The first thing to note about this competition is that it will only run for the next three day (it ends on Friday the 3rd of Decemebr), so don’t hesitate, don’t think twice, get your comment in NOW! For this weeks competition we have three super-awesome Cyber Bundles from MojoThemes up for grabs. It is a treasure trove worth $579 (you can buy it for only $30) and includes 6 premium WordPress themes, 1 WordPress plugin (Event Espresso), 3 Premium [...]

This is our weekly column were we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers from the previous week. If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even by subscribing to our RSS feed.

Last weeks we published the competition Two Free WordPress Development Books for Two Lucky Readers, it has now ended and it is time to announce the winners. Thanks to PACKT Publishing for donating these books, and an evener bigger thank you to all of our readers who have left a comment. Sadly we could only pick (at random) only two lucky winners. And to everyone that hasn’t won, all we can say is that better luck next time, and good [...]

Hand-drawn typography has recently emerged as a growing trend in print and digital medias. This is due in part from the fact that designers, illustrators, and art directors are struggling to stand out in a digital age. Basic desktop publishing and word processors skills have become blase; even neighborhood garage sale signs can be printed at home rather than being scrawled in permanent marker. In an effort to stand apart from the pedestrian usage of standard typefaces, many companies have [...]

Photovisi.com is a free online service that makes it easy to create your own photo collages online, offering several creative templates and options. While many different services exist online to creatively process your photos, most of them are just for short-term fun. Photovisi offers a wide range of several high quality collage designs and styles. By focusing on the quality of the end result, a lot of collages created with Photovisi end up for longer-term enjoyment, either as print or [...]

This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week or so, some sites we discovered and have been recommended by our readers. Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like this selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to comment and let us know what you think.

For any business online or off your logo becomes an important part of your corporate identity. There are several places on a website which beg to be branded with a logo and there are even more opportunities around the web to promote your site and build logo recognition. You might also like… 18 Super Quick Web Typography Tips for Newbies → 4 Concepts for Simplistic Web Design → Seven Super Quick Tips for Beginner and Amateur Web Designers → On [...]

Lower-quality clients suck. All they focus on is how little they can pay. They make unreasonable demands for the amount of work they want you to do and how fast they want it done. And they’ll inevitably ask you for designs that you don’t really enjoy creating. Does this sound familiar? Then chances are you have suffered from working for clients like these. We all have at some point, especially when starting out. So how do you avoid working for [...]

If you have ever tried searching for high quality Chart & Graph templates, you will understand the dilemma and difficulty we had in compiling this round-up. We have also been asked on a number of occasions by a readers to help. For a while we actually thought there wasn’t any. But, thankfully, we eventually found some. We have sifted through every resource, every link and followed every possible lead to compile this list. And the result is not the biggest [...]

This is our weekly column were we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers from the previous week. If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even by subscribing to our RSS feed.

Projects can get overly confusing if we let them slip too far. This has become circumstance time and again, most commonly among the freelance designers of the world. Web projects are no different and require a strict level of discipline for project management. Graphics and icons are useful for spicing up the average website template design. However management of all these entities can grow out of control. On larger platforms things may seem unmanageable and lean towards chaotic clutter. Keep [...]

Ah, the great apostrophe, much loved, much maligned and much misunderstood. This little piece of punctuation is so highly regarded, that some folks have become Gatekeepers of the Apostrophe, guarding this misused, and descriptive part of punctuation, with a vengeance. Educating the masses against using apostrophes in ways that are not conducive to good grammar has become a passionate life’s work for punctuation aficionados. Pop Culture Misuse To grammar specialists, one of the most prominent examples of the misuse of [...]

This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week or so, some sites we discovered and have been recommended by our readers. Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like this selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to comment and let us know what you think.