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40 Excellent Websites Showcasing Expression Engine

ExpressionEngine by EllisLab is a powerful, flexible content management system (CMS) that many designers (and their clients) love. Various modules exist to allow EE to be used for a number of different purposes, such as membership sites, ecommerce, blogs, wikis, and much more. Many of the most popular modules come with the personal ($99.95) and commercial ($249.95) licenses, and additional modules are available. The sites featured here show the flexibility of Expression Engine in their varying design and purpose. EE allows designers to have the freedom to create layouts without restrictions, which helps to it to be a productive CMS for so many different purposes, check it out. via 40 Excellent Websites Showcasing Expression Engine | Webdesigner Depot.

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60+ Fresh Hot New Tutorials From Around The Web January 5, 2010 Tutorials can often be your greatest source of inspiration when trying to design that project you have been putting off. In this post, I have rounded up a collection of very useful tutorials from around the web from the month of December. You’ll find everything from a Minimalistic Poster Designed in Photoshop, to creating a Clean 3D Notepad. So what are you waiting for…why not try one out? via 60+ Fresh Hot New Tutorials From Around The Web | designrfix.com.

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What to Do In Between Web Design Projects 11 January 2010 One of the problems with a freelance web design career is that sometimes the time in between projects can be unpredictable. Sometimes it only takes a few days to find a new project, other times it may take weeks or even months. Often times we get off task and unproductive in between each project. However, there are many things you can do in your off time to advance your career besides watching Family Guy. via What to Do In Between Web Design Projects | [Re]Encoded.com.

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What’s In A Price: The Guidelines For Pricing Web Designs By Thursday Bram Pricing a website design can seem impossible. A good website design can cost anywhere between thousands of dollars and under fifty dollars, depending on the type of site, how you build it and a hundred other numbers. Those numbers can make it difficult to decide where the right price point for your own work is: how do you know what your work is worth when other designers’ prices are all over the place? All prices are not created equal: while it may seem to the lay person that all websites are similar, differences like the framework the site is built upon and the process the website designer uses can require drastically different prices. A website design that doesn’t require you to do much more than design a new theme for WordPress probably shouldn’t be priced the same way that an e-commerce site that expects to see plenty of traffic should be. It comes down to the question of what’s in your price. In this article, we’ll look at how four web designers set their prices — and how you can learn from their experiences. via What’s In A Price: The Guidelines For Pricing Web Designs - Noupe.

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Ultimate Guide To Using WordPress For A Portfolio * By Cameron Chapman * April 29th, 2009 WordPress is often thought of as just a blogging platform. But it’s capable of so much more. Even WordPress’ documentation includes an entire section on using WordPress as a content management system. Because WordPress is such an easy-to-use platform, it makes sense to consider using it as a platform to build just about any kind of website, a portfolio website included. Whether you’re a photographer, graphic designer, Web designer or any other kind of visual artist, WordPress makes an excellent starting point for developing your online portfolio. And with the wealth of plug-ins and ready-made themes available, you can usually get a perfectly presentable website up and running in a matter of hours. via Ultimate Guide To Using WordPress For A Portfolio - Smashing Magazine.

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200+ Textures, Brushes, and Fonts: Ultimate Grunge Roundup

Grunge style is rough, rugged, torn, worn, and tattered. To most, these adjectives would describe something less than appealing, but in the hands of a talented web designer, elements possessing these qualities can be used to turn a web site into a work of art. So, if you are just getting started in grunge design or if you are already a pro, you should find the grunge freebies in this article to be very useful. via 200+ Textures, Brushes, and Fonts: Ultimate Grunge Roundup | Design Reviver.

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Smashing Highlights 2009 * By Smashing Editorial * December 29th, 2009 2009 was a very successful year for Smashing Magazine. It was a year of ambitious goals and an intense time schedule, which brought many changes over the past year. In 2009 we published more posts than ever (on average, 8 posts per week). We broadened our areas of interest: for instance, we explored freelancing and the business side of web development, but also tackled user interface design and mobile web design. We also discovered new formats, such as the “Global Web Design” series and Q&A-Sessions — unfortunately, the latter (the Ask SM series with Chris Coyier) lasted only a couple of months. Smashing-128 in Smashing Highlights 2009 None of this would have been possible without the tremendous support of our authors, contributors, and editorial staff. We express sincere gratitude to them for all the ideas and hard work they’ve put into articles published here on Smashing Magazine. We also want to thank you, the readers, for your attention, criticism, ideas, suggestions, emails, tweets, and links over the past year. Smashing Magazine is driven by your support which is why we are always listening to you and we truly appreciate every message we receive. We have tried our best to improve the quality of our articles so as to increase their value for designers and developers. In this post, we’ll review what has happened on Smashing Magazine over the past year: smashing highlights, setbacks, and small sensations of 2009 — which we present in a month by month timeline. You can compare the highlights of 2009 with those of 2008 or 2007 (which, by the way, include links to some really useful articles). via Smashing Highlights 2009 - Smashing Magazine.

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Design a Minimal and Modern Portfolio Layout with Photoshop October 29th, 2009 by Richard Carpenter In this Photoshop web design tutorial, we’re going to create a mock-up of a clean and modern-looking website. This is Part 1 of a tutorial series that will show you how to create the design, and then convert it to an HTML/CSS template. via Design a Minimal and Modern Portfolio Layout with Photoshop.

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25 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating that Perfect Web Page Design March 26, 2009 Photoshop, Tutorial All of these tutorials cover the process of designing a modern and highend web page within Adobe Photoshop, as with any great web design it is initially designed with a graphic editor, beginning with a blank canvas building up towards the complete page. Below you will find 25 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating that Perfect Web Page Design. Download or Buy Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended » via 25 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating that Perfect Web Page Design : Speckyboy Design Magazine.

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