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Create a Slick and Minimalist Web Layout in Photoshop In this Photoshop web design tutorial, we’re going to learn how to create a slick and minimal-looking website layout. We will use the 960 Grid System as a template to make it easy to align the design elements on the layout. Preview Here’s a preview of what we’ll be creating together, click the image to enlarge. Create a new Photoshop document 1 We’ll be using the 960 Grid System (download it at as a starting template. Creating the background 2 First of all, right-click on the Background layer in the Layers Panel and then choose Layer From Background. 3 Now select the Gradient Tool (G), set your Foreground color to #efefef and your background color to #cacaca. Designing the header section 4 We’ll add a new horizontal guide at the 50px mark from the top of the document to set our top borders. 5 We’ll start adding our title and slogan; select the Horizontal Type Tool (T) and type your site’s name and your slogan. "YourName" "some awesome slogan" Creating our navigation Conclusion

nu.nl | Het laatste nieuws het eerst op nu.nl Increase your productivity at work by letting go of negative men My alma mater is currently ranked number one in all of the college men’s basketball rankings. They’ve been in the top spot for 11 of the 14 weeks of the polls, and were number one in the preseason. There are five games left in the regular season, and all of the teams Kansas has left to play would love to see the Jayhawks lose. Colorado, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Kansas State, and Missouri fans aren’t the only ones who want to see Kansas mess up their record in the last five games. In competitive sports like basketball, a game has to end with a winner and a loser. In our work lives, however, very few things are like competitive sports. If you want to be productive and manage your time well at work, you need to let go of the belief that your workplace is a zero-sum game.

vliegen 10 simple ways to save yourself from messing up your life - Step Stop taking so much notice of how you feel. How you feel is how you feel. It’ll pass soon. What you’re thinking is what you’re thinking. Adrian Savage is a writer, an Englishman, and a retired business executive, in that order. Read full content Content | BoekTweePuntNul BoekTweePuntNulop @import url( Content Onderwerpen Alle onderwerpen van A-Z Categorieën Onderwerpen gesorteerd op categorie Auteurs Een overzicht van alle 200 co-auteurs BoekTweePuntNul app Download de app en bekijk alle onderwerpen op je smartphone of tablet Download de app! Ga snel naar… Winnaar SIDN award BoekTweePuntNul is de trotse winnaar categorie de kracht van het netwerk. Het BoekTweePuntNul team InitiatiefnemersLouis HilgersTessa van Zadelhoff EindredactieJenny Schings Arjan Hietkamp Hans Mooijenkind Ontwerp / layoutJudith Eurlings Technische realisatie / websiteAlex-Jan Sigtermans

13 Things to Avoid When Changing Habits | Zen Habits “Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.” - Mark Twain Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on Twitter. I’ve learned a lot about changing habits in the last 2 1/2 years, from quitting smoking to taking up running and GTD and vegetarianism and waking early and all that. I could go on, of course, but you get the picture. I’ve not only learned a lot about what you should do when changing habits, but through my failures, I’ve learned about what not to do. And trust me, I’ve had lots of failures. I’ve found failures to be just as important as successes when trying to learn how to improve, especially when it comes to changing habits. I’ve done that, with one failure after another, and would like to share a few things I’ve learned to avoid when trying to change a habit. “Motivation is what gets you started. Taking on two or more habits at once. “We are what we repeatedly do.

10 Ways History’s Finest Kept Their Focus at Work Post written by Albert van Zyl from the blog HeadSpace. The lives of great people give us interesting clues about how to organise our days. All of them attached great value to their daily routines. For the same reason they were also highly individual in their routines. This is perhaps the first lesson that we can learn – that it takes courage and resolve to design and stick to a routine that suits you. There are at least 10 other lessons that the daily routines of the great can teach us: 1. Despite the modern obsession with physical presence at offices (also known as ‘presenteeism’), very few of the great worked long hours. Philosopher Michel Foucault would only work from 9am to 3pm. 2. Even during these short days, the great took plenty of breaks. Socrates would sometimes simply stop and hold completely still for several minutes. 3. The great all spent a single long period away from their desks every day to give their minds time to recover and regain its creative poise. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

7 Secrets of the Super Organized A few years ago, my life was a mess. So was my house, my desk, my mind. Then I learned, one by one, a few habits that got me completely organized. Am I perfect? Of course not, and I don’t aim to be. But I know where everything is, I know what I need to do today, I don’t forget things most of the time, and my house is uncluttered and relatively clean (well, as clean as you can get when you have toddlers and big kids running around). So what’s the secret? Are these obvious principles? If your life is a mess, like mine was, I don’t recommend trying to get organized all in one shot. So here are the 7 habits: Reduce before organizing. If you take your closet full of 100 things and throw out all but the 10 things you love and use, now you don’t need a fancy closet organizer. How to reduce: take everything out of a closet or drawer or other container (including your schedule), clean it out, and only put back those items you truly love and really use on a regular basis.

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