Linkswitch #100, Pricing Ecommerce, Ultimate Guides, Beyond Fear

Every other week we roundup some of the highest quality articles and resources that benefit freelancers from across the web. We present these articles here on various helpful topics. This week we have articles on pricing ecommerce web projects, creating remarkable guides, pushing past fear, and more.

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Our favorite tweets of the week Apr 23 – Apr 29, 2012

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30 Realistic Pencil Drawings

It’s hard to believe that all of these beautiful pictures are pencil drawings and not digital. Pencil, paper, creativity and a heck of a lot skill are the only attributes of these masterpieces. Check them out:

Gurn Drawing

Christopher Reeve

FuFu

What a Lovely Picture

Karlstadt Watermill

Snow White

Broken Heart

Yendos Nature

Pencil art by Rupak… read more

Showcase of Graphic Designer Rebecca Clark

Showcase of Graphic Designer Rebecca Clark

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Interface Design for Restaurants and Recipes

Interface Design for Restaurants and Recipes

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How To Change Object Colours In A photo In Photoshop

How To Change Object Colours In A photo In Photoshop

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It-Fits :: HTML5 CSS3 Responsive Template Freebie

It-Fits :: HTML5 CSS3 Responsive Template Freebie

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Wallpaper of the Week 201 by Alecio Calixto

The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Alecio Calixto and it’s called The Crow. Alecio is an art director and digital designer from Brazil. The image was a suggestion from Alecio himself to us via email. You can also suggest us wallpapers. Just email them to abduzeedo@abduzeedo.com… read more

How Companies can Save Time and Money Using UI Kits

How Companies can Save Time and Money Using UI Kits

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5 SEO Tips you must know before Designing a Website

5 SEO Tips you must know before Designing a Website

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Web Design Inspiration: Bold Typography

Web Design Inspiration: Bold Typography

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25 Beautiful Digital Paintings and illustrations from Loopy Dave

25 Beautiful Digital Paintings and illustrations from Loopy Dave

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“Go Green” Website Design Inspiration

“Go Green” Website Design Inspiration

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35 Best WordPress Tutorials of March 2012

35 Best WordPress Tutorials of March 2012

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Pokémon Art Tumblr Reimagines 151 Original Characters [PICS]

Charmeleon

By Michael Myers

Click here to view this gallery.

“Gotta catch ‘em all!” Well, in a real-life game of Pokémon,… read more

Vectorized iMac

Vectorized iMac

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Researchers Create Glare-Free Self-Cleaning Glass [VIDEO]

Researchers have discovered a way to make glass that is not only glare-free, but is also anti-fogging and can clean itself.

The glass is created by depositing thin layers of material on the surface of the glass and then selectively etching that material away. The end result creates tiny… read more

51 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

Have you spent the past week studying the nuts and bolts of the new Gmail interface? Or have you been preoccupied with the space shuttle Enterprise‘s final flight to New York City (and the absurd memes that came along with it)? For whichever reasons you missed our latest digital media… read more

Vector Vintage Labels Vol 1

Vector Vintage Labels Vol 1

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Free vector art Swirls & Circles

Free vector art Swirls & Circles

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Butterfly Vector package

Butterfly Vector package

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The iPhone Almost Had a Physical Keyboard [REPORT]

Apple’s iconic iPhone was almost released with a physical keyboard. Apple reportedly considered the phone design before finally deciding on the handset’s touchscreen-only form factor.

Tony Fadell, who was previously Senior Vice President of the iPod division of Apple, talked about the early days of the iPhone during a recording of… read more

30 Useful HTML5 and CSS3 Web Templates

30 Useful HTML5 and CSS3 Web Templates

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Awesome digital illustrations by Art3sano

Awesome digital illustrations by Art3sano

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How to Leverage Applicant Tracking Systems To Land a Job

Sharlyn Lauby, SPHR, CPLP, is the HR Bartender, whose blog is a friendly place to discuss workplace issues. When not “bartending,” Sharlyn is president of Internal Talent Management, which specializes in leadership training and human resources consulting.

