Cool Stuff For Designers 5 This week there is a lot of incredibly cool stuff for designers. There are a couple of Adobe Illustrator tutorials to sink your teeth into. You will also find some useful Dropbox add-ons to extend its capability. Create a cool denim effect...
Cool Stuff For Designers 4 This week is another jam-packed week with tons of cool stuff for designers. There is tons of inspiration, such as character art and mind-boggling pencil sketches. You'll see some great examples of hand drawn websites. There's also a chance...
Cool Stuff For Designers 3 This week's list of cool stuff for designers is jammed-packed full of the latest news, tips and tricks that will keep you up-to-date on the latest information available. This week, there are textures, html5 tutorials, web fonts, and...
Best Free WordPress eCommerce Themes It is amazing how easy it is to build your own online store these days. With ongoing development for Wordpress, developers have created some fantastic ecommerce themes. More amazingly, they have created free Wordpress ecommerce...
Mac Vs PC-Which is Better For Design? This has been an age-old debate for the longest time. What platform should designers use for their work? Why do we care? Can the equipment you choose make a difference in your work? There are many questions to ask and plenty of...
Cool Stuff For Designers Continuing where I left off last week, I am continuing my weekly series promoting some articles and tutorials. They will keep you up-to-date on the latest news and techniques from around the web. This week there is a lot of cool stuff for...
How to Add a Custom Navigation Menu in Wordpress If you've been working with Wordpress as long as I have then it is inevitable that you will need to add custom features and functionality to your Wordpress site. It is easier than you think to add your own custom...
Grow Your Design Business: A How to Guide Figuring out how to grow your design business should be your main focus. You have the talent, and you have the expertise, but where is the steady flow of clients that you are looking for? One of the hardest things for...
Godaddy Hacked- Creative Beacon is Back Online If you have tried in the last 3 hours to visit Creative Beacon, you would have found nothing here. In fact, you wouldn't find any sites hosted by Godaddy online. Apparently Anonymous went on a hacking spree and took...
Free Contact Form This is a free contact form for your site. The folder containing your free contact form is made up of a few Bootstrap files. The first file is the html file that you will use to display your contact form. The second is the CSS Stylesheet, styling the...
Your Designs Are Not Your Own Many people go into the field of design because they love art and they love computers, and they want to make money creating artwork. This is a common misconception about the field of design. I am even guilty of making this mistake. I...
Free Responsive Resume Template It has become more common to have an online resume present for potential employers to view. Since Responsive design has become so prominent lately, many designers want a responsive resume to ensure that their information looks great on...
Learn Wordpress: 7 Great places to Learn Wordpress Quickly If you want to learn Wordpress, it can be really difficult when starting out. There is so much that you have to know when using Wordpress, creating your own themes, securing your Wordpress site, and even...
24 UI Kits and Resources for Web Designers User interface, or UI kits for short, are pre-made buttons, knobs, sliders, windows, and other elements that you can use in your apps, websites, and more. Having a UI set already made really helps with productivity, so you...
Why You should Choose Design as a Profession I have a lot of friends that hear about my job and think "I would love to do what you do!" I love the enthusiasm, but I don't think a lot of people really know what is involved in graphic/web design, illustration, or...
Build Consistent Websites For Everyone I have been reading some high-impact articles lately about web design, set backs, and our limitations when designing for the web, especially on how to build consistent websites across all browsers. I have heard both sides of the...
Looking for a free CSS3 Dropdown menu for your site? I have put together a free CSS3 dropdown menu for anyone to download and use on their site. It uses the latest in CSS3 techniques, including gradients, which aren't so easy to create from scratch or from memory. You...
Adobe Fireworks has a few more control settings than Photoshop when it comes to certain things, and gradients are one of them. In Photoshop, you have your typical Radial gradients, linear, angle, reflected and diamond. You can also create transparent gradients, but in...
I am always looking for neat ways to keep track of things. I am the type of person that likes to make checklists and check them off as I go. I am forgetful sometimes, that is just part of my personality. However, that doesn't work so well when having multiple clients,...
I like how so many people like to say that web design and graphic design is going to do this and that. Honestly, I don't think anyone knows where the world of design, web design and web development is going to to be by the end of the year. Some people say that we need...