Best Photoshop Website Layout Tutorials of 2009
Published December 30th, 2009 in Design - 33 Comments
As a final post for 2009, let’s take a look back at the best tutorials for creating website layouts in Photoshop. There were a number of great tutorials of this kind throughout the year, many more than in years past, making it a great year for anyone who wants to improve their design skills. Here is a look at 25 of the best.
Create a Company/Business Web Layout Using Photoshop
The 50 Best Adobe Illustrator Tutorials from 2009
Published December 28th, 2009 in Design - 37 Comments
Since the year is winding down, we thought it would be helpful to go back and pick out the best Illustrator tutorials that were published in 2009. The year was full of great tutorials, and 50 of the best are featured here. For more Illustrator tutorials please see:
- 30 Text Effect Tutorials for Adobe Illustrator
- 40 Tutorials for Working with Shapes in Illustrator
- 25 Tutorials for Using Illustrator and Photoshop Together for Outstanding Results
Smoothly Shift Winter Colors While Creating an Icy, Vector Landscape
Free Gadget Icon Set from IconShock
Published December 24th, 2009 in Site News - 26 Comments
Our friends at IconShock have designed another set of free icons especially for readers of the Vandelay Design blog. This set includes 5 gadget icons that will help to make your designs look great. The icons are free for personal or commercial use, but cannot be re-distributed or sold as your own.
35 Adobe AIR Tutorials for Web Developers
Published December 23rd, 2009 in Web Development - 23 Comments
Adobe AIR gives developers all kinds of possibilities to create applications. As Adobe’s websites says, “The Adobe® AIR® runtime lets developers use proven web technologies to build rich Internet applications that run outside the browser on multiple operating systems.”
In this post we’ll feature 35 tutorials that will help you to learn more about working with AIR. Some of them are at a beginner level that will introduce you to AIR, and others are more advanced and will teach specifics.
To find some examples of Adobe AIR apps see:
- 40 Great Adobe AIR Applications for Designers and Developers
- 50+ Constructive Adobe AIR Apps for Web Designers and Developers
- 12 Best Adobe AIR Applications for Web Designers
50 of the Best Free Icon Sets of 2009
Published December 21st, 2009 in Design - 58 Comments
A few weeks ago we launched IconFever, a site dedicated to helping designers find the icons they need. Today we’d like to feature some of the best free icons that were made available throughout the year, from a wide variety of designers. These high-quality, free icons can be tremendous resources for designers like you and me.
40 Beautiful Minimalist Websites – Part 7
Published December 17th, 2009 in Galleries - 45 Comments
Showcases of excellent minimalist web design have always been a favorite of readers of this blog, and today we’re happy to publish the seventh edition in the series. Here you’ll find 40 websites that avoid clutter and use minimalism effectively. If you love this style of design, check out our gallery site Minimal Exhibit.
25 Beautiful Blog Comment Designs
Published December 15th, 2009 in Galleries - 63 Comments
Comments are a standard feature on blogs, but some blog designers have created a comments area that looks great in addition to offering the needed functionality. In this post we’ll showcase 25 blogs with excellent comment design. For more blog design inspiration please see our gallery site Blog Design Heroes.
Private Label Opportunities for Web Designers and Developers
Published December 10th, 2009 in Web Development - 37 Comments
Web designers have the opportunity to increase their income and to help brand their business by taking advantage of private label (or white label) options that are available. A private label means that you will be able to brand it as your own. For example, you can use a re-branded CMS that appears to clients as though it is your own system, rather than displaying the name and branding of the CMS.
In this post we’ll look at some of the leading private label options for web designers and agencies in a few different categories. We’ll look at content management systems, shopping cart/ecommerce systems, hosting, and email marketing.
Private Label Content Management Systems:
Most clients today want to be able to manage their content without paying a designer every time changes need to be made. There are a number of content management systems that offer private label options. A private label CMS could be a cornerstone for your business that includes residual income each month. Here are some of the leading options.
LightCMS
LightCMS is Element Fusion‘s CMS that is created especially for designers (the same CMS is available to businesses through WaterCMS). LightCMS aims to provide designers with a CMS that will provide clients with everything they need while not limiting the design, and also providing designers the opportunity to earn a residual income from monthly hosting fees. There is no cost for designers to become resellers, and you can determine the prices that your customers pay. Earlier this year we published a tutorial for setting up your first site with LightCMS.
7 Days Remaining to Get $10 Off Fanurio Time Tracking and Invoicing
Published December 9th, 2009 in Site News - 3 Comments
Last month we announced a partnership with Fanurio Time Tracking and Invoicing and offered a $10 discount ($49 instead of $59) on Fanurio’s software. This is just a reminder that the discount period ends in one week, December 16, 2009. If you’ve already downloaded the 30 day free trial and you want to purchase the license, be sure to do it before the 16th and use the coupon code “vandelay2009″ when purchasing.
If you haven’t downloaded the trial version, there is still time to try it out for a week before the offer expires. You can get the free trial from Fanurio’s website.
25 Photoshop Tutorials for Designing Portfolio Sites
Published December 7th, 2009 in Design, Photoshop Tutorials - 49 Comments
Designing a quality portfolio website is a must for any aspiring designer. In this post we’ll look at 25 tutorials that will lead you through the process of designing a portfolio site in Photoshop. Hopefully these tutorials will teach you some new tricks and techniques that will be useful to you in your own work.
Awesome Tutorial Portfolio Design
