The Perfect Office #131

We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more

Gridpak: The Responsive Grid Generator

This article is the fifth in our new series that introduces the latest, useful and freely available tools and techniques, developed and released by active members of the Web design community. The first article covered PrefixFree; the second introduced Foundation, a responsive framework; the third presented Sisyphus.js, a library for… read more

60+ Latest WordPress Site Designs for Inspiration

Many of you should know that instantShift is proudly powered by WordPress, as a Blogging and CMS tool. If you are in search of good CMS or a web tool for your projects, we strongly recommend WordPress to you. WordPress is a great tool, and best thing is FREE!

Now days… read more

Flash-centric misconceptions of HTML5

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23 Fantastic Examples of Illustrated Elements in Web Design

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Illustration and hand drawn elements can give a lot personality to a layout, specially if used properly. From small illustrated icons to complete illustrated backgrounds, or hand drawn typography, it’s always a nice approach to insert illustrations in your design. Today we gathered a few examples… read more

20 Free Professional Fonts for Graphic and Web Designers – Download now

20 Free Professional Fonts for Graphic and Web Designers – Download now

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Typography 101: What Small Business Owners Need To Know

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

The old saying “don’t judge a book by its cover” is sometimes hard to overcome in the business world. How you present yourself aesthetically is important, no… read more

Our favorite tweets of the week Mar 12-Mar 18, 2012

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PSD to HTML Review: HTML Angels

PSD to HTML Review: HTML Angels

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40+ Awesome One Page Website Designs for Inspiration

40+ Awesome One Page Website Designs for Inspiration

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The Top 6 Usability Mistakes that can take your Website Down

The Top 6 Usability Mistakes that can take your Website Down

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Comics of the week #121

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Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.130

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

Best of the Week #214

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

Incorporate Accessibility Into Your Web Design For The Visually Impaired

In an era in which the UN Convention on the rights of people with disabilities has declared access to information and communications technologies such as the web to be not a mere luxury, but actually a basic human right, it’s fair to say that accessibility will be a key factor… read more

Beautiful Photographs by Julian Calverley

I really love nature photography and how photographers capture the beauty in places we could get for granted. A beach, a wheat field, the sea floor. The beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder.

Julian Calverley is a photographer from the United Kingdom and he’s a super talented artist…. read more

How to Extract the Facts with a Web Design Client Questionnaire

The phone calls usually go like this:

Caller: “I want a website for my business.”

You: “What kind of business do you have?”

Caller states the nature of the business, launches into a list of pages that he or she wants on the site, and then asks you for a price quote.

Not… read more

jQuery Plugins for Fluid Layouts/Responsive Web Design | gonzoblog.nl

jQuery Plugins for Fluid Layouts/Responsive Web Design | gonzoblog.nl

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Fantastic Examples of Package Design

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What a better way to end the work week than with a healthy dose of inspiration. And as we’ve mentioned before there’s nothing wrong with looking at other mediums to get inspired. So today we’re showing you some fantastic examples of package design, where beauty and… read more

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #144

I will be posting some fresh free fonts 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#144 and make sure to comeback… read more

10 of the coolest CSS3 and CSS effects

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35+ Helpful Twitter Plugins for WordPress

35+ Helpful Twitter Plugins for WordPress

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15 Beautiful Yet Free Ribbons PSD Files

Having a good collection of high quality PSD files is a valuable asset for a designer. This is because PSD files allow them to make required changes and complete their job on time without requiring much effort. In today’s assortment, we are presenting a high quality collection of 15 appealing… read more

Designing with Apple Mobile Devices in Mind

Designing a website that looks good across multiple platforms and browsers is hard enough. Add in all the different monitor sizes, keeping in mind that widescreen monitors are still fairly new and the old square style isn’t quite yet a thing of the past, then sprinkle in all the different… read more

Symptoms Of An Epidemic: Web Design Trends

Since Elliot Jay Stocks so poignantly told us to destroy the Web 2.0 look, we’ve witnessed a de-shinification of the Web, with fewer glass buttons, beveled edges, reflections, special-offer badges, vulgar gradients with vibrant colors and diagonal background patterns. The transformation has been welcomed with relief by all but the… read more

Hero: A Minimal and Responsive Portfolio WordPress Theme

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Over at Theme Trust, we just released a brand new WordPress theme. Hero is a responsive and minimal portfolio theme for creative types who want to show off their best work and highlight their services. One of the key features of this theme is the parallax… read more

80+ Fresh Inspirational Single Page Website Designs

As you’ve already seen in our previous posts about Single Page Website Designs that showcasing your work in single page design is a hot trend now days. It’s kind of ironic to see what designers can do with single pages as modern age designers love to experiment with things and… read more

An explanation of Photoshop Blending Modes

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Web Design Trends for 2012

Web Design Trends for 2012

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Humour in Web Design

Humour in Web Design

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Goldfish Salvation Project by Riusuke Fukahori

These blew my mind. Riusuke Fukahori, a japanese artist has developed a painting technique that makes you think you’re seeing actual fishes inside water. When I say this I was really amazed, but when I watched the video, my head went through the roof.

