Webgrrl’s Finds: Free resources for web designers
As I was sifting through my daily online reading list, I found a great list of resources for web designers and wanted to share them with you.
Adobe Illustrator Tutorials & Resources
Find an assortment of free top-notch tutorials, brushes, patterns, tips and .EPS files that you can use to learn more about Adobe Illustrator.
Free Web Apps for Designers
When it comes to design, there’s a plethora of free web-based tools to help you accomplish tasks such as color palette selection, creating unique fonts, editing images, and testing typography. Check out a great assortment of design tools by smashingapps.com and sixrevisions.com
30 Must-Have Logo Books
Here you can find some of the bestselling and upcoming logo books in the market — created and/or inspired by people who know more than a thing or two about logo design.
Free Vector Packs
Here you can find a collection of free vector packs submitted by talented graphic designers to make your life easier and help your create higher-quality work.
Be more daring with colors
Colors set the tone and message of a website and designers often spend hours, even days, researching and coming up with a harmonious and usable color scheme. In this collection, you’ll find 30 web designs with vivid and colorful themes that evoke feelings of vivacity and dynamism. I hope they can inspire you to be more daring with your color schemes!
Top 10 fonts of 2008
Myfonts.com has put together a list of top 10 fonts of 2008 based on sales font numbers.
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Webgrrls’ Finds: Tips, tricks and tools to improve your work performance
Looking for meaty, practical articles that will help to improve your work performance? These 5 links provide some amazing tips, tricks and tools.
Do Business with Style
Are you a small business owner that could use professional looking designs for your presentations, letterheads, invoices, or business cards? Microsoft has published a number of gorgeous templates for its Office 2007 package (older versions may also work for some of the designs). You can choose from 6 different designs and 9 customer colors to create a professional looking template that matches your company’s style. Best of all, they’re free! http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/office2007templates/
Get the most out of your email newsletters
Companies both large and small will benefit from these tips on how to get the most out of your email newsletters. This resource presents a list of best practices, gives some great examples and tells us what to avoid when creating your newsletter. And for tips on getting through spam filters, check out these great recommendations posted on the Webgrrls blog.
Presenting your company’s metrics
For those of you charged with presenting your company’s metrics, this is a must read. Kushik’s article recommends a better way of presenting numbers (financial, sales, web or otherwise) through the use of an “action dashboard†that provides meaning to the reader.
Free tutorials on your favorite programs
If you’ve been searching for free tutorials on your favorite programs, here is a god-send. This article points us to 4 different sites that provide amazing guides on topics ranging from Microsoft Office Programs to the Adobe CS3 Suite and even CSS:
The best RSS readers
There are a number of great RSS readers out there that can help you organize articles from your favorite sites. Here is a list of some of the best: Still in the dark about RSS, read the Webgrrls post about what is RSS.
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