Time-Saving Solution – Swish Template

May 20th, 2008
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If you are searching for a web site or a web template with nice interactions, then I advise you to consider Swish as a good substitute for Flash. I had been working for a web design studio for several years already and when we first tried Swishmax. We bought a Swish template at Flashmint.com to try it out and the results we got were quite good.

Now we produce Swish websites on a regular basis. Our customers seem to be pretty satisfied with their websites and we save our time, since it would take more time to do similar things in Flash. And you know, time is money, so it’s up to you, of course, to choose.

70 of the best logo design resources

March 11th, 2008

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From time to time I’ll see a list of ‘logo design resources’ being circulated around social media websites, but more often than not, I’m disappointed at the quality of links. So I’ve searched through my bookmarks, trawled the other ‘resource’ articles, and asked some designers for their input.

Here I present a choice selection of logo design resources that I believe are beneficial to serious designers (with a touch of humour here and there).

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Download 8,000+ high quality free fonts

March 11th, 2008

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More free tools for your designer’s toolbox, this time our focus is high quality free typefaces. Usually it is a little bit more of a difficult task to find the perfect font out there, that’s why we should not miss Urban Fonts.

Urbanfonts is a web 2.0 Ajax style font directory, containing an amazing collection of over 8,000 free fonts and dingbats in PC and Mac format along with a huge commercial fonts archive. Not all the fonts are of the highest quality, you just have to digg through to find something of a higher quality but with over 8,000 free fonts you should find something that will suite your projects.

The site offers various ways to get a live preview of the fonts, either by clicking on a font which lets you preview the font in many different ways (sample text, character set, different sizes, etc) or by dynamic mouseovers to let you see the full character set without refreshing the page which can be real time savers.

free fonts

The site is cleanly laid out and easy to navigate, it also has a blog with the latest font news and some interesting histories of various fonts such as Helvetica.

20 Free Glossy Color Vector Stickers and Badges

March 11th, 2008

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These are great! The brand new design blog Vibr8bros.com shows us they are worthy of this title – design blog. They just released a free vector pack full of glossy and shiny, colorful Web 2.0 badges (or stickers). If you use Adobe Illustrator, you should check these out: you get the source AI and EPS files to change, alter and use them with your own text!

For those who don’t want to customize this freeibe, the Virb8 Bros. included 20 seperate transparent PNG files. These you can use directly and put them on your blog or elsewhere with no hassle.

20 Free Vector Stickers

You can download this free vector pack right here.

How to Make Your Website Design Bring Profit?

March 11th, 2008

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If you want to open your furniture online store, keep in mind that design and images are everything. Recent surveys show that 68% of clients judge shops by their website design. If it looks excellent, customers find your products worthy of attention, in most cases make purchases, and obviously will come back later. Vice versa, if it is not attractive enough, you risk losing a customer forever. So how should a good e-commerce shop look like?

1. It has to attract visitors’ attention. For this purpose, there is nothing better than use flash technology. Flash effects and animation are proved to be the best and modern ways to make your website eye-catching.

2. Your website has to differ from your competitors and ensure its recognition. It means it should give your visitors an idea of what type of products you have, compared to others in this niche. In this connection, it’s better to hire a professional photographer and think out how to show off your products in the most effective way.

Besides, the inner pages should look similar. At first, it allows visitors effortlessly find any necessary information. Secondly, pages which look alike and have similar structure, are taken as familiar. It’s a known fact that most people prefer familiar to something new and unknown.

3. And at last, effective web design should bring information in full capacity. Effective design underlines your importance. Successful color combination, tastefully picked fonts, frames and free spaces, as a rule, impress visitors.

An ideal showcase, which combines all the principles mentioned above, is a furniture company flash template I have recently came across. Provided by IceTemplates, it proves that there is no need to order custom web design, because a website template can satisfy your needs either.

Furniture company Flash CMS template by IceTemplates

Furniture company flash cms template

Its Live Demo is here.

The 5×5 secret Rules in Design and Advertising: Basic Rules

March 10th, 2008
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1. Creativity is nothing. (Without skills)

Some people are born creative. They slop over with insightful bubbles and always come up with a brand new and ground-breaking idea. But what makes a creative person a good designer?
What matters is your ability to produce. Creativity alone is highly valuable, agreed, but what if you can’t turn it into someting of true value?

Take a look at the advertising industry. The classic creative team consists of a Creative Director (CD) with at least one Art Director (AD) and Copywriter (CW). Now – how exactly did the CD get his job?

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