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World of Warcraft, often referred to as WoW, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) by Blizzard Entertainment. This entertaining game has become a phenomenon in recent years and some people dedicate their lives to it. Players from all over the world have spent countless hours in front of their computer leveling up their characters. See what all the buzz in about in this article.

In this article we give you an infographic that gives you details about the entire game region kills to guild information. So if there is anything you wanted to know about Wow, then our infographic is for you. Enjoy!

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Ultrashock is a community based royalty-free stock marketplace. They offer a wide range of professional quality Flash, audio, vector art, and images at affordable prices for use in your creative projects.

Today, they have just released an Ultra Bundle, suitable for designers. This all new time-limited bundle contains vector icons, background images, audio, design elements and a lot of other goodies. The total combined value of all included items is worth well over $1300 and you'll get them for only $49!

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While you are creating your website, and after you have launched your site, you will constantly have to be thinking about how you want to market the site to get new viewers. Who are you trying to reach? What do you want to accomplish? These are questions you will have to consider in order to attract your target market to your website. Whether you have created a blog, a business website, or an informational website, you will need to create a marketing plan so that your website is as successful as possible.

There are a lot of ways you could go about marketing your website. This article will describe some of your options and will help you decide which strategies will be best for you and your website. While these are just a few of the many options you have, I hope it will help you start your search for a successful marketing strategy.

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In order to get started online with your business or start a personal blog you need to purchase hosting from a reliable hosting company. There are virtually millions of hosting companies that offer domain name registration, email accounts, database use, and cloud hosting. Which one is the best for you? Well, we hope to give you a few options you may not have known about or you may have heard about yet never investigated. Use our handy list below to find the hosting company that is perfect for you.

Not all hosting companies are created equal. You have some big name players that offer very low and competitive prices but fail to provide good IT support when you need it. You have expensive companies that provide you with the best hosting money can buy but you cannot afford to pay them based on your small business budget. You have to find out the good and bad points in dealing with a hosting company. You have to find that balance of price vs support.

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These days, a website is required for a company to see any level of success. Having a website could draw potential clients and customers from visitors who would not have otherwise known about your company. The text on your website is extremely important. It not only gets your message across, it also helps for SEO purposes. The text can get your website ranked in the search engines for specific keywords. This will contribute to more targeted traffic.

However, as important as it is to have keywords in your text, the overall look of your website is just as important. A site that has nothing but pages of text is boring to look at. Visitors will likely click away without reading past the first few lines. A site should be aesthetically appealing to the eye. This means adding illustrations and photos in the background. A site that is compelling and engaging will do a better job at converting visitors into potential clients.

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Reciprocal Link Exchanges have been an integral part in the early days of SEO as it does not only help any website gain traffic but each back link would mean some healthy link juice in one way or another. In biology, a reciprocal link exchange is similar to mutualism, where both parties benefit for coexisting and linking to one another—given that they are similar and relevant to each one. Otherwise, the link juice to be passed on would not be that effective as using an amoxicillin to cure flu—and this is only valid today and in the last couple of years. Way back, just linking to each and every blog or website you stumble is fine that is why link farms were created by many of the evil link geniuses of yesterday.

To simplify the examples, let us break down the whole anatomy of a reciprocal link exchange into two: natural reciprocal link exchange and a campaign link exchange.

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Today we lost one of the most inspirational and influential people of our time and our profession. Steve Jobs passed away today due to the cancer he had so valiantly fought over the past years. He died at the age of 56.

He had recently stepped down as CEO of Apple, something we all knew would happen since his condition was getting worse.  Apple decided to dedicate their homepage to him with a full page image saying "Steve Jobs 1955 - 2011".  Below, you can see a screenshot of the Apple website soon after it was announced that Steve Jobs had passed away.

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Budgeting is hard enough for regular employees with a set salary, so no wonder it’s a real challenge for freelancers with an irregular income. If you don’t manage your money, it can feel like your earnings just disappear before you have a chance to pay the bills.

Well, with the same dedication and planning you apply to your freelancing work, it is possible to thrive with an unsteady income. Keep reading to discover six tips for watching your budget while freelancing.

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In this day and age, we all want to get something fast and free, but pirating software is never the answer.  Downloading copy written software is not only unethical, but illegal and could potentially harm the people who created the software that was good enough for you to risk the download.  It can land you in court paying thousands of dollars in lawsuit and court costs and could also prevent the manufacturer from producing newer versions of your game, DVD, program or CD due to lack of sales.  The dangers of software piracy goes much deeper then this and can effect everything around you.  In this article, we discuss these dangers and how to avoid them.

