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“An excellent website takes a particularly savvy blend of both great design and great code. Because of this, you often find designers having to figure out code and developers trying their hand at design…“

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Great article if you are involved in web design and if you read it thoroughly. I must admit - in our web design studio we sometimes get carried away with using free fonts and free images. However, the problem (at least sometimes) isn’t our laziness or not knowing any better.

Most problem arise with such “bad behavior” are tied to our inability to persuade clients not to use widespread imagery. At times it gets all but funny - “it worked for them, it will naturally work for us“. Naturally, it won’t. We’re getting better at explaining things to our clients, but we’re not flawless yet.

This, however, poses another opportunity to be better then competition. Alright, we’ll use that image you’ve seen a dozen times, but we’ll try to do it the best we can. So that the next time you see it on someone else’s web site, you would recall our client, not that other web site. Use that image to create a point of origin.

Creativity doesn’t have to be perfect. It just has to be creative.

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According to Moniker, there are not that many domain names with words WebDesign before top-level zone available. Today I ran a search and here’s the list of available domain names:
WEBDESIGN.AC
WEBDESIGN.AERO
WEBDESIGN.BIZ.PL
WEBDESIGN.CLUB.TW
WEBDESIGN.COM.AG
WEBDESIGN.COM.KI
WEBDESIGN.COM.MU
WEBDESIGN.COM.NF
WEBDESIGN.COM.SC
WEBDESIGN.COM.VC
WEBDESIGN.EBIZ.TW
WEBDESIGN.GAME.TW
WEBDESIGN.GEN.IN
WEBDESIGN.IND.IN
WEBDESIGN.INFO.PL
WEBDESIGN.KI
WEBDESIGN.NET.AG
WEBDESIGN.NET.KI
WEBDESIGN.NET.MU
WEBDESIGN.NET.NF
WEBDESIGN.NET.SC
WEBDESIGN.NET.VC
WEBDESIGN.NF
WEBDESIGN.NOM.ES
WEBDESIGN.ORG.AG
WEBDESIGN.ORG.KI
WEBDESIGN.ORG.MU
WEBDESIGN.ORG.SC
WEBDESIGN.ORG.VC

As you can see, only two top level domain names left. Time to run!

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