Not only a website needs a good design, business cards do need some interactive, creative and design elements. Thinking of Business Card Printing or designing new look for your business then here is a list of 30 amazing and stunning business card designs to look for.

1. iPhone Business cards

2. THE GAMUT business cards

3. Cloverleaf Business Card

4. 25 degree quick response business card design

5. Reality business card

6. Rodaq Business Card

7. Tiffani Ink Business Cards

8. Gold on Black

9. Metal Business Card

10. Mahyar Zaker Jafary

11. Cynthia lavigne

12. Magic Carpet Productions Business Card

13. Websitebuildr

14. I am Tiago Holiday Card

15. Caratime

16. Creative Tree Business Card

17. DKNG Business Cards

18. EuroPress

19. BM Business Cards

20. Chinese Wooden Business Card

21. JTG Business cards

22. Milky

23. Black Brush Stainless Steel Card

24. Marianne Lock Business Card

25. High end fashion store in Miami Beach

26. Ayako Okada

27. On Demand Business Cards

28. Terapias Holísticas Business Card

29. Cafe angels

30. Uno design

Mostly we see brochures in shopping malls, banks, tourist information centre, showing what this business does or what service they provide. Printing Services can help you print some of your Brochure design. Brochure design plays important part which can lead a business to successful path. So, we have choosed 25 creative and elegant brochure designs which you might consider before designing your next brochure.

1. Supercars Asia 2012

2. Beauty Barn Brochure and invites

3. Brochures & Flyers

4. Creative Portfolio Catalogue / Brochure

5. Gelati Aloha

6. Corporate Business Plan

7. Foliomania the designer portfolio brochure

8. Desitara Corporate Broucher

9. Le Arabe Fenici

10. Corporate Business Brochure

11. Product Showcase Brochure

12. Square Brochure

13. Dynamite Inc. 360 Photography Brochure

14. Products Showcase – InDesign A4 8pp

15. Westermann Brochure

16. 12 Page Case Study Brochure Design

17. Catalogue Brochure

18. Brochure Template Design for a catering company

19. Better Homes

20. Spa Center Brochure Template

21. Brand new TripShake brochures

22. Brochure, Trifold, Flyer and Business Card Set

23. Basement on View Brochures

24. Differnt Designs Brochure

25. ESB TriFold Broucher

1. Tickera

2. Drian webster

3. Adrian Tingstad Husby

4. Badmonkey

5. More mobile relations

6. Rekko toolbar

7. Jason Reed

8. Gary Garside

9. Carbon studio

10. Peaxl

11. CSS piffle

12. Cuppa web and graphics

13. Getosmosis

14. Go Beyond Pixels

15. Madebyon

16. Toekneestuck

17. Anchor CMS

18. Jamie Gregory

19. Startups, This is how design works

20. Empty paper

21. Antidote

22. Wearefo

23. Eleven Made

24. Color grade it

25. b14

1. Think Ahead

Say 10 years from now, if your business is your means to earn your bread and butter, then it is certainly meant to be alive! So, in that case, would your design still represent your goals? Your Logo design should represent today, as well as a bit of tomorrow.

2. Think Of Change

You may expand your business or may add more products down the line. In either case, your Logo should be flexible to incorporate other factors and situations. It shouldn’t be too rigid. For instance, you have a small grocery shop. Imagine making ìgroceryî as your Logo symbol and then you expand into fast foods and eateries. Your Logo symbol won’t work anymore. So, it’s better to probably create a design that’s not too rigid. You could base it on your principles or goals or aims for instance. A little abstract, but worth the effort!

3. The Right Color Codes

Once again, the colors say a lot. Let’s take for example, two colors Black and Pink. If you are looking to create a logo for your flower shop online website, the ideal color would be pink and not black! It’s all about knowing your business and industry because even colors say a lot.

4. Keep ‘Unforgettable’ As Your Guideline

While designing a logo for your site, keep ‘unforgettable’ as your guideline.
This simply goes to say your logo should create an impact. Generally, the simpler your design is the easier it is to remember. Take a look at these designs below:

All of them have a brand recall value.

5. Be Unique

Your logo design should be unique. That’s what sets your business apart. So keep it different. A little out of the box is great. You can always make the bold choice!

6. Say More, Use Less

Try to create impact in as less possible space as you can. Also, keep the key elements of your business in mind. Don’t over stuff your Logo design with too many thoughts. The focus should be to represent your brand effectively, that’s all.

