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40 good resourses for designers

ARTEgami — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:37:11 +0000

A designer always leans on the Internet at the time he/she needs to find a rosurce or a new way to work faster. Think Design Blog show us a list of 40 resources for web/graphic designers, that aren’t a waste of time… and you might not know.

The list is separete in 3 categories: Code, Wordpress and Design. With this, we can lear more about CSS, more about colors, edit images or acquire high quality pictures.

tlbox: Tools for Web Designers and Programmers

25 bad habits from designers

tlbox: Tools for designers

220 styles for your Adobe Photoshop

ARTEgami — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:40:16 +0000

One of the most populars elements in Adobe Photoshop are the styles. With the styles we can save a lot of time, but just clicking on them we will get a great composition.

Dezines Folio offers us a pack of 220 styles for our Adobe Photoshop. They have an excellent quality, and will save us a lot of time.

131Web 2.0 Site Layer Styles for Adobe Photoshop

131 styles for your Photoshop

Creating a photo composition with Adobe photoshop

19 tutorials to design business cards

ARTEgami — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:24:27 +0000

DeveloperFox show us a list of 19 tutorials to create cool business cards. This tutorials will be good if you have some “lack” of inspirations, or if you will like to now how to create cool business cards, as I mention before.

Pay attention to your business card

125 templates in PSD for business cards

The art of business cards making

Tutorial, creates a transparent sphere

ARTEgami — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:14:03 +0000

Lunacore show us a way to create a a transparent sphere, that we will be able to use in several designs. The tutorial is divides in to 5 main areas: Preparing the background and drawing the basic shape, Filling the shape with gradients and layer styles, Adding a highlight, Adding a shadow and Adding distortions.

An important thing you need to take into consideration is that this tutorial is only recommended for people with intermediate-advanced Photoshop experience. And who has a lot of patients.

220 styles for your Adobe Photoshop

131Web 2.0 Site Layer Styles for Adobe Photoshop

How much should I charge for a web site design?

Ferrari Vector

ARTEgami — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:43:13 +0000

Thanks to VectoTuts we are able to download a Vector of a Ferrari, for free. The design was created by Mark Taylor. And the illustration was generated with Adobe Illustrator CS3, and you will be able to download it in EPS

Fashion vector compilations

Vectorized ornaments

Varied icons selection

Find images without copyright

ARTEgami — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:09:59 +0000

If you are looking for some images without copyright, I suggested you to visit PicFinder. The images that appears as the result of the search are copyleft., so you can use it for free in your projects.

If you use some of this pictures it’s not necessary to put some kind of credits.

Sites to download images without copyright

Searching for imagess without copyright

Google will index text in images and videos

Review: 4 Cheap Web Hosting

ARTEgami — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:13:05 +0000

4 Cheap Web Hosting is a guide to the best rated affordable web hosting packages available online. This hosting guide has more than 200 approved web hosts with over 400 cheap web hosting packages listed.
I have to say that the design of the web is not like “the best”, but its information is really useful. You will see a section that is the “Top Rated Cheap Web Hosting”, on this section you will see the website preview, the number of domains you can host on the server, the disk space and the amount of bandwidth it provide, the monthly fee and the OS or Platform. Most of them are in Linux.

But if you are not sure about this “Top Rated Chep Web Hostings” options, you can search. On the search option you’ll be able to put the currency that you will like to use, the number of domains you will like the server to host, the monthly fee that you will like to pay, the platform, the site management (if you are a newbie I will recommend you to select Control Panel and FTP), the database (I will suggest you mySQL), the disk space, the bandwidth… and the most important think… the Support. Make super to select the type of support that better feeds your needs.

Find the best web hosting for your

Domain Express…

Review: Imagestic

ARTEgami — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:36:53 +0000

Now days, a lot of companies are offering SEO services. That’s why it is so difficult to select the one that satisfies our needs.
iMajestic is offering internet marketing services. So, if you are planning to do some aggressive organic SEO, Pay per click optimization, or Social Media Marketing, etc. You better check their service section.
I make a little research about their Search Engine Optimization service and they said that is 100% white hat organic SEO. That’s kind of unbelievable now days, but it’s better that been messing around with some black hat SEO that will work today, but will banned you tomorrow. But the more unbelievable part is this one.

You only pay after we achieve and maintain the rankings you want, for the keywords you want, in the search engines you want.
• NO Results = NO Fees. Simple!
• NO Setup fees or any other additional fees, ever!
• NO nonsense SEO solutions, just tangible results.
Depending of your need the optimization service may include:
• All site coding (meta, content, structure and all tags)
• Inbound links (link popularity)
• Site statistics
• Conversion rates
• Click through ratios
And for those who likes affiliates programs, you better check their “ Affiliates, Partners and Resellers programs.

Webmaster firefox extension

Search Engine Optimization and Pay-Per-Click: A Holistic Approach

Affiliate Marketing Revolution?

20 of the best social plugins for Wordpress

ARTEgami — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:37:41 +0000

There are tens of plugins for Wordpress directed to share our content in the social networks. But we need to know how to choose what will work for us. In Specky Boy they armed a list with the best 20 plugins, without an specific order.

The list begins with the one they use in the site, Sociable, and follows with other well-known ones like Share This, Bookmark Me, KnxDT Bookmarks, Social Dropdown and Add to this, among others. All include clearly, the required sites but, like Technorati, StumbleUpon, Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious and Menéame.

Social markers for Christmas

Free plugins for Photoshop

55 premium Wordpress themes

How do I create an horizontal menu?

ARTEgami — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:16:54 +0000

So you want ot add a menú to your blog or website? Dynamic Drive is here to help you. They will show us (with a lot of details) a way to create horizontal menus, made with 3 images and with the HTML an CSS that you need, just to copy and paste it.

You’ll be able to see a demo in five different colors (blue, green, orange, red and violet), so you’ll be abe to choose the one that fit your design.

It’s never been easier to create a CSS style sheet

Scripts for your web project

10 tips to design a great web site