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1WD Is Changing: Insights And Email Newsletter Finally!
Posted on 24. Jun, 2010 by Dainis Graveris.
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If you’ve been active reader of 1stwebdesigner, you may have heard I have been planning big redesign for a long time. I think I’ve spent several months analyzing other similar blogs, thinking about features we need to include and just to ...
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73 Blog Designs From Deviantart You’ll Never Forget
Posted on 21. Jun, 2010 by Dainis Graveris.
For some long time I’ve been gathering great blog designs from deviantart to get inspired and now I will showcase them all in one huge article!! Surprisingly finding great ideas and designs have been much easier in Deviantart than any other web desig...Continue Reading
DepositPhotos Giveaway: 3 People To Win Accounts
Posted on 11. Jun, 2010 by Dainis Graveris.
DepositPhotos.com is a great resource for buying and selling Royalty-free photographs and vector illustrations. They slogan is – “Buy It Easy! Sell It Easy” describing how easy it is to do both tasks so you are in the right place if you are sea...Continue Reading
Modern Element Trends In Minimal Webdesign of 2010
Posted on 07. Jun, 2010 by Dainis Graveris.
As you may heard, I’ve been working on site redesign for a long time already and now I am deeply researching modern elements in minimal webdesign - I decided to share my research with all of you. I think this modern&minimal trend will rule...Continue Reading
18 Wireframing, Mockup And Prototyping Tools To Plan Designs
Posted on 01. May, 2010 by Dainis Graveris.
I will keep repeating how important is to plan your webdesign, sitemaps, draw flowcharts,wireframes before even start to do actual functional and design planning! Since I am deeply researching this topic myself, this time I found the most popular wire...Continue Reading
21 Easy To Customize Premium PHP Contact Forms
Posted on 27. Apr, 2010 by Dainis Graveris.
One of the most hardest jobs in web development processes definitely is form creation. Coding behind these forms are painless enough, but then you need to think also about Spam filters, usability, interface and functions should work in all cases. Keepi...Continue Reading
27 Blog Designs With Amazing Design And Functionality
Posted on 19. Apr, 2010 by Dainis Graveris.
In this inspirational showcase article, I collected a little bit different blogs – usually blogs serve for one purpose – design or function. Just a few blog designs fulfil both important tasks, I thought I will find a lot more design suitable for ...Continue Reading
Revolution And Future In Blogging World – Art Direction Trend
Posted on 15. Apr, 2010 by Dainis Graveris.
People have been talking for a long time about numerous list posts repeating each other, but the same is about blog designs. Even if blog design is unique it still has same consistent sidebar, CSS image, text styling and standard navigation repeatin...Continue Reading
33 Blogs To Make You Social Media And Marketing Guru
Posted on 13. Apr, 2010 by Dainis Graveris.
I was considering myself strong on social media and marketing field, but then I gave a try to do my own research to find great blogs specialised just in this topic. Findings were amazing and I understood I have SOOO much to learn and there is so much ...Continue Reading
1STWD Q&A E-book : Interviews With 25 Popular Bloggers
Posted on 12. Apr, 2010 by Dainis Graveris.
This is my first ever made *.pdf e-book and I was very excited to see how many people will respond to my call and how their actual answers will sound like. Purpose of this Questions and Answers Interview e-Book was to explore and compare how experi...Continue Reading
25 Premium Email Newsletter Templates For Successful Marketing
Posted on 05. Apr, 2010 by Dainis Graveris.
Email newsletter is really underestimated and I rarely see websites, blogs using it as marketing and communication tool. Everyone knows he should offer option to subscribe by e-mail, but how to use those e-mails powerfuly to strenghten your relationshi...Continue Reading
1STWD March 2010 Features: Top Design Links And News
Posted on 04. Apr, 2010 by Dainis Graveris.
As you may notice 1stwebdesigner has started to change a lot throughout past few months. We will also start to cover Design Community news and do monthly (maybe weekly in future) reviews of top design links, articles, websites. Now you may find it all ...Continue Reading
April Fools Day – Don’t Get Fooled!
Posted on 01. Apr, 2010 by Dainis Graveris.
April, april! I tried to trick my colleague, then few of my friends and I understood I am too honest person to try to evil trick somebody! Only I tried on Twitter to tell everybody I will give up on this site and put it on sale on Flippa.com – it did...Continue Reading
April Fools Day – Don’t Get Fooled!
Posted on 01. Apr, 2010 by Dainis Graveris.
April, april! I tried to trick my colleague, then few of my friends and I understood I am too honest person to try to evil trick somebody! Only I tried on Twitter to tell everybody I will give up on this site and put it on sale on Flippa.com – it did...Continue Reading
Know How To Plan Your Website Redesign & Get Inspired
Posted on 22. Mar, 2010 by Dainis Graveris.
With this article I will start very serious article and experience series, showing you step by step how we will do our redesign process. I sat down one day and wrote all little steps I will need to do in order to create, plan new design, code it to...Continue Reading
60 Apple Inspired Websites – Why Apple Design Works?
Posted on 21. Mar, 2010 by Dainis Graveris.
Apple has always been showing what beautiful design means in all their designs, products, icons, websites. But what really make Apple design stand out from the crowd? Why it receives so big attention, so many awards, what’s so special in it? I wanted...Continue Reading
40 Exclusively Reviewed And Criticized Deviantart Designs
Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by Dainis Graveris.
I bet you all are a little bit tired of classic list posts so this time I really spent my time to bring some value into this inspirational article. I gathered here 40 really unique and trendy web designs from Deviantart, all of them are fresh, cre...Continue Reading
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