Pirating Software may be More Trouble than it’s Worth

With the rise of services like Bittorrent, pirating expensive software is easier now than ever before. Often this pirated software is available as soon, or sooner, than the retail version and has the bonus of being free. While this is the only way some users are able to use expensive software like the CS5, it also opens up a whole new world of potential problems. From legal trouble, to malware, here is a detailed look at the unseen risk of software piracy.

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Tailor your site to mobile users since they are the future and growing everyday. A large portion of the users that will visit your site will most likely use a Apple iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. Make your site easier to reach to them by creating a Apple Touch Icon. This will enable them to save your website as home screen icon. By default, this icon is a screen shot of your site, but you can make it more unique and eye catching. It is a very simple process and is much like creating a favicon for internet browsers.

When designing the icon, make it 57px X 57px and make it suitable for display on a touch interface. Although the Apple iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch creates a glossy effect and buttonizes your image, you may still want to tweak it a bit to ensure that it displays like it is suppose to on the devices.

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SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is one of the biggest topics of interest in the online world. It has become almost an art form for all of the SEO specialists out there, as they jostle for position and try to attain that top spot in the rankings. There are countless websites out there who promise to boost your web visibility, but very often you can do a lot of the legwork yourself. Because of the fact that SEO is all about getting a competitive advantage, some people have a bit of a negative view of SEO as an industry; however there’s a big difference between the "good guys" (known as white hat SEOs), and the "bad guys" (the black hat SEOs).

Black hats and white hats?

There are so many different tactics that specialists can employ that there’s bound to be some underhand ones in there. The recommendation from all legitimate SEO experts is to avoid them at all costs. By using black hat techniques, there’s a very good chance you’ll get your sites removed from Google and other search engines’ index. You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to know that this is a bad thing. One of the best ‘white hat’ techniques is to generate lots of top quality, keyword-rich content. This way Google sees your site as being active and actually contributing to the web as a whole. Some arm chair SEOs write lazy content which is stuffed with keywords and is not entertaining whatsoever. Again, this is a bad idea. The problem is that search engines might like it, but people don’t. So how do you find the balance?

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If you use Twitter and you want to be in the know about web design there are a few people you need to have on your to-follow list.  These people not only run some of the most useful blogs and websites that a web designer can visit, but they are more then willing to give you links through Twitter to other websites they find useful.  In this article, we give you a long list of the top people to follow on Twitter to improve yourself and and the way you do things as a web designer.

The list below features many talented web designers from all over the world.  Some you may know, some you many not....regardless, they are the top of the line when it comes to our field and they have a lot of useful information that can help you.  If you think that you have a Twitter account worth mentioning, please add it to the comments and join the top Twitters for web design.

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One common problem that businesses face is how to make the most of their e-commerce. It’s easy enough to set up an online store, especially with services like PayPal now readily available, but having a shop that’s usable in a whole different kettle of fish. Countless businesses miss out on millions of pounds worth of sales every year simply by having a web store that’s hard to use – and you don’t want to be one of them. So let’s look at a few ways that you can discover that delicate balance, and turn your website into a profit-generating juggernaut.

Non-restrictive navigation

Learning about the importance of navigation may be web design 101, but it’s still a vital consideration for any company looking to boost their e-commerce, whether they are a moving company or a shoe store. The menus on your website are the signposts for your visitors, and if they’re impossible to read you’re going to end up with a lot of lost potential customers (in more ways than one). Putting a good amount of time, effort, and testing, into your menu system can boost your online profits big time – especially if you’re current navigation is archaic or hard to use. It’s up to you to decide whether or not this is the case, but you might find your answers if you ask a few ‘anonymous’ questions to a cross-section of your visitorship.

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Every good designer knows that a client expects to see a mockup of the website or software before you can do anything. This is beneficial to you as well as them. This procedure can help you limit modifications that will require by getting what they need up front with a simple wireframe.  A wireframe is a a great tool for rapid prototyping and can help you squash any idea conflicts that will surly arise with the client. You can use a wireframe to show your ideas, take notes from clients, and even help lower your design and development costs because you knock out design revisions.

In this article we show you the Top 10 Wireframe Tools of 2011.  Some are free and some are not.  We always opt for the free ones so we will surly denote it next to the link. Our list includes web-based tools, add-ons for browsers and applications you need to install on your computer. I am sure that there are plenty of good tools that are out there and you are more then welcome to list them in the comments below, but the ones in our list are the ones we are partial to.

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You have a website that's filled with superb copy, amazing photos and eye-catching graphic design. You have the most competitive prices for all the right items, and you've even thrown in a few freebies to really entice customers to buy from your online store.

So how come you're not getting a lot of sales since day one?

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