So once again we find ourselves staring down another approaching week, while looking back over the one that has just passed us by. And in that looking back, the Arbenting team has gathered a collection of some of the design community’s best contributions from across the webs. There was so much great stuff to choose from, once again, this week, that we had no shortage of material, with the exception of new site launchings which we could not find any.
Interview - Interview with Angie Bowen of Arbent Creative Designs - Tom from PSDfan did me the honor of asking me to give my first interview. Read about Angie’s motivation, inspiration and design philosophy.
Article - A Showcase of Popular Web Design Trends - I was wanting to put together a showcase that featured some design trends, and began to wonder which ones I felt would have longevity. I realized in this feeble attempt to foresee the days to come, that it was just that…feeble, and also, fruitless. So I decided instead, to showcase four of my favorite web design trends.
Redesign - The Social Media Directory for Designers - A redesign of the social media directory has been on my to-do list for a while and I finally had a chance to get around to it. Some new and updated features you should know about:
- While the site did get a drastic visual redesign, the main change isn’t that noticeable visually. We made the directories pages and brought the blog to the front page giving it a more focused role in the site. You can now look forward to weekly social media articles from us there.
- The Promote Yourself page was updated, some broken links taken down and some new links added. If you have a site where designers can promote their articles comment and let us know so we can add you to the list
- We are also looking for your input for the directory. If you have any ideas or know of any social media sites that you feel should be included, comment on our newest vlog post, The Directory Seeks Your Input and let us know.
- We are still working on everyone’s individual designer pages. Eventually everyone will have their own page with a listing of all of their information in one place.
30 HTML Best Practices for Beginners - I had to put this one at the top of the list because it's the best beginner's web development article that I've read in a long time. A must read for any developer, new or experienced.
40 Useful and Creative Infographics - Information graphics (or infographics) are graphical depictions of data and information. By presenting information in a compact and creative approach, infographics are able to quickly convey knowledge and engage its viewers. In this collection, you’ll find forty beautiful and educational infographics, displaying the uncommon spectacle of "art meets science".
27+ Handy Javascript Techniques for Web Designer - Javascript is such an useful script language. It is used in many web sites to add functionality, validate forms, randomize images, and much more. Although it is not required to be pro coder, there are some useful techniques every web designer should know.
25 Unique uses of WordPress as CMS - WordPress is often thought of as little more than a blogging platform. But it’s capable of so much more. Through a little customization and the use of plugins, WordPress can easily be transformed into a full-featured content management system. Here are more than 25 sites who have done just that (and done it well).
27 Twitter Tools To Help You Find And Manage Followers - 27 Twitter tools, which will help You find more followers, manage them, find who doesn’t follow You back, who stops following, statistics and much, much more.
10 Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers You Might Not Know Of - Here are 10 free add-ons covering everything from DOM inspection to screenshots, making designing and developing with Firefox a breeze.
Advice, Trends, and Resources for People Entering Web Careers in 2009 - A group interview featuring advice from some top web professionals for those starting their career.
Breathtaking list to Promote your website - This past few days we realized many websites help to promote website through submitting design news in their community news section of their website, so in this post we collected 58 Breathtaking list to Promote your website.
Top 10 Adobe AIR Applications - My Favorites - Since applications built for Adobe AIR run on your desktop computer without a web browser, they provide all the convenience of a desktop application. AIR allows existing Flash, Actionscript or HTML and JavaScript code to be used to construct traditional desktop-like programs.
10 Ways To Put Your Content In Front Of More People - When we focus so heavily on the performance of our website, we miss a fundamental point: we should aim to expose users to our content, not our website. The website is a tool to showcase our content, but it is not the only tool that does this.
How Not to Promote Your Blog: Top 10 Broken Blog Promotion Strategies - For every great blog promotion strategy, there are five that suck. Really suck. They suck so bad that using them can get you blacklisted by real bloggers, ignored by annoyed readers, unfollowed on Twitter, and possibly placed on the terrorist watch list.
50 Best Sites To Get Design Inspiration - This list contains galleries range from of Graphic Design, Web design, Interface Design, Stationary Design, Logo Design, Typography, Motion Graphics to Online Magazines. I hope you will enjoy these great sites, I’m sure if you are a looking for design inspiration these sites will never let you down.
A Study in User Experience: Twitter & #fixreplies - I have found that being a user experience person has often meant arguing a lot. Your role in the company, is to be the user advocate, not the company advocate, so that your voice is a reminder and constant reflection of a product’s users… you represent them, and are paid for doing that.
13 Useful And Free Websites To Make Your Lives Easier - Today, we are publishing another list of 13 Useful And Free Websites To Make Your Lives Easier when you want to process your daily work. They are too much simple in terms of their usage because many of these do not need to register with them to use the service.
35 Online Tools That Make Your Freelance Career Easier -
- The benefits of freelancing, however, certainly outweigh the pitfalls — and using the right online tools can help tip the scales even further. Gadgets and online apps are a freelancer’s best friend when it comes to being effective.
Visual Hierarchy in Web Design - On a daily basis I view all sorts of websites and all kinds of designs. One thing in common with successful templates on ThemeForest or with websites around the web is strong visual hierarchy.
Smashing Release : 15 Free And High Quality Tree Wood Textures - In this set, you will find 15 High Quality Tree Wood Textures that you can use in your design projects, websites and anywhere you want.
365+ Free Best Twitter Icons And Buttons - There are lots of free twiiter icons available on net, why not search best ones for you? and list those here. I found 365+ free twitter icons and buttons and i made list of all those collections for you.
