An Analysis of Typography on the Web

September 3rd, 2010
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Typography is one of the most—if not the most—important aspects of Web design. Some would argue that it takes up to 95% of web design . . . so why do we often neglect its importance? The readers that come to your site will often decide whether or not to… read more

Daily Inspiration #605

September 3rd, 2010
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Abduzeedo

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

A Showcase of Inspirational E-Commerce Website Designs

September 3rd, 2010
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A Showcase of Inspirational E-Commerce Website Designs

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Social Media Grammar: The “Checkin” Conundrum

September 3rd, 2010
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Mashable

Alanna Francis is a SEO Specialist and Grammar Enthusiast at the website design company Blue Fountain Media, where she specializes in e-commerce marketing. She writes for the company’s web design and SEO trends blog and you can follow her on Twitter @AlannaFrancis.

We’re thrilled that the Associated Press has recently released… read more

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #64

September 3rd, 2010
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Abduzeedo

I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it’s awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#64 and make sure to comeback… read more

80+ Latest and Inspirational Single Page Website Designs

September 3rd, 2010
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InstantShift

As you’ve already seen in our previous posts about Single Page Website Designs that showcasing your work in single page design is a hot trend now days. It’s kind of ironic to see what designers can do with single pages as modern age designers love to experiment with things and… read more

Flickr Groups for Logo and Web Design Inspiration

September 3rd, 2010
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Flickr Groups for Logo and Web Design Inspiration

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In-Depth Review of Tumblr’s Custom Theming Ability

September 3rd, 2010
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Web Designer Depot

Tumblr. If you’re a savvy tech maven, you may have heard of, or had the chance to use, this powerful microblogging platform.

No wonder; millions of people have chosen Tumblr as their blogging service, and the average Tumblr user creates 14 original posts every month. Half of … read more

50 Fresh and Beautiful Ecommerce Websites II

September 3rd, 2010
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Specky Boy

Well-designed ecommerce and shopping cart websites are regularly referred to for web design inspiration by creative and experienced web developers. They are also being featured on various CSS website galleries, and in fact there are more than a few gallery sites that are solely dedicated showcasing beautiful and standards compliant… read more

Web Design Checkmate: Using Chess For Success in Web Design

September 3rd, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

The business of building websites is one of constant change, adaptation and strategy. The way designers and developers build websites is often informed by the methods of others and their own trial and error. In light of this, we can draw a number of parallels — some philosophical, to a… read more

Ultimate List Of Web Design Checklists

September 3rd, 2010
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Ultimate List Of Web Design Checklists

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Awesome Watercolor Illustrations by Dmitriy

September 2nd, 2010
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Abduzeedo

Watercolor is definitely one of the most awesome techniques of illustration. I find truly amazing of how much control and precision artists have over their watered inks to form precise art.

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And I’m probably overwhelmed by it because I have no idea how to do it… but yet, I know something… read more

Excellent Mockup And Wireframing (9) Web Apps Which You Would Love To Know

September 2nd, 2010
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Smashing Apps

A wireframe or mockup tool is a must have tool for every web designer and developer. These tools have their importance in web designing and development world. It is good to use them because it saves your time and efforts, a mockup or wireframe can give you the whole idea… read more

Daily Inspiration #604

September 2nd, 2010
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Abduzeedo

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Free Book Competition “WordPress 3 Site Blueprints”, Comment to Win

September 2nd, 2010
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Specky Boy

It has been a while since we last ran a good web design book giveaway, and if you are a WordPress developer or you are currently learning WP, you will certainly love this competition. What we have on offer is the chance for two of our readers to win one… read more

Beautiful Photos of New York City by James Maher

September 2nd, 2010
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Abduzeedo

James Maher is a professional photographer and the operator of the Maher Fine Art Photography Gallery, his work is primarily focused on New York photography, but also of various travel spots around the world, and we have to agree that he has some classic photos of New York City.