Since paper applications are going the way of the dinosaur in favor of digital… read more

Pinterest Button & Icon Set (HTML)

Pinterest Button & Icon Set (HTML)

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10 Free Resumé / CV WordPress Themes (+Bonus Plugin) | gonzoblog.nl

10 Free Resumé / CV WordPress Themes (+Bonus Plugin) | gonzoblog.nl

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Best of the Week #220

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

5 Tips for Finding Inspiration

5 Tips for Finding Inspiration

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The Best of Magento

The Best of Magento

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70 Amazing Textured Websites for Inspiration

70 Amazing Textured Websites for Inspiration

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40 Excellent Photoshop Tutorials for Textures and Backgrounds

40 Excellent Photoshop Tutorials for Textures and Backgrounds

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The Heralder 28 messenger bag by Vanguard – Review

The Vanguard designers thought of everything when they designed the Heralder Series. My first impression, when I took mine out of the box, was that it was probably the most padded bag I had ever used. Even the anti-slip shoulder strap is so padded and comfortable, you could almost use… read more

How to build up usability in Web Design

How to build up usability in Web Design

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30 Coffee Logo Inspirations – Warm Up Your Imagination

30 Coffee Logo Inspirations – Warm Up Your Imagination

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Understanding Color Standards in Graphic Design

Understanding Color Standards in Graphic Design

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Collection of Free and Popular Sci-Fi Fonts for Designers

Collection of Free and Popular Sci-Fi Fonts for Designers

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Prepo: Take the Drudgery Out of Screen Resolution Optimization

If you create apps in addition to using them, then you know that it can be a real pain to optimize your artwork for various devices. Prepo is a free application that aims to make the task of converting retina display artwork to ‘normal’ app artwork less tedious.

Does it… read more

Comics of the week #127

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Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.136

This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think.

Have you tried StylesInspiration yet? It is our web design showcase that aims to not only… read more

Tracky: Getting Work Done With Groups, Simply

Managing a group is almost always a nightmare, and it doesn’t help if you’re stuck using a low-quality web app to delegate tasks. Whether you’re creating the next best-selling mobile game, coordinating a rebranding exercise or putting together a yard sale, it’s important to be able to communicate clearly and… read more

Fine Art Printmaking: Why We Think Printmaking is Far from Dying

When we had an interview with JP Cuison he shared how he does his prints through screen printing and painting. We go so hooked up to printmaking that we decided to do another interview with a group of print makers from the Philippines. If you’re into printmaking, make sure to… read more

You! Be Informed! #0002

Here’s our second installation of our design news series! There’s something that’s making me hungry (in a very creative, graphic design sense as well as in a literal sense) in this roundup so I’ll get right to it so I can attack the fridge afterwards!
 
– As always, there… read more

Photography Inspiration – Capturing Objects in The Sky

Kites.

Happy Kids Kites by Cuba Gallery

Kite Sky by Martdump

Kite Flying by Praveen Vijayan

Kite by Daniel Kelly

My Rokkaku Kite and Nina's Camera by Victor

Dances of the Kites by Ting

New Zealand Post Kite by Cuba Gallery

Kites by Mishal Almesfer

Kite by She

Kiting by Photowork… read more

40+ Best Social Awareness Advertisements

40+ Best Social Awareness Advertisements

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Create a Professional 3D Twitter Icon in Illustrator

Create a Professional 3D Twitter Icon in Illustrator

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Free Online Human Translation Service Takes On Babelfish, Google Translate

Had enough of machine-based online translation services such as Babelfish or Google Translate?

Ackuna is a crowdsourced translation project, connecting individuals around the world with human translators who can give you just the right phrasing. The free-to-use site is a side project of Translation Services USA.

“We’re building a… read more

Daily Freebie #67: Paper Scroll

Daily Freebie #67: Paper Scroll

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A Collection Of 24 eCommerce Plugins For Your WordPress Site

A Collection Of 24 eCommerce Plugins For Your WordPress Site

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Daily Freebie #66: Blank Paper Sheet

Daily Freebie #66: Blank Paper Sheet

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Watch Leonard Nimoy Welcome Space Shuttle Enterprise to New York [VIDEO]

When the Space Shuttle Enterprise made its final landing at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport, it was greeted by a special guest: Leonard Nimoy.

