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Blast from the Past #6: 100 Best Free Business Cards, Resume Templates and Other Corporate Identity Packages of 2014

February 22nd, 2015 No comments

Welcome to part 6 of our series “Blast from the Past”. By now, you are already in possession of a vast collection of 90 free carefully executed GUI sets, 100 icon packs, 100+ PSD templates, the same number of HTML templates as well as over a hundred fonts, in flavors desktop, web and icon. Now you are fully equipped to perform the creation of a great web design. But what about other corporate identity items? Business cards, stationery or what if you are perfectly equipped but got no job? In this case our resume templates might just be what you are looking for. That’s what today’s collection is all about. Again, we searched thoroughly and came up with the 100+ best business card mockups, resume templates and other corporate identity necessities.

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Blast from the Past #5: 100+ Best Free Fonts of 2014

February 21st, 2015 No comments

Welcome to part 5 of our series “Blast from the Past”. By now, you are already in possession of a vast collection of 90 free carefully executed GUI sets, 100 icon packs, 100+ PSD templates and the same number of HTML templates. So, what’s missing you might wonder. Not much, that’s for sure. But, let’s think about it. Yes, I have an idea. What about fonts? But not only desktop fonts, also web and icon fonts would be great. Don’t you agree? That’s what today’s collection is all about. Again, we searched thoroughly and came up with the 100+ best free fonts of 2014.

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Recipe for Success: Ten WordPress Plugins to Rock Your Blog

February 20th, 2015 No comments

Blogging with WordPress can be good fun with the right plugins. Plugins make work more comfortable, add new features, and can keep visitors on your blog. With the right plugin, blogging tasks can be performed in a smarter, easier, faster, and more productive way. Whatever you have in mind for your blog, there is probably a plugin for that. The only problem is that you will have to find the right one first, and with currently 35,038 listed plugins, this is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack. To save you some time in the search, we provide you with ten extraordinary plugins for various tasks that will make your life a lot easier.

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Web Design Takeaway: 40 CSS Buttons, Tutorials and Code Snippets

February 19th, 2015 No comments

Pure CSS buttons and menus do not need graphics anymore but create themselves from the beauty of the written code. Generating this can be difficult in regard to broad browser compatibility. Thankfully, there are tutorials, ready-made code snippets, and numerous examples to choose from. And it gets even better, as we present you the best examples in this article. What you don’t get in the following article is some Photoshop. All the following buttons are available for private as well as commercial use. As the terms of service are susceptible of change, you should review them again before using the buttons. Have fun…

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Adobe Lightroom Mobile: Image Processing on the Go (including Android)

February 18th, 2015 No comments

Last month, Adobe released a new version of its Lightroom app for mobile devices. For the first time this app is not only available for iPhones and iPads, but for Android devices as well. But how efficient can image processing on tablet or smartphone actually be?

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Opposites Attract: Tips for Designing a Clean Yet Colorful Website

February 17th, 2015 No comments

A clean website design does not have to be boring, and a colorful website design does not have to be obnoxious and overwhelming. Interestingly, usually all a clean site needs to jazz it up are a few bright or bold colors, and an obnoxious site needs a clean redesign to go from overwhelming to simply colorful. For these reasons, a clean yet colorful website is the perfect marriage. Together, these aspects create a stand out design that creates a lasting impression and keeps visitors coming back for more. May I even be so bold as to say that a clean yet colorful website is what every designer should strive to accomplish in their web designs?

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Cartoon: If Web Designers Were Pizza Boys [005]

February 16th, 2015 No comments

People working in the web design and development industry need to become thick-skinned over the years if they intend to survive long term. I am in this business since web design got invented in the early Nineties, and I sure know what I’m talking about when it comes to the hidden secrets of client communication. My remedy these days is laughing. I refuse to get angry anymore. Instead, I make fun of the situations that only a few years ago made me want to hire a professional killer. There are quite a few people out there who are only still alive for the fact I couldn’t afford to pay one. Nah, just joking. As making fun of it all is the healthiest way to cope with it, we decided to start a new cartoon series titled “If Web Designers Were” here at Noupe. This is part five. Hope you enjoy it…

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February 2014: 23 Free WordPress Themes Following the Latest Trends

February 15th, 2015 No comments

Designers are facing a great year. A handful of very interesting design trends points them into distinct directions. Heroa, areas, ghost buttons, Material Design, parallax scrolling, are the craze in 2015. People with less design know-how and a WordPress blog need not step behind, however. Rely on the WordPress themes community, and you won’t get disappointed. Talented people have already come up with just what would spark your envy weren’t it available to you, too. By the way, if you are a designer in search of an excellent foundation to build that client’s site upon, the themes are also for you. Take them as inspiration or use them as they are. All you need is a self-hosted WordPress, and you’re good to go…

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22 Fresh Free Templates in HTML/CSS and PSD: February 2015 Edition

February 14th, 2015 No comments

Welcome to the future. In our second collection of free HTML, CSS and PSD templates of 2015 you’ll find all the major trends of the year represented. We have hero areas, we have ghost buttons, we have Material Design, we have cards, we have everything. As always the templates are created in HTML, CSS or PSD or a combination of all formats. Use them as an inspiration or fill them with your content directly. It’s all up to you…

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Valentine’s Gift to Our Dear Readers: 8 Typographic Valentine Cards as AI, EPS and JPG

February 13th, 2015 No comments

It’s that time where people around the world show their love and appreciation to the most important persons around them. As our readers are the most important people to us, we decided to again team with Freepik, our friends from sunny Spain and bring you a few exclusive and useful vector Valentine’s designs. Eight cards are there to choose from. Following the latest trends we decided to focus on more typographic creations. The outcome, though very trendy, is a timeless design that will surely fit for the coming years also. We hope you like the cards as much as we do…

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