Category: Design
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5 Lovely Girly Websites For Inspiration
These are some beautifully designed and crafted websites with a feminine feel. With pastel pink and violet colors, lovely combination of hand-written type, watercolor effects or swirls, these examples show the application on personal portfolios, blogs, magazines and even e-commerce for a female audience, or for the ladies’ portfolios. Lauren Conrad Viva la Violette  How…
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10 inspiring Behance illustration projects
Great illustration, when well used, can do magic for visual identity and make a design look and feel great. Here’s a small collection of inspiring illustration projects from Behance, one of the largest creative galleries on the web. Back to School 2014 by Herbert Ortega Dia De Los Muertos “No Money No Fiesta” Cover Art…
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10 Best Professional WordPress Themes for Magazines and News Portals
One of the qualities that sets WordPress far in front of their competition is the amount of high quality templates for all kinds of websites, from small blogs and portfolios, communities to global news portals and magazines. While there are literally hundreds of thousands free themes out there, it often pays off to invest 30-50$…
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3 ways to colorize a Black & White image in Photoshop – Video tutorial
Have you ever wondered how those historical black and white photos got colors? There are several techniques for that in image editing software, and with some practice, you can do that too. In this Photoshop tutorial you’ll learn about 3 useful techniques for colorizing a black and white image, using the Color Replacement tool, painting…
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Get Ratio – a handy design tool that helps you calculate ideal dimensions
Web designers often have problems calculating the ideal proportions of the images placed on a web page, determining the most suitable height to a set width. Get Ratio is a very useful online tool lets you input the width of your layout and offers several standard ratios such as 4:3, 16:9 or the Golden Ratio.…
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Website Design & Development Process #Infographic
I found this infographic and thought it would be useful both to web design clients and less experienced designers to have a better understanding of the web development process, thus easing communication before and during the process.
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Top Inspiration and Learning Sources for Web Designers
The web is full of blogs, galleries and magazines that provide inspiration, education and insights for designers and web professionals in general, as well as for all niches. However, there are so many of them that one can’t possibly follow them all. Today I’d like to share with you some of my personal favorites that…
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Web design trends to watch for 2014
The web is constantly evolving and while a few things come as a (r)evolution by surprise, most are pretty much predictable and develop over the years. Keeping track with the current trends and the ones from the previous years, there’s pretty much chance to accurately predict what will dominate the web in the next year.
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Random Thing Generator: generate placeholder Names, Addresses & Business names
If you happen to need a fictional name, street address and business name to use as a placeholder in your designs, the Random Thing Generator can be a very handy tool. Even more so if you’re designing a list of users, or greeting cards for various users. If you need more data than displayed at…