Designing for love? Five free design elements to add to your collection.
Favorite Five: Valentine Design Elements
Friday Focus 02/05/10: Lightly Textured
Subtlety is the name of the game this week on Friday Focus. We’re featuring designs with light hues and textures for a relaxing, elegant feel overall.
Love Helvetica? You’ll Love These
Can a single font really be a designer’s best friend? I look at some ways people are showing their Helvetica love.
Add Pizazz Without Using Flash
Use less Flash- without losing any of the pizazz. Here are four ways how.
Friday Focus 01/29/10: Split
This week on Friday Focus: websites that are split right in the middle! A case of design schizophrenia? Let’s find out.
Three WordPress Admin Plugins to Love
Spend a lot of time in WordPress admin? Check out these plugins that just might make your life easier.
Four Tools for CSS Optimization & Compression
Well-optimized CSS can be a beautiful thing. Get the job done with these four (free!) tools.
Friday Focus 01/22/10: Folded Out and 3D
This week on Friday Focus: these folded, boxy 3D-looking designs pose an interesting challenge to the designer in creating perspective and breaking out of boundaries. See how these websites did it!
Color Choices for Better Readability
When it comes to web content readability, it does matter if it’s black or white.
Andy Sowards, Your All-Around Web Guy
Andy Sowards is your all-around web designer and developer. In this interview, he talks about his 12,000 Twitter followers, making it in the indsutry without any formal training, and juggling his work and family.
5 Awesome Email Marketing Services
Looking to create and send some email newsletters? Check out some of my top choices.
Friday Focus 01/15/10: Uppercase
At one point in our internet lives, we learned to avoid typing in all caps, because it meant we were yelling. At another point, we became attachmented to typing in lowercase, because it looked and felt cool. We see a lot of designs going lowercase in many portions of text, but nowadays, going uppercase is is all the rage. These designs seem to pull that off quite well.
Favorite Five: Fresh Free Fonts
It’s free font time! Five fresh ones that belong in your collection.
Gareth Leeding On Taking The Freelancing Route
I’m sure that one of the things on your mind as a full-time designer is whether to take the leap to finally make it on your own. Everyone dreams of having their own design company – or at least, private practice – but never really know how to begin.
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