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Dainis Graveris
Dainis Graveris is 21 years old blogger and designer with really strong passion.
He usually hangs out in Twitter tweeting design related links regularly. If You use Digg actively he can be great friend there and don't forget add to StumbleUpon too! How about Deviantart? Meet him there as well!
If You have any questions feel free to write and add him to Gtalk - it is beautiful way to get contacted directly!
By Dainis Graveris on August 23, 2010
During hard organising and designing work, I was getting so busy I didn’t get any time to create some more valuable articles from my side. Since actual development process is going to end, I will warm up today and feature some of the best artworks from Deviantart to get you inspired. If you recall, I always enjoyed [...]
Posted in Inspiration | Tagged deviantart, Inspiration, showcase, webdesign
By Dainis Graveris on August 22, 2010
This brushes pack contains 25 high quality photoshop brushes made with Photoshop CS4. The size of the brushes is aprox. 1200 pixels and the quality is the best you can get:
sharp edges
smooth gradients.
This brushes are very useful for making wallpaper backgrounds, like the famous Vista wallpaper, or web headers, even on photo manipulations as fake smoke. Free [...]
Posted in Freebies | Tagged abstract, brush, freebie, photoshop, smoke
By Dainis Graveris on June 24, 2010
If you’ve been active reader of 1stwebdesigner, you may have heard I have been planning big redesign for a long time. I think I’ve spent several months analyzing other similar blogs, thinking about features we need to include and just to understand which ones just don’t work.
I consider new redesign will be complete site relaunch, we’ve got a [...]
Posted in Development
By Dainis Graveris on June 21, 2010
For some long time I’ve been gathering great blog designs from deviantart to get inspired and now I will showcase them all in one huge article!! Surprisingly finding great ideas and designs have been much easier in Deviantart than any other web design showcase sites.
I didn’t add any comments this time – compare these designs [...]
Posted in Inspiration | Tagged blog, da-week, deviantart, Inspiration, trends, webdesign, Wordpress
By Dainis Graveris on June 11, 2010
DepositPhotos.com is a great resource for buying and selling Royalty-free photographs and vector illustrations. They slogan is – “Buy It Easy! Sell It Easy” describing how easy it is to do both tasks so you are in the right place if you are searching for premium photographs or trying to sell your work and earn [...]
Posted in Freebies | Tagged contest, free, giveaway, photos
By Dainis Graveris on June 7, 2010
As you may heard, I’ve been working on site redesign for a long time already and now I am deeply researching modern elements in minimal webdesign - I decided to share my research with all of you.
I think this modern&minimal trend will rule for some time, time for loud elements and web 2.0 cheap shiny badges has been long gone [...]
Posted in Inspiration | Tagged Inspiration, minimal, modern, trends, webdesign
By Dainis Graveris on May 1, 2010
I will keep repeating how important is to plan your webdesign, sitemaps, draw flowcharts,wireframes before even start to do actual functional and design planning! Since I am deeply researching this topic myself, this time I found the most popular wireframing software available.
Just 3 of tools I found were free, but every tool has free trial or [...]
Posted in Design | Tagged mockup, planning, prototyping, tools, webdesign, wireframing
By Dainis Graveris on April 27, 2010
One of the most hardest jobs in web development processes definitely is form creation. Coding behind these forms are painless enough, but then you need to think also about Spam filters, usability, interface and functions should work in all cases.
Keeping this in mind, I gathered here 21 various premium Php forms created for all the cases [...]
Posted in Resources | Tagged ajax, contact, forms, jquery, php, signup, webdesign
By Dainis Graveris on April 19, 2010
In this inspirational showcase article, I collected a little bit different blogs – usually blogs serve for one purpose – design or function. Just a few blog designs fulfil both important tasks, I thought I will find a lot more design suitable for this article before I started.
Here you’ll find a lot of beautiful simplicity and functionality [...]
Posted in Inspiration | Tagged blog, Design, Inspiration, showcase, webdesign, Wordpress
By Dainis Graveris on April 15, 2010
People have been talking for a long time about numerous list posts repeating each other, but the same is about blog designs. Even if blog design is unique it still has same consistent sidebar, CSS image, text styling and standard navigation repeating each time when new article is published.
I usually compare blogging with journalism, because it’s the same thing..and [...]
Posted in Inspiration | Tagged art-direction, blogging, Design, Inspiration, trends
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