7. Concept Counts

Most importantly, it’s what you think that matters. The concept and theory behind your Logo will stay. Add significance and that’s a great way to keep you going, working on your website too ñ a personal lift!

8. Give It Time!

Finally, don’t rush the process of your Logo designing. It’s ultimately the main aspect on your site. Give it the time and efforts that it deserves and it’s sure to be a great deal better.

Frameworks as we know are of great use, as they definitely help to save a lot of time, where otherwise writing each and small part of code used to takes up an ample amount of time. For any framework to be of high quality, it needs to have certain characteristics which determine its performance. It has been seen that they need to be usable (easy to understand and use), universal, should do what it’s meant to (useful) and simple (unobtrusive).

Useful CSS and HTML frameworks available

Below discussed are some of the most useful frameworks which are easily available and downloadable for designer use.

1. Blueprint CSS framework

Its main aim just like other frameworks is to reduce your development time drastically, where it provides great features. It offers a proper platform for your projects, as they have an easy to use grid, helpful plugins, good typography, stylesheet, besides also providing great form styles for good UI and other useful tools.

2. 960 Grid system

This aims to appropriately create a path for the workflow of the development process on a width of 960 pixels over the generally used dimensions. It has been mainly introduced in order to help with quick and rapid prototyping, but also appears to accurately work when incorporated into an production environment. There are two variants in this, the 12 column grid and 16 column grid.

3. Golden grid system

This appears to be a web grid system, where it is a CSS tool for those web sites which are grid based. It provides a 970 pixels main width, along with a 6 column grid and a 12 column grid. Some of its other benefits include the fact that it is extremely lightweight (compressed to 1kb), along with also being very easy to use.

4. 52 Framework

This framework impressively appears to make use of the HTML 5 and the benefits which it exhibits, where this is essential taking into consideration seeing the increasing support for the HTML 5 platform every day. This also utilizes the CSS3, which saves a lot of time in slicing layouts and designing with many amazing useful features.

5. Baseline Framework

This framework has been built by keeping in mind the standards of typography, where it effectively aids in coming up websites with good designs and typography. It was released as a quick way to come up with the prototype at the start, but went on to be a complete typographic framework in no time for the web, where it makes use of the “real” baseline grid as its foundation.

How the discussed frameworks can be leveraged upon appropriately

The above discussed frameworks are just few of them which are available easily online, but however there are many more which exist and also appear to be extremely beneficial in the design process for the designers. These seem to aid the designers in coming up with great appealing and attractive designs, thus it is only advisable to hire an experienced designer from a web design India Company to help with your design requirements effectively to take your online firm to great heights.

Some of other frameworks are listed below:

6. YAML

7. Fluid 960 Grid System

8. Elasticss

9. 1kbgrid

10. Easy framework

11. FEM CSS Framework

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Business card is something that speaks about you and your business so its necessary to choose appropriate colour, design and text that go in your business card. Below we have picked some of the best, unique and humorous business card inspiration to look for before you start thinking of desinging your next business card. Except business cards, Business Card Printing of logos and other business symbols are also becoming more popular these days.

1. Virtual recreation

2. Via Business Card

3. Armada vision business cards

4. Lava Stationery Business Card

5. Old Business Card and New Resume

6. Whiteberry

7. Typo Business Card

8. Kontiki

9. Pilates Business Card

10. Graphic monster business card design

11. Matheus Dacosta Business Card

12. Electrician Business Card

13. Matthew Adamson Business Card

14. Illustration Style Card

15. We the printers

16. 16pt Silk Business Card Custom Cup Cake Die-Cut

17. Brands for the People

18. Matheus Dacosta Business Card

19. Letterpress Business Cards

20. Country Elegance Identity

21. Levin Tahmaz

22. Four Color Letterpress

23. Disguise the Unworthy Business Card

24. Business Cards 2.0

25. Colorful Days Business Card

26. 3D Business Cards

27. Marcin Struniawski

28. Gray Matter Productions

29. WWII Inspired Card

30. Paris by Night restaurant

]]> http://www.webanddesigners.com/30-creative-business-card-designs/feed/ 3 http://www.webanddesigners.com/30-creative-business-card-designs/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WebAndDesigners/~3/mlqSNDVY2Ew/ http://www.webanddesigners.com/create-your-own-propaganda-inspired-gig-poster-photoshop-tutorial/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 13:09:05 +0000 irene http://www.webanddesigners.com/?p=17808 This photoshop tutorial is on how to design a gig poster with a propaganda theme. I’m sure you’ve seen this technique somewhere and have wondered how it’s done. These posters are actually fairly common, combining a mix of grunge, abstract style and a little bit of outside the box creativity to achieve a great looking poster worthy of print.

