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Another month has come and gone quickly, and September brought a number of new resources for our members at Vandelay Premier . If you’re not familiar with Vandelay Premier it is a membership-based site that provide premium quality resources for designers. You can find out more by taking the tour .
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September in Review: 24 New Resource Packs at Vandelay Premier!
Social media and social networking sites present tremendous opportunities to all kinds of business, including web design. If you’re not currently active with social media you are missing out on one of the best methods for networking and for free or low-cost marketing. Many designers who are using social media are not getting the most out of it.
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5 Steps to a Stronger Social Media Presence
Personal websites are becoming increasingly popular and they are often provide an excellent source of design inspiration. In this post we’ll feature 25 examples of well-designed personal websites. This showcase presents a variety of different styles.
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Personal Websites: 25 Examples for Your Design Inspiration
Web designers, especially freelancers, face the challenge of effectively managing their time while juggling a lot of different responsibilities. There are a number of online apps and tools that can help you to take control and make the most of your time
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10 Extremely Useful Time Management Tools
Navigation is a critical aspect of any website. Many larger sites use drop down menus in effort to make it easier for visitors to find what they are looking for. In this post we will feature 25 scripts that you can use on your own sites for jQuery drop down menus.
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25 jQuery Drop Down Menu Scripts
So you had tons of fun decking out your own personal Tumblog, and now you want to try your hand at contributing a theme to the Theme Garden. But how do you design a template that would be used by (hopefully) tons of people
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On Designing Tumblr Themes: 7 Ways to Design a Useful & Customizable Tumblr Theme
Creating amazing text effects in Photoshop can help to take your work to the next level. Fortunately, there are a lot of great tutorials out there that show a wide variety of techniques for working with text in Photoshop. In this post we’ll feature 35 Photoshop text effect tutorials.
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35 Amazing Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials
BeFunky has offered to give a free professional account for one year to 2 readers of Vandelay Design! BeFunky offers super easy photo editing online through both free and premium accounts. With the professional account you will be able to use it for commercial purposes, have no advertising, priority processing, priority support, and more.
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Win a Free Professional Account from BeFunky!
Seeing what are designers are doing can be a great source of inspiration and motivation. Today we’re featuring vector designs, and this post includes more than 30 for your own inspiration. This showcase includes vectors of people, cars, and other objects.
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Showcase of Amazing Vector Art
BundleHunt is a new project of Noura Yehia (the founder of Noupe ) that provides designers with a wealth of resources for a fraction of the price. Bundle Hunt has offered to give free bundles to five readers of the Vandelay Design Blog! Bundle Hunt offers $1,400 worth of resources for a ridiculously low cost of $49. The bundle includes the items shown below
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Comment to Win a Design Treasure from BundleHunt!
Here’s another amazing premium WordPress theme from ThemeShift for our premium members . deLucide is a very sleek and elegant portfolio WordPress theme to showcase your photos or any other work in a professional and lucent design.
WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems for blogs, portfolios, and other types of sites, but with the right plugins and/or themes it can also be used for e-commerce.
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WordPress Ecommerce: 30+ Resources
Craig Baldwin is a recently graduated graphic design student at the Winchester School of Art with a keen interest in print and publishing as well as blogging and web design. The post is sponsored by Hosting.com – Dedicated Server Hosting This it the seventh edition of Be Inspired and it’s certainly a mixture this week, we’ve got posters, adverts, typography, stop motion, print, illustration, packaging and plenty more. Hope you enjoy this week’s collection.
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Be Inspired! (By Everything) 07
Websites in the travel industry often place an emphasis on the design and appearance because a good-looking site will hopefully draw more interest and excitement for the destination. Many of them also use nature-inspired designs (see last week’s post 35 Beautiful Web Designs Inspired by Nature for more examples)
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25 Beautiful Travel and Tourism Websites
There’s a never ending supply of information out there for us web designers. If there’s something we need to learn, we can find it in one form or another.
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10 Free Online Books for Web Designers
Working as a freelance designer is a challenging job. Not only do you have to be a skilled designer, but you also need to be able to find work and run a profitable business. Landing new clients can be a lot of work and can require a considerable amount of time on your part. Once you have the client, retaining that client can be highly beneficial for your business
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Client Retention: A Key Ingredient for Freelancing Success
concrete5 , an up-and-coming open-source content management system, has offered to give a lucky blog reader an eCommerce and discussion forums license package! The total value of these two licenses is $145. I first came across concrete5 in last year while researching a post on content management systems, and I was very impressed considering it was a CMS that I was not familiar with. concrete5 is free and open source, but if you don’t want to download it and set it up on your own server you can also host it with them
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Win a Free eCommerce and Discussion Forums License Package from concrete5!
Most web designers rely on inquiries from their portfolio website to produce a decent portion of their business. Contact forms can be very simple, collecting a name and contact information, or they can be much more detailed, providing enough information to get an estimate.
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Create an Advanced Contact Form for Client Inquiries
Design inspiration can come from just about anywhere. In this post we’ll feature examples of graffiti art that can serve as inspiration. Here you’ll find 30 pieces of graffiti art that display text effects, character illustrations, beautiful color schemes, and more
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Design Inspiration: Graffiti Art Showcase
jQuery sliders and image galleries have continued to grow in popularity for use on homepages or on portfolio pages. Last year we published 25 jQuery Image Gallery/Slider Tutorials and Plugins , but a number of high-quality tutorials and plugins have been released since then, so it’s time for a follow-up post. Here you’ll find another 25 jQuery sliders (13 tutorials and 12 plugins) to help you in your own work
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25 Excellent jQuery Slider Tutorials and Plugins