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03/04/2015

15 Free & Informative Photography Ebooks Useful to Read

To become a professional photographer just like a specialist in any other field, you need to learn. It’s impossible to achieve your goal without self-studying. Having a nice camera is not quite enough, you need a lot of skills and technical knowledge to succeed in competitive photography field.

Read full story at: webdesignledger.com/resources/15-free-photography-ebooks

02/04/2015

10 Free Vintage Retro Badges

If you’re in the mood for some vintage design then take a look at this freebie pack. This PSD file is an exclusive freebie released on Web Design Ledger featuring ten different vintage badges. All of the text and colors are editable with any version of Photoshop. Plus the shapes are vector-based so you can scale them to any size ─ webdesignledger.com/freebies/10-free-vintage-retro-badges

01/04/2015

31/03/2015

Best Website Designs from France: The Citadel of Fashion and Art

France is considered to be the citadel of fashion and a cradle of numerous art directions and movements. Web artists, who live in such a fertile and inspirational environment, are destined to come up with original ideas, exquisite designs and matchless projects; and the burden of proof lies on the best French website designs that are presented in the list below.

• http://www.dior.com
• http://www.t-touch.com
• http://www.quechua.com/2seconds/fr_FR/intro
• http://bricedarmon.com
• http://www.jakobdeboer.com
• http://www.newjumoconcept.com

More examples at: designmodo.com/france-websites/

30/03/2015

4 simple ways to design killer call to action buttons

In short, for an element that takes up a small spot on your webpage, you’ll have to invest a disproportionate amount of time thinking about how to best present it to your users. Yeah, call to action buttons are that important. They are, after all, the stars of a page, whether they’re meant to get site visitors to buy something, sign up for something or just click through.

1) Directional cues
2) Really simple button design
3) Well-defined microcopy
4) Color contrast

Full article at: http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2015/03/4-simple-ways-to-design-killer-call-to-action-buttons/

26/03/2015

Another Top Web Design Trends for 2015

There’s no clear-cut scientific formula to great design because it’s undoubtedly considered more of an art than a science. Strangely there are many recognizable patterns which seem to reappear time and again. These might be called popular design techniques but from an industry perspective many people refer to them as design trends.

Read more at: http://webdesignledger.com/trends-2/web-design-trends

25/03/2015

50+ INCREDIBLE FREEBIES FOR WEB DESIGNERS, MARCH 2015

The Web is packed with some of the most amazing, inspiring, and downright cool projects that you’ll ever see. And thanks to the fantastic web design community, many of them are completely free.

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2015/03/50-incredible-freebies-for-web-designers-march-2015/

23/03/2015

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23/03/2015

20 Gorgeous Free Icon Fonts to Use in Your Designs

The number of fonts designed to be used as icons, symbols and glyphs increases day by day. Using icon fonts you’re replacing raster images into vector ones. That means that you can easily resize your icon fonts without worrying about quality loss. Icon fonts is a flexible solution for adding icons to your website.

Along with the size you may change color and effects of the icons without having redraw the whole image. So, here is a collection of 20 great free icon fonts which can be used for your website: webdesignledger.com/freebies/free-icon-fonts-to-use-in-your-designs

20/03/2015

Hypnotic Letterings
Author: Enisaurus

Hypnotic letterings is a project that plays with the union of classic letterings and visual effects in motion to get the feel that you are being hypnotized. It's funny to think that if you see the letters, you will do what the messages order. This is the concept.

19/03/2015

Best Practices for Accordion Interfaces in Web Design

The word “accordion” typically conjures a mental image of your favorite polka band. Although polka music can offer a rip-snorting good time, the term is associated with something different in the realm of web design. User interface accordions might refer to menus, widgets, or content areas which expand like the musical instrument. These interfaces have grown a lot more popular in recent years with the expansion of JavaScript and more prominently jQuery.

Read full article at: webdesignledger.com/web-design-2/best-practices-accordions-in-web-design

18/03/2015

What’s new for designers, March 2015

Lots of new apps for design teams, domain resources, new design tools, JavaScript resources, productivity resources, new frameworks, new mobile apps, and much more. And as always, some awesome new free fonts!

- 2 LETTER DOMAIN NAMES (https://catechgory.com/2-letter-domain-names)
- START.ME (http://www.start.me/en)
- NUMBERS.TODAY (http://numbers.today/)
- PERSONABLE.IO (http://www.personable.io/)
- AGILE DOMAIN SEARCH (http://agiledomainsearch.com/)

See full list at: webdesignerdepot.com/2015/03/whats-new-for-designers-march-2015/