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Digzign – New Social News for Designers that Dig

April 5, 2010 By 3 Comments
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Social news has sprung along the web, and with the popularity of web design and graphics blogs sharing links has become commonplace. With popular sites such as DesignFloat and DesignBump, it's hard to imagine much else. However I have recently found a great-looking Digg clone website at http://digzign.com/. With frontpage stories ranging from multiple topics of News, Videos, Images and Audio, it allows users a large range of submissions. Many of the categories on the site are design-specific … [Read more...]

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Interview with Jacob Gube of Six Revisions Design Blog

April 3, 2010 By 2 Comments
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I've been in the freelance and web design/development community for years now, starting back when I was attending high school. I always keep up with the latest blogs, tutorials, tips, and design tricks from the community, and no blog has shown greater content with a higher rate of growth than Six Revisions. Jacob Gube is the founder and main writer at the blog, and I'm lucky enough to share with you some great Q&A's between us. Jacob's also co-founded a new Web Magazine titled Design … [Read more...]

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Template Monster’s Design Blog Kicks Off!

April 2, 2010 By 1 Comment
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Out of all the website and Wordpress template sellers out there, Template Monster is clearly the king. Reigning in the business for the past couple of years, the company has grown substantially to offer tens of thousands of templates to it's many customer's. A few months ago they launched a new blog, Template Monster's Blog. It was mostly filled with updates at first, but growing beyond news from the site they also added many articles and tutorials on website design. Recently it has attracted … [Read more...]

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The Latest Free Icon Search Engine FindIcons.com

April 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Just a few weeks ago I got a great interview with the creator of IconFinder.net, one of the only free icon search engines online. Recently I've come across another one which has just as many great icons shared, plus the ability to log in and save your favorite sets! FindIcons.com is my latest breakthrough, and from what I can tell the site is growing wildly. They've got a perfectly functioning search bar, which crawls through over 280,000 icons for any tags or keywords you type. You can also … [Read more...]

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Inside the Webb v3.0 Launches Live!

March 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Version 3.0 of Inside the Webb has finally launched live. Since our last design update in December I've been busy at work contemplating how I could take Inside the Webb to the next level. Well it hit me about a week ago, and since then I've been tweaking the latest and greatest design launch! I've tried to go with a more simpler look, basing us more on the scale for social news. Reporting on all the hot topics of web 2.0 and social media, We encourage all site launchers and developers to … [Read more...]

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Twitter Releases Sleek, Clean Homepage Redesign

March 29, 2010 By 1 Comment
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Although this has been covered by many media blogs, Twitter has indeed released a new home page! I have to say, I'm a big fan of the new design and it definitely allows for a better user experience when first arriving at the site. Shifting the page design from a small centralized block to utilizng the entire page was a smart move in Twitter's part, which allows for a scrolling Ajax-styled news feed directly in the center of the page. Scrolling through top Twitter users latest tweets, this is … [Read more...]

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Digital Point Forums Re-Design for the New Year

February 28, 2010 By 3 Comments
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Of all the internet marketing and blogging forums out there, Digital Point was the first community I ever joined. I've been there for years, learned so much from the members and even contributed to helping others along their path. There are many other choices, but DP will always hold a special place in my heart. After years of running the same design, DP has finally upgraded to a fresh web 2.0 look and feel to the entire site! Now running what is clearly the latest version of vBulletin 4.0 … [Read more...]

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