What many people don’t know is that Infrared photography has actually been around for a very long time, however transforming these from film into actual photographs was often a very cumbersome process. However with the advances of digital imaging all that changed, now shooting infrared has never been easier.  In this article we present 50 stunning infrared photos.

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Today most web designers will create the visual design of a website in Photoshop first and then once the design has been nailed down they will start to create the code from there. In this article we have collected 20+ amazing tutorials for creating web layouts in Photoshop. If you have used any other tutorials in the past feel free to share them with us!

Design a Warm, Cheerful Website Interface in Adobe Photoshop

Clean Style Portfolio Layout

Create a Movie Video Streaming Website

Create a Modern Lab Theme Web Design in Photoshop

Design a Textured Outdoors Website in Photoshop

Create an Elegant Patterned Web Design in Photoshop

Design a creative portfolio in Photoshop

How to Create a Vintage Photoshop Website Layout

Design a Forest Inspired Tumblr Theme in Photoshop

How to create a One-Page Website Design in Adobe Photoshop

Create a Professional Web 2.0 Layout

Making the ‘Clean Grunge’ Blog Design

Design a Professional, Clean Community Blog Theme in Adobe Photoshop

Learn to Create a Gaming Layout in Photoshop

Clean Blog Layout in Photoshop

Create a Clean, Minimal Website

Create a Comic Book Themed Web Design

How to create a distinguishable textured web layout in Photoshop

How to create an advanced Game Portal Layout

Magazine Styled Blog Layout

How to Make a Vibrant Portfolio Web Design in Photoshop

Graphic design studio web layout tutorial

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The week is coming to an end and that means it is time for us to look back on the week that passed, the best design news, resources and other goodies. This week we look Photoshop plugins, how to become a better designer, as well as metro styled WordPress themes and much more.

Best Open Source CSS3 and jQuery Image Captions

The use of image captions within HTML has been a long-standing tradition among web developers. Typically this involves the <figure> and <figcaption> elements, plus some additional CSS styles. Because of the large open source movement we can find even more great examples of plugins and starter scripts for building these image captions in your own projects.

My Favorite Chrome Extensions – I Can’t Work Without Them

As we all know, internet can provide you with a wide source of information. I strongly believe that Google chrome is a great help for everyone. . I would say that chrome is my first priority over other browsers. This does not mean I do not recommend others; in fact I do often use them quite a bit. But I choose Chrome to cover the major part of my work. Chrome extensions help me to complete my work with more accuracy and greater speed. This widely accepted browser enables users to sign in anywhere on chrome and add bookmarks, setting and other resources, a well planned feature to benefit those who are using multiple computers.

Must-know facts about responsive design

Today, there’s even a mini debate going on regarding whether responsive design is here to stay or whether it’s just a flash in the pan. Only time will tell, but for now, it’s clear that responsive design strives to make the user experience as comfortable as possible. Responsive design is a web design philosophy that focuses on creating sites that give users an enhanced viewing experience. This includes features such as effortless navigation and reading, and a minimum of browser resizing, scrolling and panning. All of this takes place across a range of different devices, from desktops to smartphones.

10 Top Link Building Tools to Make Your Life Easier

Link building is not one task in itself, it is a series of events. Everyone completes these steps differently and has a variation on what tools they love to use, but I have a few particularly useful ones that I use at least once a week. I chose these tools because they are easy to use, uncomplicated, and mostly free!

44 Fresh Excellent-Quality Free Fonts for Designers

Display typography is a potent element in graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using type in an artistic manner. Below you’ll find Collection of Fresh Excellent-Quality Free Fonts by which you can save money and focus on making great applications. The basic purpose behind this post is to show you Popular, Artistic and most importantly Free Downloadable font types to save your time searching them online. Direct download link available for the entire fonts.

Apple Mac Pro page deconstructed

The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) held in San Francisco earlier this week introduced a few new Apple products and updates. While the hugely expected iPhone 6 Nano with super narrow display hasn’t been revealed yet, the new iOS 7 caused a huge debate around the “flat” icons and updated UI design. What stood out for me was the new Apple Mac Pro with its futuristic black design and a power house configuration. This futuristic product is also showcasing its features on a great looking website at www.apple.com/mac-pro/ which is full of interesting effects. To better understand what is happening on the page, have a look at the simplified html page structure below.

10 metro style WordPress themes

Ever since MicroSoft launched its Windows 8 platform, its metro style UI has inspired wordpress themes to be developed. People liked the metro design and wants their blogs or websites to have a similar appearance.  <!–more–>The central characteristics of metro style wordpress themes is their ‘block’ designs. Each block can represent a category or a section of the blog and is identified through the different colors that each block will have. It is an interesting UI innovative and I am not surprised that most folks are loving such a change in their interface.

Building Books with CSS3 · An A List Apart Article

While historically, it’s been difficult at best to create print-quality PDF books from markup alone, CSS3 now brings the Paged Media Module, which targets print book formatting. “Paged” media exists as finite pages, like books and magazines, rather than as long scrolling stretches of text, like most websites. CSS3 allows us to style text, divide it into book pages, and set the page structure as a whole.

30 Fresh Websites with Parallax Effect

Many web designers often try to use parallax effect when it comes to create a one page website or a small business website, be it an online portfolio or a website of a real estate agency. Also, there is one more type of websites where the parallax effect is often used – those websites where some innovative products are advertised, including movies, cartoons and even books as it is quite easy to make partial retelling of the subject or even offer a little game with the parallax effect.

10 Web Apps for Developers

Web applications have become popular due to the ubiquity of web browsers, and the convenience of using a web browser as a client, sometimes called a thin client. The ability to update and maintain web applications without distributing and installing software on potentially thousands of client computers is a key reason for their popularity, as is the inherent support for cross-platform compatibility. Common web applications include webmail, online retail sales, online auctions, wikis and many other functions. In practice, web interfaces, compared to thick clients, typically force significant sacrifice to user experience and basic usability.

Most Interesting jQuery Image Gallery/Slideshow Plugins

All of us are aware of the myriad of applications and uses of jQuery. It has innumerable purposes like simplifying the creation of web pages that are highly interactive and responsive. But the most telling applications are those that involve images and slideshows. Here are some of the most interesting jQuery image gallery and slideshow plugins.

9 Must-Haves for a Successful Photography Website

These days, everyone has a website and we think they’re great. But how do you know exactly what your friends, family and fans are really thinking when they see it? And if you’re a pro making money from your craft: Are you sure that your site is doing everything it can to get you clients and seal the deal? How much business are you losing from silly mistakes? After browsing tons of sites and hearing the advice from our marvelous team of Support Heroes, we’ve compiled a list of tips to help you get the best, most effective and appealing website you  possibly can.