For more… read more

On the Concept of Process

September 2nd, 2010
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I’m going to start this discussion of by revealing a secret about my own design work: I don’t have a process. At least, I don’t have a rock solid, time tested step by step formula that I follow for all my projects. That’s not to say that I shoot from… read more

10 of the Web’s Most Insightful News Infographics

September 2nd, 2010
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Mashable

A picture is worth a thousand words. But if you include an entire database, make it interactive, and add filtering options, the word-to-picture exchange rate is even better.

Infographics at their best are more than just pictures — they can provide new understandings, succinct summaries, or just plain old fun.

In that… read more

At Least we Dream – Digital Art

September 2nd, 2010
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Abduzeedo

Jonathan M. Foerster is an amazing digital artist with such rich style full of colorful shine elements that intricate the eyes as they look for an understanding. I could look at each piece for a long time and still find the details that will change my point of view.

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To… read more

Showcase Of Appetizing Restaurant Websites

September 2nd, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

They say the first bite is taken with the eye. If so, these appetizing restaurant websites succeed in whetting our appetites, inviting us to a savoury next bite. In these designs, color scheme and introductory copy show vastly different aspects of the restaurant experience. Moody warm tones create atmosphere, vibrant… read more

Discover What Type of Designer Are You?

September 2nd, 2010
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Discover What Type of Designer Are You?

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Categories: Graphic Design

Working For A Web Design Agency

September 2nd, 2010
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Web Designer Depot

The most obvious job for a web designer is working for a web design agency, but if you’ve never done that before… then how do you know what to expect? Is it even the right path for you?

Setting foot in an agency for the first time can be daunting. It’s… read more

20 Useful Free PDF ebooks for Designers and Bloggers

September 2nd, 2010
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Specky Boy

Over the years I have a saved a decent sized library of useful design and blogging related PDF ebooks, I love them. I have voraciously collected them, and all stored on my mobile for whenever the chance of quick read arises. In this post I would like to share my… read more

10 Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins

September 2nd, 2010
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Web Design Ledger

When it comes to adding JavaScript functionality to a website, jQuery has become the solution of choice for web designers and developers. With it’s ease of use and ever-growing selection of plugins, there’s really no point to look elsewhere. Awesome jQuery plugins are popping up everyday, and we’re always on… read more

Logo Design: Boats

September 1st, 2010
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Abduzeedo

The Logo Design series is up and running! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new ways to sort these listings. Last week we had a post on 3D logos… today it’s all about logos with boats!

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As usual, we’ll search for logos in these galleries: Logopond, Logo Faves, Logo… read more

A Detailed Look into Popular Styles in Web Design

September 1st, 2010
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A Detailed Look into Popular Styles in Web Design

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iCandies Icon Set: 60 Free Icons For Your User Interfaces and Apps

September 1st, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

Today we are glad to release iCandies Icon Set, a set with 60 high quality icons in 64×64px, 48×48px and 32×32px, available in .EPS, .AI and .PNG. The set is designed by the talented folks from IconEden on a sole purpose of giving your projects a sleek and geeky style… read more

Daily Inspiration #603

September 1st, 2010
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Abduzeedo

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Beautiful Illustrations by Simon Fernandes

September 1st, 2010
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Abduzeedo

Simon Fernandes is an art director, designer and illustrator from Sao Paulo, Brazil with a really cool style, his portfolio has illustrations with different styles, from the very clean vectors of the Agua Viva artwork to the sort of retro style of the Copo poster. We were really impressed with… read more

We’re Hiring! 50+ Job Vacancies in Social Media, Web Design, and More

September 1st, 2010
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Mashable

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all of our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to Leverage… read more

Designing By Numbers: Data Analysis for Web Designers

September 1st, 2010
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Designing By Numbers: Data Analysis for Web Designers

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The Ultimate Guide to Getting Started with Zen Cart (Part 2)

September 1st, 2010
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The Ultimate Guide to Getting Started with Zen Cart (Part 2)

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4 Tips for Writing SEO-Friendly Blog Posts

September 1st, 2010
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Mashable

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

In addition to writing for their human readers, web writers and bloggers have to consider the digital web crawlers employed by search engines like Google. Your business… read more

Typography Mania #44

September 1st, 2010
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Abduzeedo

Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography work on the web, from type videos to images everything is full of great design and typography inspiration.

