Guest Authors, Poll And Partnership With IconShock

 Posted in Web Design 965 days ago Written by: Dainis Graveris 10 Comments

Hello there, my beloved readers! Things are again going to change, so I thought I should create this community post and explain what’s happening behind the scenes. This time I will discuss with you two topics – 1. I am searching for guest writers and 2. I received amazing partnership from Iconshock Projects company! But take your time and read this article through to understand what I mean, I am sure you’ll like these ideas!

Guest Authors, Poll And Partnership With IconShock

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33 WordPress Plugins To Power Up Your Comment Section

 Posted in WordPress 966 days ago Written by: Dainis Graveris 224 Comments

As always I am trying to mix up topics I cover and this can be considered as continue to previous article. Last time we got inspired and examined many good blog comment form examples, but this time I went further and found 33 WordPress plugins, which can be used effectively to power up and evolve comment form possibilities and security. If programming is not your strongest side, then such automatized plugins will be irreplaceable for your blog! If you know some more effective comment form plugins, feel free to add them in our comment section! For the next time I am thinking about WordPress comment section hack roundup article, so stay with us!

33 WordPress Plugins To Power Up Your Comment Section

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77 Inspiring Blog Comment Form Designs – Good Examples

 Posted in Inspiration 968 days ago Written by: Dainis Graveris 142 Comments

I am continuing to do separated web-design roundups and research, this time we will look at good blog comment design examples. Maybe you can argue, how similar are such comment forms, but still I believe such huge roundups can help to see differences and compare many designs in one place.

Usually forms are pretty classic with standard fields, submit buttons – nothing more, nothing less. But still even little change of field background, border style, font, rounded corners, small icons can make huge difference. Usually my attention grabbed those comment designs with small icons added to describe each form, transparency and extended possibilities. It is always good idea to add live comment preview, smilies or some simple CSS bold, italic, underline effects to give more options to advanced comment writers. But if you want to really stand out and create something fancy, put background images in good use, where possibilities are endless as you will see in these forms. I really hope you will enjoy this article and will do your own research and considerations, what you like/dislike and why it is so. I will be more than happy if you will join to discussion in comments and pick your own favorites!

77 Inspiring Blog Comment Form Designs – Good Examples

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76 Dirty, Extreme And Creative Free Grunge Fonts

 Posted in Freebies Web Design 971 days ago Written by: Dainis Graveris 49 Comments

Grunge, dirty, fancy typography and artworks are very popular design trend in our days, so I wanted to showcase here most popular and professionally executed fonts in my opinion. Unleash your dirty side and create some fresh design mixing font size, color, textures together – try something new if you haven’t done it yet!

Such fonts as these are often used in music band logos or cover designs, but I am sure you will think of your own unique approach in logo, web or graphic design! Enjoy!

76 Dirty, Extreme And Creative Free Grunge Fonts

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46 Outstanding Web Layouts From DeviantArt: September 2009

 Posted in Inspiration 974 days ago Written by: Dainis Graveris 57 Comments

I am starting to think, I will create this as monthly feature, maybe not only picking beautiful web design scratches from DeviantArt, but also featuring latest month best web design related articles. There is a reason why domain name is 1st web designer – I really want to make even bigger focus to just web design. I assure you site is going to change and grow as I promised, just it’s not so easy as I thought at first. Evolving needs experience to do that right, but I currently lack that thing a little bit, still we have now several guest writers, which I hope to become here regular and also website got beautiful proposal about new and special icon sets releasing under our site. I will talk about current future plans in next article, so be sure to come back here! Maybe even there will be monthly contests  with good prices and interviews with experienced designers in near future, I will think about it and keep you informed!

Ok, got a little bit distracted, but now let’s enjoy again very beautiful artworks picked from DeviantArt to help you get inspired and scan what’s fresh can be seen in these designs!

46 Outstanding Web Layouts From DeviantArt: September 2009

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51 Form Element Resources and Tutorials Using CSS And Javascript

 Posted in Coding Tutorials 976 days ago Written by: Dainis Graveris 35 Comments

I featured many good looking contact forms some time ago – 91 Trendy Contact And Web Forms For Creative Inspiration, so you should know how looks good example. Now let’s take a look how to create outstanding and beautifully designed form elements from scratch ourselves. Things can get tricky even if you are experienced designer. It’s hard to attract visitors attention, but this article should help to stand out and create semantically correct, good looking and accessible web forms, checkboxes, radio buttons, buttons, fieldsets – everything you can think of when you are creating contact or login page!

51 Form Element Resources and Tutorials Using CSS And Javascript

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72 Creative And Smart Typographic Logo Inspiration

 Posted in Inspiration 978 days ago Written by: Dainis Graveris 86 Comments

If we are starting to go crazy in typography style, then let’s continue with typographic and smart logo designs, shall we? Here you’ll find 72 beautiful logos created by talented designers. This showcase just proves the point how much can one/two words, icons tell using correctly white, negative, positive spacing, colors, accents creating interesting associations.

Explore and get creative as I did!

72 Creative And Smart Typographic Logo Inspiration

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How to Create a Minimalist and Typographic Blog Layout From Scratch

 Posted in Tutorials 981 days ago Written by: Tom Walker 54 Comments

Typography is probably one the most important and powerful design element ever, so I created this WordPress theme with minimalism and typography in mind. Today, you will learn how to create this minimalist theme scratch including XHTML, CSS and WordPress. Please keep in mind that this theme doesn’t have all the bells and whistles you may find in a magazine or premium theme, it was created for the purpose of this tutorial. You can of course use it as a starting point for your own theme or customize it to fit your site. Let’s get started!

How to Create a Minimalist and Typographic Blog Layout From Scratch

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40 Inspiring High Quality Typographic Wallpapers

 Posted in Freebies 984 days ago Written by: Dainis Graveris 35 Comments

I have always enjoyed and admired, how much simple, smart typography can tell and inspire. Simple words can sometimes tell more than amazing digital time-consuming artworks. Basically this wallpaper roundup will enjoy everybody, who likes smart, mostly minimalistic and clean typography. As always I tried to find really high quality wallpapers so almost everybody can use these. One more thing – just through research I found out surprisingly, how rare are really good typography wallpapers, which I would like to include here. Yet technically simple to create, but not easy to create in good, minimalistic and harmonic way.

40 Inspiring High Quality Typographic Wallpapers

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35 Stylish And Modern WordPress Plugins Using jQuery UI

 Posted in WordPress 988 days ago Written by: Dainis Graveris 76 Comments

In this post you’ll find out about very flexible and stylish WordPress plugins, which are based on Jquery UI. For a long time now jQuery has been very popular and modern approach displaying text, images, search, comment boxes etc. in modern way without any use of flash!

Release jQuery power and enjoy benefits right now – hope you like my findings and you’ll put them in good use.

35 Stylish And Modern WordPress Plugins Using jQuery UI

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