The Retina Trifecta: CSS Sprites, IMG Tags, and SVGs, Oh My!

This post is for developers. With the advent of the iPhone 4 and the subsequent releases of the retina iPad and MacBook Pro, Apple has plunged us into a brave new high-resolution world without a means of navigating through it. By much trial and error and research, we think we’ve arrived at some quick, simple, and flexible answers to future-proof your web solutions.

10 Things You Can Do To Become A Better Web Designer

Like a lot of web designers I didn’t go to school to learn design or development. My degrees are in completely unrelated fields. As a web designer and developer I’m close to 100% self-taught. That self-teaching isn’t random though. Since the beginning I’ve set a course for self-study that I continue to adapt to this day. I thought I’d share some of the things I do to continue to improve my design and development skills.

Best Photoshop Plugins for Web Design

Photoshop is one of the best tool to create Mock ups in Web Design. Some Photoshop plugins offer to create Websites, WordPress themes, CSS, favicon, layouts for web design.

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Unless you have been living under a rock for the past 3 months then you must have noticed that Apple has made some major changes to iOS, everything has been redesigned Jony Ive has been busy at work making the OS flatter as well as faster. In this article we take a look at some of the biggest changes to the new iOS 7.

A lot has changed since the release of iOS6, many buttons have been removed, and it seems as if Apple has done away with all forms of skeuomorphism, in other words nothing in the IOS 7 design mimics the real world.

Home Screen

Reminders

Calendar

Messages

Game Center

Contacts

Weather

Safari

AirDrop

Control Center

Spotlight

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Most of you probably know that Adobe released a  public beta of Photoshop Lightroom 5, their professional photo management and manipulation software, about two months ago, well now they have finally made the official final release available to the public.

Adobe has highlighted six major new and improved features that will help make the software even better than it was before, these include the following:

• Advanced Healing Brush: Remove distracting elements with a single brush stroke. Adjust the size of the brush and move it in precise paths. Unwanted objects and flaws—even those with irregular shapes like threads—just disappear.
• Upright tool: Straighten tilted images with a single click. The new Upright tool analyzes images and detects skewed horizontal and vertical lines, even straightening shots where the horizon is hidden.
• Radial Gradient tool: Emphasize important parts of your image with more flexibility and control. The Radial Gradient tool lets you create off-center vignette effects, or multiple vignetted areas within a single image.
• Smart Previews: Easily work with images without bringing your entire catalog of original images with you. Just generate smaller stand-in files called Smart Previews. Make adjustments or metadata additions to the Smart Previews and apply your changes to the full-size originals later.
• Improved photo book creation: Create beautiful photo books from your images. Lightroom includes a variety of easy-to-use book templates, and now you can edit them to create a customized look. Upload your book for printing with just a few clicks.
• Video slideshows: Easily share your work in elegant video slideshows. Combine still images, video clips, and music in creative HD videos that can be viewed on almost any computer or device.

For those looking to purchase Lightroom 5 for the first time it costs $149, however if you are updating from a previous version you can get it for $79, furthermore those who subscribe to Adobe’s Creative Cloud service will also receive access to Lightroom 5 with their memberships.

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The week is coming to an end and that means it is time for us to look back on the week that passed, the best design news, resources and other goodies. This week we look Photoshop tutorials, mastering web design WordPress Themes and much more.

25 Absolutely Free Flat Icon Sets

As we all know,flat design is the latest trend in web design industry and almost all web design elements buttons,icons,navigation bars etc. are in flat style nowadays.So what is flat design?Flat web design refers to a design form that does away with busy-looking patterned textured backgrounds, drop shadows around lettering and boxed sections within a web site.

30+ Free Web, Mobile UI Element Kits and Stencils for Designers

Good timing and organizing stuff is essential for project management. In web design for instance, when you want to deliver a project on time, there are several time factors that should be considered. When you spend your time efficiently, you can be sure to deliver your project on time or even faster. This is why you should consider choosing ways to organize your time and save it when it is possible.

10 Amazing Mac Apps for Web Designers and Developers

Mac is a brand of personal computers made by Apple inc. Mac is growing day by day and according to the Net Market Share, the Mac OS market share on desktop became 6.36%, which is amazing. With Mac, it is obvious that Mac apps are also growing. Many apps are available out there, but finding the best ones of a kind is not an easy task. So in order to help you out today we have a list of 10 Amazing Mac Apps for Web Designers and Developers. They will prove to be really useful for all the web developers and designers out there. Check the list out and pick the ones that suit your needs the best!

Mastering Web Design

Over the last few years, we have seen an explosion of new technologies for web designers to learn that allow us to produce dynamic, engrossing and interactive web sites. HTML5 and CSS3 has matured greatly, with most browser vendors now supporting these new technologies at some level, and cross-browser compatibility will soon be a thing of the past — we hope.

Top 10 jQuery Plugins Of Great Importance

JQuery is a wonderful JavaScript apps available along with the help of which you are able to easily create breathtaking web outcomes in less than a few lines of coding. JQuery is contrived to modify the way you write down JavaScript.

Flat Mobile UI Design with Remarkable User Experience

Flat design means designing without the usual gradients, pixel perfect shadows, and skeuomorphism that’s been rampant in recent years (more on this later) to achieve what appears to be a “flat” interface. The most beautiful, modern and amazing Flat Mobile UI Design is right here. Today we’re picked up 50 Flat Mobile UI Design with Remarkable User Experience from behance and dribbble for inspiration.

Foundation for Beginners: The Grid System

In the opening part of this session on the Foundation Framework, we took a look at how you could make use of this framework, what it can do and how you can fashion a custom build. In this part we’ll look in detail at the grid system, demonstrating some examples as we go. We’ll also shake things up a bit and take a look at the Orbit JavaScript Slider plugin; a great slider for displaying all sorts of content.

15 Free CSS3 Tutorials to Create Amazing Buttons

CSS3 is the future of html/css. It is a very powerful css framework. Buttons are a very important element of any web design. It enhances the feel and beauty of the design and has an impact on its overall look. Creating buttons using CSS3 requires some experience because to add advanced effects to these buttons is not an easy task.

15 New Developer Tools for Code Geeks

Developing a well-coded and aesthetically well designed website –can usually end up becoming quite an endeavor for even the most skilled web developer. Developers as well as designers must now be able to stay abreast of current trends and web-standards and furthermore be able to determine ways by which to utilize them into their designs.

