37 Beautiful Vintage And Retro Web Designs

May 17th, 10 in Insipiration | View Comments |

Vintage and Retro are becoming a new trend in web design. These old and retro styles tend to make the website stands out from the cloud and immediately attract visitors’ attention.

There are a lot of elements that are being used by vintage and retro designs. For example, old style typography, old posters, movies, handwriting fonts, old packaging and much more.

In this article, we are going to showcase 37 beautiful retro and vintage web designs. We hope these designs can bring inspiration to designers. Enjoy!

The Literary Bohemian

The Literary Bohemian

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The Dynamic World of Sports Flash Websites

May 10th, 10 in Insipiration | View Comments |

How healthy are you? Are you engaged in any sports activities? On a regular basis or from time to time? OK relax… This post is not about healthy life, and I’m not going to preach the necessity of sports excersises and their benefits.

In this article you will find the amazing showcase of creative, stylish and original Sports Flash websites that impress both in terms of functionality and professional look. These stunning Flash designs look dynamic and interactive, they just energize and invigorate for new deeds.

Enjoy the collection and get inspired!

Jordan: History of Flight

Jordan: History of Flight

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8 Handy WordPress Plugins For Font Lovers

May 4th, 10 in Wordpress | View Comments |

Font plays a very important role in our blog. If your blog design’s uses special font type that doesn’t exist in most readers’ machine, then you are bringing trouble to yourself.

Back to few years ago, the only solution is replace the text with image. But this is not a good solution, as search engine can’t read image. Various solutions came out, such as sIFR and FLIR. In order to implement these techniques, you may need some programming skills. However, there are a lot of WordPress plugins that make implementing them easier.

Today, we are going to look into some WordPress font plugins that make implementing various image replacement techniques easier. We hope readers who don’t really familiar with programming will benefit from this series of font plugins.

WP sIFR

WP sIFR was created for easier embedding custom fonts to a wordpress site. What you need to do is upload the SWF font files to the correct location, activate and configure its style.
WP sIFR
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Freelance Fever: How To Spot (And Use) The Fire That’s Been Lit Under You

Apr 30th, 10 in Freelance | View Comments |

I am going to make a bold statement here – 90% of the readers here on Web Design Booth are freelancers, either part time or full time. Disagree? Read the article and leave a comment. But since I believe most readers here are freelancers, I want to discuss the freelance fever; the fire that’s lit under you and causes you to push forward on projects, client work and business in general.

That same fire the burns inside your soul can be utilized in a controlled way to further your freelance career – or it can cause you to burn out if you’re not careful. Today, I want to discuss how you can spot the fire and put it to good use.

Freelance Fever

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35 Online Photo Editors To Help You Editing Photo Online

Apr 27th, 10 in Tools | View Comments |

As our generation is changing, tools for image editing and enhancers have improved and has multiplied. Editing photo online has become easier with the help of innovative and creative online photo editors.

Back to few years ago, Adobe Photoshop is the king of photo editor. But there are quite a number of Free Photoshop Alternatives around us, which we can perform the photo editing without paying any single cent for the application!

Now, we even have websites that allow us to edit photo online. One advantage of the online image editor is, it doesn’t consume the memory size of your laptop or desktop, since you edit photos online. The processing part is done by the server and you won’t feel any slow or lag at your machine. And also, you won’t be hassled in downloading these tools anymore and it’s so easy to use.

Here, we share 35 useful Free Online Photo Editing Websites which we think it may be very helpful as one of your photoshop alternatives.

Online Photo Editing Websites

Picnik

This online tool makes your photos look beautiful in just one click. Try it!

Picnik

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FlashMoto: Top Flash Content Management System

Apr 22nd, 10 in Review | View Comments |

Have you ever worked with any Flash CMS? Personally I have not… till now. I’m very well familiar with WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, even worked with Magento, but Flash content management systems seemed quite obscure and frustrating for me. All these suspicions might have been caused by difficulties working with Flash and updating Flash websites or by Flash myths regarding search engine optimization. Whatever the case, all these fears are left in the past after trying Flash content management system from FlashMoto.

FlashMoto

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Beautiful and Great Product Packaging Designs For your Inspiration

Apr 21st, 10 in Insipiration | View Comments |

Packaging design is part of the marketing strategy to attract buyers’ attention. The first thing that a customer notices is the product’s package design. This way, it helps a product to become more salable and entails good image and value.

But take note, this is not only helpful in marketing strategies. These product packaging designs inspire graphic designers and help enhance their imagination and creativity.

Here, we share 40 beautiful product packaging designs for your inspiration. These creative packaging design inspirations can also give messages to us such as reminding us how to value our life and our environment by the symbols that were created in the designs.

You may check on some of these designs. Enjoy!

Creative Packaging Designs

Urban Outfitters Tights

This package design for tights not only can this be hanged with its hanger-design look, it can also be piled neatly on a table.

Urban Outfitters Tights

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10 Social Media Monitoring Tools to Monitor Your Brand’s Performance And Results

Apr 19th, 10 in Tools | View Comments |

Social media has become much more than a way to stay connected and to have fun: it is a way to market yourself, your business, your products and services.

By establishing a presence in social media, you give yourself virtually unlimited exposure to relevant people without encountering any significant cost issues. While this is good, it can be hard to track how you are performing across the wide spectrum of the Internet.

With powerful tools you can judge the effectiveness of your social media efforts and keep track of what people are saying about you. Here are 10 Social Media Tools to monitor your brand’s performance and results across multiple social media sites.

Twazzup

A dashboard program that monitors Twitter, Twazzup will tell you every time your keywords are mentioned in a tweet. It will also categorize your results by link popularity, contributors, tagging clouds and users. Unique features like avatar mouse-overs that give more details about that user’s relevant tweets make Twazzup a surprisingly powerful and valuable social media monitoring tool.
Twazzup

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Simple Ways To Regain Creative Ideas And Inspirations For Designers

Apr 15th, 10 in Insipiration | View Comments |

Have you ever come to the point in designing something, and just don’t have the creativity or idea to go any further? You could be designing a website, or even developing a new script. Your brain is blank and you need to fill yourself with creative idea. So what do you do when there is just no where left to go, and nothing left to do? Look no further, because we have great tips and ideas to help you overcome creative roadblocks!

The process is simple; You can choose whether it’s long or short! There are lots of things you can do to regain creativity, because sometimes just browsing galleries isn’t enough. Inside this article, are sure fire tips and resources to get those creative juices flowing again! There are places to go, things to do, and books to read, as well as websites to visit. Are you ready?
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