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5 Killer Ways to Streamline your Coding Efficiency

September 1st, 2010
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5 Killer Ways to Streamline your Coding Efficiency

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Creative Bookmarks: Best of August 2010

September 1st, 2010
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Tutorial9

August was another awesome month with great tutorials and articles oozing from everywhere. Here’s Creative Bookmarks August!

Quick Nav:

Photoshop TutorialsIllustrator TutorialsWeb/Blogging TutorialsFreebies, Inspiration, & ResourcesPhotoshop TutorialsHow To Create The Expendables Winged Skull Poster Art

In this tutorial, by Chris Spooner, you’ll learn how to re-create the sinister and gun-crazy poster for the… read more

The Case For Open-Source Design: Can Design By Committee Work?

September 1st, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

In celebrating the merits of free software and the excitement over this radical networked production method, an important truth is left unspoken. Networked collaboration shines in the low levels of network protocols, server software and memory allocation, but user interface has consistently been a point of failure. How come the… read more

Top Articles On The Web Design Billboard In August’10

September 1st, 2010
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InstantShift

A perfect layout, A Good Design and Nice Resource can produce a creative output. Layout, textures, typography and patterns are used more often than one may think but the outcome of different combination can result verity of excellent designs. Professionalism is built upon knowledge and experience. However, When it comes… read more

Winners of Custom Stickers from Sticker Mule

September 1st, 2010
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Web Designer Depot

After more than 300 comments on last week’s Sticker Mule giveaway, we finally have the results.

As you know, Sticker Mule makes awesome custom stickers in all different shapes and sizes as well as skins that you could use, for example, for your laptop, iPhone or iPad. These are… read more

Illustrator Template Toolbox for Web, Mobile and App Developers

September 1st, 2010
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Specky Boy

For today’s post we have an extensive selection of UI templates, all in Illustrator format, and all perfect if you are a web, mobile or app designer who prefers to use Adobe Illustrator rather than the more commonly used Photoshop.

It was mildly surprising how difficult this post was to put… read more

11 New High-Quality Free Fonts

September 1st, 2010
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Web Design Ledger

Every week we try to hunt down high-quality freebies for our readers. One of our favorite freebies to find for you are fonts, because everybody knows… you can never have too many fonts in your library. In this post, we’ve rounded up 11 brand new fonts that are super high-quality…. read more

Excellent Minimalist Photography

August 31st, 2010
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Abduzeedo

As many people preach, less is more. Whether in web design or graphic design or illustration or photography or architecture, minimalist composition tend to really make a point. In a visually polluted world, getting some delight for your eyes is really important.

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So forget element heavy photographs… these minimalist pictures got… read more

Social Media Icons For Your Blog

August 31st, 2010
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Designrfix

Social media icons play such a huge role in driving traffic to your blog or website. Most web designers today know the importance of using these social networks and incorporating them into their clients designs. Today I have assembled a collection of some of the most creative… read more

Daily Inspiration #602

August 31st, 2010
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Abduzeedo

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

The Ultimate Guide To Getting Started With Zen Cart (Part 1)

August 31st, 2010
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The Ultimate Guide To Getting Started With Zen Cart (Part 1)

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Vexel Art Inspiration by ChewedKandi

August 31st, 2010
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Abduzeedo

ChewedKandi is the name of artist/designer Sharon Milne. She lives in the North East of England and has a passion for vector art. Sharon has been interviewed and featured on a variety of websites. She has recently began writing tutorials for VectorTuts+.

