July 2009
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By Dainis Graveris on July 31, 2009
I 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 [...]
Posted in Resources | Tagged download, fonts, free, Resources, typography, web design
By Srikanth AD on July 30, 2009
Pictures 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 [...]
Posted in Resources | Tagged buttons, Design, free, icon, Resources, webdesign
By Dainis Graveris on July 29, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Tutorials | Tagged gradients, illustrator, photoshop, Tutorials
By Dainis Graveris on July 28, 2009
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. [...]
Posted in Development | Tagged business, Design, freelance, job, Resources, webdesign
By Dainis Graveris on July 24, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Inspiration | Tagged 3D, Design, gradient, Inspiration, logo
By Dainis Graveris on July 22, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Inspiration | Tagged Inspiration, minimalist, typographic, webdesign
By Dainis Graveris on July 20, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Wordpress | Tagged 2.8, hacks, plugins, Tutorials, webdesign, webdev, Wordpress
By Dainis Graveris on July 19, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Wordpress | Tagged cheat, Design, Resources, sheet, webdesign, webdev, Wordpress
By Srikanth AD on July 18, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Resources | Tagged apps, download, firefox, free, tools, windows
By Dainis Graveris on July 13, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Development | Tagged color, Development, gradients, Tutorials, webdesign
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