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24 Nov
The 7 Heavenly Virtues of Design
Freelancing, Web Design, Web Designers
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No one intends for their business to stagnate. In an attempt to advance their freelance work, many people turn to the wealth of advice on the Internet.
But several age-old virtues seem to be lacking from the online conversation. This post is an attempt to rediscover them.
There is more to the success or failure of a business than attracting new clients. Reputation is also important.
How do you ensure that people say good things about you?
Applying the seven virtues to your freelance enterprise could boost its reach and image among the masses online. Do your virtues need a bit of polishing? Read more
23 Nov
Finding Inspiration on Flickr
Compilation, Inspiration, Photography
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Flickr hosts millions of photos from photographers, both professional and amateur, from around the world.
It’s a fantastic resource when looking for inspiration, but it can get a little overwhelming. After all, you can’t exactly browse a few million photos in an afternoon, right?
Flickr Groups can be a great solution to photo-overload. There are groups for virtually every subject under the sun, and for photographers of all skill levels.
Some groups focus on the artistic merit of the photo itself, while others focus more on the content of the image than the composition.
In either case, the groups below are sure to inspire you. We’ve even included similar groups for most of them, to offer more variety. Read more
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22 Nov
Why Joe Client Doesn’t Care About Standards
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Web standards should be a driving force behind the work of any designer or developer. They provide a scale against which to measure the quality, structure, syntax and methodology of design work.
To explain the benefits of web standards, I’ve compared on my own blog the landscape of the web today with that of 10 to 15 years ago.
Questions related to cross-browser compliance and the necessity of testing extensively before launching still linger, but the standardization of DOM, (X)HTML, CSS and a number of other technologies has made the digital world much more predictable.
When coding a standards-compliant website, we can be reasonably certain that it will render the same in Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera and even Internet Explorer (from version 7 up, of course). Inconsistencies do arise, but anyone who has stood on either side of the past decade of web design and development would surely recognize the value of standards. Read more
21 Nov
Our Favorite Tweets of the Week
Nov 15-Nov 21, 2010
Best Of, Compilation, Twitter
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Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.
The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the best tweets that we sent out this past week.
Note that this is only a very small selection of the links that we tweeted about, so don’t miss out.
To keep up to date with all the cool links, simply follow us @DesignerDepot Read more
20 Nov
Comics of the Week #52
Comics, Funny, Humor
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Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.
The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers.
These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world today.
So for a few moments, take a break from your daily routine, have a laugh and enjoy these funny cartoons.
Feel free to leave your comments and suggestions below as well as any related stories of your own… Read more
19 Nov
A Close Look at Adobe CS Review
Adobe, Review
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Adobe’s CS Live online service includes a ton of useful tools for designers and their clients.
Adobe CS Review is just one such tool, but arguably might be one of the most useful for many designers.
CS Review is a free (for the first year, at least) service that allows you to share documents from any CS5 program with clients or other team members for review, even if they don’t have CS5.
You can also use it to upload projects within your web browser, for those who might not have CS5, or if you need to post something for review from outside CS5. Read more
18 Nov
Amazing Type in the Sky Photography
Compilation, Photography, Typography
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In 2005 German student Lisa Rienermann spent a semester in Barcelona. While standing in a little courtyard, she looked up to the sky…
“I saw houses, the sky, clouds and a “Q”. The negative space in-between the houses formed a letter. I loved the idea of the sky as words, the negative being the positive. If I could find a “Q”, other letters should be somewhere around the corner.”
Lisa spent the next few weeks running around and looking up to the sky, and slowly found all the letters of the alphabet. This became a project for her Typography class at the Folkwang School of design in Germany, which has won her several awards and recognition.
In this post, we present Lisa’s work in both poster format and for the first time, Lisa has also kindly provided us with the large image of each of the letters.
You can find more about Lisa and her work at her website LisaRiennerman.com Read more