique makes it possible that the footer is stuck to its current location no matter how little or large the variations are.

2. CSS stacked bar graphs widens the scope of data visualisation. Now, we need not to depend on the Flash applications and some programming languages to be able to attain even a simple data chart.

3. An empty tag in the heading, and applying the background image, and you can actually avail your PNG image with a gradient effect, purely on the basis of CSS.

4. The CSS has an accordion effect that works when the user makes an interaction with the element. It can be done either by clicking or just mousing over it. The accordion then, expands outshining the elements of interest and at the same time, and suppressing the rest.

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In today’s fast paced world where everyone seems to be buzzing from here to there in search of the next source of nectar, custom logo design companies such as LogoBee are essential. There are so many companies offering so many services it is hard to know which to choose, and like a bee making judgements based on the prettiness of a flower, most people make an initial judgement of a company based on the appearance of its logo. That is why successful businesses hire companies such as LogoBee: to use their expertise to create an effective logo.

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The logo is the first thing that comes to mind when we think of any business. We recognize a business by its logo. So, it becomes important to make the logos interesting and unique. In order to achieve this objective, logo designers constantly try to come up with new ideas and innovations.

Using animal logos as the trademark of a business is one such approach in the world of logo designing. Earlier, animal logos appeared only in organizations related to animal welfare or companies manufacturing products for animals. But today, businesses use the unique qualities of the animals in their logos to reflect the vision or spirit of their organizations.
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