Here we are again, showcasing some 10 cool new blogs & websites we come across lately aka Inspired Websites. Feel free to leave a comment and suggest other interesting stuff for the creative community.
These days is a lot easier to set up a business website. Got a brilliant idea? Then get the domain name (2 minutes), buy a cool theme (5 minutes), set up the host (15 minutes), tweak the theme (20 minutes) and you still have 18 mins to drink a beer before launching the business in one hour!
A recent trend in homepage design is the use of big, bold, typography. More and more designers are utilizing a “less is more” mentality and taking a page from billboard layouts to create effective and attractive messages that reach users.
New week – new iPhone app bonanza!! This time we have an appsolutely amazing selection of must-have goodies for all the design freaks and creative souls out there. Happy bookmarking and don’t forget to check 10 Platform Games for iPhone with Amazing Design
Even though some recently published reports on Mashable stated that Twitter isn’t growing, there have been other rumors bouncing around that in fact this is not the case and it’s been growing a lot in 2010. No matter what the facts are about Twitter’s growth the important thing is that while it’s popular today …
Whether the iPad is able to change the world or not, is not the issue of this article. But the fact of the matter is that it is here and sooner or later we need to learn to design the web keeping it in our minds. So what are the things we need to consider?
This is it. You’ve worked many long, hard hours developing your Pen tool skills in Illustrator to the point you could probably add “Pen Tool Ninja” to your business card. You’ve learned so much about graphic design that your head is bigger than Rush Limbaugh’s waistline. You know so much about web design that you pretty much invented the Internet. Now’s the time.
Today’s guest star is Jacques van Heerden – a freelance digital artist from South Africa who works under the creative identity An1ken. He runs Creativeoverflow – a fresh design blog for anything creative. You should definitely connect with him on Twitter @an1ken.
Here is another guest post, this time from Stu Greenham, a web designer / developer from Hull, United Kingdom and creator of the upcoming design and development blog DesignWoop.com. You can also follow Stu on Twitter – @stugreenham.
Here are the most popular 10 design & social zedia stories of the week as seen by our 25k inspired followers. For a live selection of relevant articles don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and friend us on Facebook (just getting started). Enjoy and please share your favorites in the comments.
Design Reviver, one of the most active web design blogs out there, comes with a new resource for the creative community – Design Reviver Answers! Finally we can ask without any fear of being offtopic our secret questions about CSS, find an answer to our darkest curiosities about HTML5, or answer the deepest dilemmas around PHP!
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