Review of WPCoder, PSD to WordPress Coding Service

Published August 13th, 2009 in Reviews - 41 Comments

A few days ago this blog got a re-design, and in the announcement post I mentioned that the coding of the WordPress theme was done by WPCoder. Today I’d like to publish a review of their services for those of you who may have an interest in using them in your own work. For disclosure purposes, this is not a paid review or an advertisement, but I did receive discounted services for the review. However, there was no requirement to publish a “positive” review and the situation has not affected anything that is presented in this post.

Announcing the Winners from the E-Commerce Week Giveaway

Published July 31st, 2009 in Reviews - 3 Comments

Thank you to everyone who left a comment to participate in the e-commerce week giveaway. There were some great prizes that had been donated and here are the six winners:

Brooke – Shopp Plugin for WordPress
Juggles – Magento theme and widget from Silverthemes
Sonali Agrawal – Premium template from AlgoZone
Welshstew – Magento theme from MagThemes
Vincent – Shopify theme from ThemeForest
Jorde – Shopify theme from ThemeForest

E-Commerce Week Giveaway! 6 Prizes for Online Shops

Published July 27th, 2009 in Reviews - 55 Comments

This week at Vandelay Design and DesignM.ag we will be publishing content that focuses on e-commerce web design. The post frequency will be up a little bit this week and to get things started we have 6 prizes from 5 different sponsors to give away to readers!

This is a joint giveaway being done at both Vandelay Design and DesignM.ag so be sure to read the details below about how it will be run, plus you’ll obviously want to check out the great prizes that are available. All of the prizes will help you get your own e-commerce site up and running, or if you already have one, to improve it in some way.

If you’re interested in e-commerce design I hope that you will benefit from the content this week, and be sure to check out our gallery of e-commerce sites, CartFrenzy, to get some design inspiration.

Win a Premium WordPress Theme from FlashMint.com

Published July 21st, 2009 in Reviews - 41 Comments

FlashMint.com has offered to give premium WordPress themes for free to five readers of Vandelay Design. If you’re not familiar with FlashMint.com, they offer a variety of premium Flash templates, Flash CMS templates and Stock Music Packages. In addition to WordPress themes, they also have templates for other content management systems like osCommerce and Joomla.

Win Free Business Cards from UPrinting

Published July 7th, 2009 in Reviews - 95 Comments

UPrinting has offered to give away 5 prizes of 1,000 business cards to readers of the Vandelay Design blog! If you’re not familiar with UPrinting, they have been a printing leader for over 25 years and they offer a very wide variety of quality printing services, including business cards, brochures, calendars, menus, posters, postcards, envelopes, and more.UPrinting offers convenient ordering for business cards. Their site includes a pricing calculator that allows you to choose all of the size, stock, color, and quantity so you can see the price before even getting started. Shipping costs can also be calculated.

Win a Free License for Fanurio Time Tracking and Invoicing Software

Published June 10th, 2009 in Reviews - 106 Comments

Tracking time and dealing with invoices and finances are not the favorite part of freelancing for most designers. Fortunately, there are products that can help to make it less painful and cumbersome. Fanurio is offering five free licenses to their time tracking software to Vandelay Design readers.

Get Free Beta Access to FlashEff2

Published May 11th, 2009 in Reviews - 147 Comments

Jumpeye Components is working on a new version of their popular FlashEff, and they’re giving away beta acces to FlashEff2 (Premium Plus pacakage) to readers of Vandelay Design. FlashEff is a Flash component that makes it easier and quick to create high-quality Flash effects (compatible with both Flash CS3 and Flash CS4).

Review of Markup4U – PSD to HTML Services

Published April 9th, 2009 in Reviews - 29 Comments

I recently had the opportunity to use the services of Markup4U, a company that offers coding services for designers. There are no shortage of PSD to HTML service providers, and from a designer’s perspective it can be difficult to know who you should hire for these services. Over the past year or so I’ve received a number of emails and comments from designers who were looking for a quality service provider in this area. I thought it would be useful to review Markup4U’s services here so that readers can get a better feel for them and how they work.

7 New Sites for Designers that are Worth a Look

Published August 14th, 2008 in Reviews - 39 Comments

One of the great things about the design industry is that there is always plenty of information available and a number of great resources are at your disposal. Recently there have been a number of noteworthy site launches. Here are 7 new sites that I think you’ll appreciate.

DevSnippets

My friend Noura Yehia of Noupe just launched DevSnippets, a code snippet gallery, a few days ago. It provides a great opportunity for designers and developers to share their work and for others to enhance their projects and learn something new. Also, there is a huge contest to celebrate the launch ($4,600 in prizes going to the top submitters).

Ebook Review – Online Reputation Management from ViperChill

Published May 29th, 2008 in Reviews - 6 Comments

Reputation management has become necessity for most businesses in today’s internet environment. With a growing number of sites publishing user-generated content and the incredible ease involved with the average person setting up a new blog, anyone can post a harmful message online that will leave an impact on your business.

Recently there have been a growing number of individuals and companies that are specializing in providing reputation management services to clients to help them monitor and protect their good name. A few weeks ago Glen Allsopp of ViperChill released a 75 page eBook called Online Reputation Management: All You’ll Ever Need to Monitor and Manage Your Online Reputation.