January 2011
20 posts
Karma as a Social Interaction Design Pattern in... →
The principles of karma are understood worldwide. We all like to believe that the good deeds and actions we do will be returned to us in one way or another. At its core, karma encourages…
Announcement: OSTraining.com Joomla Training... →
OSTraining, a provider of excellent online training for open source projects such as Joomla, Drupal and WordPress, offered to give five lucky Six Revisions readers 6 months access to…
10 Tips for Providing Great Customer Service to... →
The way your customers feel towards you is important. The more you show you care about them, the more they’ll likely want to continue working with you. With that in mind, providing good…
Giveaway: 5 1-Year Memberships to IconDemon →
IconDemon, which provides members access to a huge collection of icons, has teamed up with Six Revisions to give out five IconDemon 1-year subscriptions to their membership packages….
Designing Websites with Personality →
We all have personalities, and no one is exactly like another. Our relationships and memories are built on our interaction with other people.
Like every person, web designers have unique…
The Miseducation of the Doodle →
The teacher who chastised you for “mindless doodling” was wrong on both counts. Far from shutting down the mind, the act of doodling engages the brain in the kind of visual sense-making people have…
Announcement: JoomlArt Magento Theme Club... →
JoomlArt, a theme club that provides its members with Joomla, Drupal, and Magento themes, offered up 5 Personal Memberships to the JoomlArt Magento Theme Club (JMTC) on a recent Six…
10 Tips for Optimizing Your Website’s Speed →
Web page speed and performance is very important to the user experience. If your site is too slow, you’ll not only be losing visitors, but also potential customers. Search engines like…
Is Web Copy Ruining Your Design? →
Integrating web copy and design can be a difficult feat when the designer and copywriter aren’t on the same page. Failure and disappointment often follow.
To ensure that web copy and…
10 Tips for Optimizing Web Form Submission... →
Web forms play a big part in every day web use. If you build and/or run websites, chances are, you have a web form in it, whether it’s a simple contact form or a rich and robust web app….
Things That Shaped the Web Design Industry in 2010 →
At the end of 2009, I sat down and had a think about where the web was headed — what was happening at the time, and where it was all going. I put pen to paper (or finger to keyboard, to be…
“Here’s the sentence that should immediately set off alarm bells for those...”
– Bill Buxton
TV Documentary The Joy of Stats: Now Available... →
“The world we live in is awash with data, that comes pooring in from everywhere around us. On its own, this data is just noise and confusion. To make sense of data, to find the meaning in…
Giveaway: AlertFox Website Monitoring, $300 in... →
AlertFox has teamed up with us to give 3 lucky Six Revisions readers each $300 in credit to their awesome website monitoring service. The credit can be used in a configuration that…
Track and Visualize Personal Statistics with the... →
For those still in need for a personal resolution… Personal statistics aggregator Daytum, originally conceived by ‘personal-year-report-designer’ Nicholas Felton and Ryan Case, has…
How to Be a Purple Cow Among Designers →
How do you stand out amongst the vast sea of designers? How do you get potential clients to pick you over others? You need to be remarkable. Being good is, well, not good enough. You need…
Web Developer’s Guide to Getting a Startup Up and... →
Despite the overall economic downturn, there seems to be yet another boom in web startups. In the ’90s, we saw the explosion of the Internet’s first big names, like eBay, Yahoo, Amazon, and…
Sponsor Love: Companies That Support Six Revisions... →
It takes plenty of resources to bring you articles about design and development free of charge. Without our sponsors, we wouldn’t be able to bring you top-notch content that you can enjoy…
Announcement: Winners of SlideshowBox Premium Plus... →
SlideshowBox, an impressive and flexible HTML and Flash slideshow template, held a giveaway with us recently, providing 10 SlideshowBox Premium Plus licenses as prizes. This post…