Nobody likes people with a big mouth, metaphorically and literally. Yet in our design world, we have to deal with them. They are the people who always have stupid question which (sometimes) are completely irrelevant to their project, such as “why did Microsoft jumped from Windows 3.11 straight to Windows 95?” if you don’t answer them properly, they think you are not educated enough.
Believe me, I’ve had a lot of these kind of guys. I was rather unlucky probably but you all encounter such people from time-to-time, and if you know how to actually deal with them, you start to enjoy them instead of becoming a living image of wrath.
A few days ago, our Jawad made a showcase of footers. It was definitely a good inspiration but we didn’t get to know the methodology behind creating exceptional footers. Today, I’m describing just that.
Footers were never given their deserving respect, they were the most meaningless part of a website. But in recent times, designers came to realize that it can be a great place to show off their skills, and then later, developers crafted out techniques to make it useful in terms of interactivity and SEO.
I’ve had my share of ups and downs of the industry. And now after being through all that and finally succeeding in the industry and moving on to the next level, I sometimes look back and think that how easy it would have been had somebody gave me this advice in the beginning..!
You might have read articles on the same topic but this is something new. Usually what happens on internet is that one guy creates a magnificent article and then copycats do their work. I’m writing it from my own experience and I haven’t even read any of those articles.
Having a job in the online industry is challenging, staying up-to-date is a constant condition, or else the risk of being fired has a great probability to happen. In spite of these, the good remuneration and the harsh competition make many people to wish they were working in this field. If working in the online world is stressful, then the job of a logo designer is one where the pressure of the client is enormous, hence you should think twice before joining the field of logo design.
The pressure comes from the fact that a small element as a logo has a bigger importance than people usually believe. Being a logo designer is awesome; it’s fabulous to know that your (apparently) ignorable work may influence the business of your client in a tremendous manner. In order to survive, a logo designer should stay up-to-date and also must refine his skills.
A couple of days ago WordPress launched its final update of WordPress 3.3. Right now, all the WordPress blogs around the world (including Designzzz) are being notified that they should upgrade. Most of the webmasters haven’t updated yet (again, includings Designzzz) because they have a fear that their theme might not work properly with this new version.
Your web design tutorial writer Jawad has a blog about cars and automobile, Carunch.com, last night he has upgraded it! Now I’m in a position to give you a personal user experience of the latest WP.
The new version is named “Sonny” in the honor of famous Jazz musician Sonny Stitt. Almost all of the WordPress 3.x compatible themes are working fine with Sonny, even the customarily programmed ones.
It’s almost a definite thing that if you are a professional designer, you have your own blog as well. Some of them are just personal and some make it as side income resource.
But as you know, it’s important to know what to do in blogging, but it is rather more important to realize what to avoid. Today I’m describing some of the basic mistakes to stay away from; unfortunately amateur bloggers don’t have insufficient knowledge of this field so they do make mistakes.
This is a list of practices that every blogger should follow and avoid some common mistakes that could slap you with a big setbacks, once your blog has become famous.
The advancement of technology is coming about at light speed. I still remember that I learned using a PC on monochrome (black and white) monitors, and even my teacher didn’t know to use a mouse. We used DOS as the operating system 1MB floppy drive was the only way for data transfer, nobody knew about anything called internet. It sounds like I’m talking about an era centuries ago, yet I’m not even in my 30s’!!
When I see the technology around me, I sometimes wonder, can we keep up with this?? And the answer is Yes!!
It’s not easy to keep pushing boundaries as you go along in your career. Just when you think you have your hands running briskly over Photoshop CS4, in comes CS5. Same thing happened with HTML4 and HTML5, all new features and whole new concepts make it very difficult to keep on learning and relearning.
This industry we have chosen is a drag race, we lose the grip for a jiffy and we go down to the last place. Today my target is to give you a few ideas for staying at first place, ideas which are easily implemented and fun to do.
Filter Forge is a resource for Graphic and Web Designers. It is a versatile Photoshop plugin which lets novice and expert users create a wide variety of realistic and abstract textures and photo effects. For a long period of time, this has stayed as one of the most popular plugin of the industry.
Now they have finally launched their awaited Version 3.0. This version has the power to support multiple source images, revamped user interface, improved preview interactivity, new amazing filters, and much more.
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