 

 

STEP 1

First, you will want to prepare your main feature image for the poster. Of course, this can be a picture of you, your band or any image you choose depending on your theme. In this example, we will use a nice processed image of a very inspirational artist who is revolutionary in his own right. Feel free to use a stronger character though like Mao Tse Tung if you wish to toughen up your poster more. We prepare the image by using the Magic Wand tool, erasing his background and basically creating his own layer for easy cut and paste later.

STEP 2

For the insides of the graphic, which is the face and some other lighter elements though, we put in a color. You do this by just using the paint bucket tool on the precise areas you need whilst the white parts are still selected. Keep this document open for now.

STEP 3

Next, setup your new document. You will want to use standard poster dimensions so for this tutorial, we’ll be going with an 11×17 poster. If you wish to apply this technique for printing flyers or catalogs, make sure you start off with the right print size so as not to resize everything at the end of the tutorial and end up with undesirable proportions on your design. For the resolution, do not forget to use a 300ppi value to maintain the level of quality that one needs for printing. The higher the value of the resolution the better though.

STEP 4

Paste in our image to the new canvass. Position it appropriately as the central feature of our poster. Then, press CTRL+J to create a copy of our image. One will be our backup (just in case we make a mistake) and the other one is what we will be working with.

STEP 5

Now, hide the duplicate and we will work on our main image first. Adjust its brightness and contrast a bit to make it brighter and more vivid. Do this by going to Image -> Adjustments -> Brightness/Contrast. The values needed depends upon your image, however for our own image we have used these values.

STEP 6

Now, this step is an OPTIONAL step. If your image was based from an actual Photograph, then you will want to do this to make your image look more posterized. However if your image is like what we have now, a processed one, then you do not need to do this step. So if your image is in fact from an actual photograph, go to Filters -> Artistic -> Cutout. Adjust the number of levels to 7, the edge simplicity to 2 and the edge fidelity to 3.

STEP 7

ANOTHER OPTIONAL STEP, if your image is based on a Photograph. Since it will probably have some color. You will want to go to Image -> Adjustments -> Photo filter. Choose a “color” as the photo filter option and set it to your color theme. Set the density of it to 100%.

STEP 8

Great! Now we will setup our background. You can hide our main image for now if you want. Create a new layer just above the background layer. Fills this up with your theme colors in a radial gradient. Just use the Gradient tool (click and hold on to the paint bucket tool if you do not see it). Click on the gradient editor and adjust to the colors that you need for your theme.

STEP 9

Now, we are going to perform a simple trick. First, we paste in a pre-made grunge background on top of the background color we just created.

STEP 10

Now, the trouble is, the color does not necessarily match. To correct this, we change the blend mode of this

STEP 11

This gives us a quick color themed grunge background for our image.

STEP 12

Afterwards, we added a couple of images of a “partying audience” just in front and below our main graphic. We varied the colors according to our theme.

STEP 13

Finally, add your title above. Use a contrasting color for your text.

STEP 14

Add a color gradient to our title and sub title. Also play around with adding a reduced opacity shadow. Do this by double clicking on the title layers and accessing the layer styles.

STEP 15

Next, use the rectangle tool to fill out the bottom. Use a gradient color. Use the same color for the top part as the audience image color, and then have the gradient go to a darker hue. This helps make a seamless looking transition like so:

STEP 16

Then, type in our event details below. Use the same layer styles as you did the title here. Do that by just right clicking on the title layer, selecting “copy layer style” and then pasting it on our bottom detail text.

FINAL IMAGE

Great! Now you have a great, military/propaganda themed poster with very musical, abstract and grunge elements built in.

No matter what style you need, this roundup includes 30 various themes from which you are sure to find the perfect fit for your website or blog. Some are portfolio themes perfect for displaying your designs for web or booklet printing; others are perfect for a blog; and still others work well for more of a storefront look. Have fun browsing and let us know if you have a favorite recent WordPress theme that you think should have been included in this list.

