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Create an Unforgettable Logo Design
For many companies, the New Year means time for a new logo. Successful companies such as Microsoft, Starbucks, Pepsi, and Yahoo! took several tries before getting their logo right because creating a logo can be tricky. The company logo should encompass the message you want your company to convey—fun personality, unique products, quick delivery—and therefore takes a lot of effort. You want your logo to be something consumers recognize right away, and unless you’re dealing with a company like Google or IBM, there is still plenty of time to find the right logo. Read more
Deal with Nightmare Clients Without Killing Them!
Freelancing offers unlimited amounts of freedom and flexibility in your working whilst allowing you to spend more time with your family or to do the things you love. However, freelancing is far from the life of riley and if projects are hard to come by then you may find yourself working on projects with clients that strain your patience and make unreasonable demands on you.
In the current economic climate freelancers are sometimes not in a strong enough financial position to just say no to a client and walk away. So how can they work with nightmare clients more effectively to reduce the strain and maintain their sanity?
We’ve Run out of Ideas!
Do you consider yourself to be an original creator? How many fresh and new ideas have you come up with lately? And from these ideas, how really sure are you that they’re all completely yours and that someone else hasn’t come up with them before?
It’s very likely that you feel like your brain is completely capable of coming up with fresh and innovative ideas that no other person has come up with. But I can assure you that even your wildest thoughts that passed through your mind, has rambled through another human’s head before in a very similar way.
1000 Business Cards for Free!
You know how here at webdesginshock.com we’re always pampering our followers with the latest and freshest in web design news, plug-ins, resources, showcase, etc. and to start off the year fresh were bringing you on this occasion in alliance with our friends from 1800Postcards.com 1000 business cards for free! So, why not seize the opportunity and get to refresh your corporate image for this New Year for free?
Amazing free bundle!, 10 WordPress themes, 750 icons and more
Finding good design quality for free these days seems like an almost impossible odyssey and that’s why we like to let you know about what’s probably the biggest and greatest free design bundle that has been recently released. The bundle features an exclusive collaboration between IconShock, the largest icon design company and ThemeShock, a new website from the same team behind IconShock focused on delivering top quality WordPress themes, design freebies and more.
Zootool and the best designers to follow on it
Have you ever thought about what would’ve happened if Delicious had not stayed in a moat during the past few years?, it probably would’ve ended up like Zootool, one of the best and fast-growing bookmarking websites nowadays. Every day new designers, photographers, artists and more decide to join the network to share their work, recently we discovered a big list featuring the best designers to follow in Zootol.
Best jQuery blogs to keep in your RSS
For those who are not very much into web development, jQuery is a popular cross-browser JavaScript library designed specifically to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML. jQuery was released in January 2006 by John Resig and is currently being utilized by over 31% of the 10 K most visited websites, thus jQuery has become the most popular JavaScript library nowadays.
One of the best things about jQuery is its OpenSource condition and the fact that is dual-licensed under the MIT License and the GNU General Public License V2, thanks to these two aspects, every developer can generate their own jQuery plugins and send them directly to the JavaScript library. Now that we have exposed blatantly our love towards jQuery, we like to offer you a grand compilation of blogs and websites where you can find a lot of information about jQuery, including new plugins, good practices and reviews, let’s see what you think about these places.
Issuu in WordPress
Perhaps you have already used Issuu to offer online publications in a newspaper style, but if not then we truly recommend you this site that even on its free version offers you a highly professional presentation for your documents.
Among its many virtues you have the chance to reformat your documents and turn them into an electronic presentation, it also lets you insert the Issuu player in any website except WordPress.com
Designers to follow on Twitter, a deep analysis
If there’s something that we can be sure about regarding Web 3.0 is that social media will occupy a huge role in business and companies will need to pay more attention to sites like Twitter and Facebook because that’s where the money is.
