If You Outsource, Outsource Ethically

Outsourcing is fast becoming the ‘oConomy’ or ‘New Market’ of 2010. Any company that is setting up an online business or optimizing an existing business will likely consider, at one point or another, whether or not to outsource any of their web design, IT maintenance, customer care or even data entry. And certainly, more and more companies are turning to outsourcing, often in an attempt to keep their costs down, and to stay competitive in an increasing complex marketplace.

If You Outsource, Outsource Ethically

The question about whether to outsource or not, at least for the thousands upon thousands who have already made this choice, is redundant. The real questions have become – What is Ethical Outsourcing?, and How to Outsource Ethically?

Let us start by taking a look at Outsourcing and the History of Outsourcing.

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Creative Footer Design: 60+ Excellent Examples

A perfect layout, A Good Design and Nice resource can produce a creative output. Layout, textures and patterns are used more often than one may think but the outcome of different combination can result verity of designs.

Creative Footer Design: 60+ Excellent Examples

One of the interesting trend which I noticed recently is using a attractive footer to provide a perfect ending to your website’s presentation. Modern age designers love to experiment with things and observe how people interact with their work. Even though this is not a common trend to follow but still as the new design styles come up, and as more and more designers notice them and make use of them in their work, this kind of new trends emerge.

In this showcase, you’ll find a variety of highly-creative, beautiful, and most importantly inspirational footer designs by which you can learn a thing or two.

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Why Colors Can Make or Break Your Design

Color will be one of the first things anyone notices when visiting your site and it will be a large part of the initial impressions people form about you, your website, and your business. Color sets a mood and creates an emotional response in your audience.

Why Colors Can Make or Break Your Design

Set the wrong mood or create an undesired emotional response and little you do after will matter. You will have put people in the wrong frame of mind to absorb your content or buy your products and services. Color matters.

There's a lot for designer's to learn about when it comes to color. A lot more than any one article can hope to deliver. If you haven't studied color before consider this post an introduction that provides a path to further study. If you have studied color to some degree consider this post another in the steps along the path you previously started.

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SocialClean- Free Social Network Icons

To continue our grateful attitude to our readers and community in general, we are glad to release yet another high quality icon set – “SocialClean” for our readers.

SocialClean- Free Social Network Icons

SocialClean, as the name implies, is a social network icons with crispy design. It's a set of 12 icons delivered as PNGs in 4 different sizes: 16×16, 32×32, 48x48 and 128×128 covering various social networks like Digg, Delicious, Facebook, Google Buzz, Linked In, Mixx, MySpace, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Technorati and Twitter. Designed by IconShock.com exclusively for InstantShift.com readers only.

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