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Why You MUST Advertise Your Ecommerce Store

Pawel — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 09:55:29 +0000

It almost seems common practice these days that people will spend lots of time and effort building and populating a website simply to let it fade into the background noise of the internet whereas they should be advertising their website or online store to drive those all-important visitors and ultimately sales. But with the ever [...]

Common Web Design Home Page Mistakes

Pawel — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:30:23 +0000

Affordable web design packages are ever increasing in popularity. If you are thinking about going for the DIY web design package as a way of keeping costs down then be aware of a few common errors you can make without a pro web designer to help you. If your budget is tight and you’re going [...]

Why good graphic design is so critical for businesses

Pawel — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:21:17 +0000

Graphic design may not be the first thing that occurs to businesspeople about their business operations. As a matter of fact, it’s everywhere, in every business. From the website to the company letterhead, graphic design is very much part of the business process. A lot of major companies retain graphic design services on a contract [...]

How to Choose the Best Web Hosting Service

Pawel — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:15:30 +0000

If you plan to host your blog onto a domain of its own, you will require a good web hosting service to ensure that your site faces as little downtime as possible, has the right amount of disk space, bandwidth, script support, choice of databases, FTP accounts, and technical support. Of course, all of this [...]

What Every Startup Graphic Design Business Needs to Know About Branding

Pawel — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:00:28 +0000

Every graphic designer will encounter developing a brand, creating a document that coordinates with an established brand, or revamping a brand at some point in his or her career. To really be able to serve clients in their branding needs, you as a designer should at least familiarize yourself with core brand concepts. While often [...]

Plan a Strategy to be a Top Website Company

Pawel — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 07:03:02 +0000

The rapid growth of technology and the emergence of various website companies have made the competition tough. To recognize yourself as the Top Website Company it is important to understand the complications that might arise while web development and being able to resolve by delivering an user-friendly and effective website. As in today’s world website [...]

Overloading Visitors with Too Many Options

Pawel — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:58:34 +0000

Affiliate marketers can sometimes make the mistake of giving your visitors way too many options. This isn't limited to affiliate markets however, and many different types of navigation bars, or areas of the website that are somewhat unrelated or do not flow together can make a website very unattractive and may in fact increase your...

Semantic HTML5 & SEO Friendliness

Pawel — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:52:30 +0000

You may be wondering what the big deal about using Semantic HTML5 is and how it affects SEO results... Two of the most important benefits of Semantic HTML5 are that it allows for faster browsing and makes it easier for search engines to describe your website to viewers. In addition...

Unique Spiral Calendar 2011

Pawel — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 22:39:38 +0000

Get something new for 2011. Bored of old style calendars in your office or at home? Get something in style and get attention. First spiral calendar has been created in 2004. This is enhanced version for 2011 created uniquely for you. Be special and get something special! Don't wait and get one today before there is no calendars left...

The List of 5166 directories for website submissions

Pawel — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:22:08 +0000

This great feebie can serve you in many ways. You can use it to simply submit your website to those directories, but as well to export it to your database to create directory submission web app or something similar.

Careerism and Web Design – How to be creative without compromise

Pawel — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:15:05 +0000

Careerism is arguably one of the most irritating cultural pressures in any profession, and it can truly annoy talented, creative people. If you’re a web designer, particularly a talented person who has more things on their mind on the latest if not greatest bit of design spam to come through the sector, careerism can be as comical and as irrelevant as it is lacking in substance.

Installing Symfony on Mac OSX with MAMP, PEAR and PDO

Pawel — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:13:42 +0000

How to install and configure Symfony on your Mac? The answer to this question is not obvious and various people suggest different approach. I recently have installed Symfony on my machine and decided to share a few tips how to achieve it. Things are not that complicated once you know what you are doing.

Free Directories and Search Engines you should submit your website to

Pawel — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:39:36 +0000

Directory submission not only gives you a free link back to your website, but makes you rank better in search engine organic listing. This post contain a list of free submission directories, with no reciprocal link required and a list of search engines you should consider to submit your website to.

Collection of the best Intel commercials

Pawel — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:54:12 +0000

The selection of the most interesting Intel commercials to possibly inspire you or simply to have a bit of fun watching them. Intel creates very interesting commercials that inspired me, so I decided to share some of the commercials with you. Enjoy watching them!

Fix the z-index bug under the Internet Explorer

Pawel — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:48:33 +0000

Positioning the HTML elements using relative or absolute positioning, can bring a problem with z-index positioning especially under the Internet Explorer (beloved browser lol). This can be extremely frustrating problem, but easy to fix.

Go global – Essential tips for an internationally accessible website

Pawel — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:38:40 +0000

When you’re putting the time and effort into building a cutting-edge new website to promote yourself or your brand, you want to make sure that as many people can see and use it as possible, right? However, so often when businesses move into the online realm, they think only about their local market, and ignore the possibilities that the web provides as a truly global medium.

Where do the clients that give you the most pleasure and profit come from?

Pawel — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:59:26 +0000

When asked this question, most businesses will answer “recommendations” or “someone referred them to me”. Referrals and Recommendations tend to be the most effective and least expensive form of developing new business – yet many companies don’t have a strategy in place to maximize their potential.

Things we can do when creativity just isn’t flowing right

Pawel — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:04:35 +0000

What do you do when creativity just isn’t flowing right? Here is some of the answers I got. Hopefully this post will provide the solution to everyone´s creative block the next time they are having one.

Generate random string of characters in PHP

Pawel — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:54:04 +0000

In this very short tutorial, I am going to show you how to ceate a flexible php function. This function will allow you to generate random string of your choosen characters and your choosen length. Let's create the php function!

Interview with Chris Godby about Online Web Design Tools!

Pawel — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:43:08 +0000

Exclusively for PM Design Blog readers, an interview with Chris Godby - owner of CG Inspired. What started out as a one man show, has now become an elite group of freelance designers and developers providing top quality work to all types of companies and individuals. Chris will be asked about his work, passion and Web Design Tools Online!