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Web Designer Depot » Adobe releases award-winning Slate app for the web

Thursday 29 October 22:54:25 UTC 2015

Adobe have announced that their award winning iPad app, Adobe Slate, is available from today, free of charge, as a web app. Slate is a simple tool for rapidly crafting beautiful stories, from images and text. Positioned somewhere between a micro-site and a Medium post, Slate features fullscreen images, well refined typography, and slick transitions. Creating in Slate is easy, … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » With Be Theme and 130+ Pre-made Layouts, the Sky’s the Limit

Thursday 29 October 22:32:20 UTC 2015

Once you have an idea how you want your website to look, the first step is to take that idea and create a conceptual design. Once the conceptual design is firmed up, you can begin the page building process. The problem is, creating a website from scratch isn’t usually that easy. Creating a workable conceptual design can easily become a … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » Type Genius helps you match Fonts for Web Projects

Thursday 29 October 22:05:39 UTC 2015

Designers are not always masterful typographers and this includes the ability to perfectly match up interesting font choices. The Type Genius webapp was made specifically for help with font matching. You can select from a number of very popular web typefaces and you’ll get a custom list of possible matches. Some typefaces some with a few options, others just have one. … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » jQuery Audit lets you analyze jQuery from Chrome Developer Tools

Thursday 29 October 20:55:23 UTC 2015

Have you ever needed to find information regarding your jQuery scripts? It’s common practice to scour through code looking for a certain function that targets an element on the page, or find which callback method ran after an event. Well thankfully there’s jQuery Audit which installs as a browser extension for Google Chrome. The extension will append onto Chrome’s Developer Tools … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » Springloops offers SVN/Git Control combined with Web Deployments

Thursday 29 October 18:10:46 UTC 2015

Managing a website’s deployment digitally may seem like a chore at first. But once you understand the fundamentals and learn to work within a system it can become a tremendous time saver. Springloops is a service that helps with deployment and version control management. You’re able to setup SVN or Git repos and contain all files in one location. Whenever a … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » Joomla World Conference celebrates 10 years of Joomla Nov 6th-8th

Thursday 29 October 17:05:53 UTC 2015

The PHP/MySQL CMS Joomla has been around for a very long time. In fact, 2015 is the ten year anniversary of this well-respected Content Management System. A large annual gathering known as Joomla World Conference will be held this year in Bangalore, India. The 2015 conference will run for three days from November 6th-8th and provide talks, workshops, and plenty of … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » 13 Ways Designers Screw Up Client Presentations by Mike Monteiro

Thursday 29 October 16:31:56 UTC 2015

Recently at Generate NYC 2015 we saw a number of incredible presentations. Some of these have been posted on YouTube and one in particular has resonated with freelancers, contractors, and anyone who deals with clients on a monthly basis. Mike Monteiro is the author of books like “Design is a Job” and “You’re My Favorite Client”. He’s known as a prominent … [Link]

JUST™ Creative » 10 Less Known SEO Techniques of 2015 to Rank Higher

Thursday 29 October 16:16:30 UTC 2015

This article has been contributed by James Hein. Search Engine Optimization techniques are changing and everyone needs to adapt to the new SEO planet to play it safe with Google’s changing algorithms. As a fact, SEO is an every-changing thing and the key to stay on top of the search engine ranking is to be creative with SEO strategy 2015. … [Link]

Smashing Magazine » How To Increase Workflow And Reduce Stress With Nature Sounds

Thursday 29 October 15:41:37 UTC 2015

Many of us struggle silently with mental health problems and many more are affected by them, either directly or indirectly. It’s {Geek} Mental Help Week and we would like to help raise awareness with a couple of articles exploring these issues and offering solutions. – Ed. How To Increase Workflow And Reduce Stress With Nature Sounds Everywhere we go, from ground to sky, we are surrounded by noises. Cars, planes, trains … [Link]