27 High Quality WordPress Magazine Themes – Problogging

Magazine WordPress themes are the subject of interest for plenty of individuals, owing to the manner they will gift content in a very lovely, clean manner and additionally mix advertisements as good as into the look. although they need modified plenty within the last years, magazine themes preserve identical key options through that they need to deliver the content to the visitant, offer him the data that he wants so he will notice it simply like he would have intercourse in a very newspaper.

30 Amazing Adobe Photoshop CS6 Tutorials to improve your skills

Adobe Photoshop CS6 comes with amazing features and new interface changes. Photoshop is really stunning for graphic designers looking to create illustrations, web layouts, icons, digital artwork, photo effects etc. Therefore, no one can master on their skills without practicing of Photoshop tutorials.

20+ beautiful brushes from BrushLovers.com

As an amateur designer, there were two things I loved to go to when making pieces: filters and brushes. Filters were just cool and fun to mess around with. Brushes were tons of fun as well, but I would tend to use them as stamps. Nothing really too fancy. They were just quick ways to insert an element I couldn’t make into a design.

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Stock photos are very popular with web designers they come in a variety of different sizes and types, however as amazing as they can be there are also some drawbacks to using stock photos, we have listed five reasons why you should use stock photos as well as five reasons why you should avoid them.

Four reasons to use stock photos

Stock photos have recently gained immense popularity with web developers and designers in general, some of the biggest reasons to use stock photos are cost, time saving, choice and many more.

Cost

Stock photos can often be purchased at a rather small cost that makes stock photos perfect for those developers who are on a tight budget!

Abundance of choices

Since the whole business idea behind stock photo companies is that they want to offer high quality stock images, they need to have a wide variety of different choices, that is why most companies offer millions of photos, making it much easier for you to find exactly what you are looking for.

Makes the site look more inviting

Everyone knows that pictures will make a website look much more welcoming. If you use images on your website visitors are more likely to enjoy browsing and reading your website.

Choice in sizes

One aspect of stock photos that make them very popular is the fact that you can purchase the photos in exacthy the size you need, whether it be really small or a large photo that takes up your entire page.

Four reasons not to use stock photos

Even though using stock photos might seem like the best idea in the universe, there are also some things that you need to take into consideration, here are four reasons why you might want to avoid stock photos.

License restrictions

Perhaps the biggest reason not to use stock photos is License restrictions. Each stock photo company will have their own restrictions and therefore you need to be very careful, I cannot stress enough the importance of reading the small print. Some companies will only allow you to use their photos for editorial use and not for advertising, most photos can’t be used on packaging of products, as well as on templates. In other words READ THE FINE PRINT!

Not Unique

Since stock photos can be bought from a number of different websites you need to be aware of the fact that anyone can purchase these images, in other words your competitor could be using the same image. Also someone else might be using the same image however with a totally different heading and this could very well ruin your marketing campaign. Secondly the same images are sold on multiple websites so chances are at one point or another they will show up somewhere else.

Pictures don’t fit your website

One problem with stock photos is that sometimes you simply can’t find a stock photo that matches what you are trying to express. The result is ultimately photos that don’t present a visual connection with your message.

Low Resolution

One of the biggest problems with stock photos is that often people buy the lowest resolution that they think they might need, however with the advances of technology and computer screens after a while some websites just look like they were built in the 1990′s because the photos are such crappy quality.

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The latest business trend on the Internet is single-page websites. Sure they’ve been around for a while, but only recently have they been embraced on a larger scale. And why shouldn’t they?

A single-page site means less confusion for the user, key information is just a click or scroll away, and you can put tons of your best work front and center. This Mighty Deal lets you get in on the fun with 20 HTML5 one-page Website templates with the Parallax Effect! It normally sells for $700, but for a limited time only, you can get all 20 for just $19! That’s an insane savings of 97% off the regular price!

One Page Responsive Parallax Templates Highlights:

• 20 Website Templates
  This bundle features 20 high-quality, professional HTML/CSS templates for your website (note: These are not WordPress templates, but website ones). You’re sure to find a design and layout you like among so many great choices.
• Responsive Design
  All these templates were built with a responsive design. That means they’ll not only function on any device, but look great too. Whether it’s a desktop computer, laptop, smartphone or tablet, you can rest assured that your site will continue to impress no matter how your users are viewing it.
• Customizable
  Your purchase of this Web Template Bundle means you’ll receive the necessary CSS, HTML and PSD files for each template. That makes it easy to customize your templates any way you’d like, from adjusting colors to adding images.
• Royalty-Free License
  All these templates come with a royalty-free license. You can use any of these templates on a single domain for either personal or business-related projects.

Take a look at the amazing templates included in this bundle:

Portfolio
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Professional Portfolio

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Web Designer Portfolio

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Photography

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Photographer Personal Page
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Responsive Portfolio

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Fashion Models

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Wedding

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Business Parallax
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Responsive Single Page
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One Page HTML5 Portfolio
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Corporate Responsive Parallax
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Business Responsive Parallax
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Responsive One Page Portfolio
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Travel Parallax Responsive Site
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Hotel Responsive
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Spa Salon Responsive
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Restaurant Responsive
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Photo Portfolio Responsive
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Photographer Responsive
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If you have tried Googling web designer resources you will have noticed that there is a gazillion different resources, however sometimes you just want to kick back and read a good old-fashioned magazine. If you are looking for a print publication that covers topics that web designers and developers are interested in then here is a list of 10 publications that you might find interesting.

If you feel we have forgotten any then just leave us a comment below!

.net Magazine

Not only is .net one of the best online resources for web designers and developers, however their magazine is packed with practical advice on everything from design, development, sales, marketing, usability to accessibility, information architecture, security, copywriting, advertising and much much more.

The Manual

If you are looking for something to get your favorite developer and you are unsure what to get them, then “The Manual” is just the right thing. The Manual is a different sort of publication, you will not see a lot of screenshots or tutorials, they focus more on the stories behind the design. Published by Andy McMillan, edited by Carolyn Wood, and designed by Jez Burrows, you can get it for 25$.

PRINT

If you are looking for a magazine that focuses on visual culture and design, then Print is just what you are looking for. The magazine was founded in 1940 by William Edwin Rudge, and covers commercial, social, and environmental design from every angle. The reporters take great pride in focusing on all aspects of design, design in its social, political, and historical contexts, they try to grasp why our world looks the way it does and what makes it so beautiful.

8Faces

Quickly decide! For the rest of your life you can only use 8 typefaces, which would you choose? This is really the essence of 8faces, each issue is only pressed in 2000 limited editions so if you want one you better be fast. For those who prefer online 8faces is also available as a PDF file, previous editions are also available as a PDF download.

