A designer and a photographer are the most popular professions today. Both of them attract hipsters, free love, imagination and inspiration. Both of them deal with graphical materials – images, illustrations, photos etc.
This spring is a perfect time to start your own project. That’s why today I want to show one more way to earn some money for designers and photographers. This way is called “123rf.com”.
Successful Logo Design: Top Five Tips
Bring to mind some of the world’s most recognisable business logo design and you will find they all have one thing in common: simplicity. An effective logo needs to work in multiple situations, needs to carry the values of the company in one small graphic device and needs to be instantly memorable.
I’m sure you know that every time you start doing something you should make some efforts.
For example, you want to learn to ride a bike. The first thing you should do is to buy a bike, yep? Then you’ll want to buy some bicycle accessories, cycling wear and so on. Moreover, you’ll spend a lot of time learning…
It is no matter what you want to do, first of all, you should spend some time to learn the subject, you should spend some money to buy stuff and so on…It means that you’ll spend your money first, and only then you’ll be able to ride a bike.
The same thing with design. If you decided to become a designer, you should… look at the list above. Design process is rather interesting and a little bit complicated. Before your design skills bring you some income, you will have to work a lot. Read the rest
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Are you an owner of some online business? Do you have your own blog or website? If you say “yes” on one of these questions, this post will be in a great use for you, I’m sure. Today we will talk about email marketing and how to use all benefits of it for yourself in a smart way.
The first thing you should do on your blog it is to set up an email form. Yep, dude, you should collect your subscribers, because they are the wand of your Web world. Email subscribers is the highest form of engagement in inbound marketing.
Looking for a resource where you can sell your photos, illustrations and vector art? Or, maybe, you want to buy some? In any case I have a perfect solution for you! Before we go any further, be advised that it’s easy to edit photos on an advanced dual core laptop when an interactive Adobe illustrator software is installed.
A few days ago I’ve found a huge source of photos, illustrations and other graphic materials. I was struck by the breadth of choice there. It is called Depositphotos.
You can use this service to sell your works. There is no limit on the number of files that you can upload per day. Moreover, I think you should upload as many photos as you can to earn more money. In order to make your life easier, uploading with the help of FTP is available too.
At the same time you can buy photos and use them in your work ( if the files have been purchased under the Extended License). The only task you should do is to find the materials you need and buy them.
To find some inspiration, you can visit Depositphotos official blog. Lots of creative posts are waiting for you there! Interviews, tips and books reviews – all this information will be in a great use for you. Popular Keywords shows you the most popular tags and keywords. It will help you to find and sell photos.
The most interesting feature of Depositphotos is its categories. With its help you don’t get lost in a big forest of photography but you can easily find the photo you need. There is a huge list of stock images by categories.
For example, let’s start with my favourite category Vintage and retro. Vintage is a trend today, many people are going crazy about it. Even in web design you can easily find vintage elements and stuff. That’s why this category is very popular nowadays.
A useful variety of free fonts that differ in their forms, size and practical meaning, being able to make your work original and unique one and to create a special atmosphere by means of word form united with a word meaning. Multitude of typography styles gives you a chance to emphasise your message and to create a certain design style that will be able to reflect your ideas by means of various fonts. Looking for a high level of typographic elegance and sophistication, you can be sure in reaching the result because of using this resource, selecting that type of typography which is the most suitable one.
Sometimes we get a domain name before we have a website to put on it. Of course we may leave it hang blank, but wait! Even here designers find a field for their creativity and self expression. Even with one page you can share the idea of your resource and provide your probable visitors with the projected image of your coming website. You can also use this space to invite people follow you on a social media networks or sign up for your newsletter to let them know as soon as your most usable project takes off. Or you may just want to say HI!
Take a look at this sparkling and inspiring set of the best of the coming soon page designs and maybe you’ll have an idea of what to put on your website instead of that boring blank page.
It is our rule and common practice to find and share the newest sets of free icons with web designers. It is difficult to overestimate the value of the high quality icons while designing a modern website or web design templates. They should flow with the site’s look and feel and contribute to the general image of the resource making it solid and wholesome.
In this article we give you all the links to these beautiful and valuable freebies. You are welcome to get them right away!
Professional E-Commerce Icons Set
A number of HQ e-commerce icons delivered by Web Icons Set. The set is an exclusive release for the Smashing Magazine and its subscribers.
20 icons in 64px, available in .png-format.
The websites featuring great designs standing in line with their content provide inspiration and are real masterpieces. While looking for inspiration you might want to take a glance at this set of 30 curious and ingenious website designs based around the idea of illustrations and cartoon-like characters. A masterly and relevant illustration can set up a memorable image of your site in the visitors mind and it’s worth the effort.
According to one of the recent polls only 23% of visitors who encounter a 404 error make a second attempt to find the missing page. The rest 77% of the visitors will not make any effort to find it. A custom error page is viewed as an added feature and advantage of your website. It shows that you care for your visitors and make an attempt to have them stay.
Check out this set of 404 page examples ingenious, original and creative in every respect. Enjoy!
