Archive for September, 2010
Top 20 Twitter Applications and Mashups
Most of the times, simple brilliant ideas come with big opportunities. This is also the case of Twitter. When it came out , Twitter was seen as a simple, primitive way of communicating, but, in time, people found different ways to use it: from chatting to playing games, and so on. Fortunately, Twitter has developed an API so that anyone can build applications that use Twitter data in real time. Therefore, many interesting web mashups have been build and we’ve dedicated this article to some of the most useful and cool ones we could find online at the moment. First of all, we should explain the term: a web mashup is a web application that takes information from one or more sources (in this case Twitter with maybe other big sites like Google Maps or Flicker) and presents it in a new way or with a unique layout. Some quite interesting results can come out of this combination.
We have looked at some of them and provided a short description of each in this collection. You should check them out because you will most probably decide to use some of these with your Twitter! And maybe they will inspire you for designing your own web mashups!
40 Must See Cool Short Animation Websites
In our previous article State of The Art Professional Animators’ Site Graphics we presented 40 examples of the best animators’ site. In this post, however, we are going to search for an insight into this industry and we’ll analyze the newest trends in this field in terms of not only the web-design, but also the media strategy applied for most of these sites.
We have all been to (or at least heard of) animated short film festivals. These kind of festivals have been flourishing lately due, to a certain extent, to the fact that short film animations are less available on TV or on the internet for (more or less legal) downloading but most of all because they have brought a fresh, extremely original perspective to animation in general and shown that its public is not only the very young one and that very deep and controversial subjects can be approached by these means also. This kind of festivals has also offered an opportunity to young artists that specialize in computer animation and CGI to get into the public eye, which is a more than welcome phenomenon.
Precisely because of that, in order to take advantage of the popularity that these short films have gained, most of these animators have stated to look at using the web resources as well, for promoting their work and have built spectacular sites for each of these famous short animated films. On most of them one can watch the films’ trailers and buy the DVDs with the full film and other works by the same artist.
Creating a short, catchy and funny film doesn’t seem to be sufficient any more – one must also create a web-site of equal graphic value, in order to promote it properly. Most of these sites are extremely original examples of web-design and you’ll surely enjoy looking at this inspiring collection!
30 Unusual Creative Business Card Designs For Your Inspiration
We have seen, a business card can impress and make people notice and remember you. A badly designed or printed card can leave a bad impression or even worse be simply forgotten. Many business cards using a standard size, which is just a rectangular, it seems boring. What if an unusual size or with an unusual style?
In this article we have compiled 30 Unusual Business Card Designs to give you fresh inspiration in developing business card design. We hope you enjoy this collection. Please do not hesitate to feedback and suggestions in the comments below.
26 Weekly Best WordPress Themes from ThemeForest
Keeping up with the rush, ThemeForest published in the past week an impressive number of new themes for WordPress. Still glamorous and attractive through simplicity, neat lines and shapes, the themes here bellow cover a vast area of approaches for all kinds of subjects. Samples are also available for mobile phones and the commonly used premium browsers. In particular, the Eunice business blog portfolio appears as a peculiar touch under these new presentations, a more daring view backed by an impressive number of included options and functions.
Moreover, as a plus compared to the previous collection comes the theme dedicated to photography, of “photoBox”; even though it sticks to the specific line of approach common to this domain, it also puts out the typical ease of use on a background of a few lines animated by simple and yet visible buttons. Pastel or colorful, vivid or cold tones, user friendly or business-like crafted, the set of themes we’ve gathered within this set can still be pretty inspirational for WordPress users.
10 Search Engine Optimisation Tips & Tricks for Web Designers
Before you break in to any kind of web site design projects, you need to think about developing with a Search Engine Optimisation or SEO friendly technique. SEO is one of the most important things when you start website designing. When you start designing the website you have to take special care that your website design much be SEO friendly. We will just have a look at some of the main SEO website designs that are SEO friendly.
When you have a good SEO friendly website then it increases your search engine ranking and in turn boosts your web business. So let us look at some of the features that are must in a SEO friendly website.
30 Interesting Russian Website Designs
Tedious and very professional sites, that’s what Russian website design are all about. Some of them found inspiration in the old regime and exploited the specific minimal graphic with strong message and deep impact on the subject; even though these particular pages are not elaborate as they are sparkling through graphic and concept, they remain still, very functional, pleasant and powerful tools. Mainly, these guys make an interesting and original object which exploits positively a negative concept (if analyzing a bit the movement).
Overall, the sites bellow represent a collection of confident and smooth lines, with no exaggerated artifice and a very balanced chromatic, very well adapted to each of the subjects they are dedicated to; in this behalf, see also the matrimonial site with no overstated emphasis on unnecessary elements. And I’m no soppy fan of such trends; I just enjoyed the simplicity and the common sense which emerges through this site. A neat and professional approach is enough and very effective, both for those interested in matrimonial services as well as for an accidental visitor which will be, most likely, paying attention to the construction itself.
30 Creative Business Card Designs for Your Inspiration
Business cards are one important part of how you promote your business to others. Business cards can be just as important as the identity of your web site for business cards can be a great interactive elements, plus the ability to have real texture, different materials and shapes.
Whether you plan to make your own business cards but have no idea or some inspiration to get started. In this article, we have collected 30 Creative Business Cards Design to enhance your creativity and get more inspiration.
5 Tips of Pet Photography
All pet owners love their pets and share a lot of happiness with them. Dogs and cats being the most common of pets around the house, they are also the most commonly photographed. Photographing pets can sometimes be quite frustrating. We hope this article makes it easier for you to capture some nice memories of your pet.
Designer Interview: Damian Herrington
My name is Damian Herrington and I am a Hull based web designer and developer specialising in user-focused unique designs with clean, semantically written code. I also design and develop for WordPress, Tumblr and the x-cart e-commerce system. Although I am not limited to just these technologies, they are the ones I work with most often.
My services also extend to Branding and collateral design. Some of my recent projects can be found at www.damianherrington.co.uk as well as more information about my services and me.
30 Amazing Logo with Smart Typography
A few weeks ago we recorded a compilation of 21 Best Contemporary Worldwide City Logo Designs which was very well received. Today we present another collection of logos with typography concepts. Logo featured here display a company logo using an interesting form of typography. If you’ll develop your logo by the designer or company, or yourself, and find the following ideas will show you have inspired. This logo is very cute and creative for your design inspiration.
We hope you enjoy this collection. And if you know of a similar logo like this, please add a link to them in the comments area. Also do not hesitate to feedback and suggestions in the comments area below.