Computer Arts

If you are looking for a magazine with a lot of different tutorials on a large number of different topics then Computer Arts is exactly what you are looking for “covering everything from manipulating photographs with Photoshop to creating amazing vector illustrations with Illustrator.” If you want professional advice then your should really read this publication.

Web Designer

If you are living in the UK then there is only one magazine that you must read! Web Designer is published monthly and is dedicated to providing the best tutorials, with more than 25 pages of each magazine dedicated to Dreamweaver, Flash, and Photoshop walkthroughs created by the country’s most knowledgeable technology writers.

Photoshop Creative

If you are looking for a way to improve your Photoshop skills then this is really the magazine you need to be reading, each issue is packed with inspirational tutorials, the best part is they cover many different aspects of Adobe’s amazing software, whether you are looking for creative project tutorials to practical guides to using tools and techniques. Furthermore each issue comes with a CD-ROM packed with great resources.

Website Magazine

If you are looking for a magazine that focuses business of running a website then this is just the right magazine, with a plethora of different articles focusing on thing such as:  tips for successful websites, solutions for enhancing website traffic, the latest Internet industry trends and statistics, as well as news analysis on the Internet industry.

Advanced Photoshop

If you are a beginner who doesn’t know what a layer is, then Advanced Photoshop is probably not something for you, however if you are just looking for a way to refresh your photoshop skills because it is something you work with every day, then this is the perfect magazine! Aimed towards Adobe Photoshop professionals and enthusiasts, every issue prides itself on its unbeatable quality and sophisticated content.

Digital Arts

Once again a magazine for our UK readers, Digital Arts is the go-to magazine for creative professionals, whether they are working with print design or web design. Digital Arts strives toward delivering high-quality content, furthermore they provide their readers with professional advice, across all platforms and disciplines. Digital Arts uses extensive in-house lab facilities for product assays, producing top-class reviews.

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The week is coming to an end and that means it is time for us to look back on the week that passed, the best design news, resources and other goodies. This week we look Adobe programs, how to optimize your website, as well as how to make you app design stand out and much more.

6 Creative Ways to Use Evernote

There’s a reason the Evernote logo is an elephant. Because when used correctly, this helpful, versatile, free app will make sure you never forget anything ever. Just like an elephant. If you’re unfamiliar with Evernote, the app utilizes “notebooks” — basically a system of folders and subfolders that become increasingly helpful as you create more. Greater organization makes it easier to recall exactly what you need at a later date, across any platform.

Web & Mobile UI Tutorials

Photoshop can be used for many purposes and one of the most common uses is for designing web and mobile User Interfaces (UI). Here are some tutorials that will teach you how to design complete sites and various site elements mainly in Photoshop, and also a couple making use of Illustrator.

43 New and Inspiring Examples of Flat Web Design You Should See

Flat design is a newish term for both print design, web design and mobile operating system design. Flat web design refers to a design form that does away with busy-looking patterned textured backgrounds, drop shadows around lettering and boxed sections within a web site. Google was one of the first to overhaul their suite of web apps using flat web design principles and many other sites have now followed suit as well.

Must-Read Web Design Articles for Beginners

There will always be new people getting into the process of learning web design. It is a convoluted topic at first, but if you stick with your studies it can be an extremely rewarding experience. The web design community is full of useful freebies and tutorials which you can find all through Google.

Fantastic Web Development Tools by Adobe

Adobe offers some website development tools which are better than the old ones because these are smarter and flexible. Using them in creating your website will make your internet page more attractive to the people. These new Adobe tools are highly interactive not only in their performance but in the style too.

Tips And Tricks For Testing WordPress Themes

Whether you offer free or premium themes, testing should be a major part of your development process. By planning in advance, you can foster a development environment that deters some bugs by design and that helps you prevent others. The aim of this article is to share some of the tricks I use personally during and after development to achieve a bug-free product.

Is Your Home Page Just One Big Cliche?

There are literally zillions of articles and resources out there telling us how to create a good home or landing page. And there’s definitely an argument for adopting best (and/or most successful) practices in our work.

Good Examples of Music-related Mobile App Designs

In a world of mobile applications music-related programs occupy one of a leading position. They are definitely one of the most sought after.  One of the main reasons for such popularity is that you not only become a happy owner of tech-savvy extension, but you can also get pleasure of truly advanced and exquisite background for your music satisfaction.

5 ways to make your app design stand out

With so much competition on the App Store, how on earth do you make yours stand out? In order to answer that question, it’s worth taking a look at what’s happening in a specific sector. Let’s examine the recent mania for weather apps… Lately, the App Store has been inundated with user interface-focused weather apps. In a tight market, not all weather apps can succeed. But some new apps have done so by presenting a refreshingly simple and elegant twist on the idea (*including an open-minded approach to profanity – which means the easily offended might not want to scroll down further).

Flat UI Kits, Best for Web and App UI Design

UI design kits are the basic requirement of any web related projects and good quality design elements are like a treasure for designers. If you are looking for that perfect user interface design elements for your web site, blog, web app or mobile apps, you will find them here. Enjoy and let us know by commenting below: I just gathered all of these Flat UI Kits for my readers, and I ask nothing in return but it would be awesome if you’d be kind enough to share this article via your preferred social network.

 18 Interactive HTML5 Websites

Earlier websites were built using flash to give all those cool effects to the websites because flash was the only possible way-out. But flash has many disadvantages. Now it is possible to add all the effects that were possible only with flash without using flash. All this is possible with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. Here are 18 examples of interactive HTML5 websites.

40 Free Html5 Responsive Templates

There is just no reason why you would not use HTML5 theme templatesfor your website, especially it looks so professionally done, attracting many of your site visitors to explore your page even more. Aside from the appearance that’s surely created to please, another reason why HTML5 patterns are the bomb is because of its responsiveness and fluidity, which is evident on animations found in the said themes. Colors, font styles, and accents are also evidences of how such themes have been meticulously done, even though they are offered as free html5 responsive templates.

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If you love movies as much as I do, then you will have noticed that some movie posters are whole works of art. There are so many different ways in which you can design a poster, and so many different emotions you can express in such a small space. Sometimes there are several posters used to promote the same movie, as is the case with some of the posters in this article.

We have compiled a list of 30 beautiful movie posters that you can use as inspiration for your next design project, if you think we have forgotten any, do feel free to share them with us in the comments.

