Web 2.0 Designer

Got Customers? Take the case of “Jesse,” a brilliant web designer. It’s obvious that he has serious skills in design and can run circles around other web designers when it comes to talent.

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Things You Won’t Hear About Successful Web Designers – Part II

What You Need If you ask most employed web designers what factors were most important in their development as a web designer you’ll probably hear “experience” and “school” at the top of their lists. Outside of coding skills there are other elements that make a web designer successful

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Things You Won’t Hear About Successful Web Designers – Part I

Some Guidelines and Tips If you are seriously considering going to college for your graphic design education or web design degree you already know that there are no shortages of available colleges, universities, and online education centers that constantly vie for your attention. But how can you distinguish between the good schools and the bad ones?

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How to Select a Good Web Design College

Ive been looking around the web to try and find some examples of clean well structured sites, this maybe a unique layout or just simply presented well with some good typography, spacing or initial first impression of the site, here are just a few of the ones im liking. Brian Hoff Kyle Steed Spoon Graphics Sushi and Robots New To York Adrian Pelletier Ribbons of Red Purple Rain Cloud Snook Tobias Ahlin Srburns 8 Interactive Stuff and Nonsense Lift Interactive Jason Reynolds Marten dejongh Mutt Ink Rainbeau Mars Mark Boulton Simple Bits Ainsworth Studio The Darling Tree Pixel Craft z8 Glue Comments Have your seen any well designed web sites on your travels around the web, if so feel free to post a link in the comments?

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25 Examples of Clean and Well designed Web Sites

A really great set of icons for free . Something that you’ve seen before on this blog, but I think this most recent free set shows just how far I’ve come since the first set, just over a year ago now. This new set of icons was made exclusively for WooThemes & with their help we’ve proud to offer you this fantastic set of icons for absolutely nothing! With this set we’ve gone for a more refined, Mac OSX style Icons (almost) – which seem to be really popular with web designers recently

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178 Free Icons: WooFunction Free Icon Set goes Live

I’ve selected various Photoshop tutorials that I’m liking at the moment for light effects, some have quite cool techniques on how to achieve the end result that can be applied to a million different designs (try and experiment with them), check them out below. You might also enjoy: 25 Examples of Light and Space Effects In Web Design 25 Examples of Light Effects In Web Design Design a Vista Styled Wallpaper Windows Vista Aurora Effect Design a Vibrant Blackberry Inspired Ad NoPattern “Jumper” Effect Mysterious Lighting Effect How to Create Brilliant Light Streaks Creating a Mac-Type Background Luminescent Lines Create a Glowing Light Painting Effect Abstract Dust And Spray Effect Make a dreamy abstract background Digital Bokeh effect Abstract Lines Background Abstract Light Rays Drawing an Abstract Lightbulb How to create 3D abstract circles Comments Do you have any favourite tutorials that you have seen for light effects?

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16 Great Photoshop Light Effect Tutorials

Hello from a new series of articles for those who want their way in the freelancing business, or refresh experience. These episodes will consist of my self stories and tips for freelancing, with proven facts. Before we start, let’s just please say the word: Dude, freelancing is heaven! Since it’s almost officially the end of industrial age / fresh start of the IT age, this new era completely changed (and still changing) the way people work.

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Freelancing Strategies for Designers Ep 1: Why Freelance?

Danny Outlaw has given us an advanced preview of his re-designed Outlaw Design Blog . And I’ve got to say it looks fantastic , Danny talks us through the process & reasons behind it, and what we can expect from the new design, and in fact the new Blog, as his re-vamp goes further than just a fresh new look. What I love About the New Design Before we get Danny’s thoughts about the design and the inspiration behind it, I thought I’d talk you through some of the things that make this design stand out for me

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Exclusive look at the New Outlaw Design Blog Re-Design

We’ve been working hard on a few things lately, and this latest theme is one that we’ve made just for you guys! We’ve been working with Smashing Magazine for a while, and we’re happy to finally be able to release the theme . We’ve worked hard on making something that had the clean and sleek style that you’d expect, but we’ve put some extra focus on extending the capabilities of WordPress and it’s standard features, giving you a few extra features to improve the user’s browsing experience

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Free Theme: Magazeen. Style & Functionality in one Theme, now on Smashing Magazine