June 17, 2012

45 best design resources available for free

Whether you are an expert /newbie web and graphic designer; the free design resources helps you stream your project time and produce a polished final result. The web is an actual wonderland of free design resources that can enhance your designs. This post features some 40 plus design resources that you can bookmark or watch out for the continual torrent of resources. Here you can find some useful sites that offer free fonts, free textures, free psd’s, free brushes, free icons and likewise. They are really cool!!

Fonts

Put your hands on all the fresh and quality fonts without touching your checking account.

Google Web Fonts

google web fonts

Font Squirrel

font squirrel

Urban Fonts

Dafont

1001 Free Fonts

1001 free fonts

Background Textures and Patterns

Patterns and textures are an integral part of the web design process; hence an increase number of resources is available for free. Some of the tools featured below will help you create your own background pattern, while others are sources of stock textures.

Stripe Generator

Lost and Taken

lost and taken

BG Patterns

bgpatterns

Subtle Patterns

subtle patterns

Icons

Free icons let you easily illustrate websites, blogs and applications. Here are some of the cool lists of the websites that offer free icons of various sizes.

Icon finder

iconfinder

Find icons

find icons

Icon archive

icon archive

Dry icons

dry icons

Icon deposit

icon deposit

Photoshop Brushes

The sites below lists thousands of free brushes used to enhance the intricacy of your site.

Brush King

brush king

Brusheezy

brusheezy

FBRUSHES

fbrushes

My Photoshop Brushes

my photoshop brushes

Brush lovers

brush lovers

Design Resources (Blogs,websites and magazines with freebies)

Try grabbing some excellent source of free Photoshop, WordPress, and themes for your next project inspiration.

Psd Hunter

Psd hunter

365 PSD

365 Psd

Top Design Magazine

top design magazine

Freebies Booth

freebies booth

WordPress Theme Shock

KB’s Portfolio – The Freebies

kb' s portfolio - the freebies

GUUHUU – Premium Design Resources

GUUHUU - Premium design resources

Pixel – Free Jetpacks for designers

Pixel - Free Jetpacks for Designers

Le Freebies – by breezy

le freebies

Purty Pixels

Salleedesign

Designmodo

becoming Creative

becoming creative

Web Appers

Open Web Design

Spoon Graphics

Spoon graphics

net tuts +

net tuts plus

Bittbox

AnimHut

Smashing Magazine

Open Source Web Design

Open source web design

Vector arts, Graphics and Images

Put your hands on the some of the finest resources available for vector arts, graphics and images!

Vecteezy

Vector Portal

Vector portal

Vector4Free

Vector4free

FreePik

freepik

Stock.xchng

stock exchange

This concludes my list of some finest free design resources; let me know which of these resources you found the most helpful. Make sure to suggest any great sites that’s not listed here.

UI Designs • Tags: Design Resources, Freebies

May 28, 2012

Fun quote on investing on ‘Advertisements’

This is a fun quote that i came across in one of the superstore; and i loved it right away.

Design Quotes • Tags: Quotes

Links to the latest SEO tools, tips and trends

May 24, 2012

Links to the latest SEO tips, tools and trends

Everyone loves a good tip on SEO (search engine optimization) right? Lately, I’ve been tweeting a lot about SEO tips. As I was going through all of my tweets this afternoon; I felt a need to share all these awesome links of blog posts and articles consisting of great tips and techniques that actually helped me with a lot of SEO projects.

Any folks with some web design skills and SEO beginner should be able to take these tips and trends into bank without any problem.

1. Things you should do immediately after running a website

Just launched your website and confused of the direction you should head towards to get your website on search engines? The article lists some of the most important steps you can follow prior to launching your website publicly.

2. 10 SEO Techniques All Top Web Sites Should Use

The article covers all the basic SEO techniques ranging from Meta tags, Meta title to alt tags, XML sitemap and links. The read is a delight for any SEO beginner!

3. How to create an effective keyword list

If you are wondering about the best way to create an effective targeted keywords list; read on article won’t disappoint you!

4. Why Great Content is Vital?

Nothing helps the search engine performance of the website than a well written content. Follow through the article to learn more…

5. Link Structure: Analyzing the most important methods

This article is an insight into all the important methods you can follow-up with to improve the search engine rankings, the page rank flow and the number of pages that get indexed; all through ‘link structure’.

