To a Mac user, the difference between one application and the other is, in part, how well it is represented. Even though several useful applications have simplistic sites, in the vast sea of websites that we have today, looks make a difference . The sites showcased here have incredible designs – they command attention and present their apps in the most compelling way.
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Well Designed Mac App Websites
While many articles try to dissect the process of designing a logo itself, I will attempt to share tips from my experiences with branding-focused logo design for the real world. Photo by lpwines With the surge of “stock” logos, the quality of branding for new companies is literally going downhill. Many new designers fail to see that a logo, unlike any other design element, is literally the face of a company, and hence attached to a much larger beast
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5 Branding Basics Every Logo Designer Should Know
It’s a fact of life that when people hire a web designer, they don’t just want a website, they want a website that does something! There can be a world of difference between these two things. The “action” they need the website to take for them can be one of several common things: selling products for their business (an e-commerce site), generating sales leads, and/or providing free information in the hope that the visitor will make a purchase from the company at a later date. These aims differ slightly for some sites, like non-profits, blogs and communities; however business sites in general aim to generate revenue by one of the above methods.
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An Introduction to Website Split Testing
Social Sketches is a free icon set containing several icons of popular social networks exclusively released here on Six Revisions. All the icons are done in sketch style, which brings them a new look and makes them especially fit for grunge/hand-drawn themed websites; in fact, the set was created initially for use in Referrer Detector plugin on The Daily Faces , my new “daily sketch” project, but then I decided to release it for public use. This set is licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution (attribution specification: none required , but appreciated), which means you can use them for any purpose, anywhere, any time, personal and commercial alike
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Social Sketches: Exclusive Free Hand-Sketched Icon Set
As the web design field opens up more and more to designers with a limited technical knowledge, the prospect of developing a website can seem like a staggering and scary feat. This may seem even more difficult if you are new to working with developers who will be engineering the website to your design specifications. In this article, we examine some fundamental tips and tricks to help you work with developers and ensure your designs are pixel perfect.
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Collaboration Tips for Designers Working with Developers
Creating rich professional-level Flash media components isn’t simple for the ordinary designer or developer who doesn’t have a strong command of Flash/Flex. And even if you were a Flash/Flex guru, you’re probably looking for ways to save time so that you can focus on other things. SnackTools , a suite of webapps for creating Flash components, is here to help.
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SnackTools Makes Creating Rich Media Content Easy
The web development scene is moving forward at a lightning-fast pace, and it’s imperative that developers continue to keep their skills fresh. If you’ve been involved in front-end design or development in any form over the past five years or so, then it’s very likely that you’ve experimented at some point with one of the popular JavaScript libraries, many of which have become quite prominent and are now used on a number of large commercial websites.
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Getting Started with jQuery
Artists and illustrators often display their artwork hoping of not only showing their abilities and skills, but also to inspire creativity amongst its viewers. In this showcase, you will witness a wide range of creative styles, featuring female characters as the subject , by some of the world’s most talented illustrators, artists, and designers. 1
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20 Stunning Illustrations of Surreal Female Characters
In this web design tutorial, you’ll find a way to create a 3D space/futuristic gallery layout with Photoshop. We cover several methods such as drawing with the Rectangular Marquee Tool and using the Perspective Transform Tool. This two-part tutorial series will show you how to create the layout in Photoshop, and then how to convert the design into a fully functional web template that uses standards-based HTML/CSS and jQuery in the second part
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How to Design a Space Futuristic Gallery Layout in Photoshop