Beautiful Post Thumbnails: Top Examples & Best Practices

Advantages of creating a beautiful thumbnail to compliment your blog post

Your blog post thumbnail will play a big part in how your users see your website, and how they navigate it. A well designed post thumbnail can really engage your visitors and help encourage them to explore your website.  

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How to Spot Quality within Web Design: Examples & Tips

Some great examples and tips on what makes a quality web or blog design

Quality is a word that a lot of people like to use when describing their web design services. But what is quality, how do you know if a design is quality or not. Well, I think that there’s quite a few ways to spot quality within web designs. Once you can see just what goes into making a quality web design, you can use the techniques to perfect your own style.  

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32 Examples of Websites with a Brave colour Scheme

Inspire yourself, and maybe become a little braver with your colours

One key element in the design of any website is colour. Here are some great inspirational websites which show that colour can be used in very extraordinary ways.

1. Design Disease

Yeah we’ve all seen blue before, but this is beautiful.

Design Disease | Inspiration Brave Use of Colour

2. Macalicious

The deep purple/blue work so well together.

Macalicious | Inspiration Brave Use of Colour

 

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125+ Unconventional Sources of Web Design Inspiration

A collection of my favourite inspirational sources & Styles

As a web designer I’m always looking for ways to get inspired when working on new projects. Usually this means searching the various web design galleries for some inspirational web designs. However, recently I’ve found inspiration from some quite unusual sources. Take a look at this variety of inspirational work, and you might find that it can help motivate and inspire you on your next project.

The basic point of this post is to show you that you don’t have to rely on the CSS Galleries to inspire you, there is a lot of creative work out there in various other mediums that will help get you in a creative mood.

 

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Creative Domain Names: Some Clever Alternative Methods

WE Look at some alternative ways of getting that domain you wanted

Creative Domain Names: Some Clever Alternatives

The web’s been around for quite some time if you really think about it, the first domain name Symbolics.com was registered on 15th March 1985, yes, some 23 Years ago! That means that any idea you have for a domain name today has been through someone else mind up to 23 years before you. Part of any brand these days is a good domain name, and if you have the money to spend on a one word domain then by all means go for it.  

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Design Resources Pack #1: The Grunge Pack, Brushes, Fonts, Textures etc…

Amazing FREE downloadable resources for your grunge designs

Welcome to the very first edition of our Design Resources Pack, the basic idea behind this is; we collect a load of resources around a certain theme or style and put them together in one place.

Grunge is a style which is often misunderstood. Grunge doesn’t always have to mean really over the top dirty and dark. Today grunge comes in many forms, subtle grunge effects seem to be more common than just completely “grunging” something up. Whether you choose to be subtle, or over-the-top with your Grunge style here are some amazing resources to help you out.  

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Showcase: Twitter status design

Here are some very inspirational twitter status designs, a brilliant collection.

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If I could only Read 10 Blogs: My favourite collection

A list of the top 10 blogs that I visit, not in any particular order

A concept inspired by Jacob Cass’ post over at Just Creative Design. I’ve put together my collection of the top 10 blog’s that I’d read if I could only choose 10. I tend to visit a lot of blogs, but there’s only a few which I will stay regularly updated on, & I’d recommend anyone who’s into Design / Development to follow these sites.  

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70 Amazing business cards

You’ve seen thousands of business cards before, but here are some which might just stand out.

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