Everyone needs a fresh start now and then. Even your eCommerce site, no matter how convenient and functional, could probably use a little revitalizing. Whether it’s applying a fresh coat of virtual paint, or expanding functionality for your customers’ convenience, here are a few ideas for sprucing up your eCommerce site without springing for a complete redesign.
Month: September 2018
Prototyping Tools All Designers Must Try
Good communications and sharing of information are essential in all spheres. Communication can determine the success of any software design and development activity. This, of course, includes web and app design and development.
Prototyping offers one of the best means of communication these days. Prototyping tools are popular among project team members and other project stakeholders. Yet, it still takes quality prototyping tools to help create prototypes that can get the job done.
Prototypes and wireframes demonstrate how software products are supposed to function. Wireframes focus on a software system’s functionality and interactivity.
20 Free Stock Photos You Can Use in Any Web Design
In order to spruce up any website, stock photos can be a quick and easy way to do so. Think about how it can make any article, introduction, or description more engaging, colorful, and cohesive in terms of creating a finished product. Instead of killing yourself by using hundreds of your own illustrations, or going through the trouble of taking your own photos, using beautifully photographed, high resolution images that allow you to use on your own platform for FREE, can be easier to find than you think.
Everyone loves free stuff! Freebies can be of great quality, as long as you have the right resources. When using photos that can possibly be removed due to copyright, it’s always a risk that you’re sometimes better off not taking. Stock photos are usually pretty open to interpretation, and you can use one of these photos for pretty much any purpose or article on your website.
So, do you need some quick, easy to find and download, free stock photos to improve your website, articles, or social media? Then look no further.
Today, we will dive into the internet, and discover 20 free stock photos you can use in any web design.
How To Create Reflection Text for Your Logo Design in Photoshop
In order to achieve the most professional appearing logo, sometimes you will need to know how to create a reflection from text. This is necessary because for some projects, you will want to create the illusion of depth, three dimensionality, or just to give the impression that your text is placed on something reflective, like glass, or water. Either way, it is important to know how to manipulate text and to create a reflective text, because you never know when you might need it. This tutorial is quick, easy to follow, and will give you an idea of how to give depth to your typography, along with a review of tutorials from other websites that create tutorials based on creating reflective texts. Today, we will show you how to create reflection text for your logo design, and review some great tutorials with different perspectives and approaches to the same concept.
Best WordPress Themes for Small Businesses in 2018
A website can be a powerful online marketing tool for any business. A website that isn’t up to industry standards can have the opposite effect. the same goes for a website that hasn’t kept pace with recent design trends.
Not being able to put together a high-quality, attention-getting website is frustrating. If it happened because of time and budget constraints, it may have at one time been a logical excuse.
That’s no longer the case. Building a website no longer needs to be a stressful, and time-consuming process. It also should not be an expensive proposition anymore. Thanks to WordPress, there are multiple great themes on the market. They are the good matches for virtually any business niche.
20 Inspiring Wine Label Designs
We’ve previously discovered twenty inspiring beer bottle packaging designs, so we of course had to venture out and show off the designers that make wine bottle packaging so incredibly appealing. As a graphic designer, you may be asked to create unique and aesthetically pleasing package designs, product designs, ranging from children’s toys, to cigarette boxes, to food packaging, like a bag of chips. People don’t even truly realize the extent of which design is implemented literally everywhere, in any and every product. Walking into a grocery store means that you are exposed to thousands of designs on packaging created by graphic designers in order to get your attention and buy that product, and the same goes for wine labels. Today, we will discover 20 inspiring wine label designs that are unique and can be inspiration for your future designs.
How To Create a 3D Logo Design in Adobe Illustrator: Tutorial Roundup
This year, many people were under the impression that everything was going to be 3D. We have 3D TV’s, 3D movies, even 3D smart phones. To bond with that idea, it is a good skill to have as a graphic designer, web designer, or if you just want to get more familiar with Adobe Illustrator and all of the great options it offers for creators and designers alike. There are many ways that you can use Adobe Illustrator to manipulate text and shapes to appear 3D. Of course, there is always the actual 3D option in Photoshop,but sometimes it is good to know that you can create a 3D illusion without it, building your experience with Illustrator, Photoshop, even when using these ideas in actual sketches for logos! Today, we will review a few great tutorials on how to create a 3D logo design.
Photoshop Tutorial: How To Create Metal Text for Your Designs
Have you ever seen typography designs have fun or interesting texts that you would like integrated into your own designs? Whether it’s graphic design, web design, or even an app design, eye-catching texts are important, because it is exactly what your potential clients read to see if they like what you have to offer. You are only helping your cause if you have a variation of interesting text that allows any reader to be intrigued and engaged. Some of the time, typography is created by hand. Other times, it’s useful to learn about the many qualities that Photoshop has, especially for creating your own style of text. Today, you will learn how to create metal text for your designs.
Using Pre-built Websites to Get Stunning Designs with Limited Resources
You know the drill. You’ve got a deadline looming just around the corner, or you’re running out of the budget. The solution? You’ve got to work that much harder to finish the project before the allotted time or money runs out.
You’ll succeed as always, but sometimes at a cost. The end product might be not quite what you envisioned. Or, you’ve had to compromise on the visual appeal of your website or its functionality. While your client may be satisfied with the outcome, he or she isn’t exactly thrilled.
Magic wands are hard to come by. You don’t particularly want to sell your soul to the devil to avoid these situations.
Fortunately, there’s a solution that’s so simple it’s almost laughable. That solution involves pre-built websites that come pre-packed with excellent UX. They also follow recent design trends and adhere to specific industry standards.
Interested? Read on.
30 Must Have Tools for Web Designers and Developers
Professional web designers and developers need essential web tools and services. Save time, money and improve your projects by using daily the following 30 solutions from different fields.
You will find awesome logo design builders, website and highly converting landing pages creators and much more. Check them and tell us what you think about them.
