Because the new year just started, I want to offer you a gift. I`ve built a new template which can be used for under construction / coming soon websites. Did you`ve recently bought a domain name but you don`t have the website finished? Use my template! I consider these kind of templates very important because they help you a lot. You can gather a list of email subscribers, you can get in touch with future clients and you can redirect the visitors to your social networks. I present you PaperLaunch!
Although is quite young, being born in 20th century, nowadays, the film industry is one of the biggest industry in the world. We all enjoy watching movies and although more and more movies are being made in a warehouse full of technology and transposed in images using digital techniques, objects like film reels or camera lenses are the film industry symbols. A logo is immediately recognized as a film logo if it is designed using such symbols. Therefore, I want to present you 50 of the smartest film logo designs which perfectly reflects the film industry through its recognizable symbols!
Sans Serif fonts are a good alternative to standard fonts used in web design. A custom font can make the difference between a good design and a better one, because custom is good, custom is the way to uniqueness. I`m sure you`re tired of Arial or Georgia. Now you can replace them with custom fonts. The ways to do it is simple and the most accessible ways are using Cufon, which is based on Javascript, or the CSS @font-face rule, which is a brand-new CSS3 rule.
Premium WordPress Themes are without a doubt a good deal. Because WordPress is a CMS(content management system), you can set a website in minutes. WordPress is the most versatile CMS, being able to deliver themes you can use for anything…and I mean, anything! You can open an online shop, you can build a portfolio, it can be used for restaurants, for corporate businesses, etc, etc. I can`t believe how advanced a premium wordpress theme can be!
Because the year is coming to its end, is time for a roundup. Today I`m presenting you the best Photoshop photo manipulation tutorials made in 2011. Not only that the result of each tutorial is a masterpiece, but you`ll learn step by step how to become from a simple Photoshop user, a guru, just because the tuts are very well written and the steps presented in details. Here they are, the tuts I consider the best photo manipulation tuts of 2011!
These days I was working on a Photoshop pixel pattern set and today I`m happy to give it away for free. The package has no more or less than 75 patterns which can be used for your personal or commercial projects. I`m sure they will come in handy!
Icon sets are beautiful. Just imagine for a second how these icons are made, using an amazing precision to build the shapes and quite a large amount of time to finish them. Is really impressive.
Now, imagine a website or a web app without icons. For me, is like eating food without salt. Today I want to present you 30 fresh and free icon sets which although they`re free, the quality of each piece is irreproachable!
CSS3 brings with it some awesome styling features, like rounded corners, gradients and borders, but also brings a lot of headaches to those who want to implement it inside web pages, due to Internet Explorer lack of support for these great features. If you feel guilty for making use of CSS3, don`t be, because I`m going to show you how you can create web elements only with CSS3 which are compatible with all browsers.
Today, I want to show you how to create some beautiful buttons which make use of the latest CSS3 features and, most importantly, pass the cross-browser compatibility test, which means they will look awesome in modern brosers, like Chrome and Firefox, but also will look pretty good in older brosers, even IE6.
It is almost unofficially official that Google is shifting beyond links and so does online marketing. No longer online marketing is dependant on those spammy techniques whose sole purpose is to get as many links from different websites as possible.
It has tiled towards quality and this all because of the two back to back algo updates by Google code named as Google Panda update and Google Freshness update and both of them are refreshingly awesome despite the fact that Google forum was almost chocking with the angry feedbacks of webmasters. So, online marketing has got matured and it is about people again and it is heartwarming to see this move. So, here we are trying to figure out the possible metrics that might govern the future of online marketing.
Most online marketers spend a lot of their time generating traffic to their sites and rightly so, after all it is traffic to your site that drives sales right? Whilst no one can argue that without traffic you won’t have sales, the number of sales you make can be calculated from a very simple formula: Visitors X Conversion Rate = Sales. A conversion rate is the rate at visitors convert to sales (or any other desired action such as newsletter sign-ups, clicking on AdSense banners, buying an affiliate product or filling in a lead generation form). The easiest way to work out your conversion rate is the number of sales (or other measurable actions such as newsletter sign-ups), per 100 visits. So if you make 2 sales (conversions), per 100 visits your conversion rate is 2%.
