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Visually Detect Invalid, Inaccessible or Erroneous HTML Markup – Diagnosticss

jQuery Learning Center

Introduction to Mobile Prototyping with HTML, CSS and JS

UX Metaphor Equivalents for iOS & Android – PortKit

Freebie: Sports Icon Set (100 Icons in AI, EPS, PNG and PDF Formats)

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HTML5 Rich-Text-Editor Toolbar – Popline

Easily Add Product Tours to Web Pages – Hopscotch

Single One (1) Page Responsive Websites (Free and Premium For A Low Price)

Command Line Tool for Generating CSS Sprites – Glue

Responsive Grid System With a Typographic Baseline – Responsable Framework

Learn CSS Layout

Developing With Sass and Chrome DevTools

Quickly Find the Screen Specifications For Devices – Screen Sizes

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Providing The Best Mobile User Experience Possible

Clean and Minimal Free PSD Theme

Editable, Runnable JavaScript Code Blocks: Codeblock.js

Tiny Style Sheet to Make Labeling Any Element a Breeze: Label.css

24 Free Flat Icons (PSD)

Responsive Product Grid Layout

Set of 200 Map Icons in PSD Vector Shape & PNG: Map Icons Designer

Let Your Website Emit Some Fart Noises As You Scroll: fFartscroll.js

Lovely Free Icon Set: Sketch Icons (PSD)

Handy Sass Mixins

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Mini AJAX File Upload Form (Tutorial)

Fitgrd Responsive Grid

20 Tips for Building Modern Sites While Supporting Old Versions of IE

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Awesome Modal Window Effects with CSS Animations

A Huge Food Icons Set – 200 Foodie Pack

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Feedback Collection and Polling Widget: Opineo

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Flexible, Device Agnostic Navigation: FlexNav

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Photoshop Template of iOS 7 GUI Elements

Micro Grid Based Wireframe PSD Template

Unicode Character Table

Power To CSS With JavaScript: Hitch

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Free city icons from Offscreen

Cool Webbased Free Tool To Find Your Color Scheme

Free Premium-like HTML5 Facebook Template: Facebuk

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You’ll watch five videos, each followed by code challenges where you’ll learn to code jQuery and apply principles directly in the browser.

The basic jQuery course is free however Code School offers advanced paid courses as well.

The inspiration for this pose came from observation that most of the freelancers (very talented and creative) tend to work as ‘invisible professionals’ who deliver a lot of superb work but forget to establish their own identity. Ideas shared in this post are for all those modest freelancers to help them grow professionally and established their identity as visionaries, entrepreneurs and creative individuals; not just as ghost developers.

#1 Build your own product(s) – Since you have all the skills to design and develop creative products, why not build one for yourself. Who knows you could be the next Zuckerberg?

#2 Make full use of social media – While you work solo in your attic room, perhaps the only window that opens towards the outside world in the social media that keeps you connected with your friends. Why not use it to establish your identity as independent professional? There are 101 ways to market yourself on facebook, twitter, Linkedin etc.

#3 Share your knowledge – The knowledge and skills that you have acquired while working on several projects is definitely an asset. Why not share it with other? You can start a personal blog to share your knowledge. It could contain anything like short articles on the latest trends in the industry to video tutorials and useful code snippets. This would also help you establish your online identity. For inspirations and ideas, see Shahbaz’s blog.

#4 Review scrap, contribute to the open source – Freelancers often produce a lot of stuff (small applications, UI prototypes, plugins etc.) for their personal learning. Most of this stuff remains buried and gets deleted someday. Why not take some time, review all that stuff, modify it and contribute to the open source world?

#5 Manage your finances – Learn to manage your finances. Get rid of spreadsheets and manual invoices. Get hold of some invoicing application (there are a lot of free invoicing software available online) and start managing your invoices professionally. Also make it a habit to review your finances (credit and debit) occasionally to stay updated on your expenses, income, savings, liabilities, and profit.

#6 Improve soft skills – No matter how skilled you are in your profession, you must have good skills of communication, negotiation, dispute resolution, and people management to success as freelancer. Resolve to improve and learn these skills.

#7 Update your portfolio – If you have a portfolio online, you must keep it updated with the latest work. Also get testimonials and publish them online. If you do not have an online portfolio, get one as soon as possible. No marketing effort, awesome business proposal or killer pitch would be complete without some real samples of your work.

What most marketers and brand promoters miss is the fact that the goal should not be keeping website visitors (prospects) engaged with ‘cool’ graphics; the goal should be getting website visitors to involve, and understand the message, and become a customer. There is no denying that good a copy, decent color scheme and attractive graphics grab the attention of website visitors but what makes them stay or come back to the website is something else. ‘Something else’ – that creates the desire to know more about the brand or own the product.

This post is intended to give you an insight into ‘something else’ that works.

The foremost step is tracking your visitors. Use Google Analytics or whatever tracking tool you prefer to track the number of visitors and the gap between new and returning visitors. Set goal values (for example, 1 new sign up against every 100 new visitors) and set a target for, say, the next quarter. Once you get raw statistics of visitors, you are ready to move on and experiment with your website to achieve your targets.

The next step is starting conversations. Make is super easy for visitors to leave their feedback or comments. Whether you have a blog or a website, you should allow visitors to get involved by participating in a conversation or initiating a new thread. Remove barriers. Website visitors should not be required to create an account to leave comment. Allow them to use their twitter, facebook or Google account to get authenticated and participate in conversations.

Allow your website visitors to use their existing profiles like Google or facebook to join or sign up. If you must register them with you, avoid long registration forms. Ask only for the information that you would really need.

Allow your website visitors to stay up-to-date with your products, offerings or activities. Allow them to subscribe via RSS or follow you on facebook, twitters and other social networks. Also use Google Friend Connect, a very useful but a bit unappreciated tool.

Maintain a consistent and compelling twitter stream or Facebook updates on your facebook fan page to keep your fans, customers and prospects in the loop.

Offer useful content – not just informative articles or breaking news but practical and useful content that your website visitors would love to download or use online. It could be a freebie, online service, royalty free images, printable cards or anything that relates to your business.

Reward your customers or users with a royalty program or other offerings that compel them to use your products/services and recommend them to others.

Use crowd sourcing techniques to engage your website visitors and existing customers to help you decide new offerings or even the redesign of your logo or website. It makes them a part of the team and the sense of a connection with the brand.

Make your website or blog easy to navigate, good on eyes and tasteful to read.

These are just a few ideas. We would like to hear more useful tips from you. Why not leave a comment and share your best tips?

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