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In my opinion, stickers are an often overlooked form of marketing and I believe that when done well, they can be hugely beneficial as part of a great marketing campaign. The thing is, such a small percentage of businesses actually use stickers in their marketing campaigns and even when they do, their impact is minimal; usually due to the fact that they have poorly designed stickers.

Now, I’m a big lover of stickers along with design and although I’ve seen some pretty poorly designed stickers over the years, I’ve also seen some incredibly well designed stickers that have done wonders for certain businesses brand awareness.

So, with the aim of encouraging more businesses to utilise stickers are part of their marketing campaign, I thought I’d round up a list of what I consider to be some of the most creative, bold and inspiring sticker designs out there. Hopefully, this will give you a bit of inspiration and show you what can be done when it comes to stickers.

Sure, not all of the stickers on this list will be used to market a business but you can still learn a lot by looking at the design of them.

#1 – 911 Surf Report

source: 911surfreport.com

If you run an online based business, then stickers are definitely likely to be something that you haven’t really thought about using to market your business but the fact of the matter is, they can be utilised just as well with an online business than with an offline one.

Take a look at the sticker design above. These were created by the website; 911surfreport.com which provides surf reports for surfers (obviously). Note the cartoonlike design of the sticker as well as the fact that it contains the websites branding.

Obviously, even if your business isn’t online, you can still create a cartoonlike design like this as they’re very bold and eye-catching and therefore, would be suited for almost any business.

#2 – Orange Information Systems

source: stickers

Orange Information Systems is a company that is currently based in the UK and creates a wide variety of IT-related products. It’s likely that you’ve never seen an IT company that has utilised stickers as part of their marketing plan but if you take a look at the sticker design from Orange Information Systems, you’ll soon realise that more of them really should be utilising them.

As you can see, these stickers are pretty minimal when it comes to the design but at the same time, they’re extremely bold. The thing that makes these stickers so great is the use of contrasting colours; this is what makes them stand out. What’s more, the use of the orange colour in the design relates to the business name and also, helps ensure that the stickers catch your eye, even from a distance.

#3 – Marthas Vineyard

source: Dribbble

This is one of my favourite sticker designs simply because of the minimalistic, yet smart nature of it.

As you can see from the design, it must be one of the most minimal sticker designs that’s ever been produced but there’s no doubt about it, this makes for a bold image that really captures your attention.

The reason for this is that the creator of the sticker has kept in mind the intended use of the sticker during the stages of its design. As you can see from the image, it’s been stuck on a browny coloured wood (likely a table at the vineyard) and because of this, the white sticker contrasts with the background and stands out a lot.

Clearly, if this sticker was stuck on a white van, it wouldn’t have the same impact, so keep the intended use of your sticker in mind throughout the design process.

#4 – Droids on Roids

source: Droids On Roids

Droids on Roids is a development company that specialises in creating applications for Android Smartphone’s and tablets (hence the name of the company). If you visit the Droids on Roids website, you’ll notice that their company is quite quirky when it comes to the branding and that their logo is actually almost designed to look a little like a sticker.

Droids on Roids is the perfect company for utilising stickers in their marketing campaign as overall, they’re quite quirky and also, it gives them an opportunity to gain a lot of brand awareness through their cool looking stickers.

If you take a look at the sticker above, you’ll notice that it’s a pretty simple design that essentially, is just the company’s logo. However, it uses a die cut background for extra effect and to help it stand out.

This sticker just goes to show that you don’t always have to overcomplicate your stickers message/meaning; sometimes it can just be your company/brands logo.

Conclusion

As you can see, stickers can look exceptional if you just put a bit of effort into the design of them and ensure that you keep your intended use for the sticker in mind throughout. Stickers can be an incredible way to gain brand exposure as more often than not, people will stick the stickers to their personal belongings and/or related items that will then be noticed by your target market.

For example, take the 911 Surf Report stickers for instance; it’s likely that the surfers would have stuck these to their surf boards and gained awareness for the brand throughout the surfing community, thus increasing revenue for the company by a significant amount.

I’d recommend that every company experiments with sticker designs as they can be an extremely cost effective form of marketing; just make sure to design a bold image and you’ll be good to go.

Author Bio: Joshua is a design and branding enthusiast with a particular love for creative marketing techniques. He works for the print and design company; Discount Banner Printing in the UK. They specialise in sticker printing.

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We all agree that it’s very hard to define inspiration, that very personal process, specially tailored to your precise measurements. But if you are in tight spot – inspiration-wise – and you really need somebody to come and take you by the hand and show you around, then read on.

“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club” Jack London

Get on the Bus! Where? Anywhere. Yes, it might as well be all ‘public transportation’, but the truth is that buses have a je ne sais quoi that keeps you in contact (literally) with people, while taking you through surprising neighbourhoods. It can be fast-forward or slow motion, depending where you’re taking the bus from/to. Keep all your senses alive. Try to absorb as much as possible of the world around you. It’s like the news meets soaps, documentaries and feature films. The less familiar the hood, the better. Switch off your mobile, relax, and focus on those things that usually slip your mind on a busy daily routine. Like the top windows of the buildings, the creaking pub signs, or the old gentleman searching for his ticket.
Take notes. Of course, don’t forget the camera.

“Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it” Bob Dylan

Walk! If something catches your eye, go back and explore it on foot. You’ll be amazed about the incredible amount of details and stories hidden in side streets, alleys, parks… Go off the beaten track!

Keep chasing the light, the sunset and the sunrise, and everything in between. And do not underestimate the power of a good photo exhibition. Exploring the photos that made it, that won awards and stood the passage of time, can give you as many tips as any face to face with your heroes. Try to imagine (!) how did they came across those stories.

Thomas Edison was right when he said that “genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration”. Sometimes it doesn’t hurt to take it… literally. Keep seeking!

On the other hand, if it’s not for your own portfolio, you can always find the photos you want just a click away, like on 123rf for example.

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The week is coming to an end and that means it is time for us to look back on the week that passed, the best design news, resources and other goodies. This week we look at Photoshop tutorials, best fonts, free social media icons as well as WordPress restaurant designs, different ways to convert your site for Retina Screens and much more.

50 Useful CSS Snippets Every Designer Should Have

With so many new trends advancing every year it can be difficult keeping up with the industry. Website designers and frontend developers have been deeply ingrained into the newer CSS3 properties, determining the ultimate browser support and quirky hacks. But there are also brilliant CSS2 code snippets which have been unrequited in comparison.