Since 2001, she has been creating and appreciating digital… read more

Going Green With 75 Amazing Nature Friendly Logos

August 31st, 2010
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Going Green With 75 Amazing Nature Friendly Logos

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Get Inspired: Beautiful Examples of Textures in Web Design

August 31st, 2010
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Get Inspired: Beautiful Examples of Textures in Web Design

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40 Tutorials and Techniques for Creating Business Logos

August 31st, 2010
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YouTheDesigner

A logo alludes to its company’s identity in its appearance and visual impact; that’s how it starts branding. Seeing how important it is, we designers must not underestimate the potential of this simple graphic, and instead hone our skills as much as possible in creating and polishing logos,… read more

40 Creative Flash Preloaders For Your Inspiration

August 31st, 2010
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40 Creative Flash Preloaders For Your Inspiration

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Tuesday Total Textures #34

August 31st, 2010
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Tuesday Total Textures is post series that will bring a new life to your Tuesdays. Every week I’ll be posting some free hi resolution textures that you can use in your projects. Check out this week’s textures, download the ones you like and start making your texture collection.

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The Complete Overview of Indie Graphics Software for Mac

August 31st, 2010
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Mac App Storm

Everyone knows about the big guns in the graphics field. Adobe is pretty much the unchallenged master of image editing with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks. Adobe’s InDesign shares the digital publishing field, albeit grudgingly, with Quark’s QuarkXPress. Serious graphic designers find themselves stuck between these two large corporations, due in… read more

Print Tutorial: Creating A Magazine Cover

August 31st, 2010
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Noupe

By Cameron Chapman

Graphic design in a print environment can be a nice change for someone who normally does web design. It’s a slightly different skillset, but still incorporates a lot of the same concepts. Print projects can be an exciting new challenge, something that lets a designer stretch their creativity… read more

70 Latest and Creative Logo Designs for Design Inspiration

August 31st, 2010
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InstantShift

A Logo is a graphical element that, together with its logotype (a uniquely set and arranged typeface) form a trademark or commercial brand. Typically, a logo’s design is for immediate recognition. The logo is one aspect of a company’s commercial brand, or economic or academic entity, and its shapes, colors,… read more

The Robust Collection Of (50) Mindblowing Icon Sets For Your Next Design

August 31st, 2010
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Smashing Apps

Icons can be useful to furnish users with unforgettable images and examples if used properly, and this is the reason why Icon sets always come in handy. You will find the huge collection of recently released icon sets which are believed to assist you in bettering your designs on websites… read more

Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: September 2010

August 31st, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why we have decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers over 12 months. And to make them… read more

How to Make an Internet Web Page

August 31st, 2010
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Web Designer Depot

Do you browse the internet often? Are you amazed at how many internet web pages there are in the world today? Don’t you wish you could get a piece of that action?

You’re probably thinking that in order to build an internet web page, you have to… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.53)

August 31st, 2010
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Specky Boy

This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from the previous week.

If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even… read more

WDL Premium: Japanese Orchard Photoshop Brushes

August 31st, 2010
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Web Design Ledger

Today we’re releasing a set of Beautiful Photoshop brushes for our WDL Premium Members. This set from Azigos is called Japanese Orchard and contains 17 high-resolution brushes. If you’re looking to add beautiful hand drawn elements to your nature inspired design, these brushes are what you need.

Be sure to… read more

DesignChat Guest – Quite Strong

August 30th, 2010
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Abduzeedo

This week DesignChat welcomes the design collective Quite Strong to the conversation. They’re made up of 5 strong-minded women in Chicago who have combined forces to rule the design world. I’m not sure how this conversation is going to go between myself and five freaking guests, but its sure to… read more

Super Stylish Posters by Protesto

August 30th, 2010
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Abduzeedo

There are all kinds of posters out there. B movies posters, gigs posters, and many others… and I truly dig a good poster design. Yesterday one of our readers, @henriquepetarli, suggested the work of Protesto.

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Protesto is the Brazilian designer Michel Diniz de Carvalho, who’s been living in Norway doing some… read more

Daily Inspiration #601

August 30th, 2010
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Abduzeedo

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

HOW TO: Respond when Social Media Attacks Your Brand

August 30th, 2010
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Mashable

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

For all the praise that brand advertisers have for social media, they must be aware that it’s very much a double-edged sword. And for all the free… read more

GIVEAWAY: CodeMyConcept $150 Gift Card – PSD TO HTML, ends Sept. 6 2010

August 30th, 2010
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You probably already know how much we care and love our loyal readers and that
we love to give them something in return for all the time they spent on our site,
for sharing our content and for their overall trust. This week we are running yet
another cool giveaway… read more

