Archive for January, 2009
46 Sites To Get Inspired And Familiar With Hand Drawing Style
Dainis GraverisAs You may notice in Year 2008 hand-drawn designs became one of the most popular creative trends, people tend to add more personal look and creative feel to their sites trying to stand out between traditional web 2.0 style, boxy layout sites. Hand-drawn design not always necessarily mean sketched or hand-drawn, there can be also creative things we use everyday like pencils, erasers, stamps, notepapers, stickers - could continue so on, but I will show examples doing through detailed research - so You could understand what's really represented with "Hand-drawn design". And actually this trend is very natural since many designers still sketch up their sites on the paper at first and only then start to design actual site.
1000 Business Card Giveaway Contest from PrintPrintPrint.biz
Today we've got really special announcement for You - 1stwebdesigner readers! We have got 1000 full color 2 sided business card giveaway from PrintPrintPrint.biz online printing company and rules to win are very simple. Just leave a comment under the post writing suggestions, ideas for new articles You would want to see in the near future. Also don't forget to write your e-mail so we can contact you if you win! Contest will last one week and winner will be decided with Random Integer Generator help.
57+ Free Image Gallery, Slideshow And Lightbox Solutions
Actually at first I wanted simple image gallery solution for web design project, but when I started to search I changed my mind and thought how great would be to create article about all the best image gallery solutions available on the Internet. So here it is - this list is separated in 3 big categories like Ajax, JavaScript and Lightbox based galleries, CSS based galleries and FLASH based galleries, so You can easy switch to category You got interest in. I think here You'll find gallery for every needs, should be enough to choose from!
45 Sites, Free Icons And PSD Resources For Web-Design
Since previous graphic design related article turned out to be really popular, I decided to do similar article about web-design related resources. In this list You'll find many free icons, psd files in good quality, Photoshop layer styles for easier icon creation and many websites specialized to deliver good quality freebie related content. You could say, it's better to create icons Yourself, but I think there is no sense to create something that's already there available for free, however if there isn't something, this is only way to know it. Also yes, here is many *.psd files, so You have a chance also to see how really these icons are created and learn something. At least I think it's worth bookmarking! One more time, before You use these icons read licence terms and legal agreements.
45+ Free Design Template And PSD Files
Here is many useful graphic design files with guidelines, resolutions for better and faster design creation like business card, credit card, icon, document, sticky note, dvd cover, cd cover templates and much much more. I believe in the right hands this collection will become marvelous time saver at least I feel so ever since I found these resources. Why should You create again and again something, that's already out there? Also be aware about license terms and agreements before You put them in use.
10 Ways How To Track Site Traffic, Popularity, Statistics
I know from myself people are obsessed with traffic, statistics, looking at other sites - tracking their stats and so on. And if there is enough demand, of course there are sites to satisfy You. I wanted to put those sites and tools in one list together, because at least for me this field was really unclear - I didn't know what means Google Pagerank, Alexa, Compete, Technorati rankings and I could continue so on. I must say not always these stats are precise, but however they give at least overview, how popular the certain page is, how many visitors that sites gets - and if You compare those stats with Your site statistics, You can get pretty precise results then.
12 Really Handy CSS Framework, Template And Snippet Sites For Smart Web Designer
If You are creating and developing new web-sites regularly, You should think about template creation, collecting useful code snippets and things like that. You should do that to fasten development process, so I think You could use, change, optimize these template files to Your needs, however check out licence terms, if You use these for business purposes. However this is very generalize list for now, to clear out the best from the best sites. Use them well!
