Articles by Six Revisions from April 2011

Advertise here with BSAWe’re glad to release SocialMate, a free, exclusive set of 28 social media icons for your website and design projects. These icons come in 2 variations for use on dark and...

Advertise here with BSAEveryone develops opinions regarding how things should look, how things should behave, and what things should be called. These cognitive biases make up the filter between what a...

Advertise here with BSAIn this giveaway, WPZOOM, providers of top quality Premium WordPress themes at amazing prices, is shelling out premium WordPress themes (worth $69) and giving it to 10 lucky Six...

Advertise here with BSADesigners have a love affair with Apple products that stretches back decades, but as Apple shifts their focus towards low-power devices that fit more towards a mainstream audien...

Advertise here with BSAInformation architecture is a big component of web design. What order should elements go in? Is there a visual hierarchy that must be followed? What should go where?...

Advertise here with BSAYou can easily split the design community into two groups: those drafted into Dribbble and those who aren’t. Despite me being in the latter group, I find it difficult to i...

Advertise here with BSAWe lay increasing importance on doing things in the user’s best interest and meeting their expectations, but we often forget that content and design is the window to a web...

Advertise here with BSABack in November last year, a playful infographic exposed the differences between web designers and developers. In the infographic, a Venn diagram revealed one surprising charac...

Advertise here with BSABack in November last year, a playful infographic exposed the differences between web designers and developers. In the infographic, a Venn diagram revealed one surprising charac...

Advertise here with BSAIn this giveaway, we’ve teamed up with Focal Press, a publisher of media technology books for over 70 years, to give 10 lucky Six Revisions winners a copy of Interactive I...

In the past few months, there has been a lot of talk around modern web browsers (Firefox 4, Chrome, IE9, etc.). The software application we use to navigate to our favorite websites is seeing tremendou...

For newbies in the business of crafting websites, the purpose and technicality behind server header responses can often be a little mind baffling to get to grips with. Although there are essentially s...

Have you ever had a dispute with a client? Most freelancers and contractors will answer this question with a resounding "no" because we tend to think of disputes as something which results...

Search engine spiders haven’t yet evolved to the point where they can directly extract the meaning from a visual medium such as a photo or a video. Instead, search engines must rely on the metad...

We recently partnered up with our friends at Digiarty Software to give out 10 iTunes gift cards for use in the U.S. iTunes store in celebration of the release of PetsWar, an awesome iPhone game app, a...

Just a few short years ago, building static websites by hand with HTML/CSS was the norm. Nowadays, WordPress powers almost 14% of all websites[1]. Originally developed as a blogging platform, WordPres...

Bad clients have been an issue in everyone’s career at some point. Managing difficult client relationships when they occur or avoiding bad projects in the first place are two of the most importa...

In this excellent giveaway, we reached out to our partners at MaxCDN to offer five lucky Six Revisions readers with MaxCDN accounts preloaded with 1 TB credit (for most sites, this is enough to last a...

The web browser is probably one of the most frequently used applications on a person’s computer. For designers and developers, a browser theme can be canvas that provides hours of exposure to th...

When it comes to SEO, Google’s PageRank (PR), which is the most used SEO ranking metric, is vague and unhelpful. Although most SEOs would agree that it’s an indication of a page’s po...

The color blue, in many cultures, symbolizes wisdom, trust, depth, intelligence, confidence, faith, and truth. It’s the color of the sky and the ocean, and so it’s also often associated wi...

Recently, we hosted a giveaway for 10 licenses of PhotoEQ, a user-friendly and powerful image editing application for your Windows PC. In this post, you’ll find a list of the 10 Six Revisions re...

A growing number of top quality designers are turning away from contract work and towards their own personal projects (such as selling WordPress premium themes, for example). From skills-based product...

For a web designer — whether you work in a design agency, a design department of a large company, or as a freelancer — it’s a rare occasion that you embark on a project totally on yo...

"The customer is always right." It’s an often disagreeable adage, but it exists for a reason. Those of us who have had any direct client experience understand that a happy customer makes...

Our friends at Digiarty Software have teamed up with us to give away 10 $15 iTunes gift cards (valid on the U.S. iTunes store) and a free software download for everyone in celebration of their two new...

As designers, we’re always trying to get the most out of our interfaces and maximize whatever space is made available to us. While many solutions have been devised over the years, one above all ...

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A while back, I wrote a guide on how to improve the WordPress Admin Panel as an exploration of how we can customize the user interface of WordPress for end-users. In this post, I’ll take you eve...

As designers, we can often find ourselves on a bit of an island. Whether we are working independently or at an in-house position, there are times when we are left to fill many job roles that merit an ...