Smashing Magazine Redesign: Photographs & Screenshots
Last year we took on one of our biggest projects yet, working on the new Smashing Magazine re-design. In this post we’ll look at some of the elements we designed for the project, many of which nobody has seen before.
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The Envato Marketplaces Re-Design: Our Involvement
We’ve recently had the pleasure once again of working with Collis Ta’eed and the team at Envato, a company we admire – and one full of creative & down to earth guys – running a very successful network of sites. Having them use your icons on their site(s) is one thing, but working with them is a true honor.
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How to Spot Quality within Web Design: Examples & Tips
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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Danny Outlaw Talks Personal Branding & Promotion: Tips on How to Get Yourself Out There
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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Themes: Hallmark a Joomla theme now on ThemeForest
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 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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Why I love the Design Community: My Guest Post
Ahh yes, the Design Community. I love it! This is the topic of a recent guest post I wrote over at MyInkBlog. Below is an extract from the article, but you can read the full the article here. Please leave your feedback and comments on the actual post rather than here.
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Contest: Win a Copy of the brand new Papercut Theme
Just a short post, more of an announcement to let you all know of a great interview & contest over at Fuel Your Creativity. The post discovers a little more about what goes on behind closed doors at WooThemes, and also gives away 3 copies of the New Theme, be sure to read the rules regarding how to enter, and the contest is only running until Wednesday the 27th August 2008.
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Themes: Papercut A Grungy News Theme for WooThemes
We were recently contacted by Adii of WooThemes for an exciting new project. Adii and his team, including Magnus Jepson, Mark Forrester and Elliot Jay Stocks, who have recently launched their new site, wanted to bring some grunge to their themes, so got in touch with us and gave us a great project to get our teeth into.
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32 Examples of Websites with a Brave colour Scheme
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.
2. Macalicious
The deep purple/blue work so well together.
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