Most of the online portfolios look the same. So if you are going to attract people, you will need a really creative and unique portfolio. Talking about creative portfolio designs, I am sure you will think about single page portfolio or horizontal portfolio designs right? But, today we are going to look into some unique portfolio designs that rely on the creative use of backgrounds, navigation, layouts and etc.
As always, the primary goal of a portfolio is to attract potential clients, showcase your previous works and tell visitors what are your services. So if you are going to stand out from the crowd and being creative, make sure you take care of the usability and also the user experience. Most importantly, your visitors must be able to reach you through the contact form.
Today, we are going to look into 34 Unique and Creative Portfolio Designs. We are not going to make this article huge, as the main objective is to showcase those really “unique” portfolios. By the way, if you haven’t seen our previous article about beautiful portfolios, then you should go and have a look at it.
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Apr 6th, 10 in
SEO |
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“This may come as a surprise but there are people out there who don’t know that you exist. [Drupal] SEO is a powerful and inexpensive way to get your name out there and build some credibility with your target customers.” – Ben Finklea, CEO of Volacci & author of Drupal 6 Search Engine Optimization
The fact that you are reading this right now means that you are most likely a Drupal user, strongly considering Drupal as your CMS of choice, and/or have a website that needs a serious boost in the traffic department.
You probably know that your target customers are not going to stumble on your article, or your product, or your site if you are listed on page 23 of a Google search for whatever you are trying to sell. You want to make sure that your search rankings are under your control as much as possible, instead of allowing the rankings to wrangle you.
Fortunately, Drupal users have a secret weapon – Drupal itself!
Here are some helpful Drupal SEO tips to put into practice – and if you know all of this already – well, practice makes perfect!
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Apr 2nd, 10 in
Wallpaper |
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Easter Egg is given by people as a symbol of new life and celebrating the Easter Holiday. Back to the past, Easter Eggs were painted with bright colors and the eggs were exchanged by lovers.
However, different cultures have their own ways of decorating Easter Eggs and also have their own meaning while exchanging the Easter Eggs.
Today, we are going to share 30 Beautiful Easter Eggs Wallpapers, which let our readers to decorate their desktop for this meaningful holiday.
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Mar 31st, 10 in
Tools |
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Have you ever wondered where did all your time go? Do you have problems estimating and keeping track of your project timelines and billing your clients according to time spent on a particular project? Well, fret no more…there are a sea of online tools that can ease your pains and help you sail through a project, big or small.
For example, there are full-fledged project management tools available online with time tracking modules and features. On the other hand, there are simple tools meant solely for time management too! Time management tools have been predominantly used in the law, accounting and advertising agencies to manage client relationships and costs. However, the tool has gained popularity with freelancers and software developers due to its functionality.
In this article, we feature various time tracking software that are available in the web. Whether it is a desktop application, web-based solution, or functions as both, these softwares offer better time management and tracking for your projects. Read on to find out more!
If you want a software that is able to handle multiple projects and cater to a variety of reports and formats, then this is the solution for you. It is a compatible with Windows applications like Microsoft Projects, Access and Excel and can be web-based as well. Best of all you will be able to receive reports that you need on a scheduled basis via email. Relatively inexpensive, a monthly subscription of $10 per user is adequate for you to enjoy this tool!
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Mar 25th, 10 in
Fonts |
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Handwritten fonts are basically simulating a manuscript, or hand-drawn text. A manuscript is any document that is written by hand. The term may also be used for information that is hand-recorded in other ways than writing, for example inscriptions that are chiseled upon a hard material or scratched as with a knife point in plaster or with a stylus on a waxed tablet, or are in cuneiform writing, impressed with a pointed stylus in a flat tablet of unbaked clay.
But enough with the history. If you guys need a beautiful font for headers or short notes, go ahead and use one of the free handwritten fonts I put together for you below. These kind of fonts are not the best choice for long text, but they are brilliant if you need to spice up your designs. These shouldn’t be missing in your font collection.
Enjoy our collection of 30 beautiful Handwritten fonts!
You may want to enjoy reading these previous post as well:
- 60+ Awesome Grunge Font That Every Designer Should Collect
- 40 Awesome Cartoon And Comic Fonts For Designers
- 30+ Beautiful Dingbats And Symbol Fonts Suitable For Your Christmas Use
- 30 Fancy Calligraphy Fonts
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Colors become one of the most important part of any web design. Designers can create impression, emotion, style site based on color choices. Because the color is very important, designers must understand the meaning of colors in order to convey certain messages.
Here the meaning will be discussed and examples of the use of color in the web design. I will share the meaning of the 10 colors used in web design. Each color will be explained the meaning of positive and negative, also with examples of websites that use that color. Feel free to comment your experience when using color in developing website.
Notes: If you want to learn how to generate color palette for your web design, feel free to read our article about Online Color Generators.
Red
Red symbolizes passion, aggressiveness, power, and also help stimulate the energy, vitality. This color has a productivity effect, struggle, competition and the red color, however kebirahian also has a negative meaning of anger and emergency
Example: 45 Examples of Using the Color Red in Web Design
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Mar 22nd, 10 in
Contests |
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Today we are glad to accounce a giveway of the 5 free licenses for the WordPress themes created by FlashMint- the leading provider of flash templates and jQuery templates. Below you will find the screenshots of the themes available, all of them are linked to the preview pages for better browsing experience.
Skylab design studio WordPress theme
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Mar 18th, 10 in
Fonts |
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If you are not familiar with calligraphy, let me explain it in short. Calligraphy is a type of visual art. It is often called the art of fancy lettering. A contemporary definition of calligraphic practice is the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious and skillful manner.
Modern calligraphy ranges from functional hand-lettered inscriptions and designs to fine-art pieces where the abstract expression of the handwritten mark may or may not compromise the legibility of the letters.
Calligraphy fonts are one of my favorite. They are so original. One could think all the great looking calligraphic fonts are commercial, but take a look below. We put together a collection of 30 free Calligraphy Fonts. Aren’t these awesome? Enjoy!
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Mar 17th, 10 in
Wordpress |
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How to monetize your blog? The simplest way is to signup for Adsense, right? But there are actually a lot of Ad Networks that offer different types of banners for different niches. For a design blog, the most popular one is BuySellAds. However, they are some bloggers which prefer direct ads selling, which can save the middleman’s commission.
Direct ads selling is good, but you need to effectively manage your banners. For example, record down when the banner expire, the order of banner, track banner impressions, click through rate and much more. There could be very time consuming especially when you have a lot of banners.
So, why not installing some ads management plugins to your blog. They come with basic features such as randomly rotate the banners, banner expired date, insert ad code without modifying your template file and etc.
Today, we are going to look into 11 Powerful Wordpress Plugins To Manage your advertisements. You probably need only one of them, but you should go through each of the plugin before you make your decision.
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Transparency in Internet Explorer is always a big issue for all Web Designers. There are a lot of compatibility problems with Internet Explorer 6. We have to design our website base on Firefox/Opera/Chrome, and then try it with Internet Explorer.
One of the major concern about IE6 is the transparency problem. IE6 can’t render transparent PNG image properly. As the result, your transparent and glassy design will become messy in IE6.
Luckily, there are a few solutions which can help web designer overcome the IE6 transparency problem. Each of them uses different method. Today, we are going to briefly look into these 6 methods. Please read the documentation while you are considering which method to use.
This solution requires jQuery and ables to work with CSS Backgrounds. To use this method, simple add both jQuery and pngFix plugin at your header section and then activate pngFix on document.ready.
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