Graphic Design

Graphic Design Forums: A friendly forum for UK designers » telling the world (and the search engines) who made a website?

Wednesday 25 June 21:42:50 UTC 2014

I’ve recently developed a site for a reasonably high profile client (or at least in the culinary world anyway). Due to the clients status, it seems to be getting quite a lot of interest as well as links from other well regarded food blogs etc.. What I'd like to know is how best I can capitalise on this success for my … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Splendid 3D Fighter Jets by Anders Lejczak

Wednesday 25 June 19:27:32 UTC 2014

Real war is a terrible thing, but without any doubt fighter jets are beautiful, flying beasts. From the oldies to modern jets, it's hard not to appreciate the design and awesomeness of these machines. And by playing a lot of War Thunder, I came to love these even more. Anders Lejczak, a Swedish artist comes up with some splendid renders of … [Link]

WebDesignDev » 20 Sleek New Freebies for Designers from the Latest Design Trends

Wednesday 25 June 16:16:39 UTC 2014

As a designer, you must always stay updated with the latest design trends on the web. To help you have the greatest freebies in your collection, we selected 20 sleek new freebies for designers, all of these which follow the current design trends. All of these freebies are very high quality free PSDs for you to download and use in … [Link]

Graphic Design Forums: A friendly forum for UK designers » Getting started in the illustration industry

Wednesday 25 June 15:59:33 UTC 2014

Hello to everyone here, I'm a new member, just 17 and currently studying graphics and illustration at college. I'm not sure if this is the correct area to post this thread but I'll do it anyway.. apologies if it's not the right place. I only have a year left at college now and I'm really not sure if I want to … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Typography Mania #242

Wednesday 25 June 15:50:04 UTC 2014

Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around once a week with the best of Typography design submitted by our users at typography-mania.com, from type videos to images everything is full of great design and typography inspiration. Submit your typography designs too and be part of this post. Click here to check out all the previous Typography Mania Submit … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Weekly Apps: Fuse, Yo., Slingshot and more

Wednesday 25 June 15:46:29 UTC 2014

Today we're featuring two apps that last week were mainstream all over the web, I'm talking about Yo and Slingshot. If you didn't install them yet, now it's time to give a try! Hope you guys like these apps and all the whole selection, and stay tuned for the next week! You can keep sending me your suggestions via Twitter twitter.com/FabianoMe … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » 30 Amazing Examples of Loading Bar Designs for Your Inspiration

Wednesday 25 June 13:51:21 UTC 2014

Advertise here with BSAInternet connections are getting faster and faster, but from time to time there are some moments when we need to wait. In this case, creative designers try their best to alleviate the pain of waiting and make truly awesome progress bars (or loading bars). Loading bars show a user the current progress of downloading or multi-step processes. Time-consuming … [Link]

PSD: Photoshop Disasters » Holland America: Somebody Missed The Boat

Wednesday 25 June 13:45:32 UTC 2014

Either that is one giant island, or that cruise ship is a little out of proportion. Thanks to Brandon, who made us laugh with his comment, “Lily pads, dead ahead! Initiate evasive maneuvers!” The post Holland America: Somebody Missed The Boat appeared first on PSD : Photoshop Disasters . [Link]

Smashing Magazine » How To Speed Up Your WordPress Website

Wednesday 25 June 13:45:12 UTC 2014

A few months ago, I ran an experiment to see how much faster I could make one of my websites in less than two hours of work. After installing a handful of WordPress plugins and fixing a few simple errors, I had improved the website’s loading speed from 1.61 seconds to 583 milliseconds. That’s a 70.39% improvement, without having made … [Link]

Graphic Design Forums: A friendly forum for UK designers » Hello to all members from WebhostingUK.Com

Wednesday 25 June 10:56:56 UTC 2014

Hello Members, I am Mark, Marketing head of WebhostingUK LTD , We are one of the leading UK Web hosting provider, Offer SSD Web hosting & Managed Cloud Server hosting in UK. I am new to this forum will love to be a regular member to shared knowledge and learn more things on GDF. [Link]

BittBox » Unique Web Fonts to Spice Up your Layout Designs

Wednesday 25 June 10:34:27 UTC 2014

Advertise here with BSAIt goes without question that CSS3 has been a major improvement on how we build websites. Beyond the additional properties I’ve found CSS3 web fonts to be a groundbreaking addition to the developer’s tool belt. You can import external fonts or even include your own custom-made fonts with just a few lines of code. But not every website … [Link]

Web Designer Depot » How to add nested navigation to Shopify themes

Wednesday 25 June 8:15:25 UTC 2014

In this article we will discuss how to implement a fully content managed multi-level navigation system within a Shopify theme. Shopify themes use Liquid, a flexible and powerful template language, to output data from a store into a template. If you aren’t familiar with Liquid, and Shopify theme building in general then I recommend checking out the official Shopify theme documentation. … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Free Wireframe Icons

Wednesday 25 June 5:35:36 UTC 2014

Wireframing is a crucial part of the design process. Usually it can be easily done by simple sketches but when you work with big design teams it's important to have ways to share your work easily and efficiently. In those situations having a set of assets for quick wireframing can save you a huge amout of time, because of that today … [Link]

You The Designer » Tutorial Tuesday – How To Change Hair Color in Photoshop

Wednesday 25 June 4:14:38 UTC 2014

Today, YouTheDesigner is going to show you how to change hair color in Photoshop. This is a pretty basic technique that uses some basic digital painting elements and uses some masking techniques. It’s fairly simple and easy to follow for even just beginners! What we’re trying to do is to turn the top image into the bottom image. Let’s get … [Link]

JUST™ Creative » The Just Creative Mailing List

Wednesday 25 June 3:43:20 UTC 2014

If you are currently subscribed to the Just Creative mailing list, you will need to re opt in below to keep receiving emails. The reason for this is that I am swapping from Google’s discontinued Feedburner to the Aweber email service. The reason for swapping is so that I have more control over the emails and the fact that Feedburner … [Link]

Graphic Design Forums: A friendly forum for UK designers » Cold Emailing Prospective Clients?

Wednesday 25 June 0:43:29 UTC 2014

Where do people stand on this? I mean emailing specific people you have targeted at a given company a very polite, concise email detailing what your services can do for them. Together with showing examples/links to portfolios. All housed in a nicely put together HTML email. RATHER than a plain text email saying their logo/brand stinks and this is how they … [Link]

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