FreelanceSwitch.com provides us a list of 10 signs that indicates that you are charging too little to your customers. Off curse, you don’t have to give them a shock because of your prices.
Number 10:
Your client mistakes your daily rate for an hourly one.
Number 9:
You’ve won every job you’ve ever pitched for.
Number 8:
Even though you work [...]
Everybodygoto.com is telling us 7 things we use to see in the Web 1.0 sites, things that are not longer available in Web 2.0. Those good old times when IE had the Navigator monopoly.
“It looks better withâ€:
Popular phrase that told us that the web site was better with IE or with Netscape.
Flash download:
This [...]
This is a very old post at isopixel.com. But for today, it’s worth remembering it:
“Since a couple of years, the Designing International Day is celebrated, on April the 27th. This happens because “In 1963 the International Graphic Design Associations Council in London, they initiated the promotion on the Designing International Day”.
On October the 24th in [...]
Honkiat.com is teaching us how to do the logo of one of the greatest movies this year, Spiderman 3. I really recommend it to all the fans.
Jon Doucette made a research, in which he concluded that using the 6 colors from above in a web site, we would save the same amount of money like if google was black.
The colors are:
#822007 (brick red)
#000000 (black)
#b2bbc0 (grey)
#19472a (green)
#3d414c (cobalt)
#ffffff (white)
Fuente: Vecindad Gráfica
A very interesting way to find this out is at ITBuda.com
You Are 25% Left Brained, 75% Right Brained
The left side of your brain controls verbal ability, attention to detail, and reasoning.Left brained people are good at communication and persuading others.If you’re left brained, you are likely good at math and logic.
Your left brain prefers dogs, [...]
This is a site that shows many different pictures that were stolen and used for various purposes. Even the author of, You thought we wouldn’t notice, had this case of stolen designs.
Source: Blog Vecindad Gráfica
I’m pretty sure that as a designer, whether graphic or web, in a certain moment you have use the text Lorem ipsum to fill the gaps of text in your design. You have most likely done this before to let your client be focused and centered in the design, so he/she doesn’t lose the idea [...]
As designers (Or blog users) we thank the lot of site that offers us the Internet for our help. You can find addons for your programs, elements for design, varied applications and so many things that make our work easier.
In WebDesignDev published an interesting recompilation with 1000 resources for designers (That will be useful for [...]
Those who work in Wordpress themes, or have a blog in this CMS, know that for having a lot of options for personalize it has some pieces of code that we should know.
A cheatsheet is a sheet for help in which are published the more important things and where we can find some details that [...]
Interest created by the advertising agency BBDO in United Kingdom. Transmitting the idea and leaving it clear in creative ways. Spanish translation: “Johnnie walked – If driving, do not drink – for greater accountability at the wheel.”
Source: Chiquiads
CreativeCurio shows us 4 tips to design a poster that we should take into account if we are willing to make that step, which is important in the life of a designer. Why is it harder? Because the space occupied is greater, and do it the proper way.
1. The first user is: Consider what is [...]
Learn to choose the correct font for a design is essential part of it. We can give you a touch or cool completely ruin if we do not know how. AllGraphicDesign published a list of items to teach us to choose the correct source for our project.
The fonts can be chosen by
How it affects the [...]
