How to Write an Effective About Me Page
Sep 6, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
The “About Me” page is what many potential clients look at either right away, or at least the second thing they look at when viewing a freelance portfolio. As a solo worker, providing potential clients with information on yourself and your work is essential, because nobody wants to hire just anyone off the street. It is reasonable that a bit of research on the individual should be done, and an about page can make or break relationships with leads. As a result, an about page can make or break an entire freelancing business.
Tags: advertising, article, articles, delicious, Design, development, guidelines, Inspiration, kayla-knight, Portfolio, Tutorials
27 Weekly Best WordPress Themes from ThemeForest
Sep 5, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
The themes from ThemeForest posted this week are, as the previous set, classy and well cropped. The simple but fancy line is still present, with quaint variations from now on, or designated attributes which outline the line of focus: either a corporate, personal, elaborate or a minimal design; all of them fitted approaches for blog or web pages themes which are desired to be easy to maneuver as well as to admire by visitors. Pages load easily and are pleasant to the eye without exposing it to an exaggerated amount of visual stimulus. Moreover, the theme presented speaks not only for the user, but also for the designer, as an appanage or symbol of its personal brand.
Tags: business, creative-logos, css, Design, downloads, flash, Inspiration, Portfolio, templates, themeforest, themes, Tutorials, Web Design
25 E-Commerce Websites for Your Design Inspiration
Sep 2, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
The success of an e-commerce website is defined by sales, not by design. However, that doesn’t mean that design does not matter. In this post we’ll showcase 25 well-designed e-commerce sites from a wide variety of industries. For more on e-commerce sites please see these posts from the archives: 50 Inspirational E-Commerce Website Designs 25 Inspirational E-Commerce Website Designs – Part Two 35 Excellent E-Commerce User Interface Designs 25 Creative E-Commerce Website Designs WordPress E-Commerce: 30+ Resources 37 Shopping Cart Options for Developers 9 Characteristics of Well-Designed E-Commerce Websites Best Buy United Pixelworkers Vera Bradley The Greeting Farm Layla Grayce Rip Curl W + K Studio Chicago L – Shirts Wheels & Dollbaby One Village Coffee St.
Tags: archives, church, Design Inspiration, galleries, Inspiration, killer-brigade, Portfolio, Resources, Tutorials, wallpaper
Tutorial: Create A Fun Ink Splatter Vector
Aug 30, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Today we released a set of ink splatter vectors on Vandelay Premier and in this post we will be covering the process of creating these vectors. The process is not very difficult and it should be easy to follow, but it does take some time. Here is a preview of the final result of this tutorial. These splatter vectors are fun to create, and since the end result is in vector format it is highly versatile.
Tags: church, Design, illustrator, image, Inspiration, photo, Photoshop, Photoshop Tutorials, Portfolio, portfolio-sites, the-image, trace, tutorial, Tutorials
15 Websites to Showcase Your Design Portfolio
Aug 30, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
There are thousands of designers like you out there trying their best attract the attention of potential clients. In this highly competitive industry, it could be rather difficult trying to beat all of them and landing a lucrative web designing contract. For this purpose, a portfolio website is one of the best tools to showcase their work. Creating a portfolio website is a must for any designer.
Tags: article, creativity, custom, Design, download, downloads, illustration, Portfolio, prospective, Resources, Showcase, Tips, Tutorials, visitors, work
25 Amazing CSS3 Experimentations and Demos
Aug 19, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
CSS3 is opening up a lot of possibilities for designers and developers. Things that used to require images, JavaScript or Flash can now be done with the power of CSS. Unfortunately, in most cases these developments are more useful for experimentation and learning at this point since they are not supported by all of the major browsers. However, if you’re interested in learning more about the capabilities of CSS3 it can be a valuable use of your time to see what is being done.
Tags: apple, church-websites, css, css3, development, photo, Portfolio, portfolio-sites, Resources
33 Beautiful Single Page Portfolio Website Inspiration
Aug 18, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
In our previous post we discussed about tips to making efficient and professional looking single page portfolio sites. Just to help you put those ideas into practice, this article will bring some excellent examples of single-page websites which will surely inspire you! They are extremely relevant because of the original, unusual or creative means they’ve used in the site design and functionality. You can pick up new ideas from each of these links and, why not, apply them to your own portfolio or use them as a starting point for creating your own original designs! It would be a good idea to analyze the way all these sites manage to obtain balance between the background and the work displayed, the very professional way of structuring information and the very fluid navigation displayed there. They prove a point about efficiency, outstanding creativity and carefully studied graphics.
Tags: alexco-haniuc, Beautiful, compilation, Creative, creative-logos, custom, Design, downloads, Inspiration, Portfolio, single page, Tutorials, Web Design
Web Design Trends: Skylines and Cityscapes
Aug 16, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
One common trend that a number of web designers are using is to include skylines and cityscapes in their designs. In some cases it is a silhouette in the background, in other cases it may be a more significant part of the design. In this post we’ll showcase 25 examples, and at the end of the post you’ll find links to some Photoshop brush sets that will allow you to add this to your own work. Ghostown Studios Webdesign.fr Urban Roots Launchmind HTML Mafia New York New York Web Design Creative Switch Nathan Sanders Porcupine Colors Paperfold Media Nybble Tech Open Angel Forum WhatsApp CAD Website Design Dan Conway Itasyon Tasarim Tarek Shalaby Reprezent The Cambridge Academy of Dramatic Art Morphix Design Studio 1,000 Acts of Kindness Water Falcon Magellan Development Group Os meninos de seu Zeh Big Deal Photoshop Brushes: Famous City Skylines City Skyline Silhouettes Funky City Skylines Skyline Brushes For more design inspiration please see: One-Page Portfolios: Trends and Showcase 40 Beautiful Corporate Websites 25 Websites with Creative and Unique Layouts 35 Excellent Ecommerce User Interface Designs Design Trend Showcase: 30 Horizontal Websites
Tags: church, church-websites, Design, galleries, Inspiration, photo, Portfolio, wallpaper
33 Best Photographer Portfolio Website Designs
Aug 14, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
In this post you will actually find two sources of inspiration: photography (which you must admit is indispensable to any graphic artist), and a specific type of design: that for photographers’ portfolios websites. Right from the start you will surely notice that the photographer’s sites are quite different from all the other creative portfolio sites that we’ve looked at so far. For a photographer, the site should be an almost invisible, in any case, non-disturbing, frame for his photography. This is why extremely minimalist design is preferred or photos tend to expand all over the screen and create the graphics of the site in themselves.
Tags: compilation, Design, Inspiration, photographer, photography, Portfolio, portfolios, spotlight, Tutorials, Web Design
25 Flash Portfolios for Your Inspiration
Aug 12, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Although HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery are able to accomplish a lot of exciting results and gaining popularity, Flash is still used by a number of impressive websites. In this post we’ll showcase 25 Flash portfolio sites. It will be interesting to see what happens over the next year or two with the future of Flash. For now, here is some Flash inspiration.
Tags: church, ecommerce, galleries, Inspiration, learn-photoshop, photographer, Photoshop Tutorials, Portfolio, portfolio-sites, tools, Tutorials