Design = emotions + usability

While fine art is a subjective field, graphic design is more formulaic in its fundamentals. An effective design should make people feel a certain way and take a certain action. In this article I’d like to share Gravity Switch’s web design principles and our thinking behind them. Those rules are: define goals first; focus on users second; design for emotion; follow the rules of visual design; build a clear, visual hierarchy; be consistent; break the rules (when necessary); don’t overuse gimmicks; and finally test, measure & improve.

50 Flat Icons Set, Best for Web and App UI Design

Every body wants to know about What is Flat Design? A flat design looks sharp and brilliant, vibrant, striking color decisions. Flat design means designing without the usual gradients, pixel perfect shadows, and skeuomorphism that’s been rampant in recent years (more on this later) to achieve what appears to be a “flat” interface.

Animating and Transitioning Pseudo-Elements

Today we are going to experiment with animations and transitions on pseudo-elements (:before and :after) and we are going to discover their potential. We will talk a bit about animating pseudo-elements and look at four examples that use some special techniques to achieve a variety of effects.

4 Ways to Convert Your Site to Retina

A new generation of Retina displays with high pixel densities is now on the market. Unfortunately, that means your website imagery could instantly become ugly and pixelated if you don’t take action. With the introduction of the iPhone 4 in 2010, Apple no longer measured its screens in pixels, but in points. The scaling factor of the screen changed, which determines how a point relates to a pixel. A Retina display now has a scale of two, so one point is equal to two pixels — if you draw a one-point line, it shows as two pixels wide. If you’re imagery isn’t optimized to account for this, your product won’t make a great first impression.

5 Technological Breakthoughs Your Website Redesign Must Have

Advancement in design and programming technology makes for a perfect storm: Now is the best time to redo your website. Technology breakthroughs are constant, but design breakthroughs – what’s that all about? Comedian Louis CK does a bit about how your stomach takes 20 minutes to tell your head that it’s full. He says you can stub your toe and your head knows right away how much it hurts, but why does it take 20 minutes for your stomach to communicate?

40 Bootstrap Tools and Generators for Web Developers

With the increasing figures of websites being developed, created, and launched each day, the competition gets stiffer in order to promote products and services among online visitors and users. There are different tools being offered and used by different web masters in order to keep the competition healthy and exciting. Profit is the end goal, and long-term stability in order to stay in the online business where large scale of market has encompassed both novice and professionals. With the introduction of bootstrap, the popularity of the site will be boosted since it has a responsive framework which is integral in keeping sites visibility and visits.

Website Designs with Depth Perception: Wonderful Examples

We are gradually getting used to the fact that professional designers don’t have limits; they just simply push boundaries of general conceptions and recreate whatever comes to their minds. One of the best examples confirming this notion is website design with depth perception. Despite the fact that initially it is a two-dimensional medium, nowadays, designers are capable of transforming conventional flat websiteappearance into astonishing 3-dimensional environment by simply establishing an illusion of depth.

10 great free monospaced fonts for programming

Too many programmers don’t pay enough attention to the fonts they use to work, yet coding involves staring at your screen a long and reading complicated and detailed text. A good choice of font for your coding activites can make a huge difference and improve your productivity, so take a look at the fonts in this post if you never considered changing programming fonts before.

25 Great WordPress Widget Plugins

WordPress widget plugins are heavily used in WordPress websites and like shortcode plugins they are used to add features and content in a flexible way without any need for coding. Most blog themes for WordPress have fixed widget locations and features for adding lists of posts and categories in the sidebar. While this is OK in most cases more power is sometimes required to build a unique and eye catching website. I have collected a bunch of the best WordPress widget plugins I know. I am fully aware that there is a lot more out there and I may have missed a few good ones. Please let me know if I did and I will consider adding them.

Latest CSS and CSS3 Tutorials for Developers 

Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) can be considered as a backbone of web design, as it plays vital role while developing dynamic features enriched web applications. Primarily, CSS is designed to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation, including elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts. This separation can improve content accessibility, provide more flexibility and control in the specification of presentation characteristics, enable multiple pages to share formatting, and reduce complexity and repetition in the structural content (such as by allowing for tableless web design).

21 Premium Restaurant WordPress Themes

Restaurant websites almost always display a beautiful blend of photography and text in their design. A restaurant’s main focus is always food, so there is no better way to attract their potential customers than displaying amazing photographs of delicious food. The photos of food can be showcased in a variety of different ways, for instance in the form of sliders, tiles etc. Food has the power to move even the laziest people, so photos of yummy and tasty food always does the job.

35 Easy Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials

Photoshop is an awesome multifarious tool that allows achieving a lot of different things related to photo editing and graphics. It is undoubtedly one of the best friends of a designer. It offers a plethora of amazing features, each having its own great usability and importance. Once you get used to Photoshop, using it and experimenting with it becomes quite easy.

Download Free Social Media Icons – 30 Sets of Awesome Free Icons

In web designing, we have to use several icons to beautify any graphic design, to keep up with the new responsive design and ever increasing social media sites, here in this article we have collected 30 sets of free social media icons to download and use as per need. Social media icons sets can make your design vibrant any day, with exceptional graphic display these free icons from various sources can save you loads of time . Every icon set below has links to the main source, where you can download and use these as per need. Yesterday we made our first free website template and we are happy to see to response and we will be providing these freebies time and time again.

30 Education Logo Design For Inspiration

Education goes beyond the teaching of reading, writing and arithmetic. It is the best investment that country can make in its people and its future, and it plays a crucial role in the fight against poverty and inequality. Education enables individuals to acquire the skills and tools needed to better meet their needs and those of her children. For that we found in each country a thousand of schools and universities and every educational institution has an identity of its own and this must be carried effectively by the logo it is using. In today’s article i have collected an amazing collection of 30education logo design that can give you boost inspiration for universities and schools logos.

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With more and more businesses and business people handing out business cards to everyone and their dog it can sometimes be a little difficult to stand out among the crowd, on Monday we showed you some amazing business cards for inspiration, and today we will show you some of the best tutorials for creating your very own business card.

There are some things that should be on every business card, listed here are the most important, these are in no particular order however you might want to make your name rather prominent on the card.

