Category Archives: 1WD Features
ACTA: The Global Attempt At Anti-Piracy
JamalToday it is not a common occurrence to have powerful nations across the globe to act on a single issue, outside of war and relief for a tragedy stricken country of course. However, there seems to be a need to add countering counterfeiting goods and enforcing copyrights online of course. This past month there was nothing more popular Stateside on the net than SOPA and PIPA. These bills were of course met with a great backlash to the U.S. House and Senate, even more so for those that originally proposed them. However, it is quite troubling to find out that these bills are actually just a small fraction of the global government attempt at stopping online piracy. Well since the introduction is over, let's put no more time rambling in the introduction. The point of the article is ACTA(Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement), and by the end hopefully you will be more informed on this matter.
Is Web Technology Rapidly Progressing or at a Standstill?
Take a moment and realize how far our industry has come from where it originated. It seems like centuries ago since IE6 was considered the top browser and when being able to use CSS in conjunction with HTML was groundbreaking. Remember when the use of tables was a best practice? It is easy to see that there is an amazing amount of progress that has been made and even more amazing is the rate at which it is all constantly happening. Many of the problems those early pioneers had to deal with seem to be far removed for anyone who wasn't around at the beginning. Or have they just changed form?
60 Beneficial And Great Looking Premium Background from Graphicriver
Daniels MekšsBackground is an essential yet often overlooked element of any artwork. A suitable background can turn good design into a great design and correspondingly moderate one into a good one. You can come up with a perfect background within minutes or squeeze something out in days. A good background has to be balanced yet giving the complete look to the artwork. So where to find those neat background for your next project/product presentation/print design and avoid yourself with messing in Photoshop? Again Graphicriver is the answer. With just over 2000 backgrounds in sales you can be sure you'll find the right one just for your needs. In this article we've compiled various backgrounds ranging from subtle textures and patterns to abstract desktop wallpapers to splendid lighting effects. Large part of these background are print-ready so you can use them in almost any way you can think of. Continue reading and check out these 60 useful and neat premium background from Graphicriver.
50 Practical And Time Saving Premium Product Mockups From Graphicriver
Which is more important to you - the content or the package? No doubt, it's a discussable question but the compromise we might agree on is that both are equally important. Package and product design plays a massive role in marketing and consumer alluring. Yet we shouldn't forget about the web - product showcase is important here as well. And especially when consumers aren't able to touch the goods - the design and presentation will be crucial.
Blogging Like A Pro: Introduction To 10-Part Crash Course
Dainis GraverisIf you are involved in the blogging world in any way you will know just how hard it is to find great tools to make your work process easier and more efficient. I’ve been blogging full-time for 2.5 years already and I’ve tried many approaches and tools. Going from a PC to a Mac I needed to find comparable tools and that proved challenging, it was like starting over in some regards. It’s hard to find those nifty little, and useful tools, but once you do, you can enjoy the whole blogging!
1WD Giveaway Contest Winner Announcement & Feedback
Hello everybody! We're finally back with our contest results – I am apologising it took so long, but wasn't easy to gather all results from Facebook, Twitter, comments – decide which prizes get each winner and finally putting that all together and contacting all our kind sponsors. Holiday season also didn't help to get job done faster..:) Huh, okay, but to move on – finally results are announced and you can check if you're one of the winners in the list by reading further. Don't worry we are contacting everybody even if we didn't get your email – expect for Twitter private messages or Facebook message so we can be sure you receive your prize as supposed.
1WD 2 Year Anniversary And Massive 6000$ Worth Giveaway
Hello everybody! Finally that day has come! Which day you may ask? Well...where should I start? – today 1WD is celebrating 2 years anniversary and fourth (4th) version of design. We were working really hard all summer, and if one year ago I was working all alone, now I am honored to have a beautiful team together with me including several full time writers Rean, Sheena, Jane, Michael,Charina with our main chief editor Saad Bassi and social media ninja Ligita Kluga. Huh, also what I need to add, our actual 2 years anniversary was on August 30, but we didn't announce it because our new design wasn't finished. Now it's here and we are finally ready to move on!
1STWD March 2010 Features: Top Design Links And News
As you may notice 1stwebdesigner has started to change a lot throughout past few months. We will also start to cover Design Community news and do monthly (maybe weekly in future) reviews of top design links, articles, websites. Now you may find it all only by reading your feed regularly, checking Twitter daily and being constant visitor of social news sites – Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, Delicious. We want to give you some relief and do this time-consuming part ourselves and put it in easy to read and scan article. This is only the first article, in future we will also ask for you help and assistance finding all those great new articles which may slip our eyes, we have a long way to grow – but let’s start enjoying little things!