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Alphine

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Oxygen

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Construct

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Angular

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Mu Types

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Primero

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Audiology

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Parallax

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Grid Style

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Res

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Zenko

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The Great and Wonder

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The Times

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Kernel

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The Professional

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Chameleon

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Tisa

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Prime

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Multipress

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City

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Go Green

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Envisioned

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Origin

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Bodega

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Evolution

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Natural Theme

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Webly

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inFocus

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Revelation

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An article in the New York Daily News remarked upon the impact of social media on current events in a recent article about the scandal surrounding the breast cancer prevention foundation Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the infamous Planned Parenthood. In a nutshell, Susan G. Komen announced that she would be reducing funding for Planned Parenthood, and millions of women (and men) who questioned the decision took to their social media networks to vent their frustration. After a tense few days, Susan Komen reversed her decision to reduce funding to Planned Parenthood, seemingly as a direct result of pressure applied to her from online.

Other examples of the sheer power of social media are legion. The many revolutions that took root in the Middle East last year can at least in part be attributed to coordination of social media platforms, and the more recent uproar surrounding the impending SOPA legislation brought millions of Americans to voice their opinions via Twitter and Facebook. Large corporations attempt to tap into the masses using social media, but usually their efforts backfire at the hands of a culture resistant to taking cues from companies.

For example, McDonald’s recently tried to start a trend on Twitter under the hashtag #McDStories, designed to encourage customers to share fond memories at the fast food chain. Of course this Twitter campaign came back to bite McDonald’s almost immediately, as users began tweeting about the low quality of the chain’s food and service under the same hashtag. The company wanted a positive spin in social media, but the millions using it had other plans—such is the power they have.

Is it possible that social media has provided Americans and those in other countries to assert their individual rights more prominently than ever before? Social media almost seems like a last bastion for independent thinkers to express their opinions without any fear of repercussions. Social media platforms, whether people believe it or not, have lasting power to determine policy in this country and around the world. The sooner people realize this, the sooner they’ll focus on issues more pressing than those posted on their Facebook walls.

You can take a generic approach with regards to the whole process, but the point is that somewhere down the line, you’re going to have to test the waters and figure out what works best with your visitors.

Some marketers and website managers get too hung up on the issue of generating loads of traffic. Don’t get me wrong, site traffic is good. However, what’s also as important as traffic generation is to make sure that you’re making the most of this traffic by converting them into paying customers. That’s where A/B testing comes in.

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What is A/B Testing?

A/B testing is a relatively simple technique that will help you figure out which content and design will generate more conversions and what will entice more customers to purchase more.
One can view A/B testing as a systematic approach to determine the effects that manipulating a certain variable has against a control.

A/B Testing On Your Website

Let’s consider the technique as it’s applied to your web page. On a basic website, there are four main parts: the header, the navigation menus, the content, and the footer. You might have already followed measures to optimize your site in terms of SEO and site loading time—and this is what we meant with generic earlier on. Applying A/B testing will be like putting your finished and optimized website to the test and seeing what type of specific text, content, or images will hit it off with your user base.

What will catch the eye of your site visitors will differ. For some, it could be the images that you’re using. For others, it might be the text or the headlines on your page. Regardless of all the differences, there are also bound to be similarities. And the answer to what works lies in these similarities.

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How Do You Do A/B Testing?

First of all, you have to decide which element you’re going to be testing. You might have a lot of things that you may want to test out at a time, especially during your first few rounds of testing. However, for later tests, it’s better to modify or change only one element at a time so you will know the reason behind the differences in conversion or the results that you were able to gather.

For example, you could try serving two versions of a banner ad on your web page. One could feature images of the products being put on sale, while the other could have the goods in the background while the word “Sale!” takes center stage.

You can then use a script on your server to display the two versions of the banner ad randomly to your site visitors for a specific period of time. When the duration for your testing is over, you can review the results and see which campaign was able to garner more clicks.

A helpful tool that you can use to get started is Google’s Website Optimizer. It’s a free resource you can access online to conduct basic A/B testing and multivariate testing on your website.

What To Make Of The Results From A/B Testing

When you have gathered sufficient data from your tests, it’s time to interpret the results. Note that there are many ways you can interpret what you’ve gathered. In the case of the previous example, you could gauge which ad was better in terms of the number of clicks, the total sales each was able to lead to or generate, and so on. After you’ve collated the results, then you can use the ad format that was able to get you better results for your succeeding campaigns.

But the testing doesn’t end there. Although you’ve already got the banner ads down, there remains a whole lot of other elements on your web page that can be tested: the positioning of the ads, the text accompanying the actual ads, the type of color theme of your website, and so on and so forth. After you’re done testing these out, you can go deeper and modify elements within these elements. For example, for headers, you can test out what type of positioning, size, or color scheme would work best for your site visitors.

With an AB Test, you will be able to change certain parts of your site in order to improve conversions and increase sales, one element at a time.