Check these out with attention… try to… read more

40+ Excellent CSS3 Menu Tutorials

By presenting different tutorials on our site, we tend to help our fellow designers who are looking for a more specific and interactive medium to learn certain techniques and skills. And, for today’s session we have come up with 40+ truly amazing and valuable CSS3 menu tutorials. Though, there are… read more

Typography Mania #123

Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography design works on the web, from type videos to images everything is full of great design and typography inspiration. Users can submit their typography designs.

Click here to check out all the previous Typography… read more

How to Know and Beware of Some Bad Clients?

This article is not really a usual site. Conventionally we have been told that our dear Mr. Client is the best thing that has ever happened to us. And we must do any and everything with in our reach to make certain that the client remains gleeful and satisfied with… read more

The LessMoney Conference from the guys at LessEverything

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What To Do When Third-Party Services Go Awry

As a freelancer, it’s easy to get a bit overwhelmed when work is piling up in your queue. Sometimes, it can lead to mistakes or miscommunications with clients. It can sometimes be quite embarrassing.

Luckily, the solution is often very simple. Own up to the mistake, make sure it’s… read more

Creating a Productive Home Office Setup

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Working from home is like playing a whole different ball game than at the office. You’re always around the house and prone to distractions such as dishes or phone calls. Because of this it’s important to have a room you can feel productive working any hour… read more

Freelance Training from Tuts+ Premium

Are you a passionate freelancer, or looking to make the leap into freelancing full time? We’re excited to announce that FreelanceSwitch has partnered with Tuts+ Premium to offer in-depth video courses and eBooks for freelancers as part of a monthly membership.

What you’ll get:

Freelance Bootcamp video course from James Clear… read more

Respect Thy Typography

Good typography shouldn’t have to rely on ornamental crutches to stand tall. Yet despite all the tools and knowledge available to us, we readily embrace a flourishing, decorative typography, with cheap tricks used in a misguided attempt to make it “pop”. This ancient art may rapidly be gaining popularity, but… read more

Get the Mighty Deals Prize of Your Choice: Giveaway

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Mighty Deals is a flash sales platform for digital goods aimed at web professionals. It provides the opportunity not only to get exposure to the entire web design and development community, but also to boost sales and reach out to tens of thousands of new potential customers.

It… read more

What Role Web Design Can Play to Reflect the Image of Your Business?

What Role Web Design Can Play to Reflect the Image of Your Business?

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15 dummy text generators you should know

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10 Super Nice Fresh Free Fonts

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Here at WDL we love to staying on the lookout for new freebies so we can show you the best out there. So today we gathered 10 new free fonts to keep your resources updated and filled with options. Having good fonts available is always a… read more

Showcase of Beautiful Pink Websites

Showcase of Beautiful Pink Websites

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Digital Painting Portraits

About 3 yeas ago I posted a list of 50 amazing digital painting portraits and everyone loved it! Today I decided to bring back some awesomeness and select some great digital painting portraits so we can all enjoy another fresh series. Enjoy!

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40+ Sensational Travel Logo Designs for Inspiration

40+ Sensational Travel Logo Designs for Inspiration

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Captivate your Audience with Typography

Modern web designers are incorporating innovative new concepts for digital type. In the previous decade we have witnessed the Internet transform into a powerful tool for sharing media all around the world. More specifically digital designers have adapted and web trends continue to change over time.

