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Useful Tips for Designing Email Templates

HTML Email Templates have been increasing in popularity recently as normal text emails are getting out of style for companies and services that send out emails on a routinely basis.

With that said, many email templates have been arising with some not compatible from different aspects of its design due to design complexity.

Furthermore, to help reduce email template errors and common mistakes, here we take a look at six tips to improving your templates in terms of design and layout.

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10 Must Have Google Chrome Extensions For Designers And Developers

Google Chrome is a fantastic web browser from Google itself. It is light, it is fast and it starts itself in split seconds. With the amount of development Google is doing at the back end, it’s no surprise that Google Chrome is becoming the favorite web browser of many people out there. And indeed, many now use it as their primary web browser. But is Chrome as good as good old Firefox for web designers and developers? Is Chrome also having those powerful web development add ons and extensions available? Well, yes. And here we have compiled the best 10 Must Have Google Chrome Extensions For Designers And Developers:

FireBug Lite

FireBug is an indispensable tool for all web developers and designers. I don’t know about you, but I can’t imagine to survive without FireBug even for a single day! For those who are not familiar with it, FireBug is a well known addon for Firefox web browser that helps web developers and designers to monitor and edit CSS/JS/HTML in real time on any web page. Now the addon is also available for Google Chrome in the name of FireBug Lite.

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Tips on Your Website’s Brand & Marketing Strategy

People appear have an innate knowledge of what a successful brand looks like.  Just walking down the street and seeing a shop front displaying a symbol and no name evidences success.  We all know which sports brand shows off a tick and which one displays the famous three stripes.  How are these brands different to yours?

Use your gut feeling to tell yourself if your brand for your website is catchy or not.  It is the simplest procedure and sometimes you can work at something so much to ignore your instinct.  You should not do this, where you feel you land is lacking, your target users are sure to feel the same.

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