“I can do it for cheaper†— If you could do it for cheaper, why did you quote me a higher price in the first place?…. Some very good reading for all you freelancers out there, including myself :o) Click here to visit >>
Category: Useful tips
Photographers, Let Photoshop Do The Work
With Photoshop’s built in Contact Sheet generator you can quickly and easily generate a single or multi-page preview of a large batch of images in a grid style layout… Nice way of presenting a batch of photos for your clients to look through :o) Click here to visit >>
Some Reasons why a Website might be Unsuccessful
If you are planning or building a new website, you are obviously hoping for some type of success… Here are some reasons why your site might be unsuccessful, worth a look :o) Click here to visit >>
11 Ways to Gain Exposure as a Web Designer
As a web designer you may be faced with the challenge of getting your work and your abilities in front of others. If this is the case, here is a list of 11 different things you can do to get noticed… Some good tips here :o) Click here to visit >>
Ready for a Career in Design?
Doing in-depth research on the career you are interested is vital to success and this research includes knowing how much room for growth a certain career has… A good article for the inspiring designer :o) Click here to visit article >>
10 Principles Of Effective Web Design
Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a web-site. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has established as a standard approach for successful and profit-oriented web design. After all, if users can’t use a feature, it might as well not exist…. Read more here >>
Top 1500 Free Designer’s Resource From Top 30 Design Post
Well this is an extensive list with just about everything you might need in resources! If u dont find it here you probably dont need it :o) Click here to visit >>
12 Essential Photographic Rules
From Sunny 16 to Moony 11, 8, and 5.6, these facts, formulas, and photographic rules can get you out of a jam and help you get good shots when nothing else will… I need all the tips I can get! :o) Click here to visit >>
Transparent PNGs in Internet Explorer 6
Newer breeds of browser such as Firefox and Safari have offered support for PNG images with full alpha channel transparency for a few years. With the use of hacks, support has been available in Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6, but the hacks are non-ideal and have been tricky to use. With IE7 winning masses of users from earlier versions over the last year, full PNG alpha-channel transparency is becoming more of a reality for day-to-day use… Read more here >>
Create A Desk Environment In Photoshop From Scratch tutorial
This is a very nice tutorial where you will learn a lot of neat little tricks that might come in handy… Worth a look! :o) Click here to visit >>
Combine Pixel and Vector to Produce Striking Artwork
Here is a very nice tutorial on how to combine images and vector art together to make some nice graphics, woth a look :o) Click here to visit tutorial >>
Hand picked tutorials
A nice list of useful tutorials to be found here at noupe.com :o) Click here to visit >>
Destroy The Web 2.0 Look
A very nice article here about the whole web 2.0 scene, I must admit i’m getting pretty fed up with making web 2.0 type sites myself (They all look the same.. lol) Dont forget to check out his presentation slide in the article! Very informative! :o) Click here to visit >>
8 useful signs to when you might need to redesign your portfolio
Nice post with some very good tips to when it might be time to redesign your portfolio, right to the point and interesting! :o) Click here to visit >>
Time Management #8: Resources
In this series I’ve given you my take on time management and how it can help or hinder creative work. In doing so, I’ve taken elements from different systems, having assimilated them over time and adapted them to my own needs… Here is a round up of great tips from Mark McGuinness. There is some good reading and tips here! The whole series is also available as a free e-book! Click here to read the article and download the free e-book >>
Generating Ideas by the Hundreds
We all probably suffer from lack of ideas from time to time, I know I do and its frustrating when it happens. But there are ways to tweak your brain to squeeze some information out. In this article you will find some very useful tips that might help you out :o) Click here to read >>
Understanding Web Design
We get better design when we understand our medium. Yet even at this late cultural hour, many people don’t understand web design. Among them can be found some of our most distinguished business and cultural leaders, including a few who possess a profound grasp of design—except as it relates to the web… read the rest of the article here >>
12 Sites for Web Design and Inspiration
Whether you are a professional or amateur web designer, or simply want to learn more about how web design works, these are great resources to browse and bookmark… Some great sites listed here worthy of a bookmark :o) Click here to visit >>
Creating and using logos
Slingshot’s Mat Burhouse demonstrates how to approach, create and use logos, from sketch book to style guide… This is a great tutorial which shows you the steps from making the outlay to the styleguide, I think this tutorial might come in handy for a lot of people wondering how to go about producing their first logo :o) Click here to visit and download the tutorial >>
Adobe Illustrator Plugins & Filters & Tools
If you are an Adobe Illustrator user, then this mega-list of Adobe Illustrator Plug-ins is just what you are looking for… Another great list of plugins and filters from All Graphic Design :o) Click here to visit the article >>
Top 10 signs why you should drop a client
Great article on why you should drop a client like a bad habit. When reading through this article I could see a lot of my clients in some of these points! Thats the reason why i’m dropping them, because they have become a bad habit, so has the company I have been cooperating with for the last year with my projects. Get rid of your bad habit clients etc. and live a happier freelance life, money aint everything :o) Click here to read the article >>