Archive for August, 2009
1st Year Of Blogging: Success And Achievements
Dainis GraverisOh, well when people say blogging changed their lives - they are absolutely right! It has been one amazing...really amazing year with you guys! Blog grown from nowhere to quite impressive size in one year! Read further and I will share all last year statistic numbers, my works, successes - everything I have done on my first year being in this online design community! I am also creating big surprise for you free *.pdf document with roundup of all the posts done in the last year, only I am recreating articles with only the best of the best selections. I hoped to get finished and release it now, but it was bigger job than I thought, so you'll have to wait a little bit. Now read a little about past and present, but get ready to be back tomorrow for new inspiration, resources, tutorials about everything design related! Thank you for being with us!
35 Websites To Teach You How To Use CSS Effectively
CSS ( Cascading Style Sheets) are the modern standard for presenting website. Combined with structural markup language like HTML, XHTML - CSS fully take care about presentation part, creating that good concept - HTML = Content, CSS = Presentation. If you know CSS, you can really do everything controlling spacings, borders, positioning, margins, paddings, colors, fonts, background images, hover effects and more presentational effects. CSS is really easy to understand, and in my opinion every graphic designer should have at least simple coding skills with HTML and CSS, because CSS is really still design part, not really coding.
48 Trendy And Fresh Web Interfaces From Deviantart: August 2009
As you may notice, I am always trying to vary tutorial, resource and informational posts with inspirational ones. And you guessed it - here you have inspirational post featuring several very talented web designers from DeviantArt. All of these inspiring website examples are fresh and new, from this month so you can see current trends. I must be honest I really love all of these sites, I like current trending and research made me want to get my hands dirty with some new design too. Carefully watch every detail - some designs are very simple, but white space is used very efficiently, creating outcome to look really professional. I enjoyed every pixel in these designs and hopefully this article and talented works will make you inspired too!
60 Free, Yet Premium Quality WordPress Magazine News Themes
It happened so, that I've got 2 Wordpress related articles in the row. Again I worked very hard on this one post this time offering 60 really premium like Wordpress magazine news themes. Such themes are very handy if you have to display a lot of information on your site. For example this site should implement much more magazine type features, which still are on process - as featured slideshow, better sidebar usage showing even more posts from archives. Magazine type themes help to display and catch visitors attention making him stay on the page longer - which rewards in page-views and visit length time.
30 Quality Sites To Easily Preview And Download Free WordPress Themes
Srikanth ADWordPress is growing in its popularity and more and more sites are switching to WordPress because of the ease of maintenance and usage. For WordPress, you can install any theme according to your choice and manage the content of your website easily with the help of widgets and plugins. But, selecting a perfect WordPress theme is bit tricky as you do not know how the theme looks like, after installing it. To avoid this problem, there are websites which enable you to preview themes with ease and you can decide whether to download a theme or not. Herein are few sites which allow you to preview themes easily by using the theme switcher or by clicking on the preview link(s).
65 Popular And Professional Free Fonts For Creative Typography
Some time ago I created article - 52 Really High Quality Free Fonts For Modern And Cool Design, which turned out to be very popular. But I felt like I haven't featured even a half of beautiful, professional free fonts, so I decided to continue with another article. This time I found 65 high quality fonts, where many of them are very good for font creation, creative graphic typographic works, unique web design titles and so on. But hey - we are here all becoming/experienced designers, I don't need to tell you where to use those fonts, I am here to find that stuff for you! Note - before using these fonts for commercial projects, check out creator copyrights (on their homepages, not asking me - I am just collector), because all of these fonts are free for personal use, but not all for commercial usage.
22 Photoshop Web Design Interface Tutorial Sites
I wanted to showcase very good tutorial sites here also, since there are several great websites delivering beautiful and high quality tutorials constantly! If you love and search for more Photoshop tutorials, you really should visit sites below! Also great way to keep up if you just subscribe to these blogs, create own tutorial section for example in Google Reader, and when mood is for learning from quality tutorials, go and check out what's fresh in these sites! At least I am doing so, and well - practice makes perfect! I am sorry this article turned out to be so short, but I really didn't want to put here old sites or ones I didn't enjoy myself!
Do You Know Where To Get Laptop Cover Designs and Skins?
Most of the laptops have glossy finish with a single color (mostly black) providing you with enough space to show your creativity. You can be creative on your laptop cover and stand apart of the crowed. You can shop for the skins on the internet and buy the skins according to your notebook size not only laptops you can order skins for iPhone, etc., to make them more colorful and bring life to your gadgets. The skins are mostly vinyl stickers which you can easily glue to your laptop cover which not only looks cool but also protects it from surface scratches. You can also order custom skins with your company logo or brand name on it. This can prove to be a great marketing tool and even helpful in special events and exhibitions. Herein are some of the sites that offer cool laptops skins, you can browse through the designs and order one for your machine.
90 New And High Quality Photoshop Web Layout Tutorials
I am continuing my research and this time I thought I've never done Photoshop layout tutorial roundup and wanted to become better in this matter. One of the reasons I didn't make this kind of list, because I saw there are already many of similar articles. But as always to stand out I invested two days in this article, collecting only really high quality tutorials and also ordering them all by date. Maybe such measure isn't right - but I am sure you are tired of lists featuring old tutorials you have seen over and over again. I was searching only for Year 2009/2008 tutorials and was surprised myself, how many of them I found, which I really enjoyed and was high-quality ones.
12 Web Design Directories To Improve Your SEO
Andy WalpoleList of Web Design Directories Links from niche directories are of more value in SEO than submitting to general directories, and there are a number of specialized directories catering exclusively for web designers. Below are some of those.
Many of these require a reciprocal link and which have fallen out of favor since Google declared against "excessive reciprocal linking"; but in moderation it is fine as Matt Cutts talked about in 2007 - "Trading links is natural and it's natural to have reciprocal links. At some level, natural reciprocal links happen, but if you do it way too often, it looks artificial."