The Star Trek actor and director gave an emotional speech to welcome the spaceship, which bears the same name as the starship that was home… read more

Free Business Card PSD Template

Free Business Card PSD Template

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Free Cute Vector Social media Icons

Free Cute Vector Social media Icons

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Totally Unique and Creative Business Card Designs

Totally Unique and Creative Business Card Designs

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Daily Inspiration #1120

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

How AMC Chose the Artwork for ‘The Pitch’

As AMC prepares for the premiere for its new original series The Pitch, the network faced a unique challenge — how to develop an ad campaign about a TV show about ad campaigns.

We spoke with Linda Schupack, EVP of Marketing at AMC, about pitch process for the key art around… read more

Free Vector Web Stickers Round

Free Vector Web Stickers Round

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Microsoft: 30 Years of Hardware and a Few Surprises

Mice-a-Palooza

More Microsoft mice than I’ve ever seen in one spot.

Click here to view this gallery.

Microsoft has been making… read more

Free PSD Angry Birds Android Icons

Free PSD Angry Birds Android Icons

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Business Card: 35 Unique Business Cards

Business Card: 35 Unique Business Cards

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Retro Linen Textured Letterpress Graphic

Retro Linen Textured Letterpress Graphic

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11 Tips for Getting the Most Out of Gmail’s New Interface

1. Display Density

An easy fix, head to your Settings button and select a display density. “Compact” makes your… read more

20+ Eye Catching Street Photography Taken By Melbourne

20+ Eye Catching Street Photography Taken By Melbourne

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500+ Photoshop Layer Styles for your design – Free Download

500+ Photoshop Layer Styles for your design – Free Download

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Facebook App Fosters Community for Breast Cancer Patients

A new Facebook app, Circle of Support, provides a rare support community for people living with metastatic breast cancer (MBC).

This secure Facebook community allows people suffering from MBC to share their struggles and receive support from their friends and family. Recent research by Genentech, the company that created the… read more

Amaranthine Free WordPress Theme

Amaranthine Free WordPress Theme

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Putte Free WordPress Theme

Putte Free WordPress Theme

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CSS3 Structural Pseudo-class Expressions Explained

CSS3 Structural Pseudo-class Expressions Explained

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11 Useful And FREE Script Fonts For Your Design

Typography is the most important aspect of any design project that cannot be overlooked. There are different types of fonts and typefaces that are available on the net and majority of the designers are using them. Among them one is Script fonts that are gaining huge popularity among the designers… read more

Amazing Red Bull BC One 2011 Promo Video

Red Bull is known for making the energy drink, but also for organizing and promoting absolutely awesome events, such as the Soap Box Race, Air Race and the one I just got to know: BC One, a break-dancing fight. Awesome.

And to promote this amazing contest, Sehsucht, a creative agency from… read more

Simplified Money Management with Savings

These days, there’s literally an app for everything: keeping recipes, managing projects, invoicing customers, and managing one’s finances. Money management is an especially popular app category now that people can simplify budget tracking and analyze both earnings and expenses all in one window.

We’ve reviewed some of the popular Mac finance… read more

Thumbtack Press: Authentic, Affordable, Art

Thumbtack Press: Authentic, Affordable, Art

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Klouchebag Site Mocks Klout, Measures Your ‘Asshattery’

1) Justin Bieber on Klouchebag

While Klout measures influence on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and Foursquare to assign its… read more

Limit WordPress Search To Post Titles

Limit WordPress Search To Post Titles

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Codelobster PHP Edition Review – Free PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript Editor (IDE)

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80+ Logo PSD Template Files For Free Download

80+ Logo PSD Template Files For Free Download

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What To Do When You Can’t Afford Branding

What To Do When You Can’t Afford Branding

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Friday Fresh Free Fonts #150

Friday fresh free fonts is a series of free fonts posted every Friday, yes I know it’s awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#150 and make… read more

Cloud Storage from Google – Google Drive

A few days ago, Google added another weapon to its arsenal – Google Drive. Simply put, Drive is Google’s version of cloud storage – say, Dropbox meets Google Docs.

