Editor's note: I would like to introduce a new author to 10e20 – Kayla. Kayla is a highschool junior in New York working for 10e20 part-time on projects with a teen target market. She will be contributing from time to time here at 10e20.com to give you a teen's perspective on things online.… [read more]

Making your photos pop from the background by creating an illusion of a decrease in depth of field is covered in this tutorial. When a lens focuses on a subject at a distance, all subjects at that distance are sharply focused. Subjects that are not at the same distance are out of focus and theoretically… [read more]

Want to Digg to know exactly who you are inviting into your network? Want Digg to know about your own little network of friends and match up exactly who is voting on your stories? If for some reason you answered "yes" to either of these questions - then start using Digg's New Friend Invite Feature: digg.com… [read more]

Want to have fun and help a great cause to kick off SES in NY? Well then come out to the Town Tavern in Greenwich Village on Monday, April 9th for the Internet Marketers of New York's SES Charity Party. All money raised will go directly to the Ronald McDonald House Charities, an amazing organization… [read more]

Reddit is one of the largest social news websites around on the internet. Featuring user-submitted content on a wide variety of topics such as entertainment, pop culture, web 2.0 and politics, Reddit ranks all submitted links through a democratic voting system that is open to all its users. Using complex… [read more]

After reading this posted on a flickr I couldn't help but ponder the idea of originality, specifically as it applies to design but also in its entirety. The designer was creating a logo when he came across a site that had a 'similar' concept. I feel that the designs are related, yet both are distinct… [read more]

Many of you may know of the recent surge in popularity of the Twitter service. Quite simply, the goal of Twitter is to answer a question: "What are you doing?" Last month (as I began to use the service more aggressively since I signed up in December) I realized that not everyone is answering that question… [read more]

With all the stock-exchange sites available today you have a plethora of images to sift through and use to add some cool multifaceted texture effects to an image. In this tutorial you'll be taken through a variety of ways in which to use combinations of multiple Adjustment Layers to enhance and balance… [read more]

Proper keyword research is the foundation of a successful search marketing campaign. Work with the wrong keywords and you can run your campaign into the ground resulting in negative campaign ROI (Return on Investment) – or worse yet LOI (Loss on Investment). For marketers conducting keyword… [read more]

If there's one request that I always cringe at, it's to disable a site because a customer decides that it is in his best financial interest to "close shop." Later, if we own the domain name and get notifications about its upcoming expiration date, the customer may already be long gone and is not reachable… [read more]