Writing and Web Design: Editorial Calendars and Style Guides

August 30th, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

A few years ago, you might not have pointed out during a meeting with a potential client that you maintained a blog. Over time, though, blogs have evolved from the being a personal hobby to a serious work tool. In fact, today, web designers are supposed to know much more… read more

One Hundred Project

August 30th, 2010
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The ONEHUNDRED Project is an experiment from the German Kid Grandios that started back in 2009 with the idea of creating posters that would include landscape and grunge elements. One Hundred posters later the project is done and it’s amazing, check it out!

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ONEHUNDRED Project

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Promoting Yourself To… GASP!… Live People!

August 30th, 2010
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Noupe

By Speider Schneider

A friend of mine started an organization named “Creative Connect,” a twice a month get-together for anyone in the creative field. He said it was to, “get people away from their computers and to get them talking at least twice a month.” Mostly designers, programmers, illustrators and photographers… read more

The Perfect Office #52

August 30th, 2010
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Abduzeedo

We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

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Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more

A Collection of Mini Icon Sets

August 30th, 2010
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Web Designer Depot

Icons can add a lot of meaning to a website or web app design.

Used appropriately, they can make it faster for your visitors or users to complete the tasks they need to complete. But not every website design has space for normal, full-size icons (often 32×32 to… read more

Get Inspired: 50 Awesome Portfolios on Behance Network

August 30th, 2010
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Get Inspired: 50 Awesome Portfolios on Behance Network

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50 Refreshing CSS Tutorials, Techniques and Resources

August 30th, 2010
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Specky Boy

In this CSS (2 & 3) round-up article we have focused on highlighting as many varied techniques covering as many aspects of web, mobile and application development as possible. And believe me, it wasn’t easy!
Due to CSS3s current popularity, the volume of new tutorials and fresh ideas has jumped… read more

45 Inspiring Design Agency Websites

August 30th, 2010
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A while ago, we showcased a list of 50 Inspiring Portfolio Designs which featured a collection of portfolio websites belonging mainly to individual designers. Today, along those same lines, we’re presenting a collection of design agency websites. We want to show you how some of the talented design studios out… read more

Forrst: Share More Than Just Snaps

August 29th, 2010
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Web App Storm

Imagine a warm forest where you can share things, comment, add favorites and much more. But, what kinds of things would I share? And who would I share them with? Bears and deers?

Forrst is a fantastic place for developers and designers only where you can share snapshots, links, and code… read more

Daily Inspiration #600

August 29th, 2010
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Abduzeedo

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

50+ Web Development, SEO, Social Media and Sales Job Opportunities

August 29th, 2010
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Mashable

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all of our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to Leverage… read more

Linkswitch #33: Photo Manipulation, Investing, WordPress SEO

August 29th, 2010
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Freelanceswitch

Why I Stick to Pen and Paper for Goals and Tasks

Technology is great…but I sure do like pen and paper – as I mentioned to one of our readers who asked me what I use to keep track of things. For one thing, I remember things better… read more

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Aug 22-Aug 28, 2010

August 29th, 2010
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Web Designer Depot

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick… read more

Website Design: 40 Beautiful Examples

August 28th, 2010
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Designrfix

In many of my previous posts on website design I have always categorized the style of websites that I was showcasing. In this post, I have decided to compile some of the most visually appealing websites from all sorts of different design styles that are out there today. From … read more

Wallpaper of the Week #115 by Ee Venn Soh

August 28th, 2010
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Abduzeedo

The wallpaper of this week is an awesome design created by Ee Venn Soh, a self-taught designer, digital artist and illustrator from Johor Bahru, Malaysia. This design is one of Ee Veen’s personal work and it’s called THE BEAUTIFUL PEEPHOLE.

I thrive under pressure, love working in a fast paced team… read more

Best of the Week #134

August 28th, 2010
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Abduzeedo

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

Comics of the Week #40

August 28th, 2010
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Web Designer Depot

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.

The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers.

