Showing posts with label Blog Design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blog Design. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

How to inspire a designer

For many designers the winter - the time of gloom, a lousy mood, and the absence of any sign of inspiration, especially with such a wet and snow-free weather, as this year. I hear more and more from fellow designers and friends that the arms are lowered and there is simply no power to do - and I notice this on their own misfortune. However, above the nose, if we do not replenish the web creativity and beauty, it also begins to turn sour and grim. Today prepared for you a short article on how to overcome depression and to inspire a designer.

Try your hand at something new

Sometimes we notice that constantly revolves around the same workflow. Many have a standard set of programs used, and in them - the standard moves, techniques and technology. Why not enter for a variety of something new in your next project? New tools, software, plug-ins extend the time, take the next time something fresh. Having dealt with the new tool, you will not only raise their technical level, but also a moral step to step forward, and your project will be different from the others, you have made.Plus you get the experience for future work.

Try your hand at something new

Attend a Conference

Conference - a great way to keep the creative spark alive. At any conference there is at least one colleague, designer, or a lecturer, who will open up new horizons for design. Looking at things from a new angle, you will definitely want to try anything to change, to bring, to add to your business process design. I bet you'll lope back to the desktop, eager to try out the new.

Again, what is important, not only speakers and organizers of the conference, because such activities - a great opportunity to establish new contacts, discuss with colleagues your ideas and plans for the future.

Attend a Conference

Read the blog design

Almost all designers follow the work of colleagues around the world. That's good, because otherwise it is impossible to stay in the stream of current trends and styles. In addition, many of the ideas presented by someone in the same light, you can touch up on a completely unexpected solutions, such as external and not related. Leafing through the galleries and blogs, you can enrich your instruments with new techniques and methods to learn the news and just enjoy the beautiful design - good emotions are always helpful!

Read the blog design

Place the target

You do not need to prove that the sense of the work performed and the result - the best incentive for any of us. However, looming in the distant haze to meet target deadline is not always quite accessible to feel comfortable today. Set in front of the intermediate, easily achievable goals, or risk a completely demoralize the race for the "plan-up." So, initially set small, realistic goals, and as the performance of building up speed, passing to the more ambitious goals.

Place the target

Photograph


For you as a designer means a lot of visual images. Not a bad solution - create a personal library of references, which you can view at any time. Shoot all you like - because you never tell me when and where the image can be useful. Keep an eye only for the fact that the photographs were of good quality, because so hurt when you have the picture you want, suitable in all respects - except quality. Many skills are required for that, today's digital cameras allow you to make decent pictures in the Photo absolute layman. And when the time comes full of creative exhaustion, you can always open a folder with pretty pictures, which will please the eye and add inspiration.

Photograph

Look for the external and internal stimuli

We were all around creative, created as man and nature. Look for anything better than walking by, and often you will start to spark ideas and immediately understand how to solve a particular task before you.Will you go to a clearly creative place like a museum, or simply stroll the park or forest, you will find everywhere is something that can affect your feelings.

Most helpful is simply to break away from the computer and go live in the world in search of stimulus and inspiration. Take something that does not require special brain activity, and you can concentrate on your creative tasks. For example, many of the usual run helps to disperse stagnant creativity through his veins.

Look for the external and internal stimuli

Engage in creative hobbies

Many designers say that the work is their hobby, however, proved that the secondary creative hobby very well affect the overall level of inspiration and finding creative solutions. Hobbies - is that no pressure on you, then no one makes and adjusts, you can simply take the soul. This can be anything - playing the guitar or other instrument, or work on a novel series of paintings, handicrafts, or even breeding colors. While you will be able to find new ways to express their creative nature, you will not feel tired from daily work.

Engage in creative hobbies

Find a common language with the client

One of the biggest killers of inspiration and motivation - client testimonials. You gave it to us for the full, twisted soul, did everything that the client only wanted to - but from the still dissatisfied. This is one of the most difficult challenges facing the graphic designer: keep your nose higher, despite all these reviews. In order to cope with it, you will certainly possible to find common ground with the client at all controversial issues of the project. There are no situations with the only option, and you can always find a solution that will satisfy both - and the client's needs and your vision. You are not required each time to redo the root, often need only small changes, so that your client was happy.