Text on a… read more

12 Tips on Creating the Ideal Business Card

12 Tips on Creating the Ideal Business Card

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What’s new for designers, March 2012

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Web Throwback: Showcase of Vintage and Retro Web Design

Given the popularity of vintage and retro styles among the web design community, we thought we would take an opportunity and shine a spotlight on some of those styles applied to websites. With so many flawless examples of vintage and retro web design floating around the internet it was a… read more

To Use or Not to Use a CMS

As web designers, we all are aware of the importance of CMSs. Simply put, a CMS helps in managing the website in an efficient manner. If you are running a photo gallery, a blog, a news site or any similar website that requires constant updates, nothing beats the ease which… read more

21 Examples of Big Photography in Web Design

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Using big photographs in a web design, either as the background or part of the content, is a great way to easily set the overall mood of a site. However, when doing this, you run the risk of creating a site that it visually too busy…. read more

Our favorite tweets of the week Mar 5-Mar 11, 2012

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Web Design Resources Futurico UI Pro And Sociality

Web Design Resources Futurico UI Pro And Sociality

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25 Beautiful Web Designs Of Sport Websites

25 Beautiful Web Designs Of Sport Websites

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Water Brushes Vol. 3

Water Brushes Vol. 3

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25 Examples of Parallax Scrolling in Web Design

25 Examples of Parallax Scrolling in Web Design

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Best of the Week #213

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

Comics of the week #120

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Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.129

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

14 Best Web Design Trends of 2012

14 Best Web Design Trends of 2012

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Simplicity in 27 Portfolio WordPress Website Designs

Simplicity in 27 Portfolio WordPress Website Designs

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Tips for Designing a Compact Website Layout

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It can take a lot of additional effort to build mobile-specific website templates. HTML and CSS have come a long way but there are still plenty of standards and loopholes to jump through. And with the mounting increase of various mobile devices there are more platforms… read more

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #143

I will be posting some fresh free fonts 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#143 and make sure to comeback… read more

Finding Your Voice – Learn How to Stand Up and Speak Up to your Clients

Some clients already know what they need. Others don’t. So what should you do when a paying client knows what they want, but not what they need?

In this article, Eric Karkovack offers advice on speaking up when a client doesn’t actually know what they need.

In 1996, I was… read more

Free download: Slab concrete buttons

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MightyDeals Giveaway – The New iPad

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Once again it’s Friday and once again we have a great giveaway from MightyDeals.com for our readers. This time MightyDeals – a flash sales platform for digital goods aimed at web professionals – is offering one of our readers the brand new iPad that Apple launched… read more

Great Photography Links to Procrastinate With!

The Toad has been busy hopping all over the internet this week finding the best links to tutorials, great photography and interesting blogs to share with everyone.  This weeks list showcases a series of really great images and blog posts sure to be enjoyed by the photography fan in all… read more

New iPad: Is Your Content Ready for the HD Tablet Revolution?

David Clarke is CEO and Co-Founder of BGT Partners, a 2011 and 2010 Ad Age Best Place to Work in the U.S. BGT creates interactive marketing and technology solutions for global corporations that strengthen brands, develop more engaging relationships and transform businesses.

It’s time to take tablet design seriously and evaluate… read more

Future Insights Live

I’m glad to announce that we have partnered up with one of the most anticipating events of the year “Future Insights live” that is happening from April 30th to May 4th in Las Vegas and we have a nice DISCOUNT CODE for you guys. The event will cover everything from… read more

Behind The Scenes Of Tourism New Zealand (Case Study)

In 2011 we saw the rise in popularity of two relatively new trends: responsive Web design and the use of HTML’s canvas. While some websites had experimented with both, in the last 12 months we’ve seen these trends move from the fringes firmly into the mainstream.

Responsive Web design is more… read more

WDL Premium: Sale Badges and Tags PSD

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This week for our WDL Premium Members, we have a PSD file that includes 8 different badges and tags from Vandelay Premier. The set is great for drawing attention to sales and promos. Each badge or tag is layered for easy editing, including colors.

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Win the brand new iPad with MightyDeals.com

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jQuery Mobile Tutorial: Creating a Restaurant Picker Web App

With an increase in the number, diversity and complexity of smartphones, more and more companies want to have their own mobile app, but creating a native app can be pretty expensive. It requires special skills, as well as special coding tools, and then there is also the need to build… read more

50 Detailed Icon Design Tutorials for Photoshop

We are visual creatures. As much as we like to think we appreciate the inner quality of things, the reality is that we start off judging every book by its cover. It comes as no surprise then that icons have a huge impact on how we experience the… read more

Inspiring and Sexiest Vintage Ads by Heanning Ludvigsen

Inspiring and Sexiest Vintage Ads by Heanning Ludvigsen

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Collection Of Creative Music Web Design Inspiration

Collection Of Creative Music Web Design Inspiration

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50 Free Web And Mobile UI Element Kits, Wireframe Kits And PSD Files

Yet another interesting compilation of some free and fresh web UI, Phone UI and Wireframes for you to download. We know that designers always need some basic design elements to start their designing process with. Keeping this in mind, we regularly share some creative stuff for our designers that they… read more

Quick Look: Osmosis

Quick Look posts are paid submissions offering only a brief overview of an app. Vote in the polls below if you think this app is worth an in-depth AppStorm review!