• Your name
• Your title
• Business name
• A phone number
• Your e-mail address

Here are 15+ tutorials to help you get started on your business card creation:

Cardboard and Torn Paper Business Card

How to Design an Abstract Business Card in Photoshop

Business Card layout

Create a Fun Print-Ready Doodled Business Card Design

Create a Print Ready Business Card Design in Illustrator

Create A Retro Inspired Business Card

Designing a Business Card with InDesign CS5

Designing a Business Card in InDesign

Business Card Design Project Walkthrough

How to Create a Colorful Business Card Template in Illustrator CS4

Blue-Grey Visiting-Card -Photoshop Tutorials

Making a Print-Ready Business Card using only Photoshop

How to Create a Stylish Business Card Template in Adobe Photoshop

How To Create Old Grudge Style Print Ready Business Card

Making Creative Business Card

Cool Business Card

Business Card Design Walkthrough

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About 20 years ago the Internet was a fairly unheard of new concept, with quite limited options for the average Joe who wanted to check it out. Even 10 years ago there were still skeptics who though that it wouldn’t be around for very long and they could have not been more wrong had they tried it on purpose. The Internet’s become the go-to place for everything, from cooking recipes and knitting patterns (although, in all fairness, you can do the latter in Excel just as well) to plans for world domination and bomb making. It’s a wealth of knowledge and product available for anybody with a stable connection to look up and everyone and their grandmother is using it. It’s the newest drug to hit homes and mobile devices and, just like a drug, once you’re hooked you need more and more to get your fix.

On the other hand, this content didn’t just spawn itself and it took what became an industry to put it out there. Websites sprouted like mushrooms after a rain and from the get-go there were guidelines for what to do and what to avoid. No decent developer would ever create a website that’s full of glitter and fat ponies for a corporation that sells accounting software unless the client requested it and was a 12 year old girl, a highly unlikely scenario.

Building websites has become an art, with sought-after artists who deliver stunning work but also charge accordingly and some companies or individuals couldn’t afford it. The need for a tool to create simpler designs arose. And then another. And another. The downside was that they were still rather on the complicated side and required some previous knowledge but this has since been resolved, the tools have had a lot of the functionality subsumed into widgets that users could choose to have or just let them in the virtual shed.

Right now there are two options available for someone who needs to have a project online for others to view. The costly route of hiring a web developer and somebody to program the back-end of everything, guaranteeing a quality return for the investment or taking the low-budget, ‘scenic’ route of creating it on your own and being able to see exactly what goes where.

A website builder that you could use is Imcreator, one of the most recently launched sites that can help in creating a site in a short period of time and with decent results.  As it proves, it’s a very user friendly tool, with features that could be used not only by web designers, but also by someone who doesn’t have any clue about programming or web design.

Build your own website using Imcreator involves 3 steps:

• select a template from the ones already available;

• customize it anyway you want, depending on the purpose of the project and the material available – texts, photos, videos, all with just a few clicks;

• put it out there by pressing the Publish button.

Getting the hang of it seems to have never been so easy and, at the end, if you’re good, you can have twice the return for your time investment: a website you like and a first-hand look in the belly of the online beast.

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In today’s world everyone knows that standing out from the crowd is important and yet many businesses and business people forget that the best place to do just that is the business card. Remember if your business card is dull and boring chances are the person surfing through their rolodex will just swoosh right past you, however if you have a memorable business card you increase your chances of repeat business. On Wednesday we will have a list of great business card tutorials.

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The week is coming to an end and that means it is time for us to look back on the week that passed, the best design news, resources and other goodies. This week we look at great business cards, bootstrap, grunge photoshop tutorials as well as creative packaging designs and much more.

15 Best Parallax Scrolling Tutorials

Parallax scrolling is one of the simplest solutions that webmasters could rely on, especially if they demand for immediate impact on the site visit, faster loading time, and interesting effects that people could enjoy. Because of its benefit to webpages using Parallax plugins, there are now many online resources that offer Parallax tutorials in order for interested website owners to also experience the increasing number of visitors with such an amazing welcome page.

30 Unconventional Business Cards

Yes, more traditional business practices are going digital these days. Though sometimes, a good ol’ physical business card is just as effective for that networking event, trade fair or random grocery store encounter. But to make yourself memorable, leave behind the ho-hum, stock-designed business cards in favor of something a bit more creative. Who knows? It might be worth that little extra investment when your company stands out from the stack of cards already on everyone’s desk. We scoured the Internet and found some pretty clever designs. Check out our list below of 30 creative business cards (in no particular order) — they leave quite the impression.

All about Twitter Bootstrap and Web Design

Welcome new easy-to-use-and-configure HTML, CSS and Javascript framework with the help of which the process of web development will become easier and faster! Bootstrap Framework is the creation of Jacob Thornton and Mark Otto. It was released as an open source in August 2011 and became the most called-for GitHub project by February 2012.

51 Grunge Photoshop Tutorials to Try Today

Grunge is an art style of rebel youth. These people don’t want to follow glamorous culture and false ideals of beauty. At the same time it’s a popular design trend (particularly web design) that fascinates millions of creative minds. And today we’d like to show you fantastic grunge Photoshop tutorials, so that can feel dirty grunge style actually. Let’s take a loot at each of 51 grunge Photoshop tutorials that we’ve collected for you. They will make you a more skilled designer!

30+ Sets Of Free Blurred Backgrounds

Blurred backgrounds may look like a really bad and unfocused photograph. However, many web designers use blur effects on website backgrounds to simulate depth and give the content extra focus. When used right the effect is really strong and we often see it used on photography websites and online portfolios where creative people show off their skills and creations. Check out this collection ofphoto website templates for inspiration. The blurred background trend may not be at a peak just now and is a direct contrast to the very popular use of minimalistic and flat design in both website and mobile apps. Still it is worth considering is you want to stand out and be recognized as a creative individual or agency. In this article, I have collected more than 30 sets of useful blurred background photographs that I hope you will find good use for in your creative projects.

40 Creative Packaging Design For Inspiration

As packaging is a part of our daily lives , the packaging design (food , drink , gift , etc ) is a essential part of product marketing tactics. Some companies make it the primary goal to attract customers’ attention. Creative and well-designedpackaging design breaks away from the standard rules and conventions that we are accustomed to, giving the product a unique edge to stand out from the rest. However, a product packaging design is not only useful in marketing and advertising , it can inspires graphic designers and enhances their creativity and innovation.

So Here we have rounded up 40 Inspirational Packaging Designs to inspire you for your next design project and why not boot up your creativity idea.

10 fonts that are safe to use with CSS

With the rise of @font-face and the new possibilities it opens, web designers like to use fancy fonts to make their website more unique. However, this does come with a price, an more important loading time for web pages.

If saving bandwidth and having fast loading pages is important for you, don’t worry too much, it doesn’t mean you have to give up on typography. There are a few fonts that you can use to make sure your website is looking right without using Arial or Times New Roman. In this post we take a look at some fonts that are already installed on your visitors computers most of the time.

