Danny Outlaw Talks Personal Branding & Promotion: Tips on How to Get Yourself Out There

Tips on Building your own personal brand and getting a name for yourself

Starting out as a designer, or blogger isn’t always easy. The hardest part is promoting yourself & your blog. Danny Outlaw, from Outlaw Design Blog talks us through how he tackled the problem, and gives us some seriously useful and true tips to help you build your own personal brand. Danny is re-launching his blog soon, and talks us through his strategy of building his brand.  

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Portfolio: 3 Application Icons for MacRumors New Software Bundle (BunnyBundle)

We worked with Macrumors to create some icons for their apps release

We’re excited to announce that we’ve worked with the biggest mac website & forum around, MacRumors, designing some icons for a new Mac Software Bundle they have released recently. Take a look at the software bundle and see their range of innovative new products for Mac users.  

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Icon Set Giveaway Results & Some Graphic River News

WE ANNOUNCE THE LUCKY WINNERS & SHARE SOME OF OUR TOP Graphic River PICKS

Thanks to everyone who gave us feedback on the icons, and ideas for future sets. We’re very happy with how things went. Right now we have the Highest Rated, and the Most Downloaded icon set on Graphic River, and the 3rd most popular file overall.  

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Function Premium Icon Set: A Set of 148 Great New Icons & GraphicRiver Giveaway

Our new icon set is now available and we are giving away 10 sets free

We’ve been working hard to create these beautiful icons exclusively for GraphicRiver. They are a great addition if you already have our free icon set, they are done in a similar style and could be used together. The new icons are a lot more refined and clean, with a lot more new icons that may have been missing from the first set. Check them out and let us know what you think.  

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Free Theme: Magazeen. Style & Functionality in one Theme, now on Smashing Magazine

We have Built some cool custom features into this stylish and Free Theme

We’ve been working hard on a few things lately, and this latest theme is one that we’ve made just for you guys! We’ve been working with Smashing Magazine for a while, and we’re happy to finally be able to release the theme. We’ve worked hard on making something that had the clean and sleek style that you’d expect, but we’ve put some extra focus on extending the capabilities of WordPress and it’s standard features, giving you a few extra features to improve the user’s browsing experience.  

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How-To: Taking WordPress One Step Further

Turning a Simple wordpress Blog into an advanced online experience.

Creating a website is no easy task. WordPress is an easy solution for creating a Blog, but sometimes something a little more, in terms of functionality, is needed. After trying many other platforms, I have found WordPress to be the easiest to use. Because of it’s wide array of themes, great plugin system, and easy to use administration system, WordPress takes the cake. Using a Custom Write Panel, Custom Options, and manipulating the theme files, the possibilities are almost endless. In This post we have a few ways you can transform your plain WordPress powered Blog into an easy-to-manage Internet Identity.  

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Stunning Free Character Pack: Free Illustrations for any use

Download this set of free Vector Characters - ideal for your designs

This set of free characters is ideal for adding a little personality into your designs. With a variety of actions and poses to chose from you can easily adapt them into your designs anywhere you feel needs it.  

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Free Theme: Color Paper Wordpress Theme now on Smashing Magazine

Our latest work, a free wordpress theme for you from us & DreamTemplate

A while ago we had the pleasure of working with DreamTemple for a Wordpress Theme which they’ve given away for free on Smashing Magazine. That means you can get this beautiful and unique theme for free, from the king of freebies Smashing Magazine.  

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Themes: Open Air, A magazine and A Personal Blog Theme

We should have wrote this post earlier, but its still an amazing theme

Another collaboration between ourselves and WooThemes, the result: this stunning theme with optional layouts. We’ve realized, that while a lot of people no doubt love magazine style themes - there are still a lot of people who would like the option of having something a little more personal. So here you have it!

As always with WooThemes there is a range of colours to chose from, and a really easy to manage back end, which means whichever layout you chose - it’s always easy enough to manage.  

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Tutorial: Creating Custom Write Panels in WordPress

Use Custom Write options to easily add any unique data to your post

Everyone knows that WordPress is one of the most, if not the most, popular blogging systems on the internet today. With its out of the box features, plugins, and great theming community, its no wonder WordPress has been accepted as today’s standard. However, sometimes you just want to add a little more.  

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Themes: Hallmark a Joomla theme now on ThemeForest

Joomla: only better with the new Hallmark theme from function

Demo & Info

That’s right, we’ve worked on a Joomla Theme. Although we love Wordpress we realize it’s not everybodies’ first choice of CMS. So we felt it was only fair to make something just as pretty as our Wordpress themes for the Joomla people.

The result, Hallmark, a premium Joomla theme ideal for running news/magazine sites - or your own personal blog. We’ve even included a custom styled comments system, something which is optional but really is pretty and can help add that extra bit of interactivity to your website.  

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50 Stunning Examples of a great redesign: My Top Picks

A run down of a collection of my favourite redesigns in recent years

A redesign can be worth its weight in gold if you get it right. There is a thin line between freshening up your design, and taking a step backwards with a redesign.  Sometimes a redesign can be subtle and simple, and other times it can be a huge re-vamp of a company and it’s goals. Here’s a look at some of my favourite re-designs in no particular order.

01. AT&T Inc.

This is an ideal example of how a subtle upgrade can make a huge difference.

02. BP Garage

A completely different direction and modern feel. A huge improvement!

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Brazen; A versatile WordPress theme for the veteran-blogger as well as any beginner.

A sleek, ready to use WordPress theme created with you in mind.

Demo & Info

First off, I’d just like to introduce myself. My name is Spencer, and I am the lead developer here at Function. I’m the guy that takes Liam’s awesome designs, and turns them into working sites.

Liam had this design laying around, and I knew I couldn’t let it go to waste. So, I’ve spent the last week or so, coding and perfecting this theme. The theme is great right out of the box, ready to be used by anyone or very easily customized.  

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Themes: Evo a fresh Magazine theme available on Theme Forrest with $25 Giveaway

announcing our new theme with $25 Theme Forest credit to be won

Demo & Info

To celebrate the launch of Theme Forest and our new theme Evo, we’re giving away 5 sets of $25 credit to be used on any theme on the site. Find out more at the end of the post.

The theme is ideal for either being used straight out of the box, or brilliant for being customized. It wouldn’t be hard to stamp your own personality onto this clean and sleek magazine theme.  We’re very happy to have the theme available among so many brilliant themes on Theme Forest. Check it out and let us know what you think, for your chance to win $25 Credit.  

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