Archive : Tutorials

Are traditional paper business cards becoming obsolete? Have you considered a digital option? The type of card you use and how it looks can say a lot about you and your work. The style of card – from simple embossed text on a white card to ornate colors and fonts – can be a client’s first impression of your work. You want to use a card that represents your style and works with the kind of clients you work with. When looking for a business card, consider both digital and paper options and integrate your digital self into paper cards. A business card does more than provide your contact information, it is … Read the rest of the article on : Design Shack

Every designer, whether you’re in print or web, should possess a basic understanding of fonts and type. Using the right typeface and understanding how a font will impact your design can add that extra pop to print and digital projects and will set them apart from all others. One important area to understand is the anatomy of type. Ascenders, descenders and serifs may sound like words from another language but are the basis for understanding the style of a typeface and how if relates to your project. Today we’ll take a brief run through of some terminology that you should know. … Read the rest of the article on : Design Shack

A strong logo that makes an immediate statement. I really like the typeface used here and the powerful imagery of the mark. The stark contrast between the dark and light colours helps this design to stick in your mind. This design was featured on the Wednesday 30th of November 2011. It falls under the category of Logo, and has a layout style of Other. If you’d like, you can visit this site, or view all our other featured designs. … Read the rest of the article on : Design Shack

Now a days, USB flash drives is the most common and convenient way to transfer files one system to another system. Whether you are school going boy or professional you will need a flash drives atleast once a day. But while transferring files through USB flash drives our system often get infected from the malicious virus which in turn generates various problems. It is quite obvious that if the USB flash drives will remain infected with virus, it will be affecting the security of every computer with which it is once plugged in. As we know well that, prevention is better than cure. Thus it is very much necessary that we should be careful of the virus concerns of computer and USB drives. The following post features a list of 10 tools to protect your computer against any infected USB flash drives. Check out these tools, we hope it will be appreciated by you. Read the rest of the article on : SaveDelete

People are always impress by the mind blowing design format and layout of the page , when they visit the website. But , don’t  notice only the format but also the background colors of the page .  If there are only solid  colors it would be annoying. there should be complex combination of images and textures.  The overall appearance of the website must go with style of the website. I am sharing here a collection of background pattern for your websites. Best of all they are free for use. A guaranty that you will become crazy to use them expect a lot of compliment from your website visitor. All of the images are click-able and linked to their source. Brand New and Stunning Patterns Re … Read the rest of the article on : SaveDelete

A stunningly simple, but drastically effective logo mark that makes an immediate imprint in your mind. The choice of using black on yellow is often used, but works fantastically well! This design was featured on the Monday 17th of October 2011. It falls under the category of Logo, and has a layout style of Other. If you’d like, you can visit this site, or view all our other featured designs. … Read the rest of the article on : Pipes Output

Designing for yourself is one of the toughest tasks for a web designer. Grace Smith rounds up 10 vital steps you need to take to pave the way for a successful redesign of your portfolio site. … Read the rest of the article on : Design Shack

Does the design solve a problem? Can people make it solve their problems? Do people want it to solve their problems? Even if the answers to these questions are all “yes,” now what? … Read the rest of the article on : Design Shack

Content should precede design. It’s a basic and essential piece of advice that you’ll hear from me as well as countless other designers. But what about the situations where this idea breaks down? We’d like to imagine that it’s never the case that design must take place before certainty about content can be reached, but in truth this simply isn’t the case. What circumstances are there that force designers to proceed with a lack of content? How should you respond to such scenarios? Keep reading as we explore these ideas. Like the article? Be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed and follow us on Twitter to stay up on recent content. Read the rest of the article on : Design Shack

If you’ve been on the scene with iOS then you’ve surely seen some of the beautiful app websites cropping up. These have been released over the past couple of years as developers have been looking for ways to attract marketing potential. There are a lot of very standard-looking templates out there for web designers – but my hope is to tackle something new! Today we’ll be creating a styled iPhone App website template using HTML5/CSS3. This will not be targeted onto a specific app, so we don’t include a download link to the app store. Instead I’ve created a small e-mail signup form through MailChimp so you can hook early adopters into the app for pre-release. This is great for developers who need to get something up and running for their product b … Read the rest of the article on : Design Shack