Find a common language with the client

These tips - just an example of the possible ways to stimulate their creative spirits, set out in Articles artfans . All people are different, and the universal recipe here you can imagine, all recommendations must adapt, and choosing what will work for you. In any case, we wish you a creative mood, good ideas and wonderful projects.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Changes that must be present in the blog

When a very very long time in the main blog,  ProBlogger published an article about the 20 types of pages, of which every blogger should remember . This article has been collected the maximum number of possible pages, one way or another suitable or necessary for the blog - as a standard (About the author, Contact Us, Services) and is very unusual (Targeted Landing, Viral Sneeze, events and media). Each author, in principle, decides for himself what he will use the page - there may be 1-2 or, say, 10. A good structure of the blog implies not only the posts and categories, but also support the important pages. Let's look at some of these details.

Home (starting)

For many visitors to the site starts with "Home" page is the "face" of your blog. Theoretically, "home" page may well be some original and not similar to any other, but for 99% of blogs comes down to the banal set of posts. On this page you can place a list of popular articles, the text widget with information about the blog, some important announcements, articles and more. An excellent example is the famous blog ProBlogger:
ProBlogger

Note how Home differs from the internal architecture and how the author uses it effectively. This format can be found often enough for the type of template wordpress magazine.

About the Author (About)

If the home page - the "face" blog, the page "About the Author" (or "About Us") - "Passport" blog. Without it, even the obvious SOM can be like a faceless splog or satellite . The presence of such a page on the contrary suggests that the reader a serious site. If, as you build a brand project, you should be made ​​to create page «About» special attention. Example - About page on Techcrunch :

Techcrunch
Here you can write as the author, and about the site itself. If a lot of information or, for example, there are several authors, it makes sense to divide it into 2 pages.

Contacts

Bloggers should be open to dialogue with readers, so that any visitor should be able to easily reach you. Of course, you can specify the contact information on the page "About me", but it is better to create a separate. There you can, for example, to place at the same time the contact form. Even if you put your data somewhere in the sidebar, it still makes sense to duplicate information on a separate page - most people (myself included) just look for the menu item "Contacts".

Site Map

In this case it is not about the site map is created and designed for search engines (XML Sitemap), but the one that "for the people." Although, in principle, any project (and blogs too), I would advise you to create original, these two maps site at all times. One project will improve indexing by search engines, and the other helps the user to quickly familiarize yourself with the contents of the site. "Site Map" can be considered as part of navigation, as it displays the complete structure. For the wordpress plugin I use Dagon Sitemap Generator design - very simple and convenient.

Privacy Policy / Terms of Use (Privacy Policy / Terms of use)

In the west, where the strictly enforced copyright laws adopted to create the page "Privacy Policy" and "Terms of use» (Privacy Policy / Terms of use). In RuNet detailed section are not mandatory, rather, they do not accepted at all. Nevertheless, no one will interfere with already done at something like that, but if you have an English project, because without them, do not do!

Optional page

In the first half of the article we have listed is probably the most necessary and basic page. Others may be created at will, but if they will not - do not worry. New projects where the author only acquainted with blogging, as a rule, these pages do not have, but no one bothers to add them over time, a little later.

Section subscription. On some blogs there is a separate page for subscribers where they are offered a variety of subscription options (RSS, E-mail, Twitter, Facebook, etc.). You can do the same, but I do not think that it is not necessary (although in some cases and useful). By the way, there is often publish information on what RSS.

Advertising. Today there is virtually no blogs are somehow not earn money. A special page with a "commercial offer" for the advertisers (characteristic of the blog, his blog audience and advertising rates) significantly increases the probability of advertising space.

Services. If you provide any services, be sure to make a separate page with a description of services, examples, price list, etc.

Archive. "Archive" can be called a special case of "site map", the only difference is that all the contents of the site located on the page with the archive in chronological order.

Friends. Many bloggers are happy to change or create a link on a separate page blogroll analog or something like folder thematic links. If you like this idea, you can do the same.

If you are a novice blogger - it's time to go create all the basic page. For advanced writers can create some additional pages. I advise you to spend an evening on the establishment, it is not so much time, but the project will look more professional. By the way, and which pages you create?

PS Image processing - the process is not complicated, if you know how to do it, you want to know how to insert photos into the template ? - Then Search on google video tutorial with detailed instructions of the process.

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

May 55 best Creative tumblr blogs

In today's world except that lazy does not lead his page on social networking sites or blog. It's not just communication, but above all a kind of conversation with the audience and the ability to express themselves.Many successful creative people prefer to talk about his life and professional success from the pages of this blog. And I must admit, blogging has become a real art form. It is important not only to the inner content of the blog (as beautiful and interesting written by one or another post), but, flawlessly, exterior design blog, because it is at the interface of the site draws the attention of the user who gets the first time on the blog page. Often, the interface serves as the spokesman of the blog's personality, his ideas and inner peace. Moreover, often thought of as a personal blog site where the works of the creative personality, his portfolio. Well, today we look at the most creative blogs on the platform tumblr.

