Hi dear friends, time to leave you with with some great links and wish you a wonderful weekend.

I want to start this post with something beautiful, a showcase of macro images. “There is so much detail around us that goes unnoticed by the naked eye, but thanks to this type of photography, we get to see and appreciate all that detail”, I think Henry Jones, the author of the article is right.

There’s always place for a little inspiration and whether your interested in design or want to start your own business,  a collection of colorful logos might be interesting for you. I’d like to know if you found this useful or not.

Here is a very handy article for people owning a business or people involved in the process of promoting one on the internet: How to enhance your online presence with video. Video’s can be a great way to show customers or potential customers what you do, how you do it and why, to show your personality and to be closer to them.

This is all for today nice guys, see you next week.

*** image credits Christophe Kiciak

See what Anthony Feint, the smart guy who developed this product (also Task.fm) has to say about it “I really focused on ease of use with this app – there are hardly any elements on the page and the only action required by the user is to start typing.   There is no need to “save” as its all done automatically”. More on his blog.

You have to try it. What do you think?

Image credits are inside the photo slide show. Template used: Thumbnail wall (this is a premium template).

Wish you a fresh day and a gorgeous summer!

Time for a new collection of useful links to end well this week. How are you my friends? Did you make plans for this summer? I’d like to know if you’d like to share.

Learn how to create recognizable article thumbnails, with a great showcase of examples. I’ve learned that there are large thumbnails below title and introduction to make visual impact and square thumbnails right beside paragraphs just to give a hint about what you’ll read. There are also different techniques to make your article thumbnails, like related photo or a screenshot of the article and many more. I think it’s a good read for people interested in blogging.

Staying in the same area, design, here is a great collection of 40 examples of excellent single page websites.

Interested in fonts? Do you know what are the best calligraphy fonts that designers use in their projects? Here they are.

To end this blog post, I’ll let view these stunning black and white images. Happy, sad, funny, intriguing and fresh…

Enjoy your weekend!

*** image credits Dan

print screen from this page

I like tools like this: practical and easy to use, user friendly. This is how it works:

1. Write the URL of a website

2. They provide a screenshot in just a few moments

3. Then you can give it a name and a title, add notes (no restrictions, you can add ass many as you like)

4. Save your screenshot and notes

5. Then share them with your friends using a URL provided by Bounce or post it on Facebook or Twitter. Your friends can give you feedback.

It’s perfect for web designers that want opinions about their work  or for website owners with the same intentions. What do you think about the app?

check here to see some notes I made about BannerSnack

When we created PhotoSnack we also wanted to please and satisfy the needs of the professional photographer, that creative person that makes amazing pictures and wants to show his work in a beautiful elegant way. So I thought why not make a photo slide show like he would do it, a portfolio. Or it could be a wedding photo album that the newly weds can share with their family and friends.

These lovely photos were made by Vania and Christine from Simply Bloom Photography, dear collaborators that gave us permission to use their photos in our examples (see on this page how you can use PhotoSnack). Their work is fairytale-like, dramatic and a perfect example of timeless beauty (as people say and I totally agree). I’ll let you enjoy the slideshow and recommend you to visit their blog to see more mesmerizing wedding and engagement photos.

I hope you like what picked for today. See you soon!

Ok my friends, let me write down what nice things I found lately. I will start with a very delicious article, about Chocolate websites that just look amazing. The collection is published by SmashingMagazine, a blog I’m sure most of you are very familiar with. In the same idea, here are 40 tasty restaurant websites for your inspiration. They look good, right?

Another post to inspire you is published by WebDesignerLedger, 40 blog designs. So if you’re looking to refresh your blog’s image or thinking about creating a new one, you’ll find nice things here.

I will end this blog post with a very interesting article, about influence on the web, but especially about the people that “have it”. Lisa Barone, which I admire because I have a lot to learn from her, divided the influencers in five categories (or as she calls them types): the social butterflies, the thought leader, the trendsetter, the reporter and the everyday customer. Hope you’ll enjoy this as much as I did.

See you next week, have a wonderful weekend!

Be prepared to be swept away!

I used Classic thumb-view (premium template) because it’s a simple template that I thought matches the pictures perfectly. The size is 500 x 400 px, but I recommend you to view the slide show in full screen, you’ll see why.

We all listen to music, right? On our way to work, at work, when practicing a sport, driving, even when we go out somewhere in the evening… Related to music is this article Add Music To Your Workflow To Improve Results. So more than entertaining, music can create a mood that can be perfect for what you do at your job. It can also give a greater impact to your presentation. Do you agree?

What’s happening online right now? Group buying, big interest in location, mobile ads, mobile payments and setting a social media policy since more and more companies are interested in this new form of communication and marketing. These are the 5 social media trends that Mashable is talking about. Interesting.

A wonderful tutorial for the web designers reading this blog, How to design a website with Photoshop.

I found a lovely collection, Sunrise photography. Hope you will like it, I enjoyed every photo …

See you next week, till then have fun!