Designers need to be planning for career longevity, says Christopher Cashdollar, creative director for Happy Cog. His 10 tips will get you thinking beyond the pixel and on a path towards long-term professional relevance You are on top of the world right now; great clients, amazing projects, and a we[...]
Archive for november, 2011
The Force of Inspiration: The Jedi
By Noupe Editorial Posted in Inspiration 0 comments As we have done in the past, we have turned our inspirational eye towards a galaxy far, far away to help our readers recover some of their creative juices. Rather than bowing to the dark side, as we did in the last Star Wars related artwork post, [[...]
Inspiring Examples of Symbol and Metaphor Use in Web Design
Inspiring Examples of Symbol and Metaphor Use in Web Design Web Design November 30, 2011 by Mary Lou 3 Comments There are many creative ways of showing what a website is about: the use of images, videos, descriptions and more. Symbolic graphics and metaphorical pictures are a very interesting approa[...]
Gavin Elliott on web conferences
.net: Why aren’t you running DIBI any more?Gavin Elliott: I was running DIBI as an employee of Codeworks, so it was never really ‘mine’ even though everyone thought it was. It certainly felt like something I’d grown while there and it took a big decision to leave Codeworks an[...]
The use of illustration in web design
Illustration is an incredibly versatile tool that can find many different uses in design. And when it comes to web design we can find an extremely wide variety of implementations. Today I want to dig into some key ways that this tool has been put to work so we can draw new ideas to inspire [...][...]
Designing a Website With IM Creator
In the ever expanding world of online website builders, it’s pretty difficult to find anything that’s worth spending more than ten minutes with. This market is flooded with clunky interfaces, hideous templates and brutal freeform design restrictions. I recently came across a product called IM Cr[...]
The Difference Between “Block” and “Inline”
By Louis Lazaris on November 30th, 2011 | 1 Comment For the purpose of CSS styling, elements can be generally divided into a few different categories. Two of those categories are block-level elements and inline elements. In my opinion, this is one of those areas that, once understood correctly, can [...]
The World of Social Media 2011
Het einde van 2011 is in zicht. Tijd dus om stil te staan bij wat er allemaal is gebeurd in het land van sociale media. Bovenstaand filmpje vat de ontwikkelingen van het afgelopen jaar allemaal mooi samen. Mochten er nog ontwikkelingen ontbreken, laat het mij dan weten via de comments. Misschien is [...]
5 tips voor effectieve Facebook Ads
Facebook is een sociaal medium dat momenteel bijna 5.4 miljoen gebruikers telt in Nederland en meer dan 800 gebruikers wereldwijd. Een erg interessant middel dus om te adverteren, echter zijn de kosten voor de Facebooks Ads de afgelopen tijd gestegen. Een aantal jaar geleden was het nog zo dat de CP[...]
Hoe zetten industriële ondernemingen sociale media in?
Deze gastbijdrage is geschreven voor Melanie Ferranti. Melanie is persvoorlichter bij VNU Exhibitions Europe. Waarde creëren In de aanloop naar Techni-Show en ESEF vroegen we diverse exposanten op de twee grote industriebeurzen in de Benelux hun inzet van sociale media. Zij gaven aan voor de beurze[...]