Archive for July, 2009
52 Really High Quality Free Fonts For Modern And Cool Design
Dainis GraverisI am big fan of typography myself and was surprised I haven't done any good font collection yet! While doing research I was amazed how many really high quality fonts are available for free. And now with Sifr and similar tools you can use any font in your web-design actually, but if you are graphic designer you get even bigger enjoyment through such detailed and beautiful fonts. Balance between readability, elegance and use fonts with artistic approach to get best out of them, really that's all you need to do. And by the way I am thinking about inspiring and effective typography article in soon future to show you very best examples - stay with us - get inspired and save your time because research has been done already for you! Finally be sure to check license to these fonts, they may be free but some of them require reference or may not be used for commercial projects for free, although most of them are.
49 Top Sites And Collections To Find Free Icon Sets
Srikanth ADPictures talk a lot more than words do, so placing icon in websites and blogs in key areas will gain the attention of the readers. Web designers work a lot searching for best icons to include in the site and to make their site more effective and reachable. You can also use these icons to replace the icons on your computer folders, etc.. to make them look attractive and to able to know what the folder contains in a symbolic way. Here you'll find some of the best websites that offer various free icon set collections as well as just separate good collections in other sites, so browse through the sites and download the icon sets for free.
32 Handy Gradient Tutorials Using Photoshop And Illustrator:Part 4
In my opinion gradient effects are very hard to master, all the beautiful vector icons, illustrations are made on basis of good gradient usage. Gradient mesh tool in Illustrator is the most powerful one, learn how to use it correctly and understand what can be done with it. I found many beautiful tutorials and ordered them from instructional to intermediate tutorials to lead you easier through learning process. I think you should get great starting point here and even if you're experienced designer, you should find some new tips here definitely.
15 Freelancer Design And Development Creative Job Boards
I believe many readers of my site are designers and developer themselves and freelancing is great way to earn extra income..or even better make it full time one with free conditions. This article is created to help you - find your potential clients or exactly opposite - to find who can do job for you. There are even job board directly related to help find programmer - designer and contrary. There are times when you can think, that you can do everything by yourself - but for me, I am better designer, and there is no way I will be very good PHP coder - I can get job done, but it takes a lot of precious time. Sometimes it's better to hire somebody, so you can do what you do the best and not waste your time! Time is money remember! This list features 15 best design related job boards in my opinion, hope you'll find this article useful! In future I think to evolve this article and create other one just related to bloggers, because there are many services which offers affiliate programs, paid posts and things like that. I think it's valuable at least to know such sites, can be good for article ideas too sometimes.
30 Logo Designs Using Gradient 3D Effects – Inspiration:Part 3
This is already the third part in gradient effect series, I hope you'll enjoy this one as you might like previous articles.
First one was about showcasing resources and premade gradients for Photoshop to get started, on the second part I made a research on how gradient effects are used in web designs and tried to look a little bit behind the scenes. Today you'll see 30 logo designs using the same gradient effects to get 3D effect using beautiful colors. Actually it's not so easy to create good looking logo using gradients, it comes from a lot of learning, but also that's great way to easily create unique logo design, if you know how to use gradients in right way. This is kind of inspirational article to show great examples of gradient use, in the next and last gradient related article I'll try to find really good Photoshop, Illustrator tutorials teaching you how to use gradients correctly, so stay with us and get inspired this time!
70 Typographic, Clean And Minimalist Color Scheme Web Designs
Hello there! It's time for little inspiration and this time I wanted to showcase something different. You may know that very popular designer slogan - "More is Less", and yes it's often so true - unexperienced people tend to overcrowd, use too much colors in their designs. I just love these designs - they are very light, clean and usually uses only monochrome color scheme and just one or two bright colors for links or headers. You may also notice for such designs it's more about grid, harmonic distribution through whole page and very silent, elegant accents. It's not about many colorful photos,images or icons, crazy backgrounds or experimentation. Almost all of those designs are very clean, slightly increasing web page loading time, sometimes it's crucial to have as light designs as possible, for example reddit, digg, stumbleupon social networks also consist of very few images and where is possible just color and CSS is used.
New And Comprehensive WordPress 2.8 Tutorial and Hack Toolbox
Wordpress just becomes more and more powerful, it's very hard to keep up with new features. Thankfully there are several very active people behind great blogs, who write very well explained tutorials and premade code snippets to let you learn everything in very easy way. Today I made my exercise to find such sites and articles, which are very new and Wordpress 2.8. compatible. There are really long list with new features, you can check them in first link from Wordpress Codex, so make sure you can keep up! In summary you'll find here 37 helpful tutorials, resources and hacks + 11 helpful Wordpress related sites for further reading in long run. Hope you'll like it!
23 Extremely Helpful WordPress Help Sheets And Resources
Cheat sheets are extremely helpful while your developing your wordpress theme, but definitely don't remember all the code snippets or tricks. If you have such helpful reference resources, you can easily find what you need in very short time. Even if you're beginner these help sheets will come handy to understand what the basic template files are, check wordpress site architecture and most important get those code snippets also explained in good way! This list features not only wordpress help sheets, but also SEO optimization articles, online theme generator and coding tips showing where you can look further if you've got problems with coding.
10 Must Have Portable Applications
Guest post by Srikanth AD Portable applications are handy when you are on move and can be run on most of the removable storage media like USB drive, mobile hard disk, iPod etc., Here in this article you will find extremely good 10 portable applications, that are very useful to carry with. If you are interested in application, just click through and you'll get much more technical info and descriptions there. Hope this will be useful for some people!
Beautiful Gradient Effects On Web design – Research: Part 2
It's Monday and beautiful time to get inspired with very good examples and research a little bit what's happening behind the scenes from graphic designer view. This time I will showcase and analyze gradient effects used effectively in web-design and logo design creation. It's very important to create and use subtle and eye-catchy color combinations and transitions to achieve modern and stylish effect. Maybe you haven't noticed but light and shadow effects are widely used and it doesn't necessary mean just color, but to bring greater effect, use textures and then put on them light but observable transparent color effects and you'll see magic happening. Using light you can easily emphasize places and actually lead visitor's attention from point to point using just color, illustrations, text size.
