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13 Places to Download Awesome Premium WordPress Themes

Joel Reyes — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:00:33 +0000

The search for WordPress themes is never-ending. Should you find a free theme? Or shell out the bucks for a premium theme?

While exceptional content doesn’t need to be pretty to communicate, we can’t help wanting a little style with our substance.

If you’re like us, you want an eye-catching WordPress layout that looks sharp, creative and has as much style as your writing. Something unique and beautifully coded to render across all browsers, and maybe add a little SEO juice too.

The best WordPress themes offer all of that. And, often come with a pretty good support forum too. Some of these Worpress themes are free, but don’t be afraid to pay for something exceptional. Let’s visit 13 amazing places you can go to get awesome premium WordPress themes.

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10 Quick & Dirty Tricks for Easy Custom Web Backgrounds

Joel Reyes — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:00:09 +0000

Oh, the trials and tribulations of making your own repeating background. We’ve all been there, tweaking our pixels and trying to make the repeats fit together just right.

Here are the solutions for our background woes! Take a look at these Web sites that offer you the ability to quickly make your own. Or you can use one of the seamless repeating images available on the other sites, all polished and ready for your web needs. You may find some of these backgrounds to be especially inspiring! I know I have.

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Lust for Logos — 15 Sites to Visit for Logo Inspiration

Joel Reyes — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:00:59 +0000

We all have days were we just can’t get our creative juices flowing. What we really need is a good jump start that gets our imagination off again to put us on the right track. When it comes to logos, something so simple as a type face or choice in color can make everything flow just right. If you’re in need of inspiration, here are 15 sites that will get you going! (...)
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10 Places to Download Free Icon Sets

Joel Reyes — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:00:52 +0000

Whether you want to spice up the look of your desktop, create a unified theme on your website, or use them for graphic design, matching icon sets come in handy. Although in recent times the use of icons has shifted towards web and interface design, icon sets are useful for many purposes.

If you have the proper skills, you can use applications such as Illustrator to customize your vectors and design a spiffy icon set, but why re-create the wheel?

Here are 10 top resources for free icon sets. Download them directly onto your desktop for instant beautification. (...)
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10 WordPress Tips & Tricks for Your Comment Page

Joel Reyes — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:00:02 +0000

From a site owner and an avid bloggers perspective, if you create a blog and take the time to formulate useful content for your visitors to read, then you’d like them to share their insight and contribute to your collection of hard-pressed articles. Correct? Therefore, if by creating quality content this means that one will receive useful and valuable feedback, then why not bring creativity and uniqueness to that aspect of your blog?

One of the greatest rewards a blogger can receive is the feedback given by their readers; this is why leaving comments should be fun, easy, and entertaining. Below you will find 10 of the top creative WordPress tips and tricks for your comment page that will surely make your blogging life not only simpler, but fun for your readers. (...)
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15 Places to Find Awesome Free Photoshop Brush Sets

Joel Reyes — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:00:41 +0000

Even the best of us creative types struggle with what I like to call “designer’s block,” staring at a blank canvas in your favorite graphics editing program for hours. It can be downright difficult to find inspiration when starting a design from scratch. I have often found that one great source of inspiration are Photoshop brush sets.

Depending on the type of website, I might choose to create my design based on a set of grunge brushes. Or for a more artistic website, I could choose a set of nature brushes. Regardless of what your needs are, there are places to find awesome brush sets for Photoshop — and they won’t cost you a penny! What’s more is that there are no limits to how you can use these free photoshop brush sets in your designs, it’s all up to your imagination.

Without further ado, here are 15 great places to find awesome free Photoshop brush sets. (...)
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25 Places to Find Awesome Stock Photos — Free and Cheap!

Joel Reyes — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:00:33 +0000

Whether you’re designing an artistic website or searching for images to post on your blog, sites that carry not only free but awesome stock photos may very well come in handy. Utilizing the correct set of photos for any project is key, especially if you’re designing an ad for a client, you should always put in your best effort as well as the best images you can find fit for the job.

Many of the designers I’ve come across like to download most of their images from 2-3 of the largest sites containing stock photos, however as creative artists I believe we should play the mix and match game that allows us to choose from wide variety of stock images instead of the same “old” set of photos we may be fond of.

Giving a project that requires stock images your best should include photos that are not only sharp, but clear as well. Here we’ll have the pleasure to visit a few awesome (25 to be exact) sites that’ll provide all the needed images to fuel any project, job, or site requiring stock photos. (...)
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15 Places to Find Great Fonts

Joel Reyes — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:00:46 +0000

Free fonts are used in a wide variety of areas such as web design, graphic design, print based work and more. They can come in very handy at times when you’re caught between the desire to free yourself from the stock fonts your PC arrives with.

The art of creative font usage is called Typography. Whether you’re creating a website, blog, business card, flyer or illustration, you can use fonts to artistically embed creativity into your design. There are sites that are gorgeous even without images, because they make use of excellent typography to get the point across.

Finding quality fonts can be a bit of a task at times. You may find a site with totally free fonts, however, the level of quality and variation may not be up-to-par with what you need. Here are 15 sites for finding top quality fonts. (...)
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10 Places to Find Absolutely Free Vector Graphics

Joel Reyes — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:00:39 +0000

Vector graphics allow the preservation of quality within an image. These graphics at times offer superior quality over the traditional (raster) image formats, such as Bitmap. This means that if you were to view a vector and bitmap image next to each other, as you zoomed in you’ll be able to see that the bitmap image will suffer from pixelation while the vector graphic’s quality will remain intact.

Here are 10 of the top sites where you’ll be able to grab absolutely free vector graphics that allow editing in Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. Most of these sites offer free vectors in several formats for quick and easy customization. Sites that showcase high-quality vectors can be a bit hard to find now-a-days, this is why we’ve done the job for you and assembled this collection for your enjoyment. (...)
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Photoshop: Make Everyday Photos Look More Professional

Joel Reyes — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:00:29 +0000

Just about every household has some sort of digital camera laying around. This makes it super simple to take snapshots of everyday events. Using this tutorial, you can make almost any photo look professional — or at least better than amateur. With this simple photo retouching process, you’ll be able to put a professional polish on any photo you take.(...)
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