by Brandon Milford on February 15, 2010 · 0 comments
Here are some of the best social share icons I’ve found. Share your content in style with these social share icons for your blog. Enjoy!
Social Media Bookmark Icons
Download the icons from Nouveller.com
Subscribe to Nouveller.com’s RSS Feed
Follow on Twitter
Vintage Postage Stamps Social Media Icons
Download the icons from Tutorial9.net
Subscribe to Tutorial9’s RSS Feed
Follow on Twitter
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by Brandon Milford on February 6, 2010 · 3 comments
I’ve been doing some research lately on various graphing packages that are available and thought I’d share a few of the top choices I’ve found. Depending on your needs there are options for PHP, .NET, Adobe Flex, Adobe Air, ColdFusion, Java, Perl, or Ruby on Rails. Here are of some the best I’ve found:
FusionCharts
FusionCharts is [...]
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by Brandon Milford on January 17, 2010 · 5 comments
Here are our top picks for finding design related content and great places to share yours. If you’re just starting your design related blog or have been writing for a while and looking for great places to post your content and grow readership for your blog, definitely check out these options.
DesignNewz
Tripwire Magazine
Web Design News
Design Bump
DesignMoo
Design [...]
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by Brandon Milford on October 24, 2009 · 2 comments
Here’s a roundup of our top ten favorite design-related posts for the past week. Enjoy!
Waterscape Photography: Beautiful Waterscapes and Tricks of the Trade
Nature provides us with a never-ending supply of inspiration, look no further than the coast for an array of majestic scenery. This article focuses on the point where land and sea meet, with [...]
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by Brandon Milford on October 15, 2009 · 3 comments
Here I’ve included a number of resources for usability best practices, inspiration, and design patterns for the web. There are many excellent sites and blogs on user experience and usability. If there are any that you read regularly and not included below, please share within the comments. Enjoy!
UXBooth
The UX Booth is a blog by and [...]
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by Brandon Milford on October 9, 2009 · 1 comment
There were a number of great posts this week from 15 Common Mistakes in E-Commerce Design to setting up Automatic Thumbnails Without Using Custom Field. Here’s a list of our favorites. Enjoy!
15 Common Mistakes in E-Commerce Design
Selling online can open up huge new markets for many businesses. When your store can be open 24/7 and [...]
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Right-brain versus left-brain or designers versus accountants, both refer to two different ways of viewing the world. I call them Crunchers (as in ‘number crunchers’) and Creatives and there’s a healthy tension among these two camps in almost all organizations, but what about the influence they each have on the growth of a company?
We’ve seen [...]
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by Brandon Milford on September 10, 2009 · 7 comments
Today we have Grant Friedman, a freelance designer and founder of Colorburned. Colorburned is a popular design blog that provides design news, resources, and tutorials from around the web.
Tell me more about your background. How did you get started in graphic design?
I got my start in graphic design about 10 years ago. Back then, the [...]
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by Brandon Milford on September 9, 2009 · 3 comments
About a month ago I decided to purchase Thesis Theme for WordPress. I had been hearing a lot of hype and finally took the plunge. I read a lot about the flexibility it allows for search engine optimization, ability to quickly make changes to your layout, image settings, etc… Well, it definitely lives up to [...]
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