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Thursday, June 30, 2011
Interview with artist: Tom Deininger
I feel like I always knew that I wanted to make things. I did not enjoy playing with toys as a kid but instead used them as a catalyst for a creative endeavor like building jumps for cars and motorcycles, forts for GI Joe figures and stuff like that.
Site5 - Web Hosting for Web DesignersHow to Achieve Your Goals by Changing the Way You Surf the Web
Everyone has their favorite way of using the internet. Many of us search to find�what we want, click in to�a specific website, read what’s available and click out. That’s not necessarily a bad thing because it’s efficient. We learn to tune out things we don’t need and go straight for what’s essential.
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Nice touch
It’s all in the details and the Askimet website logo doesn’t fall short. Visit their site and right click on their logo.
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How to design websites that appeal across cultural divides
When you’re designing websites for a global audience, you need to be aware of cultural differences that will affect the way they are viewed in different parts of the world. You cannot expect the exact same website to be well-received around the globe. You need to adapt your websites to allow for cultural differences and [...]
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50 Amazing Examples of Bokeh Photography
The word ?Bokeh? is derived from a Japanese word for ?Blur or Haze?. In the field of photography, the word ?Bokeh? is used to describe the hazy or blurry effect in photographs found in out-of-focus areas of the photographs. Bokeh in any photograph basically happens in the areas where image is beyond the depth of [...]
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
More Meaningful Typography
Great article on A List Apart this morning by Tim Brown on the topic of merging traditional typographic practices with modern times using modular scale.
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Designing Your ?Coming Soon? Page? 24 Creative Examples
When launching a new web app, or site, it can help to start marketing early. A “coming soon” page has several different purposes. Firstly, it allows you to show a teaser of your new app to people and to start the ball rolling with building the excitement. Secondly, it allows people to sign-up to email [...]
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How to Choose a Web Design Agency to Build Your eCommerce Site
With so many agencies out there, how do you choose which company to use to build your eCommerce website?
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- How to create your own Christmas card, ready for print | Tutzor
Best photoshop tutorials on the web that let you achieve amazing effects using various photoshop techniques.
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Recent Graduate? 5 Steps Towards Your Internet Marketing Career
In the world of Internet marketing, many students are stepping into a side of social media, Google and other search engines, and web development that they never saw before. Who would have thought that the same tools that you use to communicate and keep in touch with friends are some of the most important factors [...]
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Puma Running
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The Three Penny Editor - Good Ideas in Great Hands
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Get a Free Copy of SmashingMagazine?s Freelancer eBook
Thanks to the wonderful guys at Smashing for allowing us to run this neat little promotion, and thanks to the hundreds of people who’ve already taken advantage of this offer!
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
40 Minimalist Print Ads That?ll Catch Your Eye
While print advertising always seems like a marketer’s dream when compared to online ads, it’s yet another field where it’s getting more and more difficult to cut through the noise and deliver the client’s message. In the digital age, the attention span of the consumer is razor thin, making it harder for advertisers to secure [...]
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6 Things Designers Should Do in Summer To Keep Themselves Fit And Healthy
Summer’s here – ready or not. For some of you it has certainly brought some changes but some of you haven’t even noticed the new season’s here. I live in a resort town couple of minutes from the sea so summer has definitely changed my daily routine. I’ve spent nearly all these past days by [...]
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4 Reasons You Should Add Photos or Illustrations to Every Blog Post
Humor me for a moment and go dig out a copy of the White Pages ? you remember, it’s that 10-pound behemoth gathering dust under the sink. Now, flip it open to any page and tell me the truth? Are you pulled into the content? Do you have any desire to continue reading or have [...]
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20 Reasons Why Your Website Design Sucks Part 2
In 20 Reasons Why Your Website Design Sucks�part 1, I’ve started with a short introduction about why clients should be just clients, and why some self-proclaimed web designers shouldn’t be “designing” at all. We then explored important concepts which you need to know before you start designing and planning a website. A thorough knowledge of [...]
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Rebound and Win a Dribbble Invite
After about a month of being very active in the Dribbble community, I received my first invite. I think the best way to give away that invite is to see who will be the best fit for the community. In other words, can you Dribbble? 
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Monday, June 27, 2011
The Unhealthy Obsession With DoFollow Blog Links
If you don’t know what ‘dofollow’ means, read this first before continuing.
Many webmasters or bloggers are infatuated with dofollow blogs. Not everyone is obsessed with them, but there are many who spend time or money trying to leave keyword comments on dofollow blogs, in order to improve their website’s search engine rankings.
They sell tools to [...]
Many webmasters or bloggers are infatuated with dofollow blogs. Not everyone is obsessed with them, but there are many who spend time or money trying to leave keyword comments on dofollow blogs, in order to improve their website’s search engine rankings.
They sell tools to [...]
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Infographics of This Week #1
As we continue to innovate the future of information, design must also continue to innovate. Every week, I’ll be sharing with you my top five infographics of the week. As I search the web for some of the week’s best, creativity, design and information will be just some of the few ideas I’ll keep in [...]
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Tutorial ? How to Create Your Own Photoshop Brush Sets
Photoshop brushes are without a doubt the salt of every design project. Designers are using them all the time to create awesome graphics. I actually can`t imagine Photoshop without its brushes, because are so easy to use and results are trully fantastic.
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50 Stunning Examples of HDR Photography
HDR refers to high dynamic range imaging that is being extensively used in image processing, computer graphics, and photography basically is a technique through which you can allow better dynamic range of luminosity between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than present customary digital imaging techniques or photographic methods.
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A handy comparison chart of Web Font services
A handy list and comparison chart of the various Web Font services.
