HOW TO: Set Up a Q&A Website in Minutes – the Best Options Reviewed & Compared
Mar 14, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources
A recent trend in blogging that’s going to be mainstream very soon is to have your very own Q&A website related to the same topic your blog is about. This comes very handy for webmaster because of recently launched solutions and very convenient for readers because they can ask and answer stuff in a well-known environment, among a community they like. Before reading the reviews of the solutions we found so far, be sure to check out Inspired Forum to see what I’m talking about. Everyone has questions they need answered.
Tags: Design, facebook, Inspiration, Inspired, q&a websites, questions, Resources, stack, stack-exchange, twitter, Web Design
Wallpaper of the Week #91
Mar 14, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
The wallpaper of this week is the image I created for the last week’s tutorial here on Abduzeedo, the Playing with Vectors in Illustrator . I have been using this wallpaper for more than three weeks already and it’s beautiful, I hope you like it too. Desktop Version iPhone Version Resolutions: 2560×1440px 1920×1200px 1680×1050px 1440×900px 1280×1024px 1280×800px 1024×768px iPhone About the author My name is Fabio Sasso, I’m a graphic/web designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil and I’m the founder of Abduzeedo. I hope we can share lots of information, tips, and ideas through Abduzeedo.
Tags: fireworks, gadgets, Graphic Design, interview, iphone, photography, Tutorials, Typography, wallpaper, wallpaper-of-the-week, Web Design, week
Lava Rock: Texture Pack
Mar 13, 2010 General, Resources, Tutorials
This is a collection of free textures of lava rock for you to enjoy. There are 12 high-resolution images available in this Design Instruct exclusive. They are available for personal and commercial use in your work, but please do not redistribute this pack without obtaining consent first. The image files are 2000×3008px in size.
Tags: delicious, Design, design-instruct, design-tutorials, freebie, illustrator, lava-rock-texture-pack, preview, rock, texture, texture-pack, Textures, Tutorials, Web Design, writing
Filmspiration – All The Oscar 2010 Nominated Animated Shorts + Bonus
Mar 13, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources
In this Filmspiration installment we’re curating all the animated shorts nominated for the latest edition of the Oscar Movie Awards , starting with Logorama – this year’s winner! Let us know what you think about this edition of the Oscars, and what’s your favorite short movie. Logorama | Directed by Nicolas Schmerkin (Argentina) | 16 min Spectacular car chases, an intense hostage crisis, wild animals rampaging through the city and even more in Logorama ! French Roast | Directed by Fabrice O. Joubert (France) | 8 min In a fancy Parisian Café, an uptight businessman is about to pay the check when he finds out that he has lost his wallet. To buy some time he decides to order more coffee.
Tags: amp, articles, catalin-zorzini, creativity, death, directed, Inspiration, Inspired, matter, Web Design
Daily Inspiration #455
Mar 12, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
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, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it, also use “Daily Inspiration” in the subject, and don’t forget to send your Abduzeedo username; or via Twitter sending to http://twitter.com/abduzeedo If possible use the HTML code: <p class="imgC"><a href="Link to the page you found the image"><img src="Link to the Image" /></a></p> Do you want to see all images from all Daily Inspirations? Check out http://daily.abduzeedo.com al b sure Ana Cristina Eugene Kim Fabiano Fabio Florian Nicolle Felix Hernandez Gisele Hans Mayer iamthelampa Jared Houle Echobot from Barton Damer on Vimeo . The New WorshipHouse 2.0 from Worship House Media on Vimeo .
Tags: daily-images, image, interview, Photos, Photoshop, Typography, wallpaper, Web Design
Review of the month : The land to get the savage icon packs
Mar 12, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
As a designer of any software the user interface is one prime aspect that pays vital role in your product reaching out to maximum. That’s because it marks the first impression of your work and helps the user to navigate with ease consuming his less time to get accustomed to the new features. Imagine landing on a site with only text and no pictures, boring isn’t it? Quite rightly said that pictures are sometimes worth a thousand words and for a developer they add more interest and user friendliness to the software.
Tags: Design, downloads, graphics, hardware-icons, icons, Inspiration, Photos, Resources, sport-icons, Web Design
40 Amazing Minimalist Website Designs For Your Inspiration
Mar 12, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Minimalism is beautiful. It truly is. The best part about minimalism in web design is that it comes in many styles, colors and sizes, but they always have the same goal in mind – saying the most while saying the least. A great quote by Albert Einstein can sum up minimalism (in my opinion) 100%.
Tags: march-12, minimalism, nice-pic-eh, self-made-chick, thoughts, Tutorials, Web Design
MediaLoot Launch and Giveaway – Free Account To 3 Lucky Winners
Mar 12, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources
MediaLoot is brand new site created by Jon Phillips and Mason Hipp . It would be best described as an online toolbox of premium design resources. It is a subscription-based site offering resources to designers and artists including icons, textures, vectors, print templates, etc… We have partnered with them to give away 3 one-year accounts to InspiredMag readers, to celebrate the launch of MediaLoot. About MediaLoot A one-month subscription to MediaLoot normally costs $29, but to start things off with a bang they have decided to make it $14 for a while (so even if you don’t win, joining is still quite a deal).
Tags: facebook, Inspiration, leave, Resources, themes, Web Design, winners
Beautiful Artworks by Carmelo Di Lorenzo
Mar 12, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Carmelo Di Lorenzo is an art director, designer and illustrator, from São Paulo, Brazil. Carmelo worked with Adhemas Batistas, one of his greatest influences, a few years ago and now he is working as Senior Art Director at Wunderman. Also he decided to put more time into illustration and design. Most of his ideas are inspired by guys like Adhemas, Douglas Alves and old school animators from Disney.
Tags: drawing, drawings, Inspiration, interview, photography, Photoshop, Resources, Web Design
Showcase of 20 Mobile-Friendly Popular Design Blogs
Mar 11, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Roughly 3-4% of our readers view this site via a mobile device and that percentage is growing week-to-week. They aren’t very high percentages but it was certainly high enough to prompt me into action – I started considering a mobile version of this site. Let me start by saying that I didn’t want it look like an entirely stripped down version of the full site. I did want to keep the overall layout of the hompage (thumbnails and excerpt), I wanted the internal post images to be re-sized per screen rather than cropped, and most importantly, I wanted the essence of the site, albeit in smaller mode, to reflect on the mobile version.
Tags: abduzeedo, Design, Graphic Design, Inspiration, mobile, photography, Photoshop, Tutorials, Web Design
