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Where to showcase your design work?

admin — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 06:28:14 +0000

Behance has a great community around it, there are a lot of great professionals, and it doesn’t have the teen-like feel to it that Deviantart has. I’ve even gotten works and united with others that I’ve found around the internet on Behance. Behance has a great collection of typographic works especially, it seems to be one of their strongest points. It also showcases some great infographics, so be sure to check it out, showcase your stuff, make some connections and have fun.

Another good web design site is Dribbl. Where Twitter wants to know the answer to the question “Whats on your mind”, Dribble wants to know “What are you working on”. You can be working on many thigns and post the whole lot of them on dribble. If you’re a website developer, you can post your designer’s designs and claim the functionality (given that he/she give you permission! Play nice.).

Another newer one is Cargo Collective. It seems to have a more ‘closed’ crowd in the sense that a lot of the designers hold similarity. Not to generalize. Of course there’s variety, but from what I’ve seen not as much as Behance has. Cargo often has phenomenal stuff, and it’s a closed network so not just anyone can get in. I think you can request invites though.

3 Web Design Comics for your lols

admin — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 05:54:08 +0000

Often I find the state of the blogosphere lacks humor. There’s a kajillion web blogs and a monotonous narration in the text. I understand that many are businesses that want to give a professional tone; but hey! It’s nice to get to know the people that are running the blogs too and have some personality, humor, and character in the strips.

I found these comics to counter that:

Take that PC’s!

I think of this all the time now when clearing my cache

Ah yes. I started PremiumWPFramework as a way to escape client work, and this is exactly what I think of when I hear the word “client”. You’re sitting there with your headphones on trying to debug some AJAX loader you’re making, and then the client asks you to make the loading bar a rotating trampoline in their wives/husbands favorite color. You have the urge to go back to them and request they wear one of those howling wolf sweaters because of how epic they are:

The client thinks that’s ridiculous and irrelevant, but you think – sorry – KNOW that web element is irrelevant!
But overall, we love you clients. You put food on our table and keep us busy

What music do you code to?

admin — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 04:38:12 +0000

I started a thread on the Behance open forum about what music people code to. It seems that there was a ton of diversity. Here’s what you can listen to depending on the type of day:

Dubstep / House / Electro
This one was a popular result. When you’re trying to meet a tight deadline, pump up some electro or dubstep, grab a coffee, and feel the adrenaline flow. Some people say this can even speed up their coding more than using a coding framework!
Hip Hop
Nothing like listening to a little Big Pun while coding. You got your code, your expensive macbook pro. Yeah. You got swagga.
Rock
Rock is always great to listen to during the long days. It’s such a broad genre and can range in sound so much. Good ol’ rock and roll for vintage-styled websites, or when doing a cutting-edge technology website, you can enjoy modern rock
Noise
The end of music. This will completely deconstruct any code that you assembled and reassemble it once the music is turned off.

What do you like to listen to while coding?

iPad & iPhone App Development

admin — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 04:27:22 +0000

Many developers wonder how to create iPad and iPhone apps. It’s something that’s on the rise and lots of money to be made off of them. There are two things you can do for this:

Use SDK
SDK is the programming language used to create apps. it provides dynamic functionality and lots of useful yumminess that CSS and XHTML can’t perform.
Use straight up web languages
That’s right! You can make apps with XHTML, Javascript, jQuery, CSS, and all that other fun stuff as well. SixRevisions has a good overview of how to do that.

Some of the companies I have worked for even looked down on the fact that I was getting into app development. More and more people are using smart phones / tablets and app development is in demand more and more. Many people that have made apps for the Apple app store make quite a GOOD living off of it.

Here’s a pretty killer picture of the new iPad 2, which was recently released!

Check out the rims and screen of this iPad 2

10 Fresh Logo Designs from Behance.net

admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:35:44 +0000

The Behance Network is a great place to find typographers and logo designers that really seem to know what they’re doing. You know what? I didn’t even know where to start with this post. Since Premium WP Framework has the functionality to replace the site name with your logo, this is a perfect opportunity to showcase some logo design magic. For semantic purposes, some of the solid color black logos have been inverted for display purposes, meaning if you like a logo and want to take a closer look at it, simply click the image and it will take you to the Behance post where you can see the real deal.