Graphic Design Forums: A friendly forum for UK designers » Logo design feedback…

Thursday 29 October 15:32:02 UTC 2015

Hi all, First time posting… just looking for some feedback on a logo concept I created for a new brand name I came up with. The brand name is Clique Radar, and I wanted an extremely simple little logo/icon type design, that could work with or without the whole brand name within the design. I've come up with the following and … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Nature of Brazil Photo Illustration

Thursday 29 October 15:03:28 UTC 2015

This amazing photo illustration is a personal project by Brazilian designer Fabio Araujo. This project is about Brazil's nature, The largest country in South America, Brazil is blessed with exuberant natural beauty. Enjoy! For more from Fabio Araujo visit behance.net/fabioaraujo. Nature of Brazil Photo Illustration Nature of Brazil Photo Illustration Nature of Brazil Photo Illustration Nature of Brazil Photo Illustration Nature of Brazil Photo Illustration Tags: photo illustrationphoto manipulationbrazilpaul0v2's blog [Link]

Web Design Ledger » CodeMyUI curates Free Code Snippets for Web Projects

Thursday 29 October 14:05:18 UTC 2015

CodeMyUI is an interesting project that catalogs open source code snippets from around the web. Its primary focus is on frontend code that often pushes the boundaries of modern web development. HTML/CSS/JS code is now capable of doing lots of neat stuff. But not everyone wants to build sample components or UI effects from scratch. The benefit of CodeMyUI is that … [Link]

Web Designer Depot » Free download: design bundle from SmartyBundles

Thursday 29 October 13:52:13 UTC 2015

Everyone loves getting something for nothing, especially when it’s a great pack of design resources to dig into, so we’re delighted to bring you this free bundle, exclusive to WebdesignerDepot, curtesy of SmartyBundles.com The download includes mockups, templates, stationery, 3D renders, vectors, and more. Designed to save you time, and help you win clients; the vector elements will be particularly … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » More Slick Artworks by Nick Slater

Thursday 29 October 13:02:26 UTC 2015

This was going to be a post about logo design, but when I came to see the work of Nick Slater, I thought it would be an injustice not to show a wider range of his work. We've already seen some of it here at Abduzeedo earlier this year, but it's definitely time for more of it! Nick comes up with … [Link]

WebDesignDev » 20 Modern Web Design Trends Embodied In WordPress Themes

Thursday 29 October 12:58:40 UTC 2015

Although sometimes going against the flow is the only way to achieve success, in web design following the trends is a ‘must’ if you want to be paid. If you look at the history of web design trends that we reviewed in one of our articles, you will see that most of them are not being used anymore. New trends … [Link]

Line25.com » IPad Pro 32 GB Giveaway – Do You Get Paid Less Than Other Web Designers?

Thursday 29 October 12:38:41 UTC 2015

Line25 have teamed up with Nimbus Hosting to find out the average salary of web designers. We’ll be producing an Infographic that takes a look to see how salaries differ by location, age and experience, allowing you to see if you’re being paid what you’re worth. Sounds interesting and want to take part? We’ll also be giving away a brand … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » QCon San Francisco runs from November 16th-20th

Thursday 29 October 11:46:45 UTC 2015

Software development is a rapidly growing industry with more demand for programmers across the spectrum. Nowadays mobile apps are another huge area that offer career opportunities beyond just websites and desktop programs/enterprise applications. The QCon San Francisco conference is a large gathering of software developers from around the world. The 2015 event runs for a total of 3 conference days and … [Link]

Graphic Design Forums: A friendly forum for UK designers » Logo Feedback

Thursday 29 October 10:09:51 UTC 2015

Hi All, I am currently working on a rebrand of a company logo and as part of the process I am doing some consumer research. I thought it might be useful to get the opinions of some designers to see how this logo is percieved. Please note, I did not design this logo and this isnt specifically a critique. If anyone … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Daliy Inspiration #2219

Thursday 29 October 7:16:38 UTC 2015

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, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don't forget to send your Abduzeedo username; or via Twitter sending to http://twitter.com/abduzeedo AoiroStudio … [Link]

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