Misc

60 Creative and Inspiring Festival Posters

Posted on01. Mar, 2010 by Shawn Ramsey.

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One event that almost every city in just about every country shares is some type of annual festival. They come for a day maybe a week to spread their fun and joy and then they disappear until the following season. As a patron to many local festivals throughout my life, I’ve always been impressed with the posters designed to spread the word about these events. They’re typically full of beautiful color and typography designed to grab your attention while also providing details about the upcoming festivities.

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30 Well-Executed Blog Post Footer Designs

Posted on11. Feb, 2010 by Shawn Ramsey.

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What happens when a visitor reaches the end of your blog posts? Could be they move on to another article, promote the post through social media, follow your RSS or simply comment and move on to the next blog.

Obviously the last thing we want is for our readers to simply read an article and then move on to another blog. So just what can we do to keep these readers around? The blog post footer, situated between the bottom of an article and the comment section, provides the perfect opportunity to serve up some interactive options for your site and hopefully keep visitors around for more.

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A Collection Of 10 Useful Online CSS Tools

Posted on06. Feb, 2010 by Shawn Ramsey.

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Whether you’re just starting to learn how to use Cascading Style Sheets or are a CSS expert, It’s always good to have a useful collection of tools laying around. Fortunately, there are a handful of some really handy CSS tools that can be found online.

The beauty of online tools are that they work within your browser, saving you from having to download some bulky program that you may only use once. If you’re looking for an easy way to better your CSS development, have a look at this collection of 10 useful online CSS tools.

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Showcase Of Really Cool Live CSS Demos

Posted on29. Jan, 2010 by Shawn Ramsey.

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Since it received its warm welcome to the web in December of 1996, CSS has completely changed the way in which websites are developed. Thanks to this powerful language, websites have become far more faster, stronger and more importantly flexible.

Now that CSS has grown up and its most recent version CSS3 has made its way onto the scene, several developers are taking full advantage of the language and coming up with some really amazing designs. In this Showcase Of Really Cool Live CSS Demos, we will explore and play around with some great examples of what designers are making happen with CSS, CSS3 and a little cross-breeding of CSS and it’s good friend jQuery.

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30 Free Fonts Perfect For Typographical Introductions

Posted on26. Jan, 2010 by Shawn Ramsey.

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The use of large typographical introductions has begun to increase in use among many web designs. A short clever phrase or introduction can be much more effective than a long drawn out paragraph. Other than the wording, the key to these introductions lies in the font choice, color and placement of the intro.

In this article, we will look at 30 free fonts perfect for large typographical introductions and some examples of where these fonts could come in handy in your designs.

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50 Amazing Home Office Workstation Setups

Posted on05. Jan, 2010 by Shawn Ramsey.

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While we like to write about web design here at Bluefaqs, I thought that it would be a nice break from the norm to showcase just where some of the action takes place in the home of a designer. As more people are turning to this idea of working from home both part-time and full, the home office setup has become the center point to where some amazing ideas have formed and taken shape.

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15 Websites That Pay You To Blog

Posted on26. Dec, 2009 by Shawn Ramsey.

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If you own a regularly updated blog, chances are you are a pretty decent writer. There are several ways in which you can earn a little passive income by putting these skills to work for you. In most cases it’s pretty straightforward, you write about a certain company or review a product and in return [...]