We’ve been busy behind the scenes at Designussion getting ready for the launch of our new marketplace.
I’m sure most of you regularly build websites, design themes or have a service to offer. You can list all of these in our marketplace for a small fee (to keep away scammers) with no commission to pay. Themes and templates are free to list so you can show off your design talent to the world!
As it’s a Sunday I thought I’d keep today’s post fun. I found most of these browsing around the net – comments welcome with anything I may have missed!
You know you’re addicted to web design when…
So I guess at least half of those apply to me… what about you?
Building your reputation online as a designer
Many of you use Twitter on a daily basis to communicate with friends and family and to keep up with the latest news. I’ve been using Twitter since the start of Designussion and it has been pivotal to its success and growth. I have a strong following on Twitter with nearly 4000 followers!
Typography is always a fascinating aspect of design and some designers are better at it than others. Each and every designer has had to develop and learn their own techniques to be able to produce some of the great typography art work they do. Luckily enough, the design community is active and many designers are nice enough to provide us with tutorials on how they create their typography.
In this post, Designussion showcases 18 outstanding typography tutorials to get you started.
The web, computers and mobile phones would be nothing without the humble icon. We use icons to navigate our way around computers and the internet and, on the whole, would be absolutely lost without them. You’ll be amazed by how many icons are firmly lodged in your brain: when presented with a Search, Mail or Battery icon, for instance, you’ll instantly know exactly what it means and what it does.
Icons are tiny, but powerful; underestimate them at your peril. Internet giants like Facebook, Twitter and Windows Live Messenger rely heavily on icon design to boost user numbers, and Microsoft and Apple are constantly refining and redesigning their icons in a fierce battle to stand out from one another and define their respective brand identities.
As an essential element of website navigation, you need to ensure that your icons are polished and attractive. Fortunately, there is a wealth of icon design tutorials available to help you create stunning icons in Photoshop or Illustrator. We’ve scoured the web to bring you the very best. Some are more suitable for experts, while others are accessible to anyone with the most limited graphic design experience. Take a look below and find the ones that are right for you.
Today at Designussion we are giving a little something back to the community. We have been fortunate enough to have been contacted by the guys over at ManageMe who have been kind enough to give away three paid subscriptions of Plutus 6(priced at $12) for free to the winners of the giveaway. Designussion also has 23 Google Wave invites that will be given out which contain full access to Googles new real-time communication and collaboration tool.
With the vast majority of design blogs within the blogging community its hard to keep up with who is saying what. Using twitter along side your favorite RSS reader is a great way to find out about new articles that design blogs are writing up. As a designer, these are some of the design blogs we thing you should be following on twitter to keep up to date with designs latest trends and discussion.
Following the popular showcase of design related twitters you should follow in this post, Designussion take a look at design blogs that you should be following on twitter.
Keeping up with the your reading is an essential part of growing and learning as a designer. Using a web based browser allows you to keep your favorite blogs all one in central location even when moving from one device to another. In this post, Designussion showcases 12 awesome web based RSS readers which allow you to customize, organize, search and catagorize articles.
Taking your business card to the next level has become the latest craze on the web. Started by Tim Van Damme, Vcards are electronic business cards that allow a company or individual to display basic information online in a minimalistic manner. Most have decided on a simple, one page design that focuses its design around the Vcard content. From the designs showcased below we can see that they all seem to follow Tim’s original layout displaying some basic information, contact details and a list of their social network accounts.
There are those who often enjoy change and those who don’t. As a web designer using a computer is often a task that fills most of our day so sitting looking at the same screen can often become tedious and boring. Changing your desktop wallpaper often can not only bring a whole new look to your workspace but also spark inspiration and creativeness.
In this post, Designussion showcases 30 exotic wallpaper sites that are sure to land you with a new desktop wallpaper. Why not take it upon yourself to change your wall paper each month and spark some inspiration from within to help you with your web design projects and become a better and healthier designer.
