Usually, at the end of year, evaluations, plans, tops or analyses are made and, as in any field, these are also made in the one of logo design. To analyze your own activity or the one of a company, it is quite simple to sort out information, in order to realize something concrete and in accordance with reality. Furthermore, a good analysis of one’s previous activity can tremendously contribute to the fulfillment of a plan in the following year.

This year has been a very good one for logo designers, the biggest proof being represented by the increased number of logos posted in diverse website galleries or on websites that allow the presentation of personal artworks. This richness is determined by the fact that the public has become more aware that a logo is a necessary thing in the making of a successful brand but also by the launching of HTML5 and CSS3, bringing a breath of fresh air in design and development. Making a top with the most interesting and beautiful logos of 2010 is a very difficult job, especially because there is an impressive number of special accomplishments, not to mention the numerous websites where logo designers can present their works of art but also because of the author’s subjectivity.

Here, you will find the best logos of 2010 and it is very probable to have omitted logos which are at least as interesting but these which are presented here are 100% impressive. I genuinely appreciate any link that sends the person clicking on it to a very beautiful logo (please use the comment box for that). I hope that you will enjoy yourself!

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Most of us are happy and contented using “Wordpress”; the so very popular blogging platform, as, it is fulfilling almost all our blogging requirements, but how long? Only till keep your WordPress blog secured from hackers or the worms of today that affect your blog. Why do I call them worms of today? There’s a reason for this. Where the worms were mischievous: like defacing your site, today, they attack without any prior signs and screw up your sites and even tend to eradicate you from Google list!!

It’s not that I am scaring the hell out of you; it has happened and may happen over and over again, if, you do not take precautions.

A stitch in time saves nine!! So, if you do not wish to drench yourself later, here are some tips to secure your blog from such worms and to block the holes that may occur during installation or after installing WordPress.

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For a designer creativity and inspiration are the most important tools. No human being can work for hours at a time with the same efficiency doing multiple tasks; it is a well known fact that some parts of the day turn out better work whiles others less or in the worst cases efficiency is close to zero.

On the other hand clients don’t have time to wait for you to regain your inspiration…meet the deadline or you won’t receive the money. Because the Universe respects Murphy’s rules a designer or developer will always receive more projects at those exact moments when inspiration and creativity are down and out. The natural question that arises is: “How to avoid these moments of less inspiration?”

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Although CSS3 has not been supported by some browsers yet and many people are unenthusiastic to use it, many other people have enjoyed using it with its features to create many fabulous stuffs. However, there many features that can be gotten by using CSS3 in building a website. We can use the features of JavaScript and images to create website in good performance with features like navigations menu. Below are some great tutorials from the professional designers and developers that maybe useful for you to create awesome menu using CSS3.

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Want your visual design to stand out? A simple way to do that is to find and use a unique color scheme. And this article will show you how to easily find unconventional color combinations using the color wheel.

Regular text and shapes will stand out more when using a unique color combination. Much more so than if you used standard color combinations like black and white, red and blue, yellow and green, and so forth. And luckily, there’s an easy way to find unconventional color combinations and make your visual design stand out: use the color wheel. This way, you won’t have to blindly guess combinations or use trial-and-error.

Specifically, use the color wheel systematically. Look at the color wheel, cross out the obvious color combinations, and you’ll be left with the unconventional ones. In other words, use the process of elimination to hone in on the more unique color combinations. Yep, those color combinations will be the ones that are “wrong” – but that’s what makes them unconventional. It’s when you break the rules that innovation, remarkableness, and just general uniqueness happens.

Here’s how to use the color wheel to find unconventional color combinations and help make your designs stand out…

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When you have a web page containing a video that will not be played until clicked, you can speedup page loading by applying this quick tip which you may have seen on Facebook.

Will wrap the video embed code with HTML comment and place it inside an anchor element that uses a video screenshot as the background image, and when that anchor is clicked will remove the wrapping HTML markup to load the video.

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