Here is what I learned from Google’s Web Crawling algorithm over the years, For the last three to two years, I have used ‘Design Portfolio | Mandar Apte’ as my title tag for my personal design portfolio website’s homepage, i.e. ‘Page Name | Website Name’. This is nothing more than to explain to people that …
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WordPress Installation Security & Performance Boosting with easy .htaccess hacks.
I am writing it down to help you secure your website & boost your WordPress website performance with this simple .htaccess hack. Implement or copy-paste this code in .htaccess in your root of WordPress installation to secure wp-include only files.
How Odd Numbers are out & Even Numbers are in for Web Designer & Icon Designer or even for any designer
While I was designing Icons for my client, I realised that it is true in website design as it is in Icon Design: you can work in odd numbers, When you have even numbers like 14px Square or 16px Square, you can easily fit a round box inside it, but in a 15px Square Icon, …
Useful Free Services for Web Designers
This is real useful service for Web Designers who is moving his or her server to new location or moving hosting service from one service provider to another. Service’s Name is ‘Open DNS’ It’s related to DNS (Domain Name System) As WikiPedia Explains what is DNS: The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical distributed …
Design Schools or Design Institutes in India
India’s Education System (mainly Mumbai University from where I belong) is based on 10 + 2 + 4 years of graduation program. For applying to graduation program in Art you need to have following qualification, You must have 10 + 2 passed certified program that means you must pass Secondary School Certification (SSC) & then …
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Why we don’t do Pilot Projects or so called Free Mockup Designs? & Why Pilot Projects & Free Mockup design doesn’t work?
Few collection of thoughts from my experience of design freelancing & pursuing design processes & doing design oriented business for living for last more than 4 years. When somebody asks for Mockup before starting any paid & finalised project, Following situations can be seen & felt by designer Now you can understand why we don’t …
Using large font size for web content which is what works in real situations in daily website browsing life
Designing Websites through CMS – Content Management Systems is big business nowadays. Designing Website themes with Font that seems right to eye than seems more readable to eye & become eye candy of viewer is big challenge for designer. Designing website with font variation from font size from 5px to 25 px is big trend …
Design Inspirations: Getting Inspired…!!! to do design & finally learning from it…!!!
Today with broadband connection on my iMac & connected to the World Wide Web fearlessly with my own website & design blog… Switching from one website to another, reading blogs, going through Twitts, reading Facebook updates… Sometimes I feel It’s really easy to get inspirations through web if you do it right… Not like olden …
Wondering How to give design Interview? Here are few Design Interview Notes that will help you to prepare for the same
Here are few words about Design Job Interview preparation from my own experiences. Here are my two earlier blog post that will allow you to prepare Resume & Portfolio Details of Preparation Preparing specific job related ResumeIt’s not bad idea to have separate resume for different domains of Design dedicated to each i.e. If you …
Web Design & Development on Macintosh through OpenSource or Free Apps
Here are the list tool sets you will need if you want to design & develop website on mac with opensource or free apps. As you may know Mac is it self based on opensource Unix platform. So here is the list of Web Design & Development OpenSource Apps available on Mac, CMS (Content Management …
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