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Designing your own card is no easy task and that is why we created this guide on how to design your own business card. If you decided to have a designer create your cards be sure that the tips below are applied to the design.
The first installment of a giant list of freelancing articles, tutorials and resources.
Steven Snell had his sights on the big leagues. As a kid growing up in a small city, he wanted to be a professional athlete and while most kids would try their hardest and fail miserably, Steven “was smart enough to know that the odds were stacked a
a look at typography in web design.
A collection of excellent design/development-related posts from July.
One sure fire way to lose any respect as a designer is to copy or steal from another site. We take a look at some really Blatant design Rip-offs!
Lightbox tools are very common and most of them are easy to use. The problem seems to be to find the right tool which suit your needs for the web project! There a dozen of solutions out there. To make life easier a guy who named himself Ozh compared
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Good typography is an essential part of successful design. I have constructed this list for designers who may need some suggestions for purchasing typefaces. I believe that money is better spent acquiring a few quality, versatile fonts rather than a
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One key element in the design of any website is colour. Here are some great inspirational websites which show that colour can be used in very extraordinary ways.
Huge list that includes resources for the business aspect of freelancing as well as resources for design and development.
Here is a free Hi-Res texture pack that i have made over the weeks for you all to download, the pack contains over 300 grunge, worn, torn and weathered textures that i have taken in and around my house with my camera.
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17 tips on how to get more traffic coming into your site. Not the normal list.
One page, every tag, beautiful displayed and explained. This is the best WordPress code guide ever.
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Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. It is time once again to pool our information so as to begin sketching a true picture of the way our prof
Some helpful reminders and tips for when you have a design or writers block!
So we’ve decided to take a deep look at articles about CSS-based layouts and the result was a list of 40 tutorials, resources and best practices offering gorgeous and valid CSS-based Layouts.
You may be familiar with Fabio’s blog, Abduzeedo. His design focus is on Graphic and Web design (he is very talented and I admire his work!), he also does regular tutorials for PSDTuts.
More freebies, yes I know! This time we’ve put together a free Illustration, beautifully made by Pasquale D’Silva, and a couple of Icons which you can use for your twitter status sections of your site. The file is a transparent background PNG...
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This continues with Part 2 of Typography is Sexy. If you missed part 1, you can check that out here. Look for next weeks part 3. I hope you enjoy it!
We take a look at some clever ways of finding an alternative to that domain name you missed out on. Some great ideas & examples.
Fixed footer design can be very attractive if a website designer could pull it off correctly - especially with the help of some well-designed PNG graphics.
Since I started my blog I used this style (pencil + handwritten), to design all images I added to my post. Now, I can say it has been a good choice because it's a little particular which my readers love and, in some way, gives a little bit of person
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Clever Andy takes a unique approach to monetizing your rejected client designs. Definitely a game-changer within the field that is sure to please designers and customers alike!
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The Safari browser from Apple has a great little icon that works well in small formats while also displaying quite a lot of intricate details when viewed in large format. Navigate through this Adobe Illustrator tutorial to draw up your own vector Sa
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follow up from part one! (Hottest portfolios on Behance)
