#1 – Shirt.Woot.com

Shirt.Woot.Com is best at inspiring a sense of urgency and targeting and narrowing down to a specific niche

I was recommended this site by a friend and I was surprised at how effective it’s Ecommerce design is. Here are a couple of things I think make this site so effective:
- It’s hilarious
- It targets a specific niche
- It’s VERY good at instilling a sense of urgency into buying (if you don’t buy the shirt right now it could very well be gone forever)
- It promotes a sense of community.
- Small targeted selection.
Look through this site and see if there is anything from their design that you can incorporate into your own designs.

#2 – Amazon.com

Amazon is hands down the most effective site at selling just about every product under the sun, they have several tricks designed to drive sales like nobodies business. From convenient one click orders, unbeatable selection, effective customer review system. If you follow some of Amazons techniques you can’t go wrong.

#3 – ThinkGeek.com

ThinkGeek.com is definitally a website that knows it's target market inside and out

The way ThinkGeek.com markets their products shows their enthusiasm and knowledge of what their customer wants, a perfect example of niche marketing at it’s finest.

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To be able to participate in the revolution which Adobe is promoting, they offer certifications to validate Adobe scholars. May it be for training, upgrading or resume building a certification can go a long way? The Adobe training and accreditation provides support not only for personal or company upgrading but provides resources that can help you achieve your goals. There are three popular certifications to be taken:

The Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) – An expert on this displays proficiency with one or more Adobe software products.

Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) – This is an entry-level certification where the required skills covers planning, designing, building and maintaining effective communication systems using different forms of digital media.

Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) – Technical support is not the only expertise of Adobe but training as well. With an ACI certification anyone can be confident that you can deliver quality instruction. This test verifies your knowledge beyond your technical skills. To be able to apply for this you must have an instructor qualification or a teaching credential, passed the CompTIA CTT+ exam or equivalent. You should have also passed one or more ACE exams.

An Adobe Certification is very volatile. While others has three years of expiration, Adobe gives only 90 days after the last exam version you have taken retires. Just imagine how often they make an upgrade. However, Adobe guarantees good facility for recertification.

Why do you want to have an Adobe Certification?

Adobe is somehow a league of its own in this generation. It uses more imaging devises and enhances visual creativity while reinventing communication. Having a certification under Adobe is like knowing that you have a unique expertise apart from the other experts who have other IT certifications.

Here are top five reasons why an Adobe Certification is worth it:

1. You share the brand of Adobe – One of the best advantages of having a certification from Adobe is its being-part-of-the-family feel. You are authorized to use the logo of Adobe, which is considered a seal of excellence.

2. You have a competitive edge in the industry – Whether you are looking for a job or vying for a promotion, you have bigger chances in achieving your goal in the IT industry. As to credibility for your knowledge and skills, your certification is solid proof.

3. You play at work – Adobe makes visual creations. Having a certification with Adobe is like having the opportunity to help users to create fashion, follow a trend, dare to splash colors, animate, so on and so forth. If you enjoy the products, you would never realize that you are working as Adobe also provides learning support.

4. You can provide services in other industries who are taking advantage of the Adobe system – There are institutions such as schools and government agencies that aim to keep their curriculum or programs vitalized and relevant. A certification can help bridge classroom learning to real-world application.

5. You get the inside track on Adobe’s latest offerings – Adobe updates its members and certified professionals on the latest inventions or innovations of the company. As it is a very popular brand, having access to inside track information is an advantage to a player (including the IT Professional) in the industry.

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Well using UserReport.com it can better help you get a picture of what users are really doing on your site, and even helps you ask them their opinion. This can help you know what improvements and changes you can make to your website to continue to make it better and better for your valued visitors. As webmasters we constantly want to improve our websites and many times you can feel like you have no idea what your visitors will like, now you no longer need to feel that way you can begin to start tracking what your users really want, quickly and easily.

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CS3 and CS4 are two consecutive genres of software package from Adobe Systems called Creative Suite. These collections of graphic design, video editing and web development applications such as Photoshop, Adobe and InDesign have been released regularly by Adobe in progression indicated in version numbers. CS4 which was released in October 2008 is the newer and improved version, succeeding CS3 that came out roughly a year and a half ahead. Here are the descriptions, differences and significance:

*Descriptions*

CS3, which succeeded CS2 and CS, introduced universal binaries for all its major programs, compatible in both Power PC and Apple Macintosh formats. Unlike in the earlier versions, CS3 also incorporated all core applications of Micromedia Studio, a former competitor of Adobe, and Production Studio. In the later editions, the Creative Suite also begun using Presto layout engine, used in the Opera web browser.

From its release in 2007, CS3 came up with six different program combinations namely: Design Standard and Premium and Web Standard and Premium which were released in April 2007; Production Premium and Master Collections released in June 2007. In June 2008, Fireworks CS3 was included in the Design Premium and all editions that had Acrobat 8 PRO were replaced with Acrobat 9 PRO.

In 2008 CS4 introduced the user interface system, which means applications which used to run independently could already be used at the same time in the same window, separated only in multiple tabs. This so called “tabbed interface” is more common to the latest internet browsers. CS4 also added support to nVidia CUDA technology through third party plugins, making H.264 video encodings faster.

Another breakthrough for Adobe is the development of CS4 to perform under 64-bit and multi-core processors in consumer computers. Adobe After Effects CS4 and Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 have been optimized and upgraded to run natively in 64-bit operation. However this feature is only available for Windows format. This advantage could address large amount of memory used by Adobe application, increasing the speed of file swapping.

