Archive for December, 2010
The Secrets of Symmetry and Asymmetry Design
Beauty is subjective, and symmetry is beautiful. That explains a lot about symmetry doesn’t it? But most people agree that symmetry truly IS beautiful. It gives us a sense of harmony and provides an aesthetic appeal to a visual. But overdo it and it gets plain boring! Asymmetry on the other hand can seem much more interesting and out of the box when implemented with the right feel.
So – if we agree that symmetry IS beautiful, but can get boring at times, and asymmetry is curiously interesting in spite of the fact that it is not as perfect, which do you think is more appropriately used in visual designs?
SEO is Not The Key for Success
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is quite a concern for people starting their own sites. Sometimes people even tend to believe that the success of their site depends ONLY on page ranking by Google. Link building is something that should quite frankly be given priority over SEO. It is quite common to see site owners simply refusing to make links that do not help with their page rankings. If another site does not allow them to put up text, they simply walk away as well. And then, links that have that dreaded nofollow tag are more often than not blacklisted for good!
8 Important Tips To Make Better CD Cover Designs
Making CD covers is a common assignment for a designer, and if you are a beginner, we’ve put sown some of our tried and tested tips! Read on to know how you can make better CD covers.
9 Tips to Run a Freelance Design Business
As a designers, we can be motivated by inspirations. However, it is also important to consider strategic routes to success. There could be less talented people than you making more money simply because of a better business strategy! But it is never too late to get into a better plan your self.
3 Tips to Get Better Paid from Your Clients
Any freelancer wants to earn more from every project possible. However there are always limits to how much you can charge as a free lancer. After all, there is a limit to the number of clients you can handle as well, right? This article will help you make the most money, if you are truly good at your work. Provided you are also willing to put in just a little bit more effort!
Yes, this article means to explain how you can make more money using three simple tips, and there are no catches! You can make more money using your existing clients. You could look at it as vertical rather than horizontal growth, in which free lancers tend to get stuck at times. These are very simple tips, let us say a fine tuning of the way you do your business.
Digital Camera Review: Pentax K-R
Pentax has announced the release of an all new SLR – the Pentax K-r. This model is aimed at the amateur user, not the professional, and is light weight and compact. But it still does have an array of advanced capabilities packed into a user-friendly device.
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5 Tips of Holiday Communication Design
We are back in the time of year where some of use need to get busy with publishing plans. If you are working on document designs, this article will give you five useful tips.
5 Tips for Better Air Show Photography
Air shows present pretty interesting subjects for you to photograph. Shooting them is not always as easy as it sounds, so we hope this article will help you get better at photographing fast moving aircraft at air shows!
Book Review: Complete Digital Illustration
This is a highly informative guide to this important design area. Along with nicely organized tutorials, it has useful tips from some of the best designers from across the world. It can help you get better at your craft, organize a great portfolio and even give you suggestions on how you can start getting the orders rolling in!
The books speaks of an entire range of image producing practices of the day, be it in the realm of music or fashion or even toy designs. It is something of a master class to the reader, fine tuning skills of professionals as well as encouraging the beginner to take up design on a more serious level. We would call it an inspirational guide that every designer must own.
35 Amazing Websites Created Using MotoCMS Flash CMS
In the previous post I shared a product review of MotoCMS. It is one of the most popular Content Management System for websites based on Adobe Flash. If you are a Flash developers you should look at this great product. You can choose from 50 plus Flash based ready for use templates. MotoCMS allows you to manage, update and maintain flash based websites using built-in control panel style administration. Have you use MotoCMS or other similar software? Share your experience at the the comment below.
