Articles by Vandelay Design from July 2013

Every designer and design agency wants to have a great-looking portfolio site that makes an impact on visitors and potential clients. An effective portfolio website can be one of the most valuable mar...

WordPress is an incredibly popular CMS for a number of reasons. It's free, open source, powerful, and it can be used for a wide variety of different purposes aside from a traditional blog or corporate...

Photo manipulations allow you to explore your creativity and create stunning and surreal works of art. If you like experimenting and learning new techniques in Photoshop, following along with some pho...

If you're looking for a style of design that can help you to create a memorable, unique website and leave a lasting impression with visitors, using illustration is a great option. Common layouts and c...

Many web designers are also entrepreneurs. They often have money-making side projects. Some even go on to found start-ups and even wind up incorporating themselves.Unfortunately, other designers go on...

There are a lot of different factors that help to make a blog successful, and reader engagement is one of those factors. A blog that has a high level of reader engagement is likely to receive a lot of...

If you're looking to create designs with a grunge style, you will want to choose the right font to get the look you're after. While you can add texture and grunge effects to the text manually, another...

Testing is a critical part of the responsive web design process. The purpose of using a responsive layout is to make the website useful on any type of device, but without extensive testing it's not po...

When it comes to advertising design, sometimes it needs to be creative in order to catch someone's attention or to make an impact. An ad that mixes creativity a strong, clear message and good design i...

The resume is a critical tool for any job searcher. For those in a creative industry, the visual appearance of the resume also tends to get a little more attention. If you need to present your resume ...

WordPress is one of the best blogging platforms and general CMS systems out there. Its flexibility is a testament to the amazing codebase behind it. In this article, I want to take you to one of the "...

Looking for some amazing designs to spark your own creativity? We've got a collection of more than 31 examples of stunning flyer designs that can be just the spark that you need. Browse through the co...

Photoshop opens up all kinds of creative possibilities for designs. Those who are looking to learn more or to improve their own Photoshop skills often look to text effects and styling as an area of fo...

Recently we published a collection of print templates for creative and professional resumes, and today we're going to take a look at some HTML templates that make it easy to put your resume online and...

Content creation, content strategy, content marketing--these are all trendy terms right now, but nothing that web designers need to worry about, right?Wrong.Design and content are two sides of coin. T...

Browsing the work of talented designers is a great way to spark your own creativity and to boost your motivation to further develop your own skills. This can apply to all different types of design, an...

Photoshop provides designers with all kinds of possibilities when it comes to creating interesting lighting effects. With a solid understanding of Photoshop and some creativity you can create stunning...

Since WordPress is one of the leading content management systems out there it spurs countless people to become developers themselves. Some of the best I know in the industry emerged from these "DIY de...

Since WordPress is one of the leading content management systems out there it spurs countless people to become developers themselves. Some of the best I know in the industry emerged from these "DIY de...

The vintage and retro inspired style is popular for web design as well as for other types of graphic design. Font choices are important if you're hoping to create a retro or vintage feel, and fortunat...

Having a user-friendly website is as important as having a beautiful original website design. Sadly, in our pursuit of excellence it's all too easy to forget about usability and focus instead on aesth...

Do you use social media to market your design business? Are your social media efforts working? How can you find out?Six or seven years ago, these were very difficult questions to answer.After all, bac...