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The WORST on ReBranding

WebDesignShock — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:51:41 +0000

Re-branding your company after a few years of being on the market, when it has reached a solid costumer background, is the best strategy to boost the market placement that you have achieved, and it gives you the possibility to place your product amongst younger generations of customers with a more modern approach to your corporative identity.

But Re-Branding is not something to be taken lightly, because you might just be “fixing what isn’t broken”, in changing a solid corporative image into something that doesn’t click amongst your audience or that they just simply hate! … Or even worse you could fail to reach a younger costumer and loose the brand followers you’ve assured over the years all for a lousy new corporate image

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Our new project is here: Box of Bundles!

WebDesignShock — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:49:09 +0000

The creative team from the webdesignshock.com family just can’t get enough of pampering web junkies with loads of fresh ready to download freebies available just a click away. That’s why we’ve taken on as our new project, the development/design of an entire website dedicated to the sole and only purpose of bringing you tons of freebies on a regular basis, and now it’s running and ready for you to enjoy!

Boxofbundles.com is basically the result of a thorough investigation made by our team, looking to find outstanding designers and developers with a solid trajectory in their field, that were: enthusiast on being part of our Box of Bundles project cause, and that were willing of course to giveaway some of their previous work for free “to the masses” (sort of speak)

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Latest Resources for Designers!

WebDesignShock — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:00:00 +0000

The followers of might already recognize us for our constant feed of fresh web design related matters, high quality articles, well investigated pieces, and loads of freebies, and like we do for webdesignshock.com, our creative team takes great care and is always vigilant for the contents that go on all our web contact sources.

So, for those of you that haven’t gotten the chance to tweet with us, well were sorry to tell you that you’re missing out on loads of freebies and fresh info on web design resources, but no worries because from now on well be bringing you at webdesignshock.com the best of our daily tweets on a regular basis for those that might have just missed it!, or who just simply can’t get enough of Web Design Shock’s feeds of information.

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99 PSD Templates

WebDesignShock — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:20:05 +0000

As always here at webdesignshock.com we’re bringing you the latest in news, investigation and freebies in Web Design, and probably it’s no secret to our followers how some of our best freebie bundle we’ve brought you have come from the hands of our fiends at themeshock.com, and in the habit of keeping a good tradition alive, on this occasion we’ve summed up The Shock Free Bundle of 99 PSD Themeplates.

So, for those of you that already had the chance to enjoy the qualities of the 1st Shock Free Bundle from themeshock.com, as well as for the ones that didn’t (don’t worry because for those of you that we’re left out there’s still time to visit themeshock.com and find it available at the bottom of the page), we’ve brought the 2nd Shock Free Bundle ready to download with 99 high quality templates with home and internal page. Compatible with Worpress and other alike, the templates come boosted with hundreds of features, and tons of high quality design elements and vectors. All these templates have been designed by our team !Continue reading: 99 PSD Templates

Create an Unforgettable Logo Design

WebDesignShock — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:46:21 +0000

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
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Deal with Nightmare Clients Without Killing Them!

WebDesignShock — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:12:23 +0000

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?
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We’ve Run out of Ideas!

WebDesignShock — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:40:16 +0000

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.
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How to Design an Awful Looking Sign-Up Form, 10 Step Guide

WebDesignShock — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:00:56 +0000

When signing up for something – whether you’re opening a new bank account, registering for an interesting new app or trying to buy a flight – you want the process to be simple and quick. Speedy, painless sign-up forms help to increase conversion rates and keep visitors happy. Yet, in despite of that, there are countless examples throughout the web of sites that have painfully dreadful and frustrating forms that end up making you feel bad about the whole process. These forms are usually found on archaic, badly designed sites and there’s an unusual trend – the bigger the company, the more likely the form is to be awkward and needlessly complicated, such as: When you enter in Google the search term “beautiful Sign-up forms” you’ll find about 1,370,000,000 results that include an endless list of showcase countdowns resources on the 20,17,7 and even 100 Best Sign-up forms, so why do what’s already been done?

On the contraire this post will, count one by one the bad practices when designing a sign-up form, if maybe this way the web designers will learn their lesson and finally up –date their sign-up forms. Because even up to this day when there’s so many beautiful web resources available for web developers, you can still bump into long, complicated and heavy sign-up forms that just simply suck! So, there you go, if you want to create a terrible, awkward and frustrating sign-up form, here we’ve given you a 10 step guide to go about it
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New Designers and Developers Icon Set!

WebDesignShock — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:00:33 +0000

While” others” in the business seem glad by just giving out a couple of bundles per year of two hundred or so elements (to say the least)…..here at the webdesignshock.com family we just can’t enough of pampering our followers with loads of bundles that always come in big size packages, because everything always is bigger and better at webdesignshock.com.

So, for those of you that had the chance to enjoy past great Iconshock freebies promoted trough our posts such as: “The Most Complete Android Style Icon Set: 15000 Icons”, and also for those of you that didn’t get a chance to get hold of them back then (wise up!…you can still get them!) here’s the new Designers and Developers Versatile 120 Icon Set from iconshock.com
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1000 Business Cards for Free!

WebDesignShock — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:00:00 +0000

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?
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