*Differences and Significance*

CS4 is an upgrade of CS3 for obvious reasons. The newer version is more convenient with its user interface system, optimized performance in 64-bit processors, and added support interface other technologies allowing better video encodings. Two applications that were present in CS3 were dropped in CS4. These are the Adobe Ultra, which is a vector keying application which is used to improve images of pictures that have poor lighting, and Adobe Stock Photos. Adobe InCopy is also absent in the CS4 bundle but can be procured separately from Adobe or other sources. However, as to which version is better reviews have diverse opinion.

The period of introduction between CS3 and CS3 to the market is said to be very close to each other allowing little room for significant changes. For small time visual and audio editing user, CS4 is more costly than CS3, considering that the former also requires a 2-gigabyte RAM, aside from the fact that there is not much changes.

CS4 would suit well to editing professionals who work with large files, do multiple media and are concerned with speed. The Photoshop CS4 is capable of painting directly on 3D models, warp 2D images around 3D shapes, convert gradient maps to 3D objects, give depth to layers and texts, exporting to supported 3D formats and other capabilities for scientific imaging and high end film and video users.

*About the Author:*

Author is from SelfTestEngine which is Exam Preparation tool for Adobe Certifications like Adobe CS4 Certification and CS4 exams like 9A0-086 exam.

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48HoursLogo.com is a brilliant idea, and is catching on really fast, I think i’m going to try my hand at some logo designs.

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Scarlet Bits:

ScarletBits.com features "unconventional" colors which are bold and out there, which is one of the reasons I think I liked it so much. It blends it's unusual colors with a traditional Blog Layout, superb design work.

Audio Jungle:

AudioJungle.net has a simple layout as easy and intuitive to use as Google, but it still has some pretty neat Web 2.0 style design, this blend of functionality and design is an excellent example of the way a website needs to be.

Creative Overflow

CreativeOverflow.net blends photography, graphics design, and several other elements of design, into one seamless Web Layout, these types of layouts are fairly difficult, but the effect is very cool. Excellent looking website.

Tutorial 9

Tutorial9.net is very similar to Creative Overflow except the design seems to emphasize Vector artwork quite a bit more, there is alot of useful content, and a neatly arranged layout, very inspirational.

Texture Lovers

In addition to being very useful to web designers (by providing a great list of textures) TextureLovers.com also uses those textures to produce a neat looking website. The website is slick and easy to navigate, plus features an elegant use of textures which can provide some great inspiration.

Simple Bits

SimpleBits.com is a great example of a minimilistic website design, it clears out any clutter and displays it's content with simplicity, which for many designs would probably be an upgrade.

Gamer DNA

In addition to being a very creative idea, GamerDNA.com is one of the most intuitive and user-friendly web interfaces i've ever seen. Everything is Ajax powered (even the login, which is very difficult to do) and it has nifty buttons and an intuitive layout in addition to a sleek design. Very inspirational.

Joshua Ink

Joshua Ink, features a blend of nature and minimilistic style web design, which makes for a pretty easy to read website, the website also has useful content, which is always a plus!

Blurb

Blurb.com is short and to the point, it is easy to read and clearly identifies what the website is out to accomplish. Many websites flood their users with Too Much Information at first, and while content is king, you have to have a way for people to intuitively learn from or about your site, at a natural pace.

Edit Studios

Throw in a cool JQuery Slideshow, some dark texture filled text, and easy to follow easy to read text, and you have Edit Studios, sort of a clicheish website design, but inspiring nonetheless.

Great examples of Wbsite Design

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Top 5 Firefox Plugins For Web Developers:

ColorZilla – Colorzilla quickly allows you to get the Hex Color Code of any color on a website, like a color of a particular site? Find it’s Hex value in a couple of seconds.  There are many uses to Color Zilla.

MeasureIt – MeasureIt allows you to quickly find the size in pixels of any element of a web page, this turns out to be invaluable when trying to measure position of objects in CSS

FireBug – This is a must have for any Web Developer, Firebug let’s you inspect the DOM and manipulate a webpage live, without uploading or downloading any files.  This helps you debug nasty CSS errors, or figure out cool CSS techniques you can use.  Invaluable.

IETab – As the name implies you can quickly double check how things look in Internet Explorer, because unfortunately about 50% of internet users are still on IE.

Firesizer – Want to see what your website would look to someone with a 1024 x 768 browser size?  What about 1280 x 1024.  Firesizer will do just that, it’s very important to check your website on different monitor and browser sizes.

Anyhow, I hope this list helps.  Feel free to add your suggestions about Firefox Plugins that you think should be added to this list.  I’ve found those 5 plugins have saved me a ton of time, especially Firebug.

Much thanks to the creators of those Plugins.

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I’ve made a list of my top 20 Favorite Wallpapers from around the web, check them out:

* – Wallpaper designers, I tried to give credit to every wallpaper creator I could remember but if I missed someone please let me know

Donkey Kong Country, awesome

Super Metroid on a toxic planet

Epic Lego!

Sonic Running Wallpaper

Photosynthesis

BlueMoon, Lost Planet

Memoir

Megaman

Mickey and Donald Wallpaper

Zelda

Aquatic Sonic Run

Mario World

Black Phoenix

Milky Mario Sky

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