This service is rendered completely free of charge, and in a wholly uncomplicated way too. In principle, all you have to do is add a list of links to the form that makes up the main page and then a single link will be produced for you, displaying everything as tabs. When all is said and done, any tool that effectively makes for sharing information in a more direct and streamlined way is always welcome. www.ShareTabs.com

Some designers are really in this business to just make money, they don't care about giving the client a truly original project, but instead churn out the same types of design elements over and over again. They use the same font over and over again (Trade Gothic per say), lie about their positions at past jobs and boast about their esteemed current position; such as naming themselves as the Art Director of their own company, which consists of only one person - themselves. It is those types that you must protect yourself from. The designer who looks at the industry as a way to make money rather than an art form which they have the privilege to profit from and spend their whole career trying to emulate passing design fads like the grunge styles from sites such as www.graphic-exchange.com and never develop their own original style.

When forming a partnership with another party make sure to have that party sign a non-compete and non-disclosure document. This keeps them from contacting your clients and soliciting for projects. Make sure all emails, contracts and chat logs are recorded for legal purposes for as long as three years. Keep a spread sheet of all changes to the project estimate and that at the end of the year you have a documented quote about all your contract work being claimed to the IRS. If they refuse to disclose amounts you have the legal right to refuse to turn over your personal information. By doing this you protect yourself from finding that a contractor, partner or client will claim a different amount than was actually received or claim amounts for clients that you never provided services for in order to save themselves some tax liability.

The final rule, which is the most important is to not turn over any source files until receiving final payment. The greed of some designers, of the creed mentioned above, will have no reason to pay you then. It is when you turn over your designs that you lose leverage on receiving payment.

The Web Developer usually has limited creative skills as far as design goes, but controls the "back-end" of the site. This back-end functionality includes shopping carts, CMS systems and form processing. This isn't to say that there aren't creative and design oriented developers but in most cases this is true. Now how do designers and developers work together to create a web site that translates from static graphic to a true web site?

Designers are very tentative to turn over their designs to developers and some cases they develop the HTML so that their designs are not altered or elements left out. Why? Because Developers see the functionality of the back-end as the more important part of the web site and designers vice versa. This means that developers sometimes aren't consistent with such things as font colors, font size, spacing and size. A good example is the web site currently under development Notah Begay III. This site as you can see is pretty similar to the mock up located here Notah Begay III Design.

When a designer looks at the same page they see that the font has been enlarged and doesn't look quite as sleek. The form fields in the contact box are not shaded and also have gained some weight to them. The contact form button has also changed and doesn't match the design. The sponsors area has also lost some of its design properties, changing to an inelegant border around the image. On the interior page the header has lost it's bottom red border and the font again has enlarged and body copy links a harsh white instead of light gray.

So what does this mean? These things may be important to a designer, but to a developer who concentrates on the functionality these of little importance. The developer might inadvertently overlook these details or choose on their own to change these things. Whatever the case, to a designer these things are a huge part of the design as a whole, not to mention the time they invest in the design. We are a firm believer here at Pixel Moguls that the designer must have final proof of the web site development to ensure it's correct display. Our developers and designers work together in unison to create the most accurate displayed web sites we can. The designer and developer must realize that both have separate skills and must rely on the other to provide the best possible service.

Instead of the normal band profiles, you see companies like Hollister creating profiles to generate sales through online marketing using MySpace. Reaching this broad audience can help a company to help strengthen its branding position and the over-all recognition of products and services. For a companies that are more corporate than edgy it helps them to reach an audience that under normal circumstances they wouldn't.

Pixel Moguls of course prides itself on staying one step ahead and has been in the design and development of custom MySpace profiles and MySpace marketing.

Why was this so great? I personally get inspiration from anything. Before I begin a project I study current design trends, new artistic techniques and the clients competitors. I go to Cool Home Pages to do this and until recently creative places like Firebrand. These short artistic clips help me brainstorm about flash animations I create, helping to spark the creative elements contained in them and helping me organize how to establish branding, relay information and entertain a user in a condensed amount of time.

Flash marketing banners and flash web site headers are in essence the same. They both use the same techniques to catch a users attention, entertain them, feed them information, establish a brand and interact with them. It's sad to see that the creative industry has not supported a web site like this for the very reasons listed above.

The verdict was in and overall everyone seemed overall satisfied. Rollout CS3. I have to say so far I am pleased. I was afraid that these programs would become heavy and clunky like Photoshop and Indesign, that they would become memory resource hogs and bog down your system like other Adobe programs. Luckily that isn't the case. With the integration of Illustrator and Fireworks/Flash as well as Bridge being able to organize and open the file with the appropriate program, it has been an easy transition from CS2.

I would love to say that every firm out there is outputting quality work, the services they promise and also providing great customer service. Do you speak face to face with your Account Executive, do they return your phone calls promptly and are they knowledgeable about web design and general marketing practices? This however isn't the truth. Smaller firms struggle to find top level employees to work for lower pay and clients, while larger firms find themselves burning at both ends dealing with high profile and their regular work flow. Enter the Boutique Design/Marketing Firms.

Boutique Firms are now a rising niche of unique firms that focus on a results for very limited client base. In our case, Pixel Moguls directly and purposely carved this niche for ourselves realizing that our backbone and true love lies with designing and marketing small companies such as LLCs, INCs, Orgs, start-ups and service providers. Since our client base is much smaller it allows for a true focus on generating results and at a much lower premium. Of course to do this we maintain our limited amount of "big fish" accounts providing them the same focus and attention as our "little fish". This model has proven to be fun, rewarding and really helps clean up the internet (designers can relate to this) all while bringing high quality pixels to the the people.

I found myself enthralled with the bright colors and the way Disney has you going from one activity to another, it is continuous and never pauses. The introduction to each show has a well written song and music and goes through an intense variety of visual effects and character introduction. After watching it I feel as if I have just watch an episode in itself. Some of the shows are generally entertaining to watch and beat watching Judge Mathis.

There is no black pause in between the shows and commercials, continuous movement. If Mickey's Playhouse cuts to commercials it immediately cuts to another Disney advertisement first showing the viewer exactly what they will miss if they turn that channel. Each self advertisement is packed with high energy, lots of talking and music almost causing an effect of adrenaline running through your body similar to the feeling before you compete in a sporting event.

I found this very puzzling, that these advertisements were made to get the child excited about Disney, adrenaline pumping with excitement to do what? Sit on the couch and what Disney?

So far the camera has been wonderful, it makes shooting a great shot easy. We are not self proclaimed photographers in sense, but feel this camera has given us the ability to come up with interesting shots in nature and studio settings. You can switch between black and white, color and sepia tones and see your shooting environment through a traditional view finder. All in all the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi gets a thumbs up from Pixel Moguls.