tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70386518537816466602010-04-02T12:43:35.751-04:00The Webutante is a blog for tech savvy individuals that covers everything web that's anything fun. From Apple's new gadgets to the latest web trends, theWebutante covers tech news in entertaining ways.thewebutantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11213420586484112088noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7038651853781646660.post-65571325015461119562010-03-28T10:09:00.001-04:002010-03-28T10:09:23.420-04:00

For design beginners, or designers on a strict budget, sometimes investing in the adobe creative suite, or even just the Photoshop software, can feel a bit excessive. For those of you where this rings true, I encourage you to check out Act of Rage's article on Freeware Alternatives to Photoshop. Obviously, you will always have to re-evaluate your decision against Photoshop, but in the meantime

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So True Below is a hysterical video depicting web design clients in real life. The accuracy of this depiction is spot on! Check it out for some good fun. If you enjoyed this post, you may also enjoy: The Designer's Dilemma The Microsoft iPod? Geek Hilarity

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Brochure Remix When I was working on TDG's latest brochure with our intern, Kendall, I noticed a serious shortage of design inspiration online for brochures. Therefore, when I ran across DesignM.ag's awesome Brochure Showcase , I was super stoked - and I just had to share this classic collection with you. Enjoy!!

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From the Webutante The Design Group recently added two interns to our team. Looking for tutorials and a list of 'must-haves' is a tough task for me to do. I often find myself reverting back to the tutorials and tools that I used when I was learning web development, not all of which are up to date. Therefore, today's tip of the day features a great compilation from Download Squad. Their So you

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From the Webutante To keep things interesting on here (I know they've been getting a little lackluster lately...) I have opted to add tips of the day to theWebutante. I can't guarantee there will be new tips each day, but I will venture to say there will be a couple new tips each week. Today my tip involves two of my favorite applications out there: facebook and google analytics. For all of

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AEC's Website Recognition Exciting news for my husband and I's company, The Design Group: One of our most recent projects, Atlantic Edge Credit, has been honored by several sites recently for it's design and semantic structure. Included in the sites recognizing TDG is one of our personal favorites, CSS Mania! Please be sure to check out the AEC website, as well as the sites that recognized

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This months batch of News, Tools & Resources Here are some of the great news and resources I found over the past month. Some of them will really come in handy for you guys when it comes to designing and/or developing. Tools & Resources Helllllo Firefox add-ons. Six Revisions certainly does not let down in their new post Top 20 Essential Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers. While the classic

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25 things... Personally, I will admit I tend to be a facebook junkie. No, I am not one of those annoying people who sign up for all sorts of random apps and overwhelm your home screen with invites (no, I do NOT want to start having mafia wars with you. Why do I always get that?) But I love posting pictures, writing on walls, and, of course, regular facebook stalking. Deep down, however, I

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The Best of the Best of Craigslist While browsing around on Craigslist, an everyday must for any craigslist junkie out there, I came across a great aspect of the website that I feel must be brought to the attention for the sake of all web junkies out there. The Best of Craigslist features a gathering of all the best posts found on Craigslist in chronological order. Bringing the lols and the

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Free Advertising: Utilizing Google Local to Maximize Search Engine Traffic Many businesses pay SEO companies thousands of dollars to increase their company's search engine ranking and subsequently their potential client base. While I am a fairly solid believer in Search Engine Optimization, I am also a do-it-myself-er, and thus I have a complex about hiring an outside company to manipulate my

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Marketing Goals Involve Action My favorite thing to do when pitching a website to a potential client is discuss what we refer to as the "call to action." The call to action is the method used in marketing materials to tell potential clients how to act. Example: Call Now. It is such a simple concept, but it comes in such a plethora of different forms. Check out some of my fave calls to action

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Our New Baby (other than the dog) So many of you now know that The Design Group has been settling into a new downtown Charleston office for about two weeks now. Today I am posting pictures of the screenprinted signs we put up today (courtesy of Digital Printing Solutions of Mount Pleasant) that now light up our door. The trick is that we can see out but no one can now see in! Check them out

