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Understanding Visual Hierarchy in Web Design

Visual hierarchy is one of the most important principles behind effective web design. This article will examine why developing a visual hierarchy is crucial on the web, the theory behind it, and how you can use some very basic exercises in your own designs to put these principles into practice.

analyze competition

this is another great article that I found today. here Being secured in your online business is not all about setting up your defenses but also by analyzing your competitors. Keeping track of what services they offer work for them and how they bring people into their site will provide a good overview of how to improve your business. No matter how they hide their trails, there will always be tools that will let you analyze and track your competitors. Ready for research? Let’s start right now! 1. Identify Your Competitors First thing to do is to identify your competitors. I find SimilarSites.com accurate and one of the most simplest tool to use. It has a voting system for every result if it is similar or not and SimilarSites also gives you a view of what your competitors are good at: www.example.com is rank 1 in WordPress tutorial, 13 in Photoshop tutorial, 2 in web resources, etc. 2. Search Engine Ranking Image by: Christian Ferrari It is important t...
20 Great New Free Fonts For You To Download Posted on 14. Oct, 2010 by  bmackler  in  Inspiration ,  Resources Share 22 Every so often it is important for designers, whether web or print, to take a look at what new fonts are out there.  Consistently you are able to find a great crop of great fonts that are free.  It helps us keep our designs fresh and original to mix up our font set and add some new ones that fit our personal style. Today lets take a look at 20 great new free fonts that you can download and start using for your next project. Don’t Forget To Become a Facebook Fan of DesignTuts4u  and  Sign up for Our eNewsletter Kanis Piron Tenderness (Version 0.500) Spatha Serif Quadranta Maddie’s St Ryde Regular Mr. Jones Velvet Drop AW Conqueror Arcus and Arcus Italic League Gothic Olney Font Family DB Sticker Ingleby Code Amperisk Geotica Bebas Neue Prociono Source  

Great sites for Inspiration

I enjoy browsing high quality websites. With “high quality” I mean websites with nice images, friendly interface and beautiful color combinations! Below, you will find 100+ High Quality Websites for your inspiration, take a look to all of them!

35 Free Big, Bold, and Beautiful Headline Fonts

Largely used in newspaper and magazine articles, headlines are also useful in many other print materials, such as flyers and posters. They accentuate what the readers are about to expect in the article itself. Headlines cannot necessarily be considered a title, but they give out the necessary information to lure the audience to actually read on. To be able to do this, one needs to make sure that the font style is as catchy as the words. A good font always gives an extra chance to get more readers hanging on to their seats. Allow us to tour you into a showcase of Free Big, Bold, and Beautiful Headline Fonts you can add to your growing collection. Have fun since all these are free for you to download! HEADLINE HPLHS Download Source

Best of the Web – September 2010

As you know, each month, we round up some of the best Photoshop-related content from around the web. This month, there were some excellent Photoshop tutorials, articles, and freebies to choose from; including some excellent tutorials demonstrating the power of the Displace filter in Photoshop, some excellent free icons and Photoshop brushes, as well as some fantastic articles that will help improve your design skills and efficiency. Please take a moment to review our favorites from September 2010.