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08:45 am GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Web Design Ledger WDL Premium: Nitro Icon Set
If you’re a WDL Premium Member, we’ve have a nice set of icons for you. Nitro, from WeGraphics, is a set of clean and minimal icons. There are 32 icons, and all the illustrations are provi...
07:40 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Web Design Ledger Freelance Personal Finances: Your Guide
Managing your finances as a freelance designer can lead to a multitude of cluster headaches and obscure nosebleeds. Luckily there are many tools, tips and software designed to ease the money burden, a...
08:05 am GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011
Web Design Ledger 25 Examples of Geometrical Shape Usage in Web Design
I really like the way Wikipedia defines web design: “Web design is a broad term used to encompass the way that content is delivered to an end-user through the World Wide Web…”. And w...
08:54 am GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Web Design Ledger 10 Useful jQuery Plugins
It seems that jQuery plugins are constantly being released, and it’s no surprise since it’s insanely popular, and for good reason. The only problem is being able to sort through them all t...
08:24 am GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011
Web Design Ledger WDL Premium: Grungy Wood Textures
For our WDL Premium members, here’s a high-quality pack of grungy wood textures from PremiumTextures.com. These wood textures include grungy burnt wood, cracked timber, and tree knots. There are...
08:12 am GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011
Web Design Ledger The Process of Planning a Perfect Website
As web designers it is very easy to get lost in our own heads. The process of a web design can be broken into many flavors and styles across the globe. Graphics artists and digital animators are just ...
08:32 am GMT - Tue, March 22, 2011
Web Design Ledger Theme Trust Professional WordPress Themes: Buy 1 Get 1 FREE
It’s been just over half a year since Theme Trust was launched, and it’s growing by leaps and bounds. So I thought it would be a good time to give an update on the current theme offering a...
09:28 am GMT - Mon, March 21, 2011
Web Design Ledger 30 Excellent Examples of Color Usage in Web Design
Choosing the right color scheme for a web design is extremely important. It will set the mood of your design probably more so than any other component. Sometimes it’s appropriate to go big with ...
09:04 am GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Web Design Ledger Growing as a Designer and Leader
As a professional designer, it’s important to push ourselves daily to be the best that we can in order to create outstanding work. To be successful in our industry, we must continually grow and ...
08:33 am GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
Web Design Ledger 8 Fresh and Free High-Quality Fonts
It’s been over a month since we’ve posted any freebies here on WDL, but hopefully now we can get back on our regular schedule of one “freebie” post per week. Over the past few ...
04:46 pm GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Web Design Ledger WDL Premium: Photoshop Pixel Patterns
For our WDL Premium Members, here is a pack of super nice Photoshop Pixel Patterns from Vandelay Premier. This set includes 100 repeating patterns for Photoshop. The patterns are mostly basic in natur...
10:00 pm GMT - Tue, March 15, 2011
Web Design Ledger Design Bundle Giveaway from Designious
Our friends at Designious.com are at it again. They just launched another mind blowing design bundle. Design Cocktail 5 includes an awesome collection of high-quality resources for creative profession...
07:58 am GMT - Tue, March 15, 2011
Web Design Ledger Focus on Effective Coming Soon Pages
When first launching your own website, it can be troubling deciding how to handle the first few weeks. This is generally a time when your website may not be ready to go live online but you own the dom...
09:23 am GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Web Design Ledger 30 Fresh Examples of Single Page Websites
Single page websites have been a hot trend for a while now, and their popularity doesn’t seem to be losing any momentum. Going this route isn’t right for every project, but there are times...
10:51 am GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Web Design Ledger Design Business Books vs Design Business Blogs
When I first sat down to write this post my idea was to compile a list of the best business books for designers. However, as I found books claiming to fit this niche, I began to notice something that ...
11:15 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Web Design Ledger 5 Tips for SEO & User-Friendly Copy
You hear it time and time again: content is king. It's king because it's what users want, and it's king because of SEO "" i.e. if you don't have good content, you're not going to rank. Of co...
08:50 pm GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011
Web Design Ledger WDL Premium: High-Quality Floral Flourish Vectors
Here’s a new set of vectors for our WDL Premium Members. This pack from Designious contains 16 high-quality floral flourish vectors. These are perfect for giving your design an ornate feel. The ...
10:43 am GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Web Design Ledger Solo: A Single Page Portfolio WordPress Theme
Last month here on WDL, I announced the release of Filtered, a portfolio WordPress theme. Now, I’m back to let you know about another new theme that I just launched at Theme Trust. This one is a...
11:09 am GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011
Web Design Ledger 30 Examples of Big Backgrounds in Web Design "" Round 2
Four months ago, we showcased 30 Examples of Big Backgrounds in Web Design, and we can say that the trend surrounding big images as backgrounds is still hot. As we noticed that a number of new website...
11:25 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Web Design Ledger How to Design a Proper Banner "" One That Actually Works
Let’s address the big pink elephant in the room first. Banners are not dead. They’re not on life support either. They’re doing fine and they’re going to be around for a while. ...
12:02 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Web Design Ledger 51 Unique Business Cards That Will Make Your Mind Explode
Business cards are sadly often overlooked, resulting in dull and boring cards that are easily forgotten. At MOO we know business cards can give you the opportunity to stand out from the crowd, be uniq...
07:16 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011
Web Design Ledger WDL Premium: Stars and Hearts Vector Pack
For our WDL Premium Members, we have another excellent vector pack from our friends at Go Media. Stars and Hearts is a giant pack full of different varieties of vector stars and hearts (with a few flo...
09:26 am GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011
Web Design Ledger Legal Guidelines for Freelance Web Designers
Handling the legal side of freelancing could possibly be one of the more annoying tasks required for the job. Having worked as a full-time freelancer I can attest the amount of legal paperwork and inf...
10:45 am GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011
Web Design Ledger 25 Tasty Restaurant and Food Websites to Inspire You
Restaurant and food related websites are always inspiring. Elegant layouts and beautiful images are pretty common to this kind of site. Last year we showcased 40 Tasty Restaurant Websites to Inspire Y...