It’s roundup time for The Top 10 Very Best Dark Portfolio Sites! Here is a list of my all time favorites.
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Many freelancers struggle with seeing the true value of their own time and respecting it for what it is worth. In order to have a truly successful career we all need to understand that our time is what allows us to make a living, and the more effici
Having your website go down is not only frustrating to you, it can also be an inconvenience for your visitors and customers. Most of us aren’t on our sites all day long in order to know when it is down and how often it happens. Fortunately there are
Welcome to iLT’s second quarter roundup of sites that use type well. It may be that not all the sites listed here are to your taste, but it’s hoped that something—even a detail somewhere—will inspire you. Invariably, these lists are subjective, so i
Building a complete and effective website truly is a process. In this post we’ll take a brief look at the various steps that lead to a successful project. Of course, this will vary from case-to-case, but this is a pretty standard order of events.
Another nice tutorial from CSS Globe.
In this tutorial, it will demonstrate you how to create a realistic bottle. Some shadow, reflection and cutting techniques are substantial to make this. Here it will guide you initiated with a pen tool to draw a bottle. In order to make the bottle m
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7 neat street art executions that not only make you look, but also make you think and act.
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The ultimate photoshop resource list part 1: brushes
89 resources!
A beta tester of the new application Silverback reviews his first impressions. Silverback is an application for user testing for web designers.
Textured Backgrounds is the first part of the Fighting Against Web 2.0 With Grunge 4 part series. Textured Backgrounds offer a great feel of depth to websites. In this post, these sites showcase great textures that give their site a more gritty look
How knowing who is critiquing your work is the key to collecting the best advice and developing as a designer.
3 new and free tools for optimizing your site.
Life as inspiration, a different view from my normal posts of design. Guest post written by Michelle Krasniak.
Reasons why stock photography sucks.
Creative Time Article!
(pdf article - “Manage the mundane - create the extraordinary”) written by Mark McGuinness
*I just added a “download page” where I will be adding useful resources or downloads from time to time. Enjoy!
Step by step video showing you how to create 3D text with soft gradients and reflections.
How do we know when to say "no" or "yes" to a customer.
Showcase of 15 of my favorite, inspirational album covers. Be inspired by the happy marriage between music and graphic design. Album covers are a great executor of concept art.
You've spent months developing your website, researching your core user base and their needs and wants, but if you don't conduct usability testing you may be wasting your chance at success. Here are 5 quick tips on how to conduct agile and effective
This is the first in a series on turning the Default WP Theme into something wonderful. Today we’re going to go over the basic structure of a Wordpress Theme. If you are having any issues with the install, feel free to contact either through the com
Graffiti artwork has come dangerously close to becoming an expected cultural cliché, but these 5 are truly unexpected ones.
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When flash is more of a detriment and a liability...
A few compellingly-sound advice and viewpoints from recognized personalities in the field of creating kick-ass websites.
Flickr groups are a great resource for designers to get inspiration and to share their own work. Here is a categorized list of 99 Flickr groups that are especially for designers.
