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Good Cheap Fast – Choose Two

Good Cheap Fast – Choose Two

Video By Jason Long Good Fast Cheap, Choose Two (Transcript) Alright, today's lesson is on good, cheap, fast, choose two. What this is, this is a saying that we have in software, app, web development. They can also be applied to many, many, many other places like...

How to Prepare Web Design for Coding

How to Prepare Web Design for Coding

Guest post by Brian Jens If you’re in the design/development world, you’re probably familiar with or heard of this scenario; a developer works with a file sent in by the designer, "something" that just can’t be coded. If you’re experienced, you hopefully won't ever be...

The Differences and Core Strengths of Facebook, YouTube, and Snapchat Video

The Differences and Core Strengths of Facebook, YouTube, and Snapchat Video

Guest post by Nicolas Le Breton A year or two from now, we think Facebook will be mostly video. That’s what an executive from Facebook was telling last year and the prophecy is about to be fulfilled: the social network was generating 8 billion video views daily in...

Essential Web Design Trends in 2016

Essential Web Design Trends in 2016

Guest post by Mary Frenson If you are involved in web design, then you already know how important it is to keep up with current trends. Design moves fast, and if you design a website that was fashionable 5 years ago now, it would look like a dinosaur. Make sure that...

Why Your Social Media Marketing Doesn’t Generate Revenue (And What to Do About It)

Why Your Social Media Marketing Doesn’t Generate Revenue (And What to Do About It)

Guest post by Marleen Anderson Let's get one thing clear – in 2008, 93% of American customers expected businesses to be present on social media. Today the vast majority of companies have social channels, but the widespread branded use of social media doesn't mean...

Business Marketing for Dummies

Business Marketing for Dummies

Guest post by Ari Rush Marketing programs can be expensive. If you hire a marketing agency to build your business up from scratch, you may find yourself investing much more than you originally bargained for. That’s not to say that you shouldn’t be marketing, or even...

3 Tips for Succeeding as a Professional Freelancer

3 Tips for Succeeding as a Professional Freelancer

Guest post by Matt Vild To be a successful designer, setting yourself up for success is half the battle. While anyone can get lucky and do successful work once, creating effective work over and over again, for any client, in any circumstance, is the mark of a true...

5 Must-Have Cloud-Based Tools for Remote Workers

5 Must-Have Cloud-Based Tools for Remote Workers

Guest post by Vanessa Rombaut I’ve been both a remote worker and a local-in-the-office worker. Both have the pros and cons, and along the way I’ve gathered an arsenal of cloud-based tools to help me get my job done, plan projects, make small talk with colleagues,...

How to Tell Your Client You’ve Missed the Deadline (and Be Professional About It)

How to Tell Your Client You’ve Missed the Deadline (and Be Professional About It)

Guest post by Simone Smith Missing a deadline is something that happens even to the best of us. Whether you got sick and couldn't finish your tasks on time or the project took you much longer than expected, one thing is clear – you're about to miss the deadline and...