Free Wordpress theme: Beth - Beth is a 2 columns, easy-to-customize wordpress theme with a grungy watercolour feel. It is of course widget ready and Wordpress 2.7 ready, but hasn’t been tested with previous versions. This theme is also as free and open source.
Neighbourhood Open Source Type for Immediate Download - Andy Chung took Neighbourhood as a challenge to create something that had the graphic expression of a display face while still maintaining some of the functionality of a text face.
5 Free Vintage Wallpaper Textures - Each one of these textures consists of 4-5 different images layered together in Photoshop to get the end result you see here. I usually used one fabric texture, two paper textures, and a grunge texture along with the pattern to get the effect that I wanted.
Free Vectors - 27+ Abstract Geometric Wireframe Vectors - They are also very easy to edit and take apart, so you can create even more elements and shapes from this.
108 Black Inlay on Steel Social Media Icons - 108 clean and elegant high resolution black and silver social media icons free for personal and commercial use - no attribution required
8 Free Lollidots Grungy Paper Textures - The set is called Lollidots, as I have fashioned the design after some round lollies that form a hole in the middle as you go on sucking at them. These are huge, 3600×3600 pixels each. Try these paper textures in your personal or commercial projects.
Interview with Drew Douglass, Dev-Tips - Drew Douglass of Dev-Tips is a Web Developer who works primarily in php, MySQL and Javascript. He also dives into WordPress projects frequently. He lives in Columbia, Missouri and also works for Envato.
Interview with professional photographer Tyson Crosbie - Tyson Crosbie is a professional photographer from Phoenix, Arizona, and he agreed to do this interview and share some details about his artwork and the process behind it.
Interview with Blogs.mu founder James Farmer - James Farmer is the co founder of Incsub, the team behind Blogs.mu and the company that runs the WordPress MU hub WPMU DEV and the industry news blog WPMU.org. He’s also the founder of Edublogs.org.
Five Questions with Calvin Lee of Mayhem Studios - He’s Principal & Creative Director of Mayhem Studios, an award-winning design firm located in Los Angeles, California, developing identity and brand recognition for the business sector across the United States. He also serves on the Creative Latitude Management Team and boasts a twitter following currently pushing the 20K mark.
Jacob Cass Of Just Creative Design Talks Logo Trends Predictions And Future - A young Australian brand identity creator, blogger and travel enthusiast all rolled up into one honest, enthusiastic personality. He is meticulous in his work and shares his knowledge freely with anyone who is willing to listen and learn, a quality that has amassed him a large following on the internet.
Interview with Jared Nickerson, aka J3Concepts - Meet Jared Nickerson a freelance illustrator based in Seattle, Washington. I am sure you have heard about him or might have seen his brilliant vector artworks which are a constant source of inspiration. Jared specializes in character, editorial, video games, product design and runs his design studio J3Concepts.
40 Tutorials for Creating Highly Detailed Icon Designs - As icons appear in larger sizes through appearances in Mac applications and rich user interfaces the icon designs themselves are becoming more and more detailed. Check out this collection of 40 of the best icon design tutorials from across the web, each covering the process of designing a highly detailed icon graphic in Illustrator or Photoshop.
How to Create Sheet Rolls with Custom Spirals -
- In this tutorial, I’ll explain how to make custom spirals (apart from the default spiral tool), and use them creatively in making rolls of paper. So far, I came to know that the spiral tool does not allow a uniform decay (equal spacing) between each wind of a spiral. In this tutorial, I will expose some basic tricks to do so. Hope you find it interesting.
8 Great Web Design Tutorials - Ever wondered of creating a Web design in Photoshop? Yes here are Great tutorials to help design your website in the Photoshop. Design your website in PSD then convert it to HTML with some coding. I have included some tutorials here to help convert your design from PSD to HTML.
Photoshop Tutorial Hall of Fame - Many of the most popular posts on this blog are collections of Photoshop tutorials in specific categories. I thought it would be helpful to also do a post that features the best Photoshop tutorials of all kinds, all in one place. This post links to more than 60 excellent tutorials and they are categorized by type.
Simple Page Peel Effect with jQuery & CSS - You have probably seen these forms of advertisings where you can peel a corner of a website and see a message underneath. It seems most are flash driven, but I decided to try it out using some simple lines of jQuery.
How to Create a “Worn Paper” Web Layout Using Photoshop - In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a textured "worn paper" web design theme using some basic Photoshop techniques. The design incorporates some free stock images to let you create a beautiful layout in a jiffy.
30 Brilliant Photoshop Lighting Effects Tutorials - A current trend in design is adding lighting effects to enhance your digital art. In this article, you’ll find 30 dazzling lighting techniques that you can use to add a bit of sparkle into your work.
Yuta Onoda
Yuta Onoda, is an amazing artist that we found through sheer luck, and we have not been able to take our eyes off of his art since. Yuta’s expressive illustrations and paintings are some of the most inspiring work we have accidentally happened upon without seeking it out. And you can believe it was the happiest accident we have experienced in a while!
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many thanks for including my interview with Tyson Crosbie in this great weekly round-up! much appreciated.
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@2lip — no problem, it was a great interview!
Great roundup — I see You really spend Your time to actively see what’s going on in other blogs :)
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@Dainis — I do love my feed reader :)
Great roundup all very good points, thanks..
Thanks for including my tutorial Angie :-)
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excellent my dear…this is my first visit to your blog and find it very good
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Another great mega list. Packed full of resources. Bookmarked!
Glad you all are finding some useful articles here!