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I recently saw this flyer posted in my neighborhood and found it interesting. The advertiser is very clear about what he is offering, who he is targeting, and how much he charges. After looking at the flyer, you know right away whether or not this is something that you are looking for. For potential clients, this clarity is a great benefit, as for the advertiser he saves time by not having to deal with irrelevant inquiries.

The design of the ad is also very clear and it conveys a clear message. While offering a variety of services, Sean is not offering everything possible in the field of personal assistance – he focused on people who are “busy professionals” looking for a part-time personal assistant, people who need help taking care of a wide variety of tasks. I think there is a great market for this type of services and when narrowing your target population intelligently like Sean does, you can reach a field that is relatively free of competition.

Why not start up a web 2.0 service were busy people can sign up and More »

One of the most common frustrations for novice web designers updating and managing their website can be solved with cache management. If you ever make changes to your site and you know it’s uploaded properly but the changes are not being reflected in your browser, try clearing your cache. More »

Here is a great free Flash 3D image slider! Cu3er offers plenty of customization options that are very easy to implement – all you have to do is modify an XML file.

It’s a convenient and multifunction solution that can be applied in a range of website building areas, from content slider to feature slider and image & banner rotator. Consider using it when you want to grab the user’s attention. Here is a quick demo: More »

Our web design company‘s Manhattan offices are located in the heart of New York City, right by Penn Station and Madison Square Garden. And if you wonder what they look like, here is a video tour I took during today’s lunch break, when everyone was out. More »

Working long hours in front of a computer can become stressful and monotonous after a while. Not only is it detrimental to your body but it can hinder your creativity. As a designer, having a fresh batch of creativity is very important.

According to the U.S. Surgeon General’s report on physical activity, exercise can improve mood and performance. Numerous studies have been conducted throughout the years that connect exercise to improved mental ability as well as better productivity in the workplace. More »

Exactly one year ago, as the economic recession was hitting the US economy, we published what we believed were top business strategies in tough times. The main idea was that it is possible to take advantage of a difficult economic period to boost a business and bring it to the next level. And here we are a year later, after many successful projects and start-ups, I think we can say that these strategies worked well for us!

One thing that was important for us during this past year, was to keep our hourly rates low in order to maintain our business flow while providing clients the ability to get cutting edge web solutions without necessarily having a huge budget. This policy gave us the opportunity to work on a wide variety of interesting and challenging projects, and to boost our web design company to become one of the most demanded web design and web development companies out there. More »

Noam Design has done it again! We are proud to (almost) announce the launch of our latest web startup!

Template Action offers professional CMS website templates and Flash CMS templates available for immediate download. All the CMS templates were custom designed by our web design team, and are integrated with 100% custom-made Content Management Systems.

We’re still populating the catalog and adding many outstanding CMS templates every day. So if you can’t find the website of your dreams in the 15 or so templates that are there now, make sure to come back in a couple of days to browse the fully populated catalog. The site will officially launch with more than 100 great CMS templates and Flash CMS templates! Stay tuned.

P.S.: CMS stands for Content Management System. Basically all Template Action‘s website templates come integrated with powerfull tools to edit, manage, and customize the websites without requiring any programming skills. Once the CMS template is installed, users can login on their website and access an extensive (yet very easy to use) admin panel to edit pages, content, images galleries, etc – “as easy as a Word document”.

ajaxload.info is a great and useful website if you need to generate a simple loading gif that will fit with the design scheme of a website. It’s quick, simple, and just straight to the point. If you are looking for fancier loading animations, preloaders.net might be more appropriate.

I often get asked questions such as “how did you come up with this idea” or “what made you think of this concept”. The thing is that different people have different personalities and are good at different things. Personally, I have ideas all the time – way too many ideas! I don’t sit down thinking or trying to come up with ideas – but I think I am the most productive at coming up with concepts when I… More »

Here are some free fonts I stumbled upon. It’s a list of more than 30 free fonts compiled by Vision Widget – some of them are pretty nice: More »