Archive for the ‘Links’ Category:
Reading: July 2008
- Recipe for a Creative Workspace
- Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Developers
- 18 of the Best Photoshop Videos Online
- 10 Ways to Take Stunning Portraits
- 50 Things to Do Before You Die
- How to Develop a Social Media Plan for Your Business in 5 Steps
- Vector Illustration: 60+ Illustrator Tutorials, Tips and Best Practices
- 10 of the Best Color Resources and Tools
- 70 Beauty-Retouching Photoshop Tutorials
- Create a Business Plan by Answering 4 Simple Questions
- How to Take Portraits - 19 Portrait Photography Tutorials
- Learn PHP from Scratch: A Training Regimen
- 21 cool webmaster resources
Reading: June 2008
Articles
- Why we skip Photoshop
- Kevin Fox of Gmail & FriendFeed on User Experience Design
- SEO Guide for Designers
- The Big Question: ‘Why Should I Hire You?’
- Clean and pure CSS FORM design
- 10 SEO Rules for Designers
- Applying Divine Proportion To Your Web Designs
- CSS Style Switcher
- It doesn’t have to be all or nothing with a startup
- Aaron Cannon’s Web Accessibility Checklist
- Want to know how to design? Learn The Basics.
- Using CSS to Fix Anything: 20+ Common Bugs and Fixe
- How to get Cross Browser Compatibility Every Time
- An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design
- Handy Designer’s Tools “On The Fly”
- The Best Developer Cheat Sheets Around
- Google User Experience
- How to Get a Lot Done – 7 Tips to Achieve More
Tools
- Phiculator
Phiculator is a simple tool which, given any number, will calculate the corresponding number according to the golden ratio. The free tool is available for both Win and Mac.
Reading: May 2008
Notable Points #1
I read several articles every day. And so do others. We just read and forget big articles. But we remember the key points of the article or at least try to memorize them. But now a day, time is important for real work. So there is no room to read every article line by line. For them (myself also) I will note out the points of the article and jot them here, in this title. So it will be easier for future reference. At the bottom of the points, I have added the list of the articles from where the points are taken. Anyone interested to know more, just click and go to the read article. Cheer up…
- Gather as much evidence as possible while work freelance. It’s wise to gather them project wise.
- Be-friend, don’t use. You should actively seek to find a genuine, personal connection and, if you still can’t find one, then either be transparent about your motives or move on. Nobody likes to be used.
- Push Yourself and Get Good. You need to be pretty good. I like to think that there is an 80/20 rule lot more effort (and/or talent).
- Be Likeable, Excited and Enthusiastic.
- Be Referable! A large number of jobs for most freelancers come from referred clients. Do a good job for one person and they tell others for you.
- Reliability is one of the most prized characteristics for a freelancer. Focus on the characteristics that make people want to work with you, and be reliable, very reliable.
- Design the portfolio you think your clients want to see
- Focus on Clients and Be Flexible
- If you want to make things to please yourself, go be an artist.
- Get a High Profile
- The “stick to what works” mentality can sometimes work, and other times make you a dinosaur.
- The function of design is to make the product more usable and improve the usability of the product’s function.
- The simpler and better the design can be, the more enjoyable and easier it makes our lives.
- Even though the cookie-cutter designs work for a while, the truly good designs are the original and fresh concepts that change the way we look at things.
Where I’ve got them?
A lesson to all freelancers (part 1)
How to optimize your networking energy
The Secret to Getting a Lot of Web Design Work
Is good design just a formula?
Reading: May 2007
The ultimate stock photography list!
Here is a great list of stock photography sites I thought I would share with everyone
www.1stopstock.com - Offers 1 million+ Stock Photography Photos, royalty free photos and images searchable under one site.
www.aframephoto.com - picture library specializing in surf and beach images, including waves, surfers, landscapes, flowers, portraits, sunsets, kids and beach culture.
www.agefotostock.com - Rights Managed and Royalty Free Images
www.alamy.com - Hard to Find Rights Protected and Royalty Free Images from all the main photo stocks.
www.artbitz.com - The Designer’s Stock Resource! We offer affordable royalty free stock design elements.
www.artlex.com - ArtLex is a dictionary of art for everyone interested in art production and its history. You will find articles on thousands of art terms, along with terrific images, pronunciation notes, great quotations, and links to other resources on the Web.
www.bigstockphoto.com - Beautiful, royalty-free, low-cost stock photography for web developers and graphic design professionals. Use our photos on your websites, templates, marketing, sales or practically any use at all.
www.brandx.com - Unique Royalty Free Images - site has a nice look, a little hard to search.
www.callofthewildphoto.com - Private collection of high quality Royalty Free Stock Photography available in both high-resolution for print and low resolution for web based projects. Specializing in Oregon, outdoor, scenics, and floral photography. Commercial license high resolution images to 2400 x 3600 pixels. Secure online ordering with electronic delivery.
www.comstock.com/web/default.asp - Specialize in commercial stock imagery, especially model released “Lifestyle” and “Business” imagery. Comstock sells both Royalty-Free and Rights Protected images.
www.corbis.com - Enjoy over 1.6 million images online - the largest digital collection on the web. Enjoy royalty-free or traditional licensing of images.
www.creativity103.com - This site currently contains almost 200mb of free abstract digital photos and backgounds ready for you to download.
www.creatas.com - Creatas provides high-quality, royalty-free stock photography, illustration, and footage, as well as design tools such as Pantone, Linotype, and FontHaus. Its vast library brings together the world’s most highly recognized and highly-regarded brands, providing innovative, compelling, and thought-provoking images.
www.cyberphoto.com - Supplier of professional hi-resolution and super hi-resolution royalty-free digital images.
