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Ultimate List of Share Icons for Your Blog

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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Graphing Software Options for Your Next App

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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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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Our Favorite Posts for the Week of October 19th 2009

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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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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Our Favorite Posts for the Week: Week of October 4th 2009

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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Design as a Differentiator

by Brandon Milford on October 4, 2009 · 12 comments

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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25 Inspirational Designs for Website Footers

by Brandon Milford on September 14, 2009 · 15 comments

If you think a website’s footer exists only to show copyright information you couldn’t be further from the truth. Below I’ve included 25 inspirational footers from design related sites and blogs from around the web. From illustrative to intelligent use of textures, I hope you’ll find these website footers inspirational.
13Creative

13Creative is a full-service design firm [...]

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Interview with Grant Friedman: Founder of Colorburned

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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Thesis Theme: SEO Goodness and Design Flexibility

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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