Hire Interns to Help with Your Website Development Projects

In this economy all businesses are looking for ways to become more efficient. Whether you’re a website development company who builds websites for clients or you’re a business owner who needs to build your own website, hiring an intern with website development skills can be a very strategic move on your part. Not only are young people creative and usually up on the latest web trends, but they come cheaper than other more seasoned website developers.

Hire Interns to Help with Your Website Development Projects

In this article we are going to explore how hiring interns can help with your next website development project, the benefits of hiring interns, structuring the internship program, ideas for finding the best interns for your company, what you should pay your interns, and how to get the most out of your interns.

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Announcement: Winners of PrintRunner Giveaway

A weeks ago, we created a contest at instantShift called PrintRunner Giveaway had announced the three winners of 250 Business Cards by PrintRunner to InstantShift readers.

Announcement: Winners of PrintRunner Giveaway

We’ve got more than 40 response comments. After voiding spam and non-legit comments we have left with 32 valid comments. It’s really good to see that how we can able to help in our reader’s life and their profession.

In case, If you missed this giveaway, make sure you are ready for next one as we going to create more such giveaways in future.

Congratulations to all the winners!

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50 Awesome Free Web Browser Frame PSD Templates

Creativity means a lot in any kind of presentation. Whether it’s a logo, banner, advertisement or a complete design; being able to inject creativity into it not only helps in floating the message around, it also leaves solid impression on the viewer.

50 Awesome Free Web Browser Frame PSD Templates

Good design is not easy thing to create, or it is often a very challenging job to discover creative designs. However, there are few ways by which you can improve your designing skills. One of them is analyzing others work and find the inspiration behind every details. Infect, it’s even easier if you can able to use others creative work in your design with proper permission and guidelines. For that same purpose some highly creative dudes created these Free Web Browser Frame PSD Templates for other designers.

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The Life and Death of Mobile Platforms [Infographic]

We spend a lot of time looking at who is winning the market share war between multiple major mobile platforms like Android, iOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, bada and others. All major mobile platforms are locked in a winner-takes-all battle – and everything revolves around an ecosystem.

The Life and Death of Mobile Platforms [Infographic]

Although there are multiple mobile manufacturers in the market leading to increased competition, There are many question needs to be answered like which platform has the largest sales base? Which has the largest app store, with the most downloads?

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What Should a Web Designer Learn From a Blogger and a Blogger Learn From a Web Designer

It is a trend amongst designers to share their thoughts, techniques, and skills with other people by using a blog. Much more, some designers learn this job by consulting the blogs (obviously, in addition to reading books, listening to podcasts) and others sharpened their potential.

What Should a Web Designer Learn From a Blogger and a Blogger Learn From a Web Designer

The blogs are very advantageous for readers but at the same time bring popularity and clients to the owners. Under these circumstances there is no wonder that the number of blogs has exponentially increased. Is it wrong? Personally, no way; it’s both side expedient and as long as the information shared is useful and qualitative then this activity must really be stimulated.

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The Real Reason People Love Instagram

Where Instagram Fits?

The twenty-first century is the age of social interaction. The only way to survive and thrive in the new era of technical and cyber commerce is to bridge the gap once believed to be essential for the professional image. "Stand out and rise above," they told us. "Let the world know you are larger than life." Today, such an approach is outdated and detrimental to anyone who truly does wish to rise above. The key to the successful image now exists in the ability to bring ourselves to the level of our friends, fans, and followers. The public no longer wants mono-facetted companies or public figures who constantly remind everyone of the differences between us and them.

The Real Reason People Love Instagram

Sharing our daily comings and goings is what social media is all about—connecting strangers, and opening up about our lives fulfills the need to contribute to the overall online community. One of the more recent entities to take center stage on the social media scene is Instagram. You are undoubtedly familiar with the service, providing users with a free photo app for smartphones, allowing us to recreate the retro images of our past—ones that once required a toy camera and a roll of expired Kodak Gold to capture.

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