10 Ways to Kick-Start a New Design Project
Sometimes starting a new design project is a piece of cake. You have this amazing idea and the design just seems to flow together. Othertimes, you may end up procrasticating for a full week before you have the will power to start the sketch or create a new file.
Whatever situation you’re in, there are tons of different ways to begin the design process. Here are ten of them:
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Free Designer Portfolio Icon Set Released On SmashingMagazine
Hey everyone, time for another free icon set :)
This time we’ve partnered up with SmashingMagazine to release this free set. Make sure you stop by SmashingMagazine to check out the release post.
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Freebie: Social Media And Blogging Icon Set
Ah, don’t we all love icons? This time we’re giving away an icon set containing 65 icons in total, which combines social media, technology and blogging icons. The full preview image is below ;)
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Introducing Free Registration and The MediaLoot Affiliate Program
We’ve been working really hard on some new programs here at MediaLoot, and now I am very happy to announce that we now have both free registration and a super-easy (and generous) affiliate program. If you’re already a member, you can take advantage of the affiliate program immediately in your member area, and new users can follow all of the instructions available here to sign up.
Read more for all of the details:
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5 Tips For Improving Readability On Your Website
A more readable website means improved usability and an enjoyable reading experience. We all want that for our users, don’t we?
In this article we’ll go through 5 simple ways you can improve readability on your website. Of course feel free to chime in and leave a comment at the end of the article, I’d love to hear your thoughts.
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3 Ways to Get your Website Designs Up and Running Faster
We’ve all been there before. You’ve created a beautiful website and are really excited to make it live, but coding may not be your strong suit and you continue to bump into problems that set you back hours! There’s no way around it, right? Wrong. There are a few ways you can drastically cut down on your site coding time and make your web design a reality much sooner.
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MediaLoot: First Month In Review
It’s only been a month and a half since we launched MediaLoot but already we’ve had an incredible number of people join our community and a lot of amazing things have happened. Over the last 6 weeks we’ve released icon sets, texture packs, print templates, web elements, and more—all while working to deliver the most intuitive and beautiful web-interface we can.
Throughout this whole time you guys have been instrumental in offering feedback and shaping our future, so we thought it would be really cool for us to share some of the things we’ve done, some of the things we’re working on, and some of our progress over this first month.
Let’s take a look.
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Bands and Artists Websites: Showcase and Best Practices
I think web-design is an art just as much as music is. Being a musician myself there are some things I personally like and want to see on a band website and there are some things that really bug me.
Things like landing pages, splash pages, music that starts automatically, all Flash sites and cluttered interfaces often make me wonder who’s in charge and why record labels and artists still do those things when they clearly get in the way of a great user experience.
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How To Design a Website in One Hour
For most professional designers, time equals money. Creating the same quality work in less time means you can earn more money—so there is a significant incentive to work efficiently.
In this tutorial I’m going to explain how it’s possible to design an entire website in under an hour, and I’ll show examples of the site along the entire process and at completion. You probably don’t want to do this for any really important projects you’re working on, but hopefully this exercise will give you a few tips to make your design process more efficient while still maintaining really high quality work.
Okay, let’s take a look at how this works:
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Great Examples Of Icons Used In Website Design
Here at MediaLoot we love icons. I’m sure you do too.
Of course icons can be used in a variety of situations, from applications to print design and of course web-design. There are some things to keep in mind when using icons in web-design projects though. Too many attention-grabbing icons can really distract users and ruin the experience. And of course the opposite is also true: some designs could be improved by using some choice icons in particular places like the navigation or pricing tables.
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