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Free For All: Winter Holidays Edition
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on November 18, 2009
Whatever winter event you're designing for, you'll want these free fonts, clip art, stock photos, and WordPress and Blogger templates.
Free For All: An Awesome Assortment
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on October 19, 2009
Turn your handwriting into a font, get photos, add a store to a Web site, keep track of keyboard shortcuts, and add cartoon bubbles to Photoshop files. And as always, all for free!
Free For All: Textures
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on September 30, 2009
This large assortment of free downloadable textures includes paper, wood, bricks, grass, fabric, and more.
Free For All: Halloween Edition
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on August 31, 2009
Halloween in August? It's not too early to start thinking spooky, especially if you'll be sending out Halloween-themed projects to a printer.
Free For All: Just What You're Looking For
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on August 13, 2009
Be free with Web 2.0 Photoshop layer styles; fire and flame textures and backgrounds; an InDesign image library plug-in; easy scheduled emails; and a service that displays a Web design in 90 different browsers.
Three Ways to Take Your Web Site Mobile
Features: Written by Gene Gable on August 3, 2009
Retooling your Web site for people who reach it via smart phones and other mobile devices is the hot new trend. Going mobile can range from applying simple design rules to complex programming and custom application development. But it doesn't have to be hard.
Free For All: Free for Web Designers
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on July 30, 2009
In this all-Web installment, you'll get a massive Photoshop Web elements kit; thousands of Twitter, RSS, and UI icons; CSS compression; Website spell checking; analytics; and uptime monitoring -- all free!
Free For All: Twice As Nice
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on July 22, 2009
Two servings of our freebies column in one month? Don't worry, there's no such thing as overindulgence when you're talking about free photos, textures, icons, cheatsheets, or Photoshop brushes. Dig in!
Free For All: 103 Free Fonts!
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on June 15, 2009
Script fonts, modern fonts, grunge fonts, funky fonts -- what's your pleasure? We have them all, and they're all free!
Free For All: This Stuff's Worth Paying For, But You Don't Have To!
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on April 13, 2009
There's something for everyone this month: designers of iPhone Web sites or iApps; type lovers; business owners; and people who just want to compress the heck out of online images.
How to Choose Colors Everyone Likes
Features: Written by Igor Asselbergs on March 30, 2009
A time-tested formula may not determine the difference between good or bad taste, but it does predict common taste. And that makes the formula quite useful when you're choosing colors.
Free For All: Great Gratis Goodies
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on February 16, 2009
In this month's roundup of online bargains, we highlight Photoshop brushes, back-up software, an hourly rate estimator, a Photoshop plug-in to create favicons, and a seven-font type family. And of course, they're all free!
Twenty Stunningly Colorful Commercial Designers
Features: Written by David Sommers on January 22, 2009
Get inspired with this global roster of designers who go far, far beyond simple illustrations and three-color logos.
Free For All: And So It Begins
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on January 19, 2009
Take your pick of Photoshop brushes and fonts you'll love, t-shirt design templates, and a portable password manager. They're all free!
Ten Free Online Tools Every Designer Should Know
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on November 10, 2008
These free resources help you manage your business, store files, find stock images that aren't copyrighted, explore color, and more.
Give a Social Web Site an Authentic Voice
Features: Written by Joshua Porter on August 11, 2008
Successful social Web sites include authentic conversations between the people who use the site and the people who build and run it.
Translate Your Print-Based Design Skills to the Web
Features: Written by Wesley Grubbs on June 11, 2008
When you move from static design to Web design, it's like tennis players trying racquetball. The problem isn’t that they don’t know how to handle the racquet; it’s that they don’t know all the rules and techniques. Read this article and you'll come out swinging.
The Lowdown on RIAs
Features: Written by Matthew Flaming on March 14, 2008
What is a Rich Internet Application, and how do you build one?
Four Paths to Mobile Web Design and Deployment
Features: Written by Cameron Moll on September 19, 2007
Just when you thought you had designing for the Internet figured out, mobile devices have come along and are clamoring to be catered to. Here's how to handle those pesky things.
Web Design Best Practices: Home Page Goals
Features: Written by Derek Powazek on August 8, 2007
To be successful at answering the needs of both first-time and repeat visitors, every website home page should meet four goals. Do yours make the grade?