Articles by Six Revisions from March 2011

Twitter continues to add a staggering amount of 460,000 users each day. In order to be fully equipped to stay on top of this popular web service, you can use Twitter tools to help. Here are 10 fresh, ...

If you’re building a website for a client or yourself that requires a number of images to be presented in a gallery format — for example, if you’re a web designer, photographer, scul...

I teach at a middle school in the southeastern U.S. located in an area plagued with grinding poverty. The kids on the football team wear t-shirts with the slogan "From Nothing to Something," a...

We recently published a giveaway of 10 SnackTools VIP memberships for one year (valued at $288 each). In this post, you’ll learn who the winners are. The Winners I’m thrilled to announce t...

I’m fairly new to the Ruby on Rails web application framework. I just started learning it about eight months ago when I started developing my web app. I’ll share a story with you about my ...

As a web designer or web developer, you probably have a firm grasp on the social media/social networking scene. What I’m finding, however, is that although many people in our industry understand...

We’ve teamed up with our friends at PhotoEQ, an easy-to-use and powerful image editing application, to hook up 10 lucky Six Revisions readers with software licenses for the app (worth $33). Cont...

In the previous part of this series, we discussed some techniques and best practices for CSS typography. Let’s now delve into the subject further by looking into some case studies, tools, as wel...

Web design is an industry where things change very fast. Over the last year or two, CSS3 has taken web design potential to a new level. It’s not that many more features are available in this lat...

The use of textures and patterns in web design has been popular for several years. Textures and patterns add strength and a sense of realism to a web design. There are many creative ways of using patt...

Recently, we hosted a giveaway for postcards from the wonderful folks at Next Day Flyers. In this post, we share with you the list of three winners of 100 postcards (with free shipping within the cont...

Web professionals have been getting pretty excited lately, and it’s no surprise why. The latest spawn of Microsoft’s browser, Internet Explorer 9, has just been released. Many people have ...

Thanks to Facebook, I get odd news and instant anxiety rather quickly. I’m sweating over my keyboard in an attempt to earn enough for my weekly meal and maybe one pill of my medication, when I n...

Our friends at SnackTools, a suite of web applications that will simplify the way you create and publish rich media content, is giving away 10 VIP memberships to the entire suite of tools for an entir...

A great website design is important to any business trying to find success online, but if a website doesn’t have a chance at good search rankings, very few people may ever get to see it. To avoi...

Responsive web design is undoubtedly a hot topic in web design right now. To some degree, the popularity of the concept of responsive web design is well deserved because site users are increasingly di...

Web development and free and open source software (FOSS) have gone hand in hand since the beginning of the web. Popular scripting languages and web development frameworks such as PHP, Rails and Python...

We partnered up with the wonderful folks at Avactis to hook up five lucky Six Revisions readers with e-commerce software licenses in a recent giveaway. This post announces the winners of the giveaway....

The year was 2003. I was working on my first website out of college. It was a personal portfolio geared towards landing my first job in the industry. I was trying to build a site unlike anything prosp...

In the first part of this series, we discussed some fundamental concepts pertaining to CSS typography. Now we are going to cover some excellent techniques, tips, tricks and best practices for dealing ...

This giveaway is for three sets of 100 4×6 postcards printed on 14pt card stock, courtesy of our friends at Next Day Flyers. The postcards will feature full color printing on the front, and black...

Websites and web applications are getting more and more interactive each day. Content on websites have the advantage over their printed counterparts in that, if we wanted to, we can let our users inte...

Patience is a virtue, but for many, it is often a difficult concept to practice. That is especially true for web users visiting a website that takes a long time to load. Users are enamored with speedy...

This Photoshop layer style pack includes one transparent style and three elegant text effects. These styles don’t need separate layers to work — just load up the layer styles and activate ...

DesignContest.com teamed up with Six Revisions to provide five participating Six Revisions readers Amazon Kindle 3Gs in a recent giveaway. Over 300 of you participated, and in this post, you’ll ...

Recently, we teamed up with Stockfresh, a provider of excellent stock photos, on a giveaway that offered five winners 100 credits to use any way they wish on the Stockfresh site. Read on to find out w...

Most websites load reasonably fast when visited by their average number of users. However, performance rapidly deteriorates when a site is overwhelmed by peak traffic (the times when the site’s ...

Typography is an essential component of a website’s design. This is for good reason: good typography is not only imperative for aesthetic appeal, but also improves site usability when text legib...

Avactis has always strived to create easy-to-use e-commerce software. In this giveaway, we’ve teamed up with them to provide 5 participating Six Revisions readers Avactis owned licenses (worth $...

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Content is what is considered the "meat" of a website. Content should be usable and displayed in a manner that makes it efficient to read and act on. Now that we have discussed website navigat...

The topic of history immediately draws to mind a dusty classroom in which professors tell stories of war, royalty and civilizations lost to the sands of time. While traditional history is expressed as...