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!
100 Premium Like But Free, Fresh WordPress Themes: Year 2009
When I checked last time, there was a lot less free premium WordPress themes, to be honest this research really surprised me – quality has been grown unbelievably! There are so many themes available, so I was really picky in this article and after few days work selected 100 fresh and beautiful WordPress themes from Year 2009. Let your blog get new look with one of these mostly easily customizable themes with advanced admin,theme,widget options right now. I am sure you will find at least suitable framework and only with a little tweaking you’ll get theme what you want without paying anything.
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43 Minimal And Really Clean Free WordPress Themes
In early days blogs were supposed to be simply online diaries and way how to write your thoughts without any business purpose. I will start to write personal blog in my own language as well and that’s because I wanted to find out how many simple and minimalistic themes are available for WordPress. Certainly I got again more than expected, but I tried to narrow article and be picky, but I still got 43 interesting and simplistic themes.
Enjoy typography, white color, grid, white spaces and remember – very often simply good typography and great use of white space is a lot better than theme overloaded with effects, colors, images and too much CSS styling!
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30 Must Have WebDesign Books In Your Christmas Wishlist
Christmas is coming and we should think how to cheer up yourself or your design related friends and I came up with list where I included all bestsellers and the most popular and recommended design related books I could find. I am reading slowly through these books myself and I plan to review and feature them in future one by one! Of course in blogosphere you can find endless articles you could read,but what’s great with books – books have very clean and detailed content structure explaining and teaching you everything point by point slowly and clearly!
In this article you’ll find books teaching you how to create great websites, get ideas, learn CSS,HTML, usability, typography, be aware about user experience, web standards,markup and much much more! Check for yourself!
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39 Free Buttons And WebDesign Resources From Deviantart
This resource article features many extremely useful resources I found over Deviantart community! I consider these resources mainly for learning purposes to understand how different effects are achieved and of course to get fresh ideas to recreate good examples here! Not only that – many resources are completely free for personal/commercial use, but you need to check author’s copyright or ask for permission before you use them actually.
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21 Sites Where To Find Free WordPress Themes Daily
From time to time I am creating free wordpress theme articles, but this time I wanted to showcase several great sites regularly updating and reviewing new themes daily. This showcase will be useful if you like to dig deeper yourself instead of searching premade list articles. It takes a lot more time of course, but there are more chances in this way you will find more unique theme, only few people know about! Enjoy and bookmark this article for later use if you like it! Thanks!
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What Can You Do When You Have No Internet Connection?
Sorry for little silence here – I switched my Internet providers and had no Internet connection for several days. It was strange, I was so used to my Internet related daily work flow, I didn’t know at first what to do! It was like I have no business, no blog, no connection with outside world. I called to several of my friends and when I told it to one girl I know, she suggested interesting article idea.
She said: “Well, why you don’t write about that as well? Your site is full of roundups, some tips in such cases could be useful as well!”. Right and so I took paper and actually wrote down my ideas! This is very short article, but I am expecting you to add your ideas as well! What can we do to get out from daily work flow, from struggling, get organized and feel good?
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60 Trendy Web Design Interfaces Created In October
I am continuing this monthly feature, showing last month best web designs submitted in DeviantArt. I am keeping to be very active member in this community and I really admire high quality designs submitted every day,every week, every month. Here you will see featured 60 best web design interfaces in my opinion! Check also artist Deviantpages to get even more, I get there endless inspiration, only problem is – I haven’t got endless time! Enjoy and create your own amazing design today!
You can visit previous September and August Deviantart web design features as well.
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30 Photo Effect Photoshop Tutorials Every Designer Will Love
Few days ago I created this article 105 People Photo Manipulation Works You Will Really Marvel with amazing photo manipulation works. This time I went step further and actually tried to find tutorials teaching you how to achieve such effects! Of course, I didn’t find the same effects there, but if you look closer and really study these tutorials I showcased here, you will understand you’ll have all the skills to create such artworks! More or less techniques are the same and with little creativity you can create your own masterpiece even today!
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105 People Photo Manipulation Works You Will Really Marvel
Oh, I am really marveling those photo manipulation works with people and countless amazing, colorful effects! Somehow I don’t think I have seen many tutorials out there teaching really how to come up with something so beautiful like that. Right, but that’s understandable, you will find many separate effect tutorials, but you really should learn to put it all together – but don’t worry effect and photo manipulation tutorial roundup will be featured in next article!
You must be thinking – man..105 artworks, is this guy completely crazy? Well, I must admit I went crazy, but I couldn’t not feature those works here, you must see how amazing this art is if you haven’t seen something like that before! At least I have crazy inspiration now to put something like this together myself – how about you?
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53 Best Practices How To Attract RSS Subscribers
I’ve heard a lot of people constantly struggling to increase their RSS subscriber count. But before complaining often people aren’t aware there are few very well reasons for such things happening. In this post I wanted to take a research on many different, design related blogs and investigate their best practices how to use RSS buttons, where to place them, how to stand out and make that RSS button easy to notice and use.
First of all you must write regular, valuable and unique content to get attraction! No one likes to read the same stuff over and over again, because they now how and where to get good information. Also don’t write one day about Windows media player and next day about tips how to attract women – have a clear focus, so you can attract people directly interested in your topic and would want to subscribe in return to get more.
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