Articles by Vandelay Design from October 2011

An increasing number of web and graphic designers are turning to free resources in effort to promote their services and products. In an industry that can be highly competitive any means of standing ou...

Most businesses now recognize Facebook as an excellent platform for connecting and communicating with their customers and/or users. As businesses have become more active on Facebook the number of reso...

Photoshop users often want to create unique and interesting text effects to take their work to the next level. Photoshop has plenty of potential here, and fortunately there are a lot of great tutorial...

Testimonials can be very powerful for helping to establish trust and encouraging visitors to buy, sign up, fill out a form, or take whatever action you are after. For websites and online businesses te...

For the next 10 days we're running a promo on an exiting bundle of products from Vandelay Premier. The Web Designer's Bundle is a collection of our premium resources that are extremely useful for your...

Navigation menus are an integral part of any website, and a critical element in usability. Menus also frequently play a strong role in the visual design and layout of the site. Although there are some...

Next Day Flyers has offered to give 500 full-color business cards each to 3 lucky readers of the Vandelay Design Blog! If you've been wanting to get your own stylish business cards printed, this could...

Long exposure photography can create interesting and inspiring effects. With a slow shutter speed more light is absorbed, which is often helpful for night photography. Moving objects and light create ...

Anyone who has maintained a blog for even a few months or more knows that there are frustrating times in the life of a blogger where growth seems to come to a complete standstill. The nature of bloggi...

When you spend a lot of time in front of your monitor, like web designers do, it's nice to have wallpaper that will provide some inspiration. Since many people use two screens in their workspace we de...

Most web designers use to create the visual design before moving on to coding the website. There is an excellent selection of tutorials available that show the process of designing sites/pages in Phot...

Continuing our recent series of posts on color inspiration for web designers, today we look at yellow websites. Yellow may not be the first color that comes to mind for a website background or for a p...

Having an arsenal of quality fonts is essential for web and graphic designers. In this post we'll feature 30 serif fonts that are free to download. Browse through the fonts that are featured and when ...

Our friends at IconShock and WordPressThemeShock have designed a beautiful set of 10 icons especially for our blog readers. The icons can be download for free from Vandelay Premier. Please visit this ...

ActiveCampaign email marketinghas offered to give $75 of email credits to 3 lucky readers of the Vandelay Design Blog! Email marketing is an important and effective marketing tool for all kinds of bus...

Continuing our current series on color inspiration, today we focus on red websites. Here you will find 25 websites that feature the color red. Some use a darker shade of red and some use a brighter sh...