Trends: Going Bigger with Typography

I like big type and I cannot lie …OK, that’s not exactly how 1990s rap anthem by Sir Mix-a-Lot goes, but you get the idea. Big typography is trending in a major way. And that’s a good thing. The point of text in your design is to be read. From navigation, to blog entries to item descriptions for e-commerce, type is meant to be seen and understood. Going big is a great way to do that.

80+ Awesome jQuery Slider Plugins

This article is one of the largest and most up to date collections of jQuery slider plugins. There are different types of sliders to choose from and it is important to review the options to get the right slider design for your site. I have included basic image sliders, mixed content slider, gallery sliders, carousel sliders, banner rotators and some even have fully responsive support.

23 Useful HTML5 Tools For Web Developers

HTML5 tools are useful tools that serve and aid web developers and designers because of its awesome features. This is actually the contemporary language in presenting website content online. HTML5 tools for web developers allows webmasters to incorporate images, video, fonts, audio, animations, and the drag & drop in your web pages. Another perks of it is the compatibility it provides to the old website designs whether it’s HTML or HTML 4. In order to take advantage and witness the latest designs, here are the 23 useful HTML5 tools that any webmasters can use in order to stay ahead and up-to-date.

Could Mobile Responsive Website Design Hurt Your SEO?

Indeed, designing with a mobile-first mindset becomes more important — quite literally — by the day. As does answering burning questions related to mobile design best practices. For example: Is mobile responsive web design good for SEO or not? This has become a hotly debated topic, even right here in the Copyblogger comment sections, with reasonable minds making reasonable arguments on both sides. Depending on where you look and what you read, you might come away thinking that Responsive Web Design is in perfectly fine shape regarding SEO … or that it creates a mess that’s going to destroy your search results.

Google to let you create your own HTML tags

Amongst all the announcements at Google I/O, the search giant’s annual conference, one of the more eyebrow-raising was its plan to let Android developers create their own HTML tags via Google’s Web Componentstechnology.

100 Free jQuery Image and Content Slider Plugins

Content slider is an awesome way to get attention of your visitors and customers.Content slider plugins feature several pieces of your content (articles,products..) with titles,descriptions and images.jQuery content and image sliders use very small amount of space in your websites or blogs so that they can be used in any part of the the page.In today’s post we have a really huge collection of free jQuery content and image sliders.Probably this is one of the biggest collection of all time of jQuery content and image sliders.

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Every company has some type of logo that they used to identify themselves to their customers. This logo could be brand new or decades old. Business owners occasionally feel the urge to change their logo. However, is it possible to redesign an existing logo? Is the urge to do so for an important reason and may it be done without damaging your company’s reputation or existing business?

Reasons to Change a Logo

Rebranding

Often in the life span of a business, especially one that has been around for a long time, the need arises to reposition the company in its chosen industry. A brand is simply someone’s impression of a company. If the business is know for refined elegance, it will be nearly impossible to implement a budget or low price strategy successfully. Over the course of years, or decades, a company’s focus may shift. In shifting, the company then needs to portray a different image, tell a different story to its audience. At this point it is time to rebrand and it is appropriate to redesign your logo to match with your new branding strategies.

Copyright

It pays to do your research before designing your logo or naming your business. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to be completely thorough and occasionally it happens that two different companies attempt to trademark the same name or design a similar logo. If this happens, and you are unfortunate enough to be the newer company – it may be required that you change your logo to something completely different.

Modernization

From decade to decade, styles come and go. A great logo design can withstand the ages, but even brilliant designs will in time need to be updated. To modernize a logo does not necessarily mean to completely change it. It merely may need some minor adjusting to match up with the current times.

Mergers

Mergers and acquisitions happen all the time. When two companies are combined, the question of whether to completely join the two companies comes up. Some companies choose to continue on as if nothing as changed but the management. Others dissolve one company under the new one instead. Occasionally, a rebranding is needed to combine the two companies so that both are instantly recognizable but are part of the same thing. This can be tricky but is possible.

Simplification

When a company first starts out it is easy for them to design a logo that appeals to them for various reasons. Unfortunately, the outcome of that design is sometimes confusing to the target audience. It is the style lately to get rid of taglines and slogans in a logo and to really focus on an image that will stand out to your customers. A simplified logo can be stronger and more easily noticeable than a complicated one.

Jump Start

If a company has begun to lose customers or their numbers are gradually diminishing, instead of giving up hope a jump kick to the business might just change things around. If you can change your brand, or the public’s perception of you, it is easy to start being successful again. This is a fantastic time to redesign your logo.

Reasons Not to Change a Logo

Boredom or Restlessness

If a business owner or marketing department suddenly gets the urge to change or update their logo and have no valid reason to do so, don’t allow it. A logo is the image of your company and should not be traded out or changed at will. While a logo redesign can be a great thing, there needs to be a great reason to do it. Logo redesigns are confusing for customers. Customers loyal to your company will also be surprisingly loyal to its brand image. If you cannot convince the public of the need to rebrand you may find yourself losing dedicated customers unnecessarily.

Success

If your business is currently successful and making good profit, then there is really no need to change your logo design just because you can afford to do so. That money is better invested in staying on top of industry trends or ahead of current developments so that your company can stay on top.

Conclusion

Most importantly, however, is to do a test run of the new design. While you do not want to broadcast your new logo before it is finalized, it is important to have it looked at by various groups of people. Images and symbols means different things to different audiences and sometimes can hold an unintentional message unwittingly. Be certain the impression you are going for with your new logo design is what customers are receiving when they view it. It is easier to edit and change the logo before launch than it is to make changes after you have put all of your company behind it.

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Spring is here, the birds are chirping and flowers starting to bloom. Therefore we decided to collect 20+ must have spring and floral Photoshop brushes. Every web designer knows you can never have enough brushes for Photoshop, if you feel we forgot any do leave us a comment below!

Spring Sketches Brushes

Floral Photoshop Brushes

Floral Brush

ps floral brushes

Unreal Brushes v.3

GVL – Vines Brushes – set 2

Spring Flowers Brushes

Spring Flowers: 18 Free Photoshop Brushes

floral brushes

Suddenly Spring Photoshop Brushes

Floral decorations_brushespack

Vector Foliage-Plants Brushes

Free Photoshop brushes: Floral Part 1

Floral Swirl Brushes

Floral Photoshop Brushes

Free Floral Brushes Pack 1

Floral Brushes 02

Floral Photoshop Brushes

Fantasy Floral Photoshop Brushes – Part 4

Floral Brushes

sprinkle flowers ps7 vbrush

15 Fantasy Butterfly Photoshop Brushes Free for Your Designs

Flowers Brushes

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