Powerpoint has produced more bad design in its day that perhaps any other digital tool in history with the possible exception of Microsoft paint.
In this post we’re going to address the epidemic of bad presentation design with ten super practical tips for designer better looking and more professional presentations. Along the way we’ll see a number of awesome slide designs from Note & Point along with some custom examples built by yours truly. Let’s get started!
There’s a lot of buzz going around about HTML5. Big companies such as Apple are predicting that it’s the technology that will sign the death warrant of the popular Flash platform that powers a lot of rich internet apps and complex dynamic web components.
But what is HTML5, really? How will it change the jobs of web developers and web designers? Here are 15 web resources to help you on your quest in getting current about the impending technology that’s already being adopted by major web browsers and leveraged in large sites such as Google.
So, here are the 12 Free Keyword Research Tools For Webmasters that will help you find the best keywords for your site. I believe these keyword research tools will give you great stats to work with. And if you are SEO professional, you might also like to check some SEO related articles here .
Photoshop is the best way to improve your designing skills. You can edit and manipulate any photo according to your requirement. We can see a large number of photo editing tutorials on the internet. These photo editing tutorials helps to make your creativity more enhanced.
If you want to edit and modify any photo with color, background, effects and technique, I hope these tutorials will help to you to achieve. A few days ago we had been provided 10 fresh and stunning photoshop tutorial.
Brands of the World is the most comprehensive library of brand logos in vector format. BotW is also a great place for designers to upload their logo designs and professional details to get exposure, recognition and clients.
The logo is the face of any brand — the very first impression — so its design is extremely important.
When executed correctly, a logo is a powerful asset to your client’s brand.
However, creating an effective visual representation of a brand requires much more than just graphic design.
Like any line of work that involves a set of specific skills, logo design requires plenty of practice and experience for it to be successful; knowledge is definitely power for any graphic designer.
For this reason, we have outlined 12 essential rules to follow in order to design an effective logo.
With an advertising world keen to use every inch of a medium for brand or product experience, it is becoming increasingly popular to design websites with full-browser backgrounds. Using CSS, this can be achieved quite easily. Just drop a huge background image in a page with one line of code (Line wraps marked » —Ed.):
User Manual - Pencil 0.4.3b
by P. Naidon - July 21st 2007 (to be completed)
Overview
A Pencil document is organized in layers. There are currently four types of layers: bitmap image, vector image, sound and camera. The Time Line window at the bottom of the screen shows the existing layers. By default, a new document contains a bitmap layer and a vector layer on top of it, but you can add and delete layers as you wish (using either the or buttons next to “Layers”, or the menu Layer).
A Web developer's life is hard enough without having to go on the hunt for good developing resources. To help you take a load off, we've compiled a list of some of the best tools available. After using these resources, you may still have 99 problems, but we guarantee that developing ain't gonna be one of them.
But once you have an idea, it’s always good to know how to actually implement those to get the desired results. This collection of abstract design tutorials will hopefully able to introduce you to some of the skills and techniques commonly used when creating such pieces of artwork and design elements. Enjoy!
In this collection I’ve gathered for you some of the best free online tools for designers that I find the most useful for me and I believe that they will be also as useful for you. These tools will help you in developing websites, validating their code, managing your time and projects. This collection consist of differentiated tools that everyone should have bookmarked and I believe that you’ll have an opportunity to use at least some of them soon!
Query possibilities are growing rapidly and there are many people who play with code and discover some amazing combinations achieving effects you have never seen before!
You will find here many plugins which will help to add motion, 3d effects and animation to your website! This list will blow your mind away with possibilities – ready?!!!
So, in this article, I carefully handpicked high quality free fonts, which are almost suitable to be used for any design project. And I am sure it will surely save lot of time of designers out there which they spent on computer surfing for free fonts.
While this is by no means an exhaustive list, it is a good place to start and provides a framework for a self-guided design education. Please feel free to share additional resources you’ve found helpful in the comments!
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The mastery of color theory, relations and harmonies is one of the primary steps to uncovering the full beauty and potential of your images (in the realms of art, design and/or photography). Find out more in this simple, practical, colorful guide
This is the 2nd of 5 gallery-style posts in our week-long inspiration series in which we are collecting 100 awesome examples in a given category. Today we are covering infographics, you know those nifty illustrations that make complicated subjects easy to understand. The infographic (short for information graphic) has become a mainstream fixture thanks, in part, to publications such as Wired Magazine whose commissioned infographics are notoriously complicated and cool and widely respected within the design community. This collection contains great color combinations, infographics of varying sizes, creative typography and of course, extremely clever illustrations.
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