Webdevelounge Weekly Roundup - Wed Nov 05/08

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!In the past couple of years, it seems that an incredible number of web design and development sites have popped up, and many of them regularly run resource lists. Here’s a look at some of what’s been published recently.
[1.] Hongkiat [...]

New Web Magazines: Click Creative and Groovy Mag

As print mags are getting cut from publishers lists, web-based magazines are springing up to replace them. Here are a couple of recent launches.
Click Creative

Click Creative is a free, bimonthly magazine available online in PDF format. It’s focus appears to be 2D and 3D design, photography, web and interactive media. The Nov 2008 issue is [...]

crowdSPRING: Design Projects Marketplace

CrowdSPRING is a recently launched marketplace for designers and buyers. This includes logo design, business cards, graphics, website, photography and more. However, it does not include any option for listing code or writing projects. Actually, when you understand how it operates, that makes sense. I can’t think of any coders or writers that would be [...]

Webdevlounge Weekly Roundup - Wed Oct 29/08

You often see loads of blog posts listing all kinds of free Photoshop brushes. Well Noupe has a list of links leading to no less than 1,000 brushes for Gimp, the free, multi-platform, Open Source alternative to Photoshop.
Trying to build up your freelance client base? Here are some ways to market portfolio both online and [...]

Webdevlounge Weekly Roundup - Wed Oct 22/08

According to a recent Nettuts article, one of the most sought after web development skills is Framework knowledge. For example, Rails, Django, CakePHP and others. Other skills that are up near the top of the list are the ability to build Custom CMS themes and to develop CMS plugins or do custom coding. Now while [...]

Top 10 Methods Of Becoming A Better Designer

Hello everyone, this article is going to focus on some simple effective ways of becoming a better web designer online. The article will not only cover “at the computer” methods, it will also review ways of becoming a better designer away from the computer.
1. Analyze Your Client, Don’t Let Them Ask All The Questions.
When a [...]

Create AdaptD.com Paper style Lines.

I am going to show you how to use illustrator and Photoshop to create something similar to the retro paper strips as seen on http://adaptd.com .

I noticed that this site had been popping on few design galleries and was featured on Nick La’s http://www.webdesignerwall.com in the post the trends of 2008 (mine is on there too http://www.ryandownie.com). And I really liked the design so I decided to see if I could make something similar.