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Part of the problem is finding a uniform collection of payment icons that are both the same size and style and that are equally suited to your sites design. You will tend to have a mixture of icons that grouped together look strangely out of place. This is what this post aims to address, by helping you find a uniform collection of icons.

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Testing on other aspects of your website are important, however, a lot of us seem to neglect our websites accessibility. This can ultimately lead to the loss of a wide range of users and poor elements of design.

But not to fear, below we’ve compiled a set of tools that will help you combat poor accessibility. Every tool is free to use and has been chosen because it’s easy to use and offers quality testing.

via How Accessible is Your Website? 8 Tools to Analyze Your Website’s Level of Accessibility | Spyre Studios.

As with many aspects of freelancing, creating a great portfolio doesn’t come with a standard manual or guidebook. It’s up to you to present yourself and your work with clarity and to express your value to others. But there are certainly many tips you can use to help structure and supplement your portfolio, and you’ll find some of the best below.

via Ten Tips to Improve your Freelance Portfolio | AEXT.NET.

If you have never designed an HTML email template before you may be thinking: “Whats the big deal? You use some basic HTML with a little CSS, no problem at all!”. Little do you know that the actual design of the email is the least of your problems. When designing a web page you do need to cater for only a handful of browsers, each with there own particular little quirks. With emails, you need to design them to display properly in 50+ (!) email clients, with each one not willing to cooperate with.

There is no fun when designing an email template. You have to roll up your sleeves and test, and then test some more.

A well designed email template can be the difference between a companies success and failure, so its has to be designed right and formatted correctly.

To help you with this we have collected a huge array of email design Best Practices, tutorials (both HTML and CSS), testing tools, ready made templates (there are only a few, as most of the free templates out there look like they were all designed in the 90s) and finally some email inspiration.

Don’t forget usability and accessibility rules when designing emails, perhaps you should read these articles first: Design of Email Newsletters – Alertbox and Email Newsletters: New Results From Eyetracking and User Research.

via HTML Email Newsletter Toolbox – Tutorials, Templates and Inspiration – Speckyboy Design Magazine.

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