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Site5 - Web Hosting for Web Designers9 Email Designs for Content-Heavy Newsletters
I’ve recently been working on a project to design a daily email newsletter that will be powered by MailChimp’s RSS to Email option. In some ways using RSS limits the design, however by automating the email campaign the site owner can focus on creating content rather than delivering content. The challenge for this email campaign [...]
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How to Design a Sleek Progress Bar in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I`m going to show you how to create a clean and sleek progress/loading bar in Photoshop. I`m sure you`ve seen a lot of progress bars but did you asked yourself how to create one? Now you`ll know. Along the way, we`ll use different tools, create layers and apply multiple layer styles [...]
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Sunday, June 26, 2011
Kiran CK-Visual artist and Web/graphic designer
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How to Design A Big Good-Looking Button in Photoshop
In this tutorial I`m going to show you how to design a big good-looking button in Photoshop ready to link to the PSD file of this tutorial. Along the way, we`ll be using different Photoshop tools to create shapes and text and will beautify them by applying some blending options carefully chosen. Let`s begin!
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CSS Pivot allows you to add CSS to any site and share
“Add CSS styles to any website and share the result with a short link. Invite others to submit improvments for a website.” ? neat concept.
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11 Ways to Influence People Online and Make Them Take Action
Influence can be defined as�the�power exerted over the minds and behavior of others. A power that can�affect, persuade and cause changes to someone or something. In order to influence people, you first need to discover what is already influencing�them. What makes them tick? What do they care about?�We need�some leverage to work with when�we’re trying [...]
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Branding Lesson: Going from Writer to Business Maven
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Starting a successful business is about more than hard work?it?s also about timing. Here?s the story of how one woman in the far northeast corner of the U.S. turned her weekly newspaper column into a retail store through the power of branding.
Kristen Andresen started working for the Bangor Daily News before her 1997 graduation from the University of Maine as a copy editor and freelancer. When a full-time feature writing position opened up, she was fortunate enough to land it.�
A year later, Andresen and her editor were looking for ways to jazz up the weekend style section. ?One weekend it kind of hit me that in Maine, shopping is more than just buying things?it?s a form of recreation,? Andresen says. ?And getting the best deal, whether on fishing gear or designer jeans, is sport.? In other places, people brag about how much they spend on things. In Maine, Andresen says, people brag about how little they pay. Andresen?s shopping alter ego, ShopGirl, was born.
“My mission was to entertain people first and let them in on the best deals second,” said Andresen. There are many shopping columns out there in the world that focus on the products. ShopGirl focused on stories. There were a whole cast of characters in Andresen?s columns, including her now husband, Jason Lainsbury. ?I wasn?t afraid to make fun of myself,? Andresen says. ?There was never any pretense that I was the Anna Wintour of Bangor, Maine.?
From ShopGirl to Maine Maven
The idea for Maine Maven, which is sort of ShopGirl 2.0, came about when Andresen and her husband were driving back to Bangor from Quebec City. ?Jason and I were talking about how great it would be to have a website that would be like the Daily Candy of Maine,? she says. Because of her job with the Bangor Daily News, she had literally been everywhere in Maine and knew about things and products that other people didn?t. ?I wanted to find a way to let people in on everything that?s worth seeing and doing in Maine in a way that wasn?t long-winded.? At the time, Andresen had too much going on in her personal and professional life, and Maine Maven was moved to the back burner.
It wasn?t until 2008 when Andresen had quit the Bangor Daily News, given up her ShopGirl column, and started a new job at the public affairs office of the University of Maine that the idea for Maine Maven took root. ?I found that I missed certain parts of my newspaper job, namely going out on the road, meeting great people, and discovering new things,? she says.
She brought up Maine Maven at brunch with some friends and they hashed out ideas on napkins and decided to get to work. ?My friend, Shawn Rice, went home and did some illustrations, Jason got to work designing a kick-ass website, bending Blogger to his will, and I started writing.?
Be Your Brand
Even though we?ve morphed from a blog to a retail shop, the brand has remained intact, in part because the shop, like the blog, has been built around stories.
Branding was at the forefront from the get-go. Andresen knew exactly what she wanted Maine Maven?s focus to be: the best of Maine with a contemporary twist. The blog has a very specific aesthetic and voice.
Andresen attributes the success of the brand to the strength and consistency of her product, including the writing and imagery on the blog, the quality of merchandise they carry in their new store, and the manner in which they promote their shop. ?Even though we?ve morphed from a blog to a retail shop, the brand has remained intact, in part because the shop, like the blog, has been built around stories,? Andresen says. ?We know the people who make the products we sell and we love sharing their stories with our customers.?
Andresen also concedes that good timing had a lot to do with the success of Maine Maven?s storefront. ?We had a little extra money in the bank, I was on maternity leave, and Jason and I spent a lot of time dreaming about what we could do next,? she says. When the ideal space became available?a little space that was part of a hardware store in Orono where the couple first met?they knew it was time to take their brand to the next level.
Jason runs the shop and handles every detail of the Maine Maven business with the couple?s son, Parker, in tow. Andresen still works full time at the University of Maine while tackling some freelancing for Inside Arts, a national magazine for the performing arts industry, as well as Down East magazine.
Andresen and her husband?s goal is to grow Maine Maven slowly and sustainably, while making sure Parker is their number one priority and they don?t end up burning out. ?So many businesses get into trouble by expanding too quickly,? she says. ?It?s important to us to build strong relationships with our vendors and customers, to continue to provide the level of quality that we?re know for, and to balance all of the things that are going on in our lives.?
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