6. 5 great ways to drive traffic to your website or blog

The article effectively puts the light on the need to share the latest blog posts or website or business updates on the leading social media.

7. 12 Steps to becoming a natural at SEO

It pretty much covers the same topic as mentioned in some of the posts as above; but it’s definitely a good read for ‘URL rewriting’.

8. How much does SEO cost?

How much does SEO cost? How much time do you have to discuss the various models and prices out there! This article sheds some light on the subject through a greatly done Infographic.

9. Ten SEO tips for WordPress Bloggers

WordPress undoubtedly is one of the best and most popular blogging and content management systems around. The article shares some ideas one can employ with to get their WordPress site rank high on search engines.

10. Ranking Today

This website is an awesome search engine optimization tool which efficiently helps you understand the SEO tools and teaches you to use and apply them.

Knowlege-base • Tags: Search Engine Optimization, SEO

April 23, 2012

How to create a mobile version of your website?

Have you tried creating a mobile version of your website?
Here is a useful article that points the tips and techniques to ‘get your website mobile friendly’.

Tips and techniques to creating a mobile version of your website.

Whether you are in a quiet waiting room or a bustling restaurant, people around are mostly glued to their cell phones. Within the next five years, “More users will connect to the internet over mobile devices than desktop PCs,” says Morgan Stanley’s analyst Mary Meeker. With growing number of consumers browsing through web pages using their smart phones, it’s crucial for you to make your website accessible to these potential customers.

read more..

The article also lights an argument on people’s preference over virtual and physical keyboard. Would you rather use virtual or physical keyboard? I prefer “cell” and tablets with physical QWERTY keyboard.

You may also enjoy reading :-http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/11/03/how-to-build-a-mobile-website/

Knowlege-base • Tags: Mobile Website

April 11, 2012

25 amazing typography from Dribbble

We all know of Dribbble as the most famous online designers community. While, it’s a great place to show off your skills, it’s also a source of inspiration that lets you gather feedback about your work from the best designers around the globe.

There’s a tendency for people to think of Dribbble as a showcase of web design projects or logo designs. However,Dribbble also has a growing community of typography artists, digital artists and CG artists. Typography plays an vital role in web design, branding whilst it also has a stand on its own.

In this post, I’ve gathered some finest typography artworks from Dribbble.

Built by bearded by Matt Braun

Typography by Matt Braun

Steven Paul Jobs by Dylan Roscover

Steven Paul Jobs typography by Dylan Roscover

California 2011 by Fabio Sasso

Vintage style California 2011 by Fabio Sasso

Sale by Mike at Creative Mints

Save typography by Mike at Creative Mints

Ticket Stub by Ryan Putnam

Ticket stub by Ryan Putnam

AppRemix by Carl DeCaire

App Remix by Carl DeCaire

Icograda Sitemap by Christopher Paul

Icograda sitemap by Christopher Paul

Live to work by 55 Hi’s

Live to work by 55 Hi's

Mr. Wolf by Henning Gjerde

Mr.Wolf by Henning Gjerde

Oliver David Christman by Greg Christman

Oliver David Christman by Greg Christman

TP Type by Jessica Hische

TP Type by Jessica Hische

Lil Birdy by Victor Vasquez

Lil Birdy by Victor Vasquez

Sexy Websites by Dave Ruiz

Sexy Websites by Dave Ruiz

F by Francis Chouquet

F by Francis Chouquet

Pleco Software logo design by Gert Van Duinen

Final Logo Design for Pleco Software by Gert Van Duinen

All Abroad Suit POsters by Sarah Mick

All Aboard: Suit Posters by Sarah Mick

Lefy by Brent Couchman

Left by Brent Couchman

Coffee Lovers by Marcelo Schultz

Coffee Lovers by Marcelo Schultz

Full Interface by Dann Petty

Full Interface by Dann Petty

Light Bulb by Mike Kus

Light bulb by Mike Kus

Stir brandling by Megan Kirby

Stir brandling by Megan Kirby

Paris Wall by Martin Schmetzer

Paris wall by Martin Schmetzer

Bird Alphabet by Jessica Hische

Bird Alphabet by Jessica Hische

Pixel Pops Logo Idea by Joey Hasty

Pixel pops logo idea by Joey Hasty

Papercut Typography by Teresa Wozniak

Papercut Typography by Terera Wozniak

Please feel free to post links to Typography that you may have also liked on Dribbble in comments!

