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Jake Rocheleau (119 Articles)

Jake Rocheleau is a passionate web designer and social media entrepreneur. He is frequently researching the latest trends in digital design and new-age Internet ideas. He's also an advocate for the social media revolution - follow his updates on Twitter @jakerocheleau.
Managing an Organized Freelance Work Schedule

Managing an Organized Freelance Work Schedule

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Freelance

It takes a lot of time and dedication to build a freelance career. The hours are long, work can be tedious, and often you need to multitask like crazy. But…

How Profile Photos Can Affect the User Experience

How Profile Photos Can Affect the User Experience

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UX Design

Social networks have grown into the norm in today’s sophisticated Internet. Modern web pages have become very personalized over the past decade including some user interface features. One such example…

Investigation into a Freelancer’s Workday Schedule

Investigation into a Freelancer’s Workday Schedule

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Freelance

Working the realm of freelancing at times can provide a very rough work environment. Long hours in front of the computer, constant e-mail floods, and phone calls from clients all…

Working with Property Lists in Xcode 4.2

Working with Property Lists in Xcode 4.2

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Web Design

Property lists are designed specifically for Objective-C apps to store and retain data. These are straight XML files formatted for easy access to bundles and application resources. There isn’t anything…

30 Examples of Beautifully Oversized Website Layouts for Inspiration

30 Examples of Beautifully Oversized Website Layouts for Inspiration

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Inspiration / Web Design

When sitting down to plan a website you will likely consider a number of factors. These revolve around your general target audience and what they might be looking for. As…

Building a Simple Reddit API Webapp Using jQuery

Building a Simple Reddit API Webapp Using jQuery

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JavaScript

The growing number of 3rd party APIs has created a tremendous group of enthusiastic developers. But without time to research documentation, this leaves some people curious without any means to…

A Look Back at the Popular Web Design Trends from 2013

A Look Back at the Popular Web Design Trends from 2013

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Web Design

This year has brought powerful new UI concepts, open source projects, and new hacks/tricks for web designers and developers. Those who are interested in what makes good web design have…

40 Beautifully Designed Mobile Apps for UI Inspiration

40 Beautifully Designed Mobile Apps for UI Inspiration

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Inspiration / Web Design

Mobile designers have become more prominent in today’s extensible web. iOS and Android apps have flooded the markets and earned a lot of money for some small development studios. The…

UX Design for HTML/CSS Mobile Web Applications

UX Design for HTML/CSS Mobile Web Applications

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UX Design / Web Design

Mobile iOS devices were a step towards popularizing the idea of web applications. Web developers could build pages with HTML meta tags creating app icons to be saved onto the…

How to Create Amazing Page Effects with jQuery UI

How to Create Amazing Page Effects with jQuery UI

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JavaScript

If you’re familiar with developing JavaScript, then you must know about jQuery. It’s an extremely powerful library that allows you to write much simpler code and express the same result….

Landing Page Design Trends for Selling Digital Products

Landing Page Design Trends for Selling Digital Products

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UX Design

Web designers and developers have been practicing the art of landing page layouts for over a decade. The refined techniques we use in modern websites have been crafted from years…

Team Collaboration for Building with Open Source Code

Team Collaboration for Building with Open Source Code

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Web Design
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