As with any other cloud storage service, Google Drive lets you store your data online, edit/modify it as per your… read more

How to Add ‘Pin It’ Button With Images To Your WordPress Blog Without Plugin

How to Add ‘Pin It’ Button With Images To Your WordPress Blog Without Plugin

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Yahoo!’s Doug Crockford On JavaScript

Welcome to the first in a new series of interviews called “How I Work”. These interviews revolve around how thinkers and creators in the Web world design, code, and create. The goal is not to get into the specific nuances of their craft (as that information already exists online), but… read more

Writing In Style – 10 Great Fonts For You

Writing In Style – 10 Great Fonts For You

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Free Icon Fonts and Tutorials

Free Icon Fonts and Tutorials

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Creative Sticker Label Inspirations In Package Design

Creative Sticker Label Inspirations In Package Design

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Zoom It – Take a Really Close Look!

We all love Macs. Otherwise I wouldn’t be writing here and you wouldn’t be reading. I especially love my 27″ iMac with its shiny and huge display, which even lets me display all my Photoshop work including an insane number of palettes. It’s awesome, but there’s one drawback: sometimes, I… read more

The Power of Your Emails in Mobile Devices

Email marketing is the most popular trend of today’s business world. It is one of the simplest, yet most successful, ways to market your business. The core aim of email marketing is to reach out to the maximum number of customers and market your business. This helps you reach many… read more

Efficient Communication in a Freelance Design Team

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Working as a digital professional in any field is tough. You have to constantly push towards gratifying clients and rushing through deadlines. Managing tasks in a team allows you to divide up the work much more evenly. However this also means it can be difficult getting… read more

17 Chili Logo Designs

17 Chili Logo Designs

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Workshop: Vector Critique #12

Vectortuts+ is all about helping people turbo charge their skills, and today we have another special community post that will help our readers take their images to the next level. The best thing is, you can be part of it too! Find out more at the jump.

How to Participate:

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Free download: SC iPhone UI Kit (PSD)

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10 Basics Steps To WordPress Security

While some WordPress designers don’t give a second thought to the security of sites they design, others turn to a variety of plugins they hope will keep hackers at bay. Others, as you’ll see, have taken a more fundamental approach to security concerns. The world’s most popular content management system… read more

No to the Cookie Law

A newly launched site has dubbed the upcoming EU Cookie Law “ridiculous,” echoing the sentiments of a growing number of voices across the internet. As these protests grow louder, No Cookie Law aims to raise awareness of the EU cookie law and hopefully increase the chance of changes… read more

40+ Spellbinding Sleeveface Photography

40+ Spellbinding Sleeveface Photography

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8 Button Styles

8 Button Styles

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Beautiful Houses: Casa CKN in Brazil

The idea in this series is to show beautiful and inspiring houses. Houses that are remarkable for its design, elegance, elements, concept or simply because they are beautiful. So if you like architecture, interior design and beautifully designed houses, you are at the right spot. Check out this week beautiful… read more

Important Elements of a Successful Web Page Design

Important Elements of a Successful Web Page Design

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High Quality and Attention-Grabbing WordPress Themes

High Quality and Attention-Grabbing WordPress Themes

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Fresh Inspiration: 50 Fruit and Vegetable Logos

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Nature has proven to be one of the greatest inspiration sources of all times for artists. Logos inspired by “Mother Nature” bring that rustic, organic, wholesome feeling to brands, allowing them to appear less corporate and more trustworthy. Alternatively, the foods in the logo can be drawn… read more

Beautiful iPad App Websites

Beautiful iPad App Websites

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Yellow Facebook Timeline Template (PSD)

Yellow Facebook Timeline Template (PSD)

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