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250+ Of The Best Seamless Patterns, Resources and Tutorials For Web Design

Posted on 24. Feb, 2010 by bmackler.

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Using a seamless pattern in your web design is a great way to instantly add impact, style and depth – simply and quickly. Whether you are using a pattern as background or to add texture to a specific area, it can take a design from good to great.
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Keeping Your Client From Making The Wrong Design Choices

Posted on 17. Feb, 2010 by bmackler.

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Dealing with a clients wishes and helping them come to a well thought out and feasible decision for their project is part of the job description of every freelance designer. Whether its for a website, print project or a logo, this is one of the many hats a designer frequently wears. While it is important [...]

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35 Super Crisp and Clean Free Fonts To Help Make Your Designs Great

Posted on 15. Feb, 2010 by bmackler.

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The difference between a good design and a great design sometimes comes down to the fonts you are using. There are so many different styles, faces, themes and looks to choose from it is sometimes very hard to find just the right one. While there are countless wonderful and affordable fonts to buy, most of [...]

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50 Amazing and Inspirational Typography Examples and Tutorials

Posted on 03. Feb, 2010 by bmackler.

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More and more we are seeing the use of strong and vivid typography all around us; on the web, in print and in film. Many graphic/web designers are opting for the written word over images in their designs. The results are sometimes a bit crazy, artsy and many times downright beautiful. Strong typography allows a [...]

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30 Awesome Orange Websites For Your Inspiration

Posted on 27. Jan, 2010 by bmackler.

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When you have a project that has a specific color requirement it can sometimes feel like you are creatively limited, that you can’t have fun with your design and you are perhaps boxed in. While this does happen with many colors, one that is not the case with is orange, as I learned recently on a [...]

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Enough is Enough – When A Web Designer Has to Fire A Client

Posted on 25. Jan, 2010 by bmackler.

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Today, I would like to expand upon a previous post. As I discussed in number 8 of my 2010 New Years Resolutions, it is sometimes essential for a freelance web designer or developer to drop a frustrating client. Even in a tough economy one of the most liberating and refreshing things for a freelancer to [...]

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40 Fabulous 1 or 2 Color Logo Designs and Tutorials for Your Inspiration

Posted on 13. Jan, 2010 by bmackler.

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Generally speaking, designers are in constant need of inpiration. Regardless of the medium, we need to always look for the best and most interesting eye candy in order to keep the creativity flowing. This is very much the case when the task is to develop a logo. The right logo has the ability to define [...]

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50 Examples and Tutorials of Bokeh in Photography, Textures and Websites

Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by bmackler.

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Bokeh, a style originally from Japan that describes an out of focus area of a image/photograph that is used to draw your eye to the subject of the image. This extremely popular photography technique creates surreal and beautiful images, either naturally or using programs like Photoshop. The light and tonal patterns created [...]

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35 Must Know AJAX Tutorials, Techniques and Resources

Posted on 06. Jan, 2010 by bmackler.

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Ajax, which stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is a tool/language that is used on many web sites that allows data and content to be dynamically updated without refreshing the entire page. This can increase you sites overall interactivity, speed and usability with things like online polls, editable calendars, instant messaging systems and search fields [...]