These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile… read more

Web Design: Reboot, or Just Upgrade Instead?

August 28th, 2010
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Web Design: Reboot, or Just Upgrade Instead?

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Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.56

August 28th, 2010
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Specky Boy

This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week or so, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like this selection of sites as much as we do, feel… read more

The Ultimate Guide to WordPress 3.0 Comment Form Customization

August 28th, 2010
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The Ultimate Guide to WordPress 3.0 Comment Form Customization

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Categories: Web Design

40 Stunningly Creative Resume Designs on DeviantArt

August 27th, 2010
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40 Stunningly Creative Resume Designs on DeviantArt

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Daily Inspiration #599

August 27th, 2010
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Abduzeedo

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

How to Find New Customers

August 27th, 2010
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Freelanceswitch

A few posts back, I mentioned a handful of ideas that you can use to ensure you are able to line up work for the future. I didn’t mention anything about the ways that you can find new business offline, in your local community.

Here are a few ways to find… read more

Interview with Tim and Bram Vanhaeren from Into1

August 27th, 2010
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Abduzeedo

Tim and Bram Vanhaeren, belgium based artists, run a creative studio focused on graphic design. Read how the brothers get along working together

1. First of all we would like to thank you both for taking the time to provide abduzeedo.com with this interview. Please tell us more about your art… read more

Web Design Inspiration: A Showcase of Astounding Brown Websites

August 27th, 2010
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Web Design Inspiration: A Showcase of Astounding Brown Websites

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100+ Free High Quality Icon Sets for Web Designers and Developers

August 27th, 2010
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InstantShift

Icons are the basic requirement of any web related projects and good icons are like a treasure for web designers.

The demand for good icons are too much in these days and finding the best icon sets from the pool with tens of thousands of packs is not a easy job… read more

Free Wireframing Kits, UI Design Kits, PDFs and Resources

August 27th, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

To mock-up the user interface of a website, software or any other product, you’ll need some basic UI elements. And this is where wireframing kits and UI design kits come in handy. When you want to create a low-fidelity prototype for your projects, you can use these kits to give… read more

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #63

August 27th, 2010
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Abduzeedo

I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it’s awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#63 and make sure to comeback… read more

Sites of the Week #117 – Ronin App Giveaway

August 27th, 2010
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Abduzeedo

For this Sites of the Week, we have a special edition with a giveaway from Ronin App, I’m sure you’ll love it! Also we have selected some great sites such as Organizze and Spring. As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions and don’t forget… read more

How to Stay Simple with your Product

August 27th, 2010
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Web Designer Depot

Let’s face it, we designers love to start from scratch. For example: How may times do we revamp our own portfolios? Staying simple is crucial when starting from scratch.

We hear this “staying simple” phrase a lot these days. Is it just a bunch of jargon or is there something to… read more

How to Use Illustrations to Spice Up Your Web Design Work

August 27th, 2010
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How to Use Illustrations to Spice Up Your Web Design Work

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The Best Free to use Posterous Themes

August 27th, 2010
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Specky Boy

Don't mistake Posterous as another micro-blogging service, it is much, much bigger than that. There are no limits to what you can do with it and there are seemingly no limits to what you can post to it – photos (auto resizing), audio files and links, documents and video (auto… read more

200+ Seamless Patterns Perfect for Website Backgrounds

August 27th, 2010
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Web Design Ledger

We’re always on the lookout for great freebies to share with our readers, and today we’ve got some seamless patterns. Seamless patterns are a great way to add a lot of detail to a design and fill up a big area, such as a background. Here are over 200 patterns… read more

Rainy-Day Photography

August 26th, 2010
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Abduzeedo

I love those little moments when nature shows its beauty. One of those moments that I truly like is a good old rainy day during the weekend, when you just get to hang at home, watch a movie, eat popcorn, drink hot cocoa and enjoy all of it.

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So I looked… read more

Freelancers: How to Get New Clients For Your Web Design Business

August 26th, 2010
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Freelancers: How to Get New Clients For Your Web Design Business

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Daily Inspiration #598

August 26th, 2010
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Abduzeedo

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more