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30+ Outstanding Ways styling Comment Zones

July 24, 2008 in inspiration | 2 comments

While the form design can be appealing, and sometimes entertaining, the actual comments themselves should be the larger focus. After all, you want your readers to feel comfortable engaging in a discussion on your blog - from typography, to element placement (name, date, etc.) all the way down to color and organization, comment zones are extremely important to a web design. That’s why Brian showcases 30 and more creative and original comment zones. He chose those specific examples based on typography, organization, color, information placement, image use, and readability. There are two parts. You need to click on both of them. Enjoy!

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Convert your Image To Vector Online For Free

July 24, 2008 in graphics tools | 9 comments

If you would like to convert any image to vector, there is an easy way to do that without using any software like Photoshop or Illustrator. Vector Magic allows you to convert images to vector directly from their website.

Inspirational Cross Cultural Webdesign - Volume #1: Asia

July 23, 2008 in Share-Api graphics inspiration tools | Give your feedback

Working international as a webworker means being flexibel in design habits. All of us have their own personal style when designing websites, but cultural habits get more and more important as well. For example Coke had once brought up an ad with women in bikinis and tried to sell the ad globally. You may can imagine that this was not be as successfull in the arabien countries as it was in western countries. So we have to take care of cultural habits and to localize design components. Lets take a look at some asian webdesign in this issue. We plan to cover some more countries during the next weeks to point out differences to be aware off.

Brilliant Ways to Style Blockquotes

July 21, 2008 in css inspiration | 4 comments

The blockquote XHTML tag is a fairly useful (if somewhat underused) element. Semantically speaking, a blockquote should be used any time you’re quoting a longer piece of text from another source – another speaker, another website, whatever. It’s a way of setting the text apart, and showing that it came from some other source. Stylistically, you could accomplish all this with a special class on your paragraph tags… but that wouldn’t be as semantically useful, now, would it?

Free vector brand logotypes in CDR, EPS and WMF formats

July 21, 2008 in graphics | 7 comments

Sometimes I need a brand logo for a portfolio site. I often start to crop jpegs from the companies websites, but am not very satisfied with this solution. This catalogue site makes it much more easier and contains only best logos of famous companies worldwide. The logotypes were manually sorted and checked. All the files available in three vector formats: CDR (CorelDraw 12), EPS (EPS 7, zipped) and WMF (rar-archive).

45 Excellent Free Web Templates

July 21, 2008 in graphics | Give your feedback

Free Design Templates don’t have to be ugly, cluttered,and boring, Some web-sites offer high quality templates for free you can use them for your personal and commercial projects without any restrictions.

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30+ Outstanding Ways styling Comment Zones

Volume 1

Volume 2

Convert your Image To Vector Online For Free

Inspirational Cross Cultural Webdesign - Volume #1: Asia

Brilliant Ways to Style Blockquotes

Free vector brand logotypes in CDR, EPS and WMF formats

45 Excellent Free Web Templates

Free Template Examples

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