On this article we have chosen Twitter, the world-famous microblogging website that since the Ashton Kutcher days has attracted millions of followers. We fixed our attention in the design community (which is also our main focus group) considering both independent bloggers and big design blogs that have a good amount of followers and make a constant use of the social network. We made a series of tests that helped us determine the most relevant aspects such as average daily tweets, retweets, use of hashtags and more, all of this with the only purpose of identify how designers relate with their clients and followers via Twitter and subsequently obtain enough information that helped us to write some tips on how to improve your Twitter life and establish the main tweeters you should follow for finding quality design information.
200 best web design gallery sites where to submit your works
We know that many times in the web/ graphic design business having a stunning design is not enough if you aren’t able to make everyone to look at it and share it across the world. There are many methods to support your job and probably one of the easiest and most helpful of them is submitting to web galleries.
Web galleries are there to showcase all the quality world from people around the world, but though many times they handpick this creations, the amount of good work to collect is too much and that’s when is helpful that you personally submit your designs so the site’s administrators review them and decide either if place them in the homepage or discard them. On this huge showcase we want to show you all the nicest web galleries where you can submit your designs, including logo designs, business cards, graphic design in general and more.
Web 3.0, the present and the future of web
At this very moment, somewhere in the world, some guy (let’s call him hmm… “Rupert”) is in front of his computer. No need to imagine him as a super geek or as an obscure techie obsessed person. Our hero is not even a rich or a powerful figure in society. Rupert is just a 15 year old middle class teen that has just got home back from school. His teacher has emailed a literature assignment to the entire class from a Blackberry: they have to read a VI century BC book titled “The art of war”, by some Chinese guy called Sun Tzu… nobody Rupert can recall from his favorite Kung Fu movies anyway.
Rupert chats with some of his favorite schoolmates on Facebook, while browsing through thousands of free eBooks available on Project Guttenberg. Nobody home to cook, so he opens another browser tab and orders some pizza with a few clicks, tweeting to his friends afterwards on how he thinks pepperoni is cooler than anchovies.
Illustration by Iconshock
New Twitter design and PSD for standard resolutions
Just a few moments ago, we were lucky to get the New Twitter interface in our Tutorialshock account and we have to say that we’re pleased with it, the design is now more organized than before, the information is well distributed and bottom-line, we think it’s a step forward for Twitter.
As soon as we got the new Twitter interface, we started making tests, from checking the new features to taking a look at other profiles and soon we find out that the Iconshock’s background was having problems to fit inside the new layout, and that’s when we decided to make this article, a quick review around the new Twitter features and also offer you a great pack of background layouts to help you adjust your own background into Twitter’s new design.
The ultimate StumbleUpon guide
As many of us know, since the arrival of the web 2.0 era, many websites that focus on creating communities and sharing contents were released, all this sites stood in front of improving the interaction between users and developers.
We all know that when you’re looking for your website to outstand in front of the rest, it’s necessary a conscious and consistent process of promotion and socialization. The name world wide web itself describes the essence of the success on this environment, in order to make it on the www market, you need to become a valuable part of the community and not just a leech. Read more
Submit your blog and RSS to these 200 sites
As we all know, blogs are one of the growing powers on web, having this days specialized guys known as bloggers behind them. There are many ways to increase your blog’s traffic, which is the ultimate goal behind every blog on the web, for start, there is the SEO (search engine optimization) that guides the developers towards the implementation of more friendly websites; there is also the link baiting, which is the process by which people tend to place links inside their websites that connects to the ones that are placing the bait, usually this is done through downloadable links or offers.
100 best places where to submit your vector tutorials
A couple of days ago, I was trying to submit the latest tutorial we made at Tutorialshock, I thought that it was going to be simple and will only take a few hours, but suddenly I found that it was not that easy. Most of tutorial directories are focused on Photoshop or programming tutorials, being less the ones that are willing to accept vector tutorials from programs such as Adobe Illustrator and Gimp.
That’s the reason why we decided to write this article, to help put people that are currently looking for high quality places to submit their vector resources, specially tutorials. We made a complete roundup around several places until we came out with this, we hope you enjoy it.