In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting Osmosis. The developer describes Osmosis as an app that aims to take the headache out… read more

Bigstock Giveaway – 6 FREE Stock Images, Choose From 10 MILLION

Today we have an exciting giveaway from Bigstock, one of the largest royalty-free stock image websites.

For 2 weeks only, every WebDesignDev reader will get 6 royalty-free stock images absolutely FREE.

What does Bigstock offer to the general public?

Access over 10 million quality stock photos, illustration and vectors at affordable prices
Pay per… read more

Idea fail: why it’s hard to push innovation

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Scroll to Internal Link with jQuery

One page scrolling sites have experienced a huge growth in popularity in web design in recent years. Although this type of site isn’t for everyone, it is still useful to know how they work. Today, I will teach you how to create a very simple one page scrolling… read more

45 Mind-Blowing Dribbble Illustrations

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The designers on Dribbble are some of the most talented people from all around the world. I have found some insanely great works of art in dozens of areas including web, print, branding, and logo design. But one of my favorite artistic categories is illustration work.

In… read more

Star Wars Concept Art by Ralph McQuarrie

I find it really sad when I get to know about a great artist only when he or she dies. Unfortunately that happened again in March 3rd when Star Wars concept artist, Ralph McQuarrie, passed away.

Born in America in 1929, Ralph was the hand behind the concept art that helped… read more

Retro Rocket inspiration in modern web design

Retro Rocket inspiration in modern web design

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Smashing Email Newsletter Turns Two Years Old: Comment and Win!

Two years ago, we launched the Smashing Email Newsletter. Today, we’d like to reflect on some of the greatest newsletter articles of the past year and celebrate this anniversary with our 100,000 readers with a fabulous book giveaway!

Back then, we planned to launch the Smashing Newsletter only if we had… read more

15 Detailed Responsive Web Design Tutorials

15 Detailed Responsive Web Design Tutorials

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Clouds in Web Design:30 Websites for Your Inspiration

Clouds in Web Design:30 Websites for Your Inspiration

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Tutorial: Create 5 subtle background patterns

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.123)

This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
If you would like to receive our daily updates and keep up to date with the latest and greatest articles and resources from the… read more

Web of Color: Bold and Beautiful Uses of Color in Web Design

As we look around the web, we see so many examples of designers who have brilliantly used color in web design projects to make the page or various page elements really pop. Even in some cases when we see designers opting for more minimal designs, using bold splashes of color… read more

Creative Fuel #1: Gridset, Status Board PSD, AP Rebrand & More

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Creative Fuel is a periodic collection of design and creativity awesomeness found around the web. Find out about new apps and services, the best freebies, and other significant news from the design community!

Gridset

Mark Boulton has announced Gridset, a tool for making incredibly custom grids. Instead of grabbing… read more

10 Best WordPress Sharing Plugins of 2012 To Get More Social Traffic

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What does it take to get your posts shared on Social Networks? With over 250 million Tweets being posted every day and close to 4 billion items being posted on Facebook, there is definitely not a lack in volume of Social Media updates.

To make a larger… read more

The Perfect Office #129

We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more

45 Inspiring Travel and Tourism Website Designs

45 Inspiring Travel and Tourism Website Designs

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Less is More: 32 Clean & Minimal Websites

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In this post we have put together some clean web designs for your inspiration. Enjoy! If you like this post you might also enjoy the posts below.

30 Minimalist Web Designs for Your Inspiration

30 Beautifully Simple Websites

35 Minimal Web Designs

postable

ducttapeandglitter

colorgrade

drxlr

kernandburn

wearyoubelong

happycog

builtwithmomentum<br… read more

21 Inspiring Design Agency Websites

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From time to time we like to check out how design agencies (studios, firms, etc.) showcase their design skills in their websites. It’s always nice to see how designers and other creative professionals are presenting themselves to us, so today we gathered a few inspiring examples… read more

How to optimize your CSS

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The Challenge of Responsive Images

Images are one of the most important elements on a web page in terms of user experience. Few objects on a page have the same impact on everything from emotional responses to bounce rates.

When users are viewing your site on mobile devices, small screens, or in other unusual… read more

200 Best Design Gallery Sites To Submit Your Work

200 Best Design Gallery Sites To Submit Your Work

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