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Competition: Win a 1 Year Reseller Hosting Package Worth £300

March 18th, 2010

We are proud to announce that today’s competition is one of our biggest to date. It’s a worth a whopping £300 (Approx. $458) per prize! And we’ll pick not just one but two winners this go around.

Read on to find out how you can win a One Year Reseller Hosting Package from Heart Internet!

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The Heart Internet Reseller Professional account has been specially created for web designers, internet entrepreneurs, web hosting resellers and developers. The Reseller package includes unlimited web space, unlimited bandwidth and the ability to host unlimited domains. Features include a full hosting CRM, real time hosting set up and complete branding of the entire experience from the welcome emails through to the customer control panel and everything else in between. You can also add as many Linux or Windows hosting accounts as you like at no extra charge.

The winners will also have a choice of either a free .uk domain (2 years reg) or a .com/ .net/ .org domain (1 year reg).

How to Enter

All you need to do to enter is leave a comment on this post! Easy, right? We’ll be picking the winner on Thursday, March 25th, so be sure to have your comment posted by then.

Best of luck, and thanks for reading Design Shack!


How to build a Cool Animated CSS3 Menu with no Javascript

March 18th, 2010

“This tutorial is about understanding, learning and mastering the some of the new features and properties of CSS3. You will learn how to build a cool rounded navigation menu, with no images and no Javascript, and effectively make use of the new CSS3 properties border-radius and animation.”

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CSS Font Shorthand Property Cheat Sheet

March 18th, 2010

“A printable cheat sheet that you can download and hang next to your computer, which will come in handy in case you decide to use this property yourself, or are forced use it in a stylesheet from an inherited project.”

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Applying “A Pattern Language” To Online Community Design

March 18th, 2010

An interesting article that seeks to relate architectural concepts to designing online communities.

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50 Excellent Tutorials for Web Development Using CSS3

March 17th, 2010

A huge roundup of great CSS3 tutorials.

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Get to Know the Wordpress Hierarchy

March 17th, 2010

This post examines the WordPress template hierarchy and the use of conditional statements.

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Design a Hot and Sparkling, Firery Text Effect in Photoshop

March 17th, 2010

“The point I would like to emphasise in the totorial is how you can achive great result by simply mixing the layer blending options and apply various filter effects.”

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Quick Tip: How to Communicate Between Flash and HTML

March 16th, 2010

“In this Quick Tip, we’ll look at how to use the ExternalInterface class. This allows us to write AS3 which can run JavaScript code, and vice-versa.”

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What Every Designer Should Do Right Now

March 16th, 2010

Five things you should be doing right now!

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The 5 Cs of Hiring a Freelance Designer

March 16th, 2010

“Today, let us think of ourselves as a client and ask: What would we be looking for when considering hiring the best designer for the job?”

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