What is Tumblr?

Tumblr - this is probably the youngest microblogging service, which meanwhile has recently gaining popularity. And while the popularity of this platform is just beginning to gain momentum, but with a little over 4 years my Tumblr blogs have brought more than 46 million people around the world. However, the people of Russia and the UMP are just beginning to slowly but surely learn Tumblr.

In general, Tumblr - it's very stylish and high quality are made ​​microblogging service that allows users to upload pictures, videos, quotes, audio, links, and, of course, the text messages on his blog. Tumblr is ideal for small short positions, as well as to accommodate interactive (video, audio, photo) content.Experts often say that Tumblr «borrowed" the best ideas from other bloghostingovyh platforms.However, the main difference Tumblr.com is that this platform - perhaps the easiest way to blog, and this can hardly be disputed. In addition, a blog on Tumblr - free of charge, which is also a lot important.

Another important advantage of Tumblr is that a blog on Tumblr perfectly adapted to work not only with the PC, but also from mobile devices.

How to create a blog Tumblr?

Certainly, many of you know how to create a blog, but as the saying goes, just in case tell in a few words about this again.

To create a blog on Tumblr need to:


  1. register on the main page;
  2. enter email and password;
  3. come up with the name of the blog and complete the appropriate form (blog will look like in the format "vashe_nazvanie.tumblr.com");
  4. get avatar 
  5. Actually, that's all you need, and then you can indulge in swimming, and to understand the fields in the admin panel. However, to work with Tumblr need at least a minimal knowledge of English. In general, the author of a blog set up quite a few fields - add pages (Pages), services with which you can link your blog to their pages on social networks (Services), to determine the Community (Participation in certain communities), and set options language, the resolution of photos / videos.

How to decorate a blog on Tumblr?

Another point - to decide on the theme of the blog. The visual themes for Tumblr are both free and paid, but in both cases, you can change the design and decorate their own blog. If you are familiar with the CSS-tables, and you know what a web design, it can be easily induced to schemes "to collect the parts" and create your own original interface for your blog. To do this, just click Creating a custom HTML theme and a little time to spend

The collection of the most creative blogs on Tumblr

A. Garys reallife

Garys reallife

Two. Matthew diffee

Matthew diffee

Three. Esobvio

Esobvio

Four. Ghost in the machine

Ghost in the machine

Five. Steven Beelen

Five. Steven Beelen

6. Photojojo

 Photojojo

Seven. Unhappy hipsters

Unhappy hipsters

Eight. Jorrty

 Jorrty

Nine. Craft Junkie

Craft Junkie

10. Nuut

Nuut

11. Art in My Coffee

 Art in My Coffee

12. Short form Blog

 Short form Blog

13. Moose Garden

 Moose Garden

14. S tephendiaz

 tephendiaz

15. Faggotry

 Faggotry

16. Dear Photograph

Dear Photograph

17. Blazing and Bright

Blazing and Bright

18. Name That Film

Name That Film

19. Domonomnom

 Domonomnom

20. Vertetbleu

Vertetbleu

21. Hello

Hello

22. Karenabad

Karenabad

23. Oceaniclove

Oceaniclove

24. In landscape We Trust

 In landscape We Trust

25. Eliseos

Eliseos

26. We and the Color

We and the Color

27. Beautifultype

Beautifultype

28. Matthew Buchanan

 Matthew Buchanan

29. Pratt

Pratt

30. Artists wanted

Artists wanted

31. Public Art Fund

Public Art Fund

32. Greg Abbott

Greg Abbott

33. New Yorker

New Yorker

34. Suicide Blonde

Suicide Blonde

35. The loveliest

The loveliest

36. Hrrrthrrr

Hrrrthrrr

37. Most creative The Blog

Most creative The Blog

38. Hipstertracks

 Hipstertracks

39. Irc

Irc

40. copycats

copycats

41. Eat sleep Draw

Eat sleep Draw

42. Jake and Amir

Jake and Amir

43. Lolcabulary

Lolcabulary

44. Perezhamilton

 Perezhamilton

45. Sir Mitchell

Sir Mitchell

46. ​​Photoholic

​​Photoholic

47. Rules for My Son unborn

Rules for My Son unborn

48. Jam-Factory

Jam-Factory

49. Just Watch thesky

. Just Watch thesky

50. Fuck yeah Sharks

Fuck yeah Sharks

51. Valentino VAMP

Valentino VAMP

52. Svalts

Svalts

53. Going for Picture

Going for Picture

54. Daily drop Cap

Daily drop Cap

55. The Only Magic left is Art

The Only Magic left is Art


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