With technology and the internet taking hold like never before, web design has become an industry in itself. The world is filled with eager, talented graphic designers who are learning as the technology itself progresses, each with the goal of putting their own spin on the world of design. Many web designers who do their work professionally rely heavily on Adobe products such as Illustrator and In Design, which have become the standard for designing web pages. However, while Photoshop is not used as often as these programs, it can be an extremely versatile and valuable tool for the modern web designer and should never be ignored.

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Nowadays, it’s very expensive getting a custom logo design for your website. Not only that you have to pay the expensive design fees anywhere between several hundreds to several thousand dollars upfront, but also you have no idea how your logo will turn out to be. Of course, there comes a time when things have to change. Online logo design contest is now gaining popularity and offers a more affordable way of getting a custom logo design.

48HoursLogo is an online logo contest website that was launched not a long time ago. The website boasts professional logo design for $79 and within 48 hours.

The idea is quite simple:

• You post your logo design requirement on the site and prepay your money to the website.
• Logo designers will submit their logo designs based on your requirement. You can rank and comment on the designs to give feedback
• You pick a winning logo design and the designer gets paid

All the contest and logo submission are open to view by the public on the website and some are private, only members of the community can see their content. I’m quite surprised by the quality of logos submitted for the price. Most of the logo contest on the site are priced around 100 dollars and each contest gets about 40 different designs submitted. So the logo clients do get a wide selection of designs to choose from.

This site is a great opportunity for logo clients, saving time and money with it. For logo designers, it’s a great opportunity also, but to test their skills and improve them with the ambition of competing against other designers.

From time to time you want to tune up your Football Manager 2010 interface and change a little bit of this and maybe a little bit of that. Luckily, some talented guys did that for you and created some interesting FM 10 skins. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to play Football Manager anymore but being a fan of this game and also a FM skin maker makes me want to gather the FM 2010 skins that are spread around the web and deliver them straight to you.

How to install Football Manager 2010 skins

Extract the files from the zip/rar, and place the files in My Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2010/skins
The skin can be selected then from the display settings in your preferences panel. Make sure you un-check use skin cache.

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Pixmac is here to be the fastest, most usable and reliable microstock agency out there. If you’re looking for the best picture or just trying to sell your best shot, Pixmac is your perfect tool, with accurate search results and helping you at every step.

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Buy stock photos and images from thousands of photographers all over the world. You can find almost anything at Pixmac, from Christmas stock photos to the Valentine’s Day royalty free stock photos. They also have classic royalty free pictures of business, people, animals or nature which can suit any of your advertising or professional presentation needs. Let Pixmac be your resource for high quality pictures. If you’re into abstract photos, guess what? They have Abstract royalty free stock photos

Besides these, you can also find:

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And if you’re a photographer and you want to earn something from your pictures, this is the way you can do it, by selling your photos with Pixmac.

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