If you look hard enough you can find creative inspiration almost anywhere, but one of my favorite places to draw inspiration from is photography. We’ve posted a number of photography showcases here on WDL, so I hope you find them as inspiring as I do. For this post, I’ve collected ...

Lex parsimoniae is the Latin expression of what is known in English as Occam’s Razor, a philosophical rule of thumb that has guided some of the world’s best and brightest minds (including Isaac Newton). It is named after the 14th-century logician and theologian William of Ockham. But what the ...

Dealing with Internet Explorer is a fact of web design, and it isn’t going to go away anytime soon. If not for some of the differences in the way IE6 and IE7 handle certain areas of CSS (whether it be margins bugs, float bugs, or other problems), CSS development would be ...

Last week we discussed the importance of copywriting in web design and today we’re showcasing twenty sites that got it right. Below you’ll find a number of tricks that you can use to create convincing copy for your website. We’ll discuss how to use everything from hyperbole to sarcasm to snag ...

As a site owner, possibly the worst experience that you could serve upon your visitors is a frustrating wait whilst the clock spins and the page loads. In most cases, most of your potential customers would have pressed the back button in their browser and headed off somewhere...

I’m sure most web designers would love to get more done in a given day. Those that don’t probably wish they could get the work they do have done faster, giving them more free time. The good news is that you can do both: shorten your work day and get more done...

www.aframephoto.com: This is a picture library which specialises in surfing and beach photography. It includes great photos of beaches, surfers, landscapes, portraits, flowers, children, sunsets and beach culture.

www.agefotostock.com: This is a rights managed and royalty free images website.

www.alamy.com: Rights protected hard to find photos and royalty free images from all the photo stocks.

www.artbitz.com: This is the best place for designer stock resource. They offer affordable stock designs which are royalty free.

www.artlex.com: This is a very large vast and a very good resource site for anything related to art. It is a dictionary and consists of thousands of art terms, spectacular photos, pronunciation notes and quotations, and they also provide quality links to other resources on the web.

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Website design is something which is responsible for making an impression on the mind of the visitors in an instant so it advisable that if you want to design a website then before coming up with any final design, you need to make certain considerations ahead of time. In this piece of writing, I have to share some consideration which you must make before designing a website.

1. Know the purpose of your website: You have to know for what you are making or designing your website. However, you don’t need to spend ample amount time on deciding that for what purpose you are making or designing your website.

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A logo is one of the most crucial visual representations of a business. It not only helps identify the business, it becomes a distinguishing sign of a business itself, for instance, the Coca-Cola logo. However, not all logos are able to accomplish what they set out to do, mainly because of common mistakes made in logo design. Here is list of these common mistakes that must be avoided.

Amateur Design

A logo represents a business and has to be professional and to get best results it should be designed by a professional.

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People decide to establish an identity online through a website, either for business or for presenting their personal ideas on various topics to the world. So the basic function of a website is providing information and promoting something. But all this will happen only when people visit the website, and stay long enough on it. This means that the website should be easily found and also should be attractive enough to make visitors stay. So while choosing the best web design company you have to make sure that they can deliver a website which is search engine optimized and make it interesting enough to hold people’s attention.

All web design companies will tell you how proficient they are in search engine optimization, but only actual statistics will show the credibility of their claims. You can ask the list of websites they have designed in the past and can easily find the page rank they are enjoying right now. Of course this will not be totally due to the website design as the owner would be promoting the website through various means, but you will get a fair idea.

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