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Graphic design competition sites

nicola — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:40:59 +0000

Looking for a website, logo or business card design?

The most effective way could be to start a graphic design competition on 99designs, DesignCrowd, CrowdSpring, or Guerra Creativa.

Here there are 9 tips to have the best result on your design contests:

Focus each project on one design task
Know what you are looking for
Guarantee your budget and pay a fair price
Invite the designers to work on your project
Provide detailed feedback, focusing on the good designers
Take advantage of designers riffing off each other
Get multiple opinions (from your collegues, friends and customers)
Check for originality (try http://www.tineye.com)
Consider getting the winner to work on it a bit more

Webdesign themes

nikkey — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:59:59 +0000

Are you looking for a beautiful, strange, different theme for your website?

Have a look at Themesbase, where you can find some interest themes for:

Browsers shots

nikkey — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:07:20 +0000

What is Browsershots?

Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service created by Johann C. Rocholl. When you submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server here.

Mission Statement

In our dreams, the web looks good for all users. So we let web designers view screenshots of their pages in different browsers, at different screen resolutions and with different plugins. We’re trying to make this service easy to use, open for all (including access to the source code) and 100% free, as in free beer.
The problem: cross-browser incompatibilities

This project is concerned with a favorite problem of web designers: websites look different in other browsers. Testing a new site in many browsers can be quite time-consuming. Not everybody has a farm of legacy machines with older OSes and browsers. There are online services that offer screenshots of websites in different browsers for considerable fees. For the hobbyist and for open source projects, these fees may be prohibitive.
The solution: community cooperation

The idea behind this project is to distribute the work of making browser screenshots among community members. Everybody can add URLs to the job queue on a central server. Volunteers use a small program to automatically make screenshots of web pages in their browser and upload the results to the server.

Try Browsershots now!

Web Page Analyzer

nikkey — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:02:35 +0000

Free Website Performance Tool and Web Page Speed Analysis

Free web site speed test to improve website performance. Enter a URL to calculate page size, composition, and download time. The script calculates the size of individual elements and sums up each type of web page component.

Based on these page characteristics the script then offers some advice on how to improve page load time.

Try now the Web Page Analyzer!

CSS Design Templates

nikkey — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:31:44 +0000

CSS Design Templates is a project hosted by Arcsin and mainted by Viktor Persson, web developer and student from Stockholm, Sweden. Offering quality table-less website templates based on CSS and XHTML, WordPress themes, Joomla templates and Blogger templates.

I tried some WordPress templates: great! Easy, cool and perfect in the details… and free

Visit the CSS Design Templates website