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Our new project is here: Box of Bundles!
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). Read more
Latest Resources for Designers!
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.
99 PSD Templates
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 ! Read more
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?
How to Design an Awful Looking Sign-Up Form, 10 Step Guide
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. Read more
New Designers and Developers Icon Set!
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! Read more
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?
Design Trends 2012!
Around the end of the year you’ll find in all web design theme oriented blogs and sites countdowns on what trends you should look out for in 2012, you may be thinking that this is just one more of those repetitive listings but you’re wrong! This is not your usual countdown …….it’s THE COUNTDOWN for web design trends 2012, complete with all the information, inquire, showcase, video tutorials and controversy points of view that the other trends listings don’t show you.
Yeah, yeah, so our categories in the trend listing can be alike to others seen in the web now days. But here at webdesignshock.com we’ve looked to make the difference by giving you a much more thorough guide to web design in 2012, that besides providing a general description of each trend and two or three examples, it also brings you detailed information concerning each trend!
6 Reasons Why You are not a Demanded Designer
Nowadays graphic design is a really very popular and demanded field in our Web addict society. Every day brainy designers open new fantastic and wonderful horizons before our curious eyes. Not only striking creations of artists entice us to learn some basic design skills and make our own contribution to this quickly developing sphere, but also the realization of what this type of job can give us and what new opportunities it can open for desiring knowledge people. As almost every kind of business needs services of a designer, you can have a good earning through designing and get many other benefits, such as a freelance work, an opportunity to work anywhere you want and of course a pleasant surroundings of creative people. Read more
Best free bundle of the year: 99 free PSD templates (seriously free)
We are totally insane, there’s no other way to define how we feel about this freebie, this is, without any question, the best freebie of this year (and probably the best freebie of the decade)… Totally exclusive, designed by our brother site: WordPressThemeshock, a HUGE set of 99 psd (free) templates with an amazing final touch and high quality design. Please help us spreading the word by tweeting and sharing this post to your friends, they will love you forever. Read more
Useful plugin for responsive web designs
While we were searching for applications/tools on the internet, we found really interesting tool called Breakpoints. This tool/application is really handy while working with responsive design techniques. Take a look, and let us know what you think about it.
Web Login, the definitive guide
When it comes to creating a successful login web design, although not all the rules are written in stone, there are certain features in the construction of the design that should be kept, in order to construct a model that guarantees a login outline that better suits moderns user needs.
A login should especially thrive on being up to date, functional, secure, quick and accessible; amongst other useful qualities it should have to assure its success amid web users, and above all to secure the profitability of your design.
CSS menu, 180 scripts, plugins and freebies
Here on webdesignshock.com we’re always on the lookout for the latest and everything fresh in web designs plug-ins, tools, etc. for all our web knowledge enthusiastic readers, although sometimes it’s not necessarily time to highlight the new but to acknowledge an on growing plug in use trend that solidify its acceptance amongst users, thanks to its outstanding features. Read more
jQuery Tooltip, 100 fresh resources!
As a Web designer you’ll always be on the lookout for the freshest resources to incorporate in your site, to keep it up to date in the latest trends in web design and make the web surfing progression a trouble-free route for your visitors, especially considering, that site users’ needs nowadays point to a site that brings them rich information with best visual presentation, and that above all grants it in a easy access fashion.