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Fast, Easy and Cheap Phone Services After my partner and I needed to get a new office phone plan when The Design Group moved in to our new office, we did a lot of research before making a move. Because we didn't find too much information out there comparing the different options (other than through our local provider), I thought it would be important to share this information with you. Magic

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Black Thursday? So today is officially going to be coined Black Thursday (at least by the webutante). Two well known entertainers - Michael Jackson and Farah Fawcett - have already passed away. Now we have one more question to ponder... What is the status of Jeff Goldblum? Rumors about Jeff Goldblum, a popular actor and entertainer who starred in movies including Jurassic Park and more

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The Design Group's New Diggs As you have probably noticed, my blog postings have been fairly unpredictable lately. The good news is that my delayed posts have been the result of The Design Group moving into and setting up our brand new (first) office in downtown Charleston! We are now located at the corner of Elizabeth & Ann - 49 Elizabeth Street - which is across from the visitor's center and

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Keep It Simple, Stupid.... The right way A new trend on the web I have noticed increasing in popularity is the single page website design. This is constituted by an all inclusive, all important Home page. The reason to use a single page design is varied, however there is one indisputable result: fewer people can get lost in a website when there is just one page. That said, there is a right

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The New Way for Developers to Work So after I wrote about The Relevence of Dreamweaver in the Web 2.0 Era, I really began to realize the strong need for a new multi-faceted development tool encompassing multiple features that perform above and beyond Dreamweaver standards. This was why I was so stoked to find MacRabbit's Espresso, a revolutionary software that combines multiple web development

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The latest batch... long delayed, I know. Here are some of the great news and resources I found over the past month. Some of them are really awesome. NEWS Business People Say Twitter More Important Than LinkedIn... Uhhh... When did this happen? The new - and open source - Google Wave is coming out... and ready to revolutionize the way you live online. Now Slower with More Bugs! These were

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...Sure I'll send the deposit your way... J/K I'm always impressed with the stories criminals come up with to swindle unsuspecting victims. Let's face it- I'm a Dateline and Law & Order SVU fanatic. It seems like Craigslist has become some sort of online Mecca for swindling criminals, and unfortunately many innocent bystanders are all too often financially deceived by these con artists on the

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Obama Creates a "Cyberczar" Yesterday President Obama announced he will be creating a new position responsible for adequately protecting the security of America's computer networks. This new position was created to protect computer networks in a country where numerous networks are targeted and penetrated millions of times each day. This new cyberczar, who will soon be picked by Obama, will

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The Webutante's first video post. My first video post is about some great advice I heard this past weekend regarding when it is okay to ask someone with subject-specific knowledge for their help. Check it out below.

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Classic, Fresh and Smart Design I am normally the type of designer who's knees get week at the mere sight of big bold buttons, who salivates to the look of gradients and yearns for minimal content depicted concisely through rather un-modest font faces and sizes. This tendency is what makes me usually skip over websites like our featured website of the month of May. However, the unique take on

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The new Webutante It's been about a month since my last post, and I just wanted to keep everyone filled in about what has been going on since then. Well, first of all, at the end of last month I got married to my best friend and business partner, so time was pretty sparse around then. We had all of our closest family and friends come down to Charleston for a week of wedding oriented fun that

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The Must-Have Resources HTML Ipsum. Serves as an advanced website for latin filler text. Provides entire pages of text, various sized paragraphs, sentences, unordered/ordered lists and even navigation. Adobe Kuler. A vast collection of color schemes with search and rating capabilities. BG Patterns. A comprehensive and handy background creator that allows you to modify sizes, colors,

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Down with IE6 Follow-Up As the trend against IE6 picks up, another website has joined the group: IE6 Update offers an awesome, almost deceptive (but still within ethical grounds) updating toolbar for IE6 users. Be sure to check it out.

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