www.deadlinepictures.com/deadlinepictures.php - Deadline Pictures is a photostock agency, launched on March 2000, with the purpose of making alternative photography available for designers. As a new-born company we only use the ideal medium for distributing pictures: the Internet. Fast, cheap, 24 hours a day.
www.dexhaus.com - A supplier of hard to get, experimental, world-class photography.
www.digitalvision.com - Digital Vision is a leading producer of digital content for the creative community. Our goal is to help creative people create more easily.
www.dreamstime.com - Photographers and designers using film or digital equipment are enabled now to sell their portfolio of images online. Dreamstime.com aims on creating a powerful photo community, providing royalty free images and royalty free stock imagery or photos to DTP designers, web designers, photos for printing brochures, advertisements, magazine or newspaper ads, and electronic use on websites or Flash interactive animations.
www.epictura.com - Online searchable library of royalty free images. Collections of CDRoms and instant download of high resolution, ready to use photographs and illustrations.
www.firstlight.ca - Rights-managed and royalty-free, plus a whole extravaganza of other exotic treats.
www.fotosearch.com - Search royalty free and rights managed stock photos, medical clipart pictures, royalty-free illustrations, royalty-free motion stock video clips, royalty free vector maps, and background clip art imagery.
www.freefoto.com - FreeFoto.com is the largest collections of free photographs for non-commercial use on the Internet.
www.freeimages.co.uk - FREE digital photographic images for web, dtp, and design. Royalty and cost free stock photos.
www.freedigitalphotos.net - Free pictures for websites, newsletters and documents etc. For commercial and non-commercial use.
www.gettyimages.com - The leading provider of imagery and film to communications professionals around the world.
www.graphicobsession.com - 500 000 royalty free images online, 30 000 character fonts, more than 7000 video
www.highwayimages.com - Highway Images offers 50,000 35mm stock photos depicting interstate transport and specialized hauling by Class 8 tractor-trailers in settings throughout the U.S.
www.image100.com - premier royalty free stock photography and images for the advertising, design, corporate, publishing and new media professional.
www.imagesource.com - A market leader in Royalty Free photography. Image Source offers instant access to thousands of contemporary images ready for creative use.
www.imagestate.com - Welcome to the new imagestate.com - today’s imagestate was once a number of image libraries such as Adventure Photo, Pictor, John Foxx, Images Colour Library and Zephyr.
www.indexstock.com - An expanded collection now includes Advertising and Commercial color, Editorial color and B&W, Vintage B&W, Retro color.
www.imagestate.com - Known for its original, stylish imagery and the professional way the company always incorporates the latest digital techniques into their products, John Fox Images has more than 15,000 professional royalty-free stock images.
www.im-visions.com - Buy unique high resolution images at affordable prices. Quickbuy and instant download single photos for only $5.95 !
www.istockphoto.com - iStockphoto members buy/sell high resolution, royalty-free stock photos for just $3.00 or less each.
www.itstockfree.com - Check out the exciting new royalty-free images from IT Stock Free, one of the world’s prominent independent picture producers.
www.liquidlibrary.com - LiquidLibrary is the refreshingly different design resource that includes unlimited access to over 75,000 high-quality, royalty -free photos and illustration, and a Media Mix consisting of lively, energetic music tracks, attention-getting motion, and professional PowerPoint templates.
www.alunablue.com - Stock Footage and Image Library. A Luna Blue provides highly creative royalty-free stock footage and photography. Digitally produced for broadcast, desktop video and all new media. Available on QuickTime CD, DVD and file download.
www.mediabakery.com - Media Bakery provides royalty free content and media licensing services to businesses around the globe. Combining an aggregated collection of Royalty Free publishers, broadband and internet technologies with one of the world\’s largest royalty free publisher sources.
www.morguefile.com - A place to keep post production materials for use of reference, an inactive job file. This morgue file contains free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use.
www.ozimages.com.au - OzImages offers a comprehensive range of stock photography and photographer research services to genuine photo buyers.
www.photoessentials.com - Select from thousands of high-resolution royalty-free images, including premium quality model-release assignment photography.
www.photosphere.com - PhotoSphere Images provides royalty free digital stock photos on cd and online downloading
www.photospin.com - Subscription based royalty-free photos, illustrations, fonts, film and sound. Pay annually and get unlimited downloads of over 100,000 available images.
www.picturequest.com - Filled with digital content including stock photography, pictures, illustrations, maps, graphics, royalty free photography & other design images, PictureQuest stock photography agency has a photo research service to find digital photos & specific graphics.
www.picturestation.net - We both love the web, photography, and design. One day we just figured that web pictures are numberless, but rarely reasonably priced. Hence we started Picturestation.
www.picturesoflondon.com - Images of London fro the design and editorial markets. Small but effective library
www.rubberball.com - digital stock photography of people and lifestyles on CD-ROM.
www.shutterstock.com : Royalty free stock photography
www.thinkstock.com - Thinkstock is a vibrant community of stock web sites. Each site in this community is dedicated to providing exceptional imagery within specific content niches.
www.timetunnel.com - Vintage illustration and stock photography for the graphics professional; Specializing in fun, royalty-free collections of pinup art, pulp and comic book cover art, vintage labels and textiles.
www.ukstockimages.com - UK based royalty free stock library. All UK models in UK locations. All images exclusive to the site and available for online purchase.
The web design survey at A List Apart
Designers, developers, project managers. Writers and editors. Information architects and usability specialists. People who make websites have been at it for more than a dozen years, yet almost nothing is known, statistically, about our profession. Who are we? Where do we live? What are our titles, our skills, our educational backgrounds? Where and with whom do we work? What do we earn? What do we value?
