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This past year was a great year for digital artworks, with new advanced tools being released, better rendering engines, more precise drawing tablets and a large number of visual effects studios releasing training resources.  However, nothing can replace hard work, practice and devotion, as these are what bring out the subtle details, evoke emotions and convey meaning through digital art. In the realm of  digital artworks from 2010 , there was a huge selection to choose from, with 2D, 3D, and mixed elements such as matte paintings playing a huge role.  Additionally, a number of videogames and movies were released in 2010 that had accompanying computer graphics for them.  Here’s CreativeFan’s selection of the  best cg artworks from 2010 .

Do you like exploding planets, energy spheres, ruined cities, telepathic warriors, gloomy nebulas, and light-rays? Well, you’ve come to the right place. In today’s round up we’ve put together a list of some of the coolest dark and futuristic Photoshop effects that we could find. Please take a moment to review some of our favorites.

Giant’s Causeway, Ireland Photograph by  Yourane Ung , My Shot This Month in Photo of the Day:  Travel  and  Adventure  Photos People visiting Northern Ireland necessarily go to the Giant's Causeway. But it is more than interesting to push your curiosity by taking the cliff path at the west of the car park. Beautifully typical Irish landscapes are expecting you! source

A turkey never voted for an early Christmas. Irish Proverb

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.   -   Arthur C. Clarke

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.  -  Ogden Nash

Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.   - Karen Elizabeth Gordon

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.   - Alec Bourne

"My home is not a place, it is people." – Lois McMaster Bujold

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.  Thomas Mann

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. Mark Twain

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Wilde

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.   - Albert Einstein

Found an incredible article at dpshots.com today and thought I just have to keep and share this one...You can find the source at the bottom  Enjoy:

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. - Laurens Van der Post

Песничките от детството..... For those of you that DON't understand Bulgarian or Russian - these are some of our most precious and memorable songs and cartoons from our childhood that we grew up with behind the iron curtain...

I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks.   - Groucho Marx

You know you're getting old when you stop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.   - George Burns

Let’s be honest. Being a web developer or a web designer doesn’t exactly give you an edge with the pretty girls (or guys) at your local pickup bar. If you were a part-time firefighter or investment banker, maybe. Nevertheless, the feud continues between web designers and web developers over which profession is the true calling. Like the yin and yang, these two are in constant battle to prove their dominance over the other, even when they work closely together. Here is an infographic of the differences between web designers and web developers.

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My home is not a place, it is people. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991 US science fiction author

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.   - Charles Baudelaire

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open. Elmer G. Letterman

How to Decide Against Owning a TV  

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. Arlo Guthrie (1947 - )

Make me a website for free since we are friends This one goes to all you unappreciated Internet web designers out there.  Click on the image below to see it in full size, makes the text easier to read. Funny how smaller buyers still devalue software that arguably takes just as much time if not more than physical tangible products like homes, buildings, and cars. Developers: you’ve seen this before. Keep moving forward. Prospective clients: take note, and if you’ve done this, don’t ever do it again.  Note: I did not create the animation above. It was a very old post on Digg and the website that originally posted it is dead now so I just reposted it.

Most designers wireframe their designs in one way or another, even if it just involves them making quick sketches on the back of some scratch paper. Wireframing is an important part of the design process, especially for more complex projects. Wireframes can come in handy when you’re communicating with clients, as it allows them to visualize your ideas more easily than when you just describe them verbally. This guide covers what you need to know about website wireframes to get started.

Visual hierarchy is one of the most important principles behind effective web design. This article will examine why developing a visual hierarchy is crucial on the web, the theory behind it, and how you can use some very basic exercises in your own designs to put these principles into practice.

this is another great article that I found today. here Being secured in your online business is not all about setting up your defenses but also by analyzing your competitors. Keeping track of what services they offer work for them and how they bring people into their site will provide a good overview of how to improve your business. No matter how they hide their trails, there will always be tools that will let you analyze and track your competitors. Ready for research? Let’s start right now! 1. Identify Your Competitors First thing to do is to identify your competitors. I find SimilarSites.com accurate and one of the most simplest tool to use. It has a voting system for every result if it is similar or not and SimilarSites also gives you a view of what your competitors are good at: www.example.com is rank 1 in WordPress tutorial, 13 in Photoshop tutorial, 2 in web resources, etc. 2. Search Engine Ranking Image by: Christian Ferrari It is important t...