UI Designs • Tags: Dribbble, typography

April 8, 2012

The best way to predict future is to create it

Design Quotes • Tags: typography

Get instant answers to your question with Google Talk Guru

April 5, 2012

Get quick answers to your questions with Google Talk Guru

Google has a new Google Labs experiment out called ‘Google Talk Guru’. While not everything that Google labs tests out makes the cut, it is always fun to try the new innovations they are cooking up.

What is Google Talk Guru?

Google Talk Guru is a new Google bot that answers simple queries within Google talk. It responds to several commands and queries covering weather, sports, mathematical calculations, text translation, word definitions, currency conversion and even search Google all from the chat window.

Search for queries with Google Talk Guru

Search for various syntax in the Google chat window itself

How to use Google Talk Guru?

In order to use Google Talk Guru, you first need to send an invitation to guru@googlelabs.com in Gmail Chat, Google Talk or any other Jabber client. Since, Google Talk Guru is still an experimental feature, sometimes phrases will not work or will not give you the correct information.

Let us take a look at some examples of how to use the Google Talk Guru.

If you’re looking for the weather, you could type in ‘weather london’. You use the weather command followed by a city.

Various simple commands you can use for easy search results

Is Google Talk Guru worth chatting with?

Like any other software or application in a testing phase; while Google Talk Guru may not work all the time. But it’s definitely makes it easier to search for simple equation without opening up the calculator or finding the definition to a word without pulling up a dictionary all from your chat box. Guru does answer a good variety of questions and it works right within your favorite IM app. It’s well worth adding to your friend list, especially for getting answers on the go on your mobile device of choice.

Knowlege-base • Tags: Google

5 most popular social media blogs on facebook

March 11, 2012

5 Most Loved Social Media Blogs on Facebook

Whether you are an internet marketer, social media enthusiast or a blogger; an insightful social media blog read suffices all your needs. I am counting down 5 top social media blogs that have proved to be most indulging ones in social media giant ‘Facebook’. All of them present the absolute Social Media thought leaders for me. Here is why they are worth being called so!

Mashable Social Media

Noted by Time Magazine as ‘one stop shop’ for social media; Mashable has over 838,400 fans on facebook. Founded by Pete Cashmore, the website’s primary focus is social media news, but also covers news and developments in mobile, entertainment, online video, business, web development, technology and gadgets. It can be a great insight or resource for your next blog write-up.

Mashable- social media blog

Social Media Examiner

Popularly known as ‘your guide to the social media jungle’, this blog has endless case studies, interviews and reviews to help businesses discover how to best use Facebook, LinkedIn, and twitter strategies. Undoubtedly, Social Media Examiner enjoys the second highest fan following on Facebook.

Social media examiner - social media blog

Mari Smith

You might recognize Mari Smith for her fantastic smile; however she’s more known for her advice on learning the art of Facebook and Twitter marketing. With more than 60,994 fans on Facebook, no doubt she’s one of the most sought after social media speaker.

Mari Smith - Facebook Marketing Expert

Copyblogger

One of the highly recommended social media blog in the online marketing community, Copyblogger offers great online marketing, copywriting and blogging advises. This social media blog now enjoys more than 10,000Facebook fans.

Copyblogger is the highly recommended social media blog

Social Mouths

Run by Fransisco, South Mouths strives to help people and businesses create better online presence through social media. Social mouths have one of the most detailed and exciting corporate strategies.

Social Mouths is the fastest growing social media blog.

These are the top blogs on Facebook; do you have your own list of great social media blogs? Please feel free to post it the comments!

Sources : http://cdn.socialmediaexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/ck-sme-agorapulse.png?9d7bd4

Social Media • Tags: Social Media Blogs

February 21, 2012

Many Faces we Carry

“Here I am, at the Thirteenth Latitude of Desolation,
the Hundredth Longitude of Shame,
the utmost Altitude of teeth-gnashing Defiance,
somewhere far out, at the point of the Ultimate,
and still I wonder whether it is possible
to go any farther…”