Dainis Graveris
Role: Owner & Founder of Awesome 1WD
Dainis Graveris is 23 years old blogger and designer, founder of 1stWebDesigner, now more silently managing everything behind the scenes. He usually hangs out in Twitter tweeting design related links and chatting with people. If you have any questions or feedback that's the best place to start! Cheers!
WordPress Plugins : 17 Handy Toolbars For Your Blog
Toolbars used in WordPress installations as plugins become more and more popular and effective. I am sure you noticed such toolbars on sites like Mashable.com, Abduzeedo.com etc and wondered how you can get one, why to use it and actually how good is sortiment. Maybe there are better toolbars available just for your needs?
I wondered and decided to create article about it – finding the most popular, interesting and eye-catching WordPress toolbar plugins you could use daily to increase pageviews, comments, sharing, twitter followers, subscriptions and more. Some of these plugins even offer online chat with your readers, how cool is that? Enjoy, research and find your pick! Let us know your favorite toolbar plugin as well!
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Who Else Wants Great Windows Desktop Blogging Client?
If you are blogger and since now it’s like trend – everybody is blogging, you should know, writing through WordPress Rich Text Editor isn’t that fastest and easiest way. Most importantly you must think about ways how to automate and fasten your work process. Choosing desktop blogging client is one of the most important aspects in my opinion – forget about standard WordPress editor and start using something a lot more faster and handier.
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53 Promotional Websites To Gain Traffic Quick And Easy
It started very long time ago (to be exact December 27, 2008), when I created my first promotional article with 40 promotional links in it. Then I was just starting and I was excited, there exist such things like user news and sites like DesignBump or DesignFloat.
Time passed, and I needed to update my article, add more links, delete old ones because I have been promoting EVERY article in these sites. Now this promotional article consists of 70 sites, but again I wasn’t sure how all links work – I mean how much traffic they return. And now you will hear why this article is so outstanding and extremely valuable for every design-related blogger! Since I’ve been submitting all my article on those sites this whole time, I have also very precise statistics based on several months.
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37 Fresh jQuery Image And Gallery Display Solutions
jQuery is already very popular because it is very fast and concise Javacript library simplifing and different event handling, smooth animation with very little code. With jQuery you can enjoy new way of web development and image galleries are the best way to use it effectively!
Here you’ll have more than 35 different unique jQuery Javascript solutions for beautiful image galleries and great ways to display your images with light code.
To make it even easier for you to choose, I also added live demo link under every jQuery plugin!
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IconShock Free Icon Set and 1st Freebie in Year 2010!
In order to make this new year special, there will be released fresh icon set created specially for 1stwebdesigner readers in collaboration with Iconshock professional Stock Icons company. I am very excited how you will like this first freebie, please let us know in comments! Designers worked hard to deliver you this amazing icon set, so be thankful if you evaluate this work!
With good thoughts and much regards, we present Detective icon set, which consists from 5 high quality icons in *png and *ai source format. Icons are free for use both in your private and commercial, however it would be nice to give some credits to Iconshock company and 1stwebdesigner website, however it’s not necessary:
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65 Creative And Stylish Footer Designs of 2009
Hello back there – I guess this will be the last article in this Year 2009 – and it will be inspirational one! Actually this is special post after all – I just got my laptop back from repairing and now I can publish article I created in June! All things happen right – and main thing is, they really happen! Just keep working – there is no magic pills for success, there is just hard work.
Now let’s get inspired, because I showcased here really good examples of footers, that really stand out from crowd – not only from design point of view, but about great usability as well! Happy new year! Happy new 2010!!!
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Getting Back To You & IconShocks Cartoon & Christmas
Hello, my design friends and loyal readers!
I bet you’ve noticed little silence here and how articles don’t come out as often then they should, but I have really strong reason for it. For 2 weeks now, I have session and examinations in academy, so of course my daily work-flow is really messed up – I am working almost until morning, then sleep through days, wait for teachers, try to print everything out in time and so on. Very intense – since I left most of my exercises for last night.
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15 Incredible Apple Webdesign Style Coding Tutorials
Apple style is very popular trend in our days – their design and style is really unique, clean and always good-looking. No wonder there are many designers trying to understand that style, why it works and how. There also a bunch of advanced coding tutorials available out there. Since I am Apple website style fan myself, I did research and showcased several amazing coding tutorials I found in the Internet.
I thought I will find more, but I guess Photoshop Apple tutorials are a lot more popular now than coding tutorials. But I hope you will enjoy this article as well – it’s short, but really quality one!
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33 Must Read CSS3 Tips, Tricks, Tutorial Sites and Articles
Since previous article about CSS text effects got really big attention I decided to research and find more interesting articles and websites just focused on CSS3, teaching you how to use it, showing pros and cons and much more. To be honest it’s hard for me to keep up with technologies myself, but we really cannot not to use those new great selectors to make our designs even more beautiful, user-friendly and lightweighted. However since HTML5 is sort of tied with CSS3, I will soon continue with HTML5 article as well, so don’t miss it and keep coming back! Enjoy!
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22 Advanced CSS Text Effects And Web Typography Tips
You definitely should have seen those advanced CSS text effects for now already, they are rapidly getting popular as upcoming and current trend in good webdesign. The best thing about these effects is, it can be achieved with pure CSS, no more image replacements and image heavy web designs. In this article I showcased all the best explained CSS tutorials and typography tips I found and thought you definitely must read! Scroll through or definitely save this article to bookmarks so the next time you create new design in Photoshop with letterpress, shadowed etc. effects – you can create them just with pure code!
Typography takes also very important role in good web designs, so I strongly recommend to read articles I featured there as well! Enjoy and get inspired for your new, advanced web designs!
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