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50 Powerful Time-Savers For Web Designers - Smashing Magazine

50 Powerful Time-Savers For Web Designers - Smashing Magazine
Advertisement There are tools that make our lives much easier. However, finding those obscure time-savers which would save time in every single project isn’t easy and requires a lot of time. At Smashing Magazine, we are regularly looking for such useful tools, gather them, review them and eventually prepare for a truly smashing round-up. Such posts are quite lengthy and extensive, but they are always worth checking out. In this post, you’ll find an overview of useful and handy tools that can help you increase your productivity and improve your workflow. Useful Time-Savers For Web Designers House of Buttons1A growing collection of various buttons spotted in the wild by Jason Long. Historious2 Historious makes bookmarking work the way you want it. Browser UI3 The Browser UI is an action that creates a browser window around any size Photoshop document you can throw at it. A/B Split Testing Calculator4 A/B Test Calculator shows you a comparison of several versions of a particular web page. Related:  Design / Grapohisme / Illustration /

JeFaisDu3D Pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas Olivier, c’est ça ( Full 3D!! ), ça, mais aussi ça ! Olivier Vernay, c’est aussi des chiffres monstrueux : 10 ans d’expérience, 4 paninis au thon digérés par semaine… Le bougre bosse maintenant chez Blur studio et ma foi, il a l’air de s’y plaire. Salut Olivier ça fait maintenant un moment qu’on se connait et je sais que tu as fait plein de profil de boite. J’ai commencé à Cryo à Paris, pas vraiment une petite boîte (dans les 200 personnes quand je suis arrivé fin 99) mais quand même payé une misère :) . Maintenant tu es aux US, chez Blur. J’ai jamais pensé déménager dans un autre pays, mais on m’a fait une proposition et j’ai accepté, en partie parceque j’avais envie de changer d’air. Ça fait combien de temps que tu y es maintenant ? 2 ans tout juste. Maintenant que tu as fait tous les profils de boite, tu peux me dire les inconvénients et les avantages d’une petite boite. Au niveau des salaires, c’est intéressant de traverser l’atlantique selon toi ?

Web design training: 20 steps to the perfect website layout When designing a website layout there are some common mistakes that often pop up, especially with interns and new designers. In this list of steps to the perfect website layout, we cover what every new website builder working within a digital agency should know and do before starting a new project, and what they should pay attention to during the process to avoid making these mistakes. These principles cover not only design aspects but also general workflow tips that will get the job done nicely. Follow them and you'll soon be on your way to creating professional website layouts. 01. Before starting the work you need to know what is it you are designing for. Good redesigns are not necessarily the most flashy ones but the ones that improve performance over time. 02. This seems very obvious but I've found too often that designers jump straight into their work before giving any thought to the problem they are trying to solve. 03. 04. It's as simple as it sounds. 05. 06. 07. 08. 09. 10. 11.

Easy vegan chili It surprises me that I never learned how to make chili. When I was growing up, we would almost always purchase vegetarian chili in cans at the grocery store, but I truly do not remember having homemade chili that often. What I do remember is that I loved it and enjoyed the combination of savory flavors and textures. Skip to next paragraph Recent posts Subscribe Today to the Monitor Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS ofThe Christian Science MonitorWeekly Digital Edition A few months ago I made a vegetarian chili, and what resulted was not what I had hoped to enjoy. Easy Vegan Chili 1-pound bag of dry Kidney beans or 2 15-ounce cans of Kidney beans1 medium or large onion, chopped1 15-ounce can tomato sauce1 package Smart Ground Original veggie protein crumbles or another vegan meat substitute1 tablespoon salt1 tablespoon garlic powder3 heaping tablespoons chili powder1 cup textured vegetable protein (TVP), optional Then serve! Do you make chili? Samantha Mills blogs at Novel Eats.

MELANIE DELON » ILLUSTRATOR Designing A Website from Scratch – Illustrator or Photoshop? - Graphic Design Beta - Stack Exchange I've got to disagree with DA01. The fact that a web document isn't a static image is irrelevant to the usefulness of a graphics editor for laying out and designing a website. Your design mockup doesn't need (and shouldn't) be a working prototype of your website. The design mockup is a document that helps you visualize and sculpt the aesthetic design of your site. Just because a sheet of paper or whiteboard doesn't have all the minute qualities of a web document doesn't mean it can't be used to wireframe a website. Likewise, the fact that the browser window can be stretched and resized has no bearing on the value of design mockups. Secondly, a piecemeal approach to design is not conducive to quality results. Lastly, it takes much longer to make design changes in code than it does to tweak a mockup image.

The Evolution of the Geek This post was written by Jenny Urbano, our Social Media Manager. Here at Demandforce, we love seeing and celebrating your ideas! And more than that, we love to hear from YOU. We want to bridge the gap between us and you, so that’s why we’re offering a once in a lifetime opportunity to win a trip to San Francisco, sightsee in this amazing city, visit Demandforce headquarters and share your ideas with us! 6 winners, and a guest of their choice will be flown out to San Francisco, California on March 12-14th, 2014, where they will stay in Union Square, spend a day at Demandforce, have dinner with the team, and explore the lovely City by the Bay! For contest rules, and how to enter, please visit our post in the Generation Demandforce Community here. Good luck!

Graphèmes - Conseil et création en Identité Visuelle : Logotypes, Packaging, Identité Corporate. Tools for Managing Web Projects – Best Of With the ever-growing market of tech startups, Web apps and in-browser tools have become extremely popular among developers, designers, freelancers, and project managers. Over time these tools progressed and we now seen the release of desktop software, mobile apps, and even greater possibilities. For this article I have collected dozens of various online resources from different topics which are useful to creative professionals. The tools are geared towards website projects, but can certainly be applied into almost any technology-based field. You will find apps for e-mail marketing, task management, cloud IDEs, and so much more. The growth is practically endless and I would expect to see more evolution over the coming years. Recommended Reading: Useful (Offline) Utensils and Toolkits for Designers Code Management In past releases of different open source projects the codes have been published on blogs and personal websites. Github Beanstalk Bitbucket Task